More than 1,000 lives could be lost if England fails to mirror Scotland’s sweeping reforms to alcohol pricing within five years, campaigners have warned. Medical leaders have joined with a
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Alcohol treatment services have reached “crisis” point in England as poor investment and staff shortages eat away at their ability to operate, a report has warned. A study by the
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The father and uncle of murdered toddler James Bulger have launched a legal challenge against an order made almost two decades ago which has allowed killer Jon Venables to live
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Victims of the Windrush injustice received a personal apology from an immigration minister as they visited Parliament for the first time since the scandal forced the home secretary to resign.
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A coroner has criticised “repeated failures” at a high-profile abortion clinic following the death of a mother of one, hours after she had her foetus terminated. Dr Sean Cummings said
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A wealthy antiques dealer has been jailed for at least 24 years for strangling his seven-year-old daughter. “Deceitful and manipulative” Robert Peters, 56, researched child killers online but kept his
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A former Labour MP has been appointed to chair women’s rights group the Fawcett Society. Fiona Mactaggart (pictured), who spent 20 years in Parliament before standing down at the 2017
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A judge has raised concerns after a woman had to appear in the same family court as an ex-partner she had accused of raping her. District Judge Simon Read said
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A woman who left her home in England when pregnant and travelled to Ireland to “escape the clutches” of social workers has lost the latest stage of a family court
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Social services dismissed two sisters as “troublesome teenagers” when they were told of sexual abuse at the hands of their mother and stepfather, and returned them repeatedly to their care,
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