A ringleader in a people smuggling gang responsible for moving 10,000 migrants in small boat crossings to the UK has been jailed for 11 years. Hewa Rahimpur (pictured), 30, was
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The amount of rehabilitation time offered to people who have suffered a stroke should increase four-fold, according to new guidelines, despite huge staffing pressures in the NHS. The National Institute
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Families with children are more likely than other households to suffer serious financial hardship and mental health problems as a result of the cost-of-living crisis, research has found. The study
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Rishi Sunak has declined to condemn a Tory candidate’s apparent suggestion that out-of-work parents who cannot afford to feed their children should “f*** off”, ahead of two potentially damaging by-elections
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A murderer who killed a vulnerable teenager and lived off her benefits payments for almost 18 years has died in prison. Edward Cairney, 82, a prisoner at HMP Edinburgh, died
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Professor Neil Ferguson, whose Covid modelling was instrumental to the UK going into lockdown, has denied stepping “over the line” and telling ministers they needed to shut down. The scientist,
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Covid-19 deaths in the UK during the first wave of the pandemic could have been reduced if the UK went into lockdown just two weeks earlier, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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The social housing sector saw a more than four-fold increase in the most serious findings of failures or delays by landlords in the past year in what the ombudsman branded
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A pub chef suspected of murdering his ex-partner after blaming her for their child being taken into care confessed to an undercover police officer, a court heard. Darren Osment, 41,
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A couple’s daughter suffered a “very serious” knife wound while they were involved in a “heated” row in their kitchen-diner, a High Court judge heard. Mrs Justice Lieven heard how
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