Would-be sponsors under the Homes For Ukraine visa scheme are threatening the Government with legal action on behalf of hundreds of refugees who have spent weeks waiting to come to
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A former vicar who repeatedly beat a woman with a bamboo stick during a decade of “bizarre and cruel” abuse has been given an absolute discharge by a judge who
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A mother has been jailed for causing her baby daughter’s death while keeping her in “squalid” conditions, according to the Metropolitan Police. Eleven-month-old Nafahat died of a chest infection after
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A pharmaceutical company has been fined more than £1.2 million after supplying contaminated feed for premature babies – three of whom later died. Some 19 infants were infected with Bacillus
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The 93-year-old father of an immobile and vulnerable woman who died in “horrific” conditions in a bedroom has been convicted of allowing her death. After deliberating for more than 15
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A woman murdered a 12-month-old boy she was hoping to adopt as her frustration with him turned to hostility, a court has heard. Leiland-James Corkill was placed with Laura Castle,
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A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years. Laura Heath
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The High Court’s ruling that Government policies on discharging hospital patients into care homes were “unlawful” has “rubbed more salt in the wound” for families, a bereaved daughter has said.
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Government policies on discharging untested hospital patients into care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic were “unlawful”, the High Court has ruled, undermining claims that a “protective ring”
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There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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