A charity for disadvantaged children that is supported by the Princess Royal and Lawrence Dallaglio, the former England rugby captain, has been accused of wasting money on “larks”.

Plans to relocate cancer care services an extra 13 miles away, affecting patients in Barnoldswick and Earby, have been put on hold temporarily.

The Bristol Drugs Project was due to take its campaign for fairer treatment funding to Westminster today.

More than 9,000 people have registered their anger at plans to sell off six care homes. A public consultation on Leicestershire County Council’s plans ends on Monday.

The solicitor who mounted repeated legal action against Staffordshire County Council’s Changing Lives programme should have known it would fail, a High Court judge has ruled.

A Carer who stole almost £10,000 from adults with learning difficulties has been spared jail. Elaine McCarthy, 32, worked at Gregory House II in Mansfield Road, Carrington, where she had access to residents’ bank cards and pin numbers to help them with their money.

The University College of St Mark and St John is launching a new foundation degree for people who work with children up to the age of eight.

Youngsters in council care – including those under the age of sexual consent – are to be given condoms and pregnancy tests.