A council facing severe criticism for inviting a serial rapist to take part in legal proceedings about the future of a child he fathered with one of his victims says
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Ministers are pledging to take an “innovative” approach to tackling drug and alcohol addiction in Scotland, even if it makes some people “uncomfortable”. Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick said the
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A hospital trust at the centre of a maternity care scandal has been criticised by health inspectors in a new report. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated services at Shrewsbury
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The UK has become one of the first countries to meet a key target in the battle against the HIV epidemic, figures suggest. Statistics released by Public Health England (PHE)
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High earners should have childcare subsidies scrapped to give a boost to low-income families under Universal Credit, the architects of the reforms have said. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ)
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Glasgow is to become the first Scottish city to join a major global initiative aimed at halting the spread of HIV. Council leaders are to sign up to the Paris
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A man has been jailed under new legislation brought in to consider stiffer sentences for attacks on emergency workers. Daniel Hilton, 27, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, was jailed for three
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Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones told an inquest that cabinet minister Carl Sargeant did not give him an “outright denial” as he sacked him after “bombshell” sexual misconduct allegations. Mr
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A failed asylum seeker who is facing expulsion from Britain even though a family court judge has decided that her nine-year-old daughter could be subjected to female genital mutilation if
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Council lawyers have halted a bid to jail a man alleged to have breached orders relating to his children after a family court judge complained of incompetence. Judge Gareth Jones
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