Shocking revelations of how patients in Muckamore Abbey hospital are being put at risk are contained in a dossier obtained by the BBC. The health service paper was sought under the Freedom of Information Act.
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About a third of detainees at an immigration centre are being moved to other sites after a riot. Seven staff and two inmates were hurt during the disturbance at Campsfield removal centre near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, early on Wednesday.
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More than 5,000 charities are to be taken off the official register because they have not contacted the regulator before the deadline. They will lose the benefits of charitable status and the right to call themselves charities.
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A new bill proposing a number of changes to our criminal justice system is due to be published today. The legislation is expected to include the introduction of electronic tagging for suspects released on bail, and tougher sentences for serious crime.
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A committee of MPs has warned of possible “pitfalls” in government plans to replace the Child Support Agency. The Work and Pensions Select Committee welcomed the decision to scrap the CSA, but warned of a return of the problems it was set up to solve 14 years ago.
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A row has broken out over a large mural depicting a Guantanamo Bay prisoner which has appeared on the side of a building in Angus. Miki Warren, 18, said she painted the controversial artwork to highlight the plight of suspected terrorists being held at the US camp in Cuba.
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A paraplegic Ulster law student who received compensation from a nursing and care company which refused to lift her from her wheelchair last night spoke of the humiliation and degradation she endured as a result of her treatment.
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Parents will be encouraged to spend more time reading to their children under a new Government “parenting strategy”. Education Secretary Alan Johnson will set out the Government’s thinking on how to help parents become more involved in their children’s schooling.
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A children’s nursery, where youngsters were force-fed out-of-date food, was yesterday facing possible closure following a detailed investigation by the Care Commission. Officers from the welfare watchdog were called in to investigate the All Stars Nursery in the Woodside area of Aberdeen following complaints about the facility, understood to have been made by a number of worried parents.
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A Progressive Democrat TD is demanding the introduction of sentencing guidelines for sexual offences. Fine Gael has already called for action on the issue. Backbench TD Mae Sexton claimed that minimum mandatory sentences must be laid down after a man was convicted of rape and received a suspended sentence yesterday.
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