Parliament’s longest serving MPs, Sir Edward Leigh and Diane Abbott, have made a joint plea for colleagues to reject assisted dying legislation, and allow for more time to consider the
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A care assistant who had advanced disease when she was diagnosed with breast cancer underwent “inappropriate” surgery carried out by disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson, an inquest has heard. Giving evidence
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The squeeze on winter fuel payments will force 100,000 pensioners into poverty in 2026, according to the Government’s own estimates. Chancellor Rachel Reeves limited access to the benefit, worth up
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A High Court judge became emotional as she described how two innocent boys were murdered by a gang of armed teenagers out for revenge as she sentenced their getaway driver
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A “predatory” former vicar faces spending the rest of his life behind bars after he was sentenced for a third time for child sex offences after raping a six-year-old boy
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An education minister has admitted there has been an “unacceptable increase” in the number of children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders. These court orders allow a child to be
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A migrant who was granted asylum in the UK after several attempts to deport him has been jailed for more than 10 years over the rape of a 15-year-old girl.
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Leading emergency doctors have raised concerns about the safety of patients in A&E departments as winter approaches. A new snapshot survey from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) found
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Health services are at “breaking point” as incidents of self-harm have more than doubled at an immigration detention centre which feels “like a prison”, inspectors have warned. Fights and assaults
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Vulnerable young people have been placed in a caravan and an Airbnb in a “stark failure of the children’s social care system” in England, according to a new report. While
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