Health services in the West have suffered from a £770 million shortfall after years of government under-funding.

Care workers fear they will lose their jobs – despite their care home being saved from closure. Staff at Hillport House, in Newcastle, believe Staffordshire County Council is unfairly asking them to reapply for their own jobs, effectively putting them in competition with workers at care homes set to close.

A second suspected underground torture chamber was broken into by a police search team yesterday at the Jersey care home at the centre of a child abuse investigation. A sniffer dog last night indicated the presence of possible human remains.

A drug rehabilitation centre has closed because managers want a new base offering addicts residential care.

A Derbyshire charity has been given an internationally-recognised accolade for the quality of its service.

A forum of charities involved in the fields of mental health and criminal justice have called for major changes to ensure that more people remain out of custody, with a