A Catholic priest has been jailed for nine years and 11 months after abusing six children in the 1970s, leaving one of his victims “in fractured pieces”. Francis McDermott, 75,
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A woman who pretended to have cancer in order to help defraud the charity she worked for out of more than £85,000 has been jailed by a judge who told
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Essex Police has apologised to victims after two rogue police officers were convicted of sabotaging child abuse investigations. Detective constables Sharon Patterson, 49, and Lee Pollard, 47, (pictured) forged documents,
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Surprisingly favourable public finance figures have given Philip Hammond enough leeway to splash out £15 billion in this summer’s Spending Review to show that austerity “really is coming to an
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Doctors have been given the go-ahead by a judge in a specialist court to perform a caesarean section on a mentally-ill woman. Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles also granted medics permission
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Dozens of people facing deportation from the UK this week have had their removal put on hold after the High Court temporarily blocked a controversial Home Office policy. Campaign group
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The family of a British Army captain who plunged to her death from a viaduct 46 seconds after her handcuffs were removed say they are suing police. Relatives of Janice
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A blind 98-year-old Second World War veteran who became embroiled in a High Court battle because he wanted to leave a care facility is back at home, a judge has
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Two hospitals have apologised for not telling a woman she had terminal cancer until a week before she died. Beverley Smith, 63, from Truro, Cornwall, died in July last year
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Thousands of dying people are spending their last days being rushed to and from hospital, figures show. More than 26,000 people in England had three or more trips to A&E
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