Replacing a High Court judge’s oversight of the assisted dying Bill with an expert panel will not send the process behind closed doors, the MP leading the law change has
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The Princess of Wales has sympathised with former prison mothers who suggested their parental support behind bars was better than services in the outside world. Kate travelled to HMP Styal,
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Concerns were raised about a family three months before police and social workers removed a number of children from a house, sparking rioting in the Harehills area of Leeds, a
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A woman allegedly groomed and sexually abused by a gang of Asian men in Rochdale told a jury that staff at a children’s home “didn’t care” what girls were up
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The HIV prevention programme will be extended to March 2026, as part of plans to end transmissions in England by 2030, a health minister has said. The expansion is being
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A coroner has given a warning about potentially incriminating evidence at a fresh inquest into the death of a premature baby. Robert Sowersby, assistant coroner for Avon, was asking questions
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Having an abortion based on the sex of the foetus may not be illegal, the Court of Protection has heard. A woman, known only as HB for legal reasons, had
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Nearly a dozen Labour councillors have been suspended from the party as part of its investigation into a WhatsApp group that has already seen two MPs lose the whip. The
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A second MP has lost the Labour whip over his membership of a WhatsApp group containing offensive comments, after a minister was sacked following messages he sent to the chat.
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Ashley Dalton, Labour MP for West Lancashire, has been appointed as a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care after Andrew Gwynne was sacked over the weekend following
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