A paediatric nurse will cycle over 3,200 miles in 70 days to every children’s hospice service in the UK in a bid to raise more than £500,000 to support their
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Around one in seven (14%) 65-year-olds were in income poverty in late 2020 as a direct consequence of the state pension age rising from 65 to 66, according to the
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Victims of grooming gangs in Oldham have received official apologies after a major report said police and the local council failed to protect some youngsters from sexual exploitation but concluded
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A Home Office policy for child refugees trying to reunite with their parents and siblings in the UK is discriminatory with “devastating” consequences, the High Court has heard. A 19-year-old
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Covid-19 infections have risen in all four nations of the UK, with the increase likely to be driven by the Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, figures show. The number of
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Health workers employed by a private company have voted to strike in a dispute over pay and holidays. Unison said its members working for OCS at Lancashire & South Cumbria
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Professor Dame Lesley Regan has been appointed the first women’s health ambassador for England. The expert (pictured), who is past president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG),
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A fully functioning Stormont Executive is needed to agree the investment to transform the health service, Michelle O’Neill has said. Health Minister Robin Swann earlier unveiled a major plan for
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A mother accused of murdering her 10-week-old daughter told a social worker “you want to take her, then take her” during a visit hours before the baby’s collapse, a court
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The Government has partially accepted most of the recommendations made in a damning report which highlighted serious errors and delays in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. A study by
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