British women forced into marriages abroad will no longer have to pay for their own rescue, the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. The move comes amid controversy over the
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Migrant populations of many British towns may be thousands higher or lower than official statistics indicate, according to a report. Estimates of the number of foreign-born residents in some local
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Nearly £5.4 million was spent on “paupers’ funerals” by local authorities in the financial year 2017-18, a mutual insurer has found. The total cost of public health funerals across the
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Universal Credit was labelled a “rolling disaster area” which is “causing real distress” as the Government faced a grilling over the slowdown of its rollout. Labour’s Angela Eagle asked Employment
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Theresa May has hailed the launch of a 10-year plan for the NHS in England as a “truly historic moment”. Health chiefs say that up to 500,000 lives could be
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All smokers who are admitted to hospital will be encouraged to quit as part of a new five-year plan, NHS England said. The NHS will invest £183 million in helping
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Activities for poorer children during the school holidays are to receive a multimillion-pound funding boost. Thousands more disadvantaged children are set to benefit under the £9 million programme announced by
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A hospital trust has apologised after a two-year-old boy was left infertile after surgeons operated on the wrong testicle. The boy was admitted to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children earlier
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A teenage father who murdered his “perfect” newborn son in a drink-fuelled rage before eating toast in a state of elation has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Doulton Phillips, 17,
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The Government is drawing up plans to stop food shortages from affecting hospital patients in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to official documents. Doctors and nurses should also
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