A murderer who killed two women in a frenzied attack as they slept in a nursing home was today jailed for a minimum of 24 years.

At least five children were illegally placed in care on Jersey by Birmingham social services, which then lost track of them.

When the first state pension was paid, there was widespread celebration. David Lloyd George, Charles Booth and the other founding fathers were certain that their reforms would end poverty in old age.

Violence has for the first time overtaken shoplifting as the most common crime by women, according to annual statistics released yesterday.

Charred remains from at least five children have been discovered in the cellars of a former children’s home in Jersey, but a murder inquiry is unlikely due to difficulties in dating the remains, police said.

The UK’s largest union Unite has outlined a three-point plan to improve the country’s mental health services.

The UK’s largest union Unite has outlined a three-point plan to improve the country’s mental health services.

More than 40 typhoid carriers were locked up for life in a mental asylum to prevent them spreading the disease, according to nurses.

Two staff members at a residential care home in Meare have been suspended amid allegations of abuse.

Planning permission has been lodged for an extension to a dementia care unit in Malvern. Friends of the Elderly want to build a 24-bedroom two-storey building to extend its current facilities.