A six-week-old baby whose death is being treated by police as murder died at a unit for young mothers and their children, according to neighbours. Officers and paramedics were called
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A mother is facing a life sentence for murder after battering to death her “helpless and vulnerable” baby daughter two hours after social services care workers left her home alone
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An independent social worker – who assessed four children whose mother was jailed after taking them to the Syrian border – has come under fire from a High Court judge
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Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell is facing a fourth jail sentence after a jury convicted him of 36 counts of historical child sex abuse. On Tuesday, Bennell, 64, was found
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More than £100 million has been spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on administering reviews and appeals against disability benefits in little more than two years, new figures
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Soham murderer Ian Huntley has expressed his remorse at having killed schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, it is reported. Huntley, 44, is serving a life sentence after being found
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A health campaign is being launched urging parents to treat their local pharmacist as their first port of call for minor illnesses in their children, instead of visiting their GP
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Oxfam’s deputy chief executive has quit in the wake of the aid worker sex scandal saying she was “ashamed” of what had happened. Penny Lawrence said she took full responsibility
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Oxfam faces crisis talks with the Government as it deals with the fall-out following claims of sexual misconduct by aid workers. International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt will meet the charity
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International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said it was “shocking” that some Oxfam staff had been able to resign after the Haiti sex allegations surfaced. She told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr
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