Three Charged With Murder Of Man With Learning Difficulties
Three people were today charged with the murder of a 23-year-old man with learning difficulties after a street attack.
Read MoreThree people were today charged with the murder of a 23-year-old man with learning difficulties after a street attack.
Read MoreThe care system set up to replace axed community hospitals in Wiltshire is continuing to take shape later than originally planned. With county hospitals either to lose their general medical beds or to have the number of beds slashed, neighbourhood teams are drawing up final plans to take over.
Read MoreMedical practitioners have expressed ‘serious concerns’ over the rights of nurses to prescribe complex medicines after new figures showed a big increase in the practice.
Read MoreA judge has been accused of giving paedophiles a licence to offend after he refused to send a serial child sex attacker to jail. Michael Porter, 38, used his trusted position as a ministerial servant in the Jehovah’s Witnesses to prey on young boys in Clevedon, Somerset, over a 14-year period.
Read MoreGordon Brown has promised “intensive” action to tackle gang violence involving guns and knives. The prime minister said there would be “tougher enforcement” of the law in areas with a gang violence problem.
Read MoreHousing associations are making full use of their tools and powers in responding to anti-social behaviour (ASB), according to new Housing Corporation research.
Read MoreThe UK needs to boost stroke services quickly – or remain the worst in western Europe, says a leading doctor. Professor Hugh Markus, of London’s St George’s Medical School, said care was poorly organised, the British Medical Journal reported.
Read MoreA girl who suffers from cerebral palsy has been left heartbroken after being promised she would be taken to a christening – only for her care provider to cancel due to staffing issues.
Read MoreDavid Cameron called yesterday for action to confront the growing “anarchy in parts of the UK” and for magistrates’ maximum sentencing powers to be doubled to 12 months.
{mosimage}In a wide-ranging speech, made only hours before an 11-year-old was shot dead while playing football outside a Liverpool pub by what appeared to be a youth on a BMX bike, the Conservative leader decried the “rising tide of youth violence and antisocial behaviour”.
He said he wanted to see a wider use of the power that courts already have to ban young offenders from holding or applying for a driving licence.
“Common sense suggests that with young people you need to hit them where it hurts: in their lifestyle and their aspirations…I want to see this measure more widely used – and I don’t believe it should only be targeted at driving-related offences, as the government guidance suggests,” said Mr Cameron.
“I’d like to see judges and magistrates tell a 15-year-old boy convicted of buying alcohol or causing a disturbance that the next time he appears in court he’ll have his driving licence delayed. And then I’d like that boy to tell his friends what the judge said.”
Read MoreTwo teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was shot dead on his way home from playing football.
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