A terminally ill motor neurone disease sufferer has vowed to continue his legal fight against the “blanket ban” on assisted dying after High Court judges rejected his case. Phil Newby,
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A legal challenge by a terminally ill motor neurone disease sufferer over the law on assisted dying will reach the High Court on Tuesday. Phil Newby, 49, from Rutland, East
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A decision to suspend rather than strike off a doctor found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter over the death of a six-year-old boy was “humane and balanced”, the Court of
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A local authority has spent more than £1m housing homeless families in Travelodge hotel rooms. Peterborough City Council confirmed it had run out of hostel beds and B&B rooms to
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NWG Network, a national charity dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation (CSE) has launched a UK-wide child sexual exploitation unit, the Department for Education has announced. Edward Timpson, the Minister for
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Loughborough academics are developing a new digital tool that will enable risks to the physical and mental health of older people to be detected early, and targeted interventions put in
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A former social worker used his position at a “brutal” children’s care home to carry out a string of sex attacks in the early 1980s, a court has heard. Andris
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Social services bosses at a local authority have come under fire from a High Court judge over the way the case of a baby that staff thought was in danger
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An elderly care home resident was left “emaciated” by malnutrition and soaked in her own urine as she was neglected by a care home, a court heard. Ivy Atkin died
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Potentially crucial evidence was lost and a suspect was free to carry on offending because of “unacceptable” delays in child sex inquiries at a police force, a report by watchdogs
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