A court case brought against four staff accused of threatening and assaulting children at a scandal-hit G4S-run youth jail has collapsed. Team leaders Anthony Dance, 28, Gareth Evans, 27, Matthew
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An elderly care home resident who repeatedly stabbed a member of staff has been jailed for 13 years and three months. Pensioner Fred Butcher was armed with a knife and
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Almost one-quarter of all registered sex offenders carried out online child sexual abuse, according to a snapshot taken by Police Scotland. This comes as Police Scotland launches a new campaign
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A woman who failed a hair-strand drug test fears that she will soon have to say goodbye to her three-year-old son after losing a roller-coaster battle over his care. The
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An epilepsy drug has been approved to treat children suffering from seizures on the NHS in Wales by the All Wales Medicine Strategy Group (AMWSG). Epilepsy is a disorder characterised
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Ellie Butler’s grandfather vowed her death “cannot have been in vain” as he described her murderer father as a “brutal maniac” in an inquest into her death. The six-year-old girl
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Nearly 40 women who were sexually exploited and forced to live in unsafe cave-like houses have been freed from a gang of human traffickers. It follows an international operation involving
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) has announced the appointment of Paul Martin and its new Chair. Speaking about the appointment, Chief Executive, Colum Conway, said: “I am delighted to
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Scientists believe a new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs and has been successfully used to treat an infection could lead to the first new class of antibiotic drug
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A man who runs a Facebook page with tens of thousands of followers has been jailed for 21 months for a seven-month stalking campaign of “psychological warfare” against a woman
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