The first sitting of the Stormont Assembly in two-and-a-half years has ended in acrimony after a last-minute bid to thwart the decriminalisation of abortion was blocked. Despite the ongoing absence
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Former footballers are approximately three-and-a-half times more likely to die from neurodegenerative disease than the general population, according to a new study. The report, released on Monday and commissioned by
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The Stormont Assembly will sit for the first time in two and half years later after it was recalled by MLAs wishing to protest at changes to Northern Ireland’s abortion
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A woman has lost a fight over the care of her 12-year-old son after a High Court judge concluded that she had alienated the youngster from his father. The boy,
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A minister who founded a mental health support service in the wake of Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison taking his own life has been chosen as the next moderator of
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More than £200 million is lying unused by cash-strapped health trusts in England because of restrictions in the Government’s apprenticeship levy scheme, a study suggests. Unison said figures based on
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New imaging technology has been developed to help picture how tumours form. Early diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer could be helped by the tool which researchers at the
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Specialists have been given the go-ahead to swab the mouth of an elderly dementia sufferer so DNA tests can be carried out in a bid to establish whether he fathered
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A teenager has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years after being found guilty of murdering a youth mentor in a knife attack. Hamed Hussein, 19,
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A coroner has blasted a doctor and NHS trust over the deaths of 10 cancer patients, some of whom may have lived if they were treated properly. A state of
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