The Home Office vetted candidates for an independent drugs advisory panel for their views on Brexit and the Windrush scandal, it has been claimed. Professor Alex Stevens quit the Government’s
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A “tsunami” of allegations about past violence in Northern Ireland would require 600 extra detectives to investigate, former senior police have said. A proposed new independent unit of highly experienced
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No decision has been made on whether a bill compensating victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will become law before Parliament dissolves, a minister said. Victims of physical,
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Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have welcomed a damning report that said London Fire Brigade (LFB) breached national guidelines through “gravely inadequate” preparation. Sir Martin Moore-Bick said the absence
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A disgraced residential care home consultant has been jailed for four months for failing to give evidence at the inquest of a mentally-ill teenager in a landmark case. Duncan Lawrence,
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A judge has concluded that three girls were not systematically abused by members of a paedophile ring after an “unprecedentedly complex” High Court investigation. Sir Mark Hedley (pictured) had analysed
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Scientists say they have developed the first simple saliva test to detect if a person has recently taken the psychoactive drug Spice. The test, which takes about five minutes, can
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A consultant faces a possible jail sentence today after he admitted failing to cooperate at the inquest of a mentally ill teenager who killed herself while in care. Duncan Lawrence,
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Less than half of the people held in immigration detention centres last year were deported afterwards, according to a report. Of the 25,487 people who left detention in 2018, only
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There is inadequate evidence that cannabinoids relieve depression, anxiety disorders or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, scientists have said. The meta-analysis also looked at the impact of medicinal cannabinoids on Tourette’s syndrome,
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