A health board has been fined £220,000 for safety breaches after two patients died when they fell out of hospital windows in separate incidents, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
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A 31-year-old man from South Sudan has been jailed for 20 months for smuggling more than 50 migrants across the English Channel in a “perilously overcrowded dinghy”. Choul Phan Maker
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Rishi Sunak has been urged to “do the right thing” and set aside billions in compensation for women whose lives were “ruined” when they were not told in good enough
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The number of children living in poverty across the UK has hit a record high, with campaigners saying they are being failed and forgotten. There were an estimated 4.33 million
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Parents are frequently given “outdated” advice on how to raise their children, a new poll suggests. This includes being told to “limit physical affection” to being told off for “spoiling”
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Rishi Sunak’s Government is dealing with a “migration emergency” after the busiest day for Channel crossings since the start of 2024. More than 4,000 people are thought to have crossed
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Downing Street has declined to repeat claims by a Cabinet minister that the UK’s approach to mental health was in danger of having “gone too far”. Mel Stride, the Work
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The siblings of a student who took her own life after a campaign of abuse from her ex-boyfriend have been given permission to sue him. Law student Emily Drouet, 18,
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Junior doctors in England have voted by a huge margin to continue taking industrial action for the next six months in their long-running pay dispute. The British Medical Association (BMA)
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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plan has been hit by further delay after defiant peers dug their heels in and inflicted a series of fresh defeats against the controversial policy. MPs
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