Cutting NHS waiting lists will be “the first step” in a Labour government’s plan to get the health service “back on its feet”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The opposition
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More than 10,000 migrants are thought to have arrived in the UK so far this year after crossing the Channel. Pictures showed groups of migrants, including several children, being brought
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Regulations requiring one first-aider per nursery “pose a risk to future life”, a coroner has warned after a baby died following a choking incident. Oliver Steeper (pictured) died in hospital
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The number of abortions for women living in England and Wales is at a record level, having risen by almost a fifth in a year. There were 251,377 abortions for
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Campaigners have called for asylum seekers due to be sent to Rwanda to be freed immediately from detention after the Prime Minister admitted flights would not take off before the
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A Dorset resident has lost a legal challenge over a council’s decision not to consider using its powers over the mooring of the Bibby Stockholm in waters off its coastline,
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Ministers have been urged to apologise to disabled people after an investigation was launched into whether a Government department’s treatment of benefits claimants broke equality laws. Labour pressed for the
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A prison branded unsafe by inspectors will be taken over permanently by the Government. In December, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) intervened to take control of HMP Lowdham Grange in
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A nursery worker has been jailed for 14 years for killing a baby girl she strapped face down on a bean bag for more than 90 minutes. Kate Roughley tightly
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Election candidates must not get away with “weasel words or vague promises” on social care, a providers group has warned. Those knocking on doors asking for votes in the General
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