The killer of university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Ian Coates had previously been detained in hospital four times under mental health laws and was arrested
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Many traumatised child refugees are being put at risk of abuse after being wrongly assessed as adults on their arrival in the UK, campaigners have said. Flaws in the Home
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A man, woman and two young girls who were found dead in a house in Norfolk have been named by police. Norfolk Police said the four people have been provisionally
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Charity leaders are set to meet with the Government to discuss a shortage in the supply of the only licenced medicine that treats degenerative condition motor neurone disease (MND), with
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Scotland’s national clinical director did not retain any informal, one-to-one messages relating to management of the pandemic but denies deleting WhatsApps daily in a “pre-bed ritual”, an inquiry has heard.
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Six million of the poorest people in the UK would need to more than double their income to escape poverty, according to a new report which warns this is evidence
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A fatal accident inquiry will be held into the death of an 11-day-old baby at a hospital which faced a police probe. Newborn Sophia Smith died on April 11 2017
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Scotland’s chief medical officer told colleagues to delete WhatsApp messages “at the end of every day” during the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard. Professor Sir Gregor Smith’s has added
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More than 40,000 disabled households have sacrificed a cooked meal to run or charge essential medical equipment, analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) suggests. The charity has argued that a
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A 13-year-old boy died after being deliberately pushed into a river in South Wales in July 2019 in a “dangerous prank”, a coroner has found. Assistant coroner David Regan gave
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