The NHS is “failing” people from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to England’s most extensive study of the issue. The study, from the University of Manchester, found the average health of
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A teenage care leaver was left unable to secure a job after Manchester City Council failed to obtain him a passport, a new report shows. The 18-year-old, who was put
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A man who threw his 11-month-old son into a river has been found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. Baby Zakari Bennett-Eko (pictured) died after he was pulled from the
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A mother has been cleared of allowing the death of her 12-month-old daughter, who was murdered by her partner. Chelsea Crilly, 20, was warned over the safety of her child,
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Boris Johnson’s Tory government was accused of treating the North with “contempt” after a bitter row erupted over proposed coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham (pictured) said the
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Three temporary Nightingale hospitals in the north of England could be brought back into use to deal with the spike in coronavirus cases. The facilities in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate
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A new £500 million funding package will support trials of a 20-minute Covid-19 test and efforts to explore the benefits of repeatedly testing people for the virus, the Health Secretary
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People from different households in Greater Manchester, parts of East Lancashire and West Yorkshire will be banned from meeting each other indoors from midnight, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.
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A social care worker shot dead in a double murder at an outdoor lockdown party was a “doting father” to to his three children and a “loving husband”, his wife
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A man shot in a double murder at an outdoor lockdown party was an “intuitive and compassionate” children’s home worker, Manchester’s council leader has said. Social care professional Abayomi Ajose,
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