A carer fatally knocked down a 100-year-old grandmother in an Asda car park after “accidentally pressing the accelerator” of a van while driving a paralysed man to buy flowers for
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A grandmother’s “painful death” from cancer could have been avoided, the health ombudsman has said. Pamela North, from Dagenham in Essex, died after a hospital’s nine-month delay to diagnose her
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A police force allegedly returned a laptop containing images of abuse to a man who was later jailed for rape after an investigation by another force. The Independent Office for
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A police force has faced criticism for social media posts that appeared to support domestic abuse victims staying with their partners. Essex Police posted a case study on Facebook about
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In many parts of England employment levels are at record levels and I regularly hear anecdotes from contacts across the South of England that every time a new super-market opens,
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A trial scheme to move recuperating NHS patients into Airbnb-style accommodation to free up hospital beds has been labelled “terrifying” by Labour’s shadow social care minister. Barbara Keeley warned there
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A hospital linked to a trial scheme to move recuperating NHS patients into Airbnb-style private accommodation to free up beds has insisted it has no intention to support the plan
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A 44-year-old woman who posed as a teenage girl on Facebook to groom a 15-year-old boy for sex has been jailed for three years. Marie Dent, from Clacton-on-Sea, set up
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Stroke patients are benefiting from an idea two Essex occupational therapy students came up with during a placement at Colchester General Hospital. A Cognitive Stimulation Room has been established on
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Social work at the University of Essex is going global, following the appointment of Founding Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Social Work, Vasilios Ioakimidis, who
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