Heléna Herklots CBE has been named as the new Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, the Welsh Government has announced. Heléna is currently Chief Executive of Carers UK, the national membership
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A Labour MP who has been the victim of vicious abuse by trolls on social media has called for them to lose their anonymity online. Jess Phillips said Parliament needs
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A 17-year-old Slovakian travelled to England when near the end of her pregnancy then left her son in the care of nurses three days after giving birth, a family court
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A hospice boss whose arrest cost the charity £100,000 in lost donations will be jailed when he is sentenced for a long-running fraud. Graham Leggatt-Chidgey, 62, pleaded guilty to abusing
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Grenfell Tower survivors were let down and their trauma worsened by the efforts of the local authority to rehouse them, a report claims. North Kensington Law Centre, which has provided
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Forty-five people were evacuated from wards at a north London hospital on Sunday night after a fire broke out. Almost 60 firefighters and eight fire engines rushed to Chase Farm
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Westminster politicians are not qualified to change abortion laws for Northern Ireland, the region’s Secretary of State has said. Karen Bradley insisted that people in Northern Ireland do not want
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Government plans to integrate health and social care in England are in danger of being undermined by public distrust and suspicion, MPs have warned. The Commons Health and Social Care
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A new saliva test that can identify men at high risk of prostate cancer is undergoing pilot trials at GP practices in London. Scientists will assess whether advice or preventative
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Patients in Wales will be encouraged to only go to hospital if it is essential, under new plans published by the Welsh Government. As the 70th anniversary of the NHS
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