Health workers involved in a long-running campaign of industrial action over pay will receive support from union activists on Tuesday. Members of Unite based in Lincolnshire, who started a week-long
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Almost 12 million adults in England were prescribed potentially addictive drugs such as sleeping pills and painkillers last year, with half taking them long term, a new report says. A
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New research into self-harm and the support available has been commissioned on World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide prevention charity Samaritans, which will be talking to young people who have self-harmed
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Domestic abuse charities have criticised Theresa May for giving former England cricket star Geoffrey Boycott a knighthood. The former Test opener, 78, was convicted in France in 1998 of beating
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A CBBC child star died by misadventure after hanging at her family home, an inquest has ruled. Mya-Lecia Naylor, 16, died after being found in a marquee at her home
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A former youth football coach and scout whose car crashed into a tree on the day he was due to go on trial on historical sex abuse charges took his
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A new report published today reveals 71% of autistic adults in England aren’t getting the support they need. This could mean up to 327,000 autistic adults aren’t getting help to
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Parliament’s human rights committee has called for urgent change on the issue of sending mothers to prison, saying the needs of their children have been too often neglected. After taking
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Midwives say they refuse to be “gatekeepers” of NHS care as they called on the Government to scrap charges for overseas pregnant women. In a new report from Maternity Action,
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The Duke of Cambridge’s Shout text messaging helpline has announced it will provide support to frontline emergency responders. The news came ahead of William’s visit to the Fire Fighters Charity’s
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