Labour MP Jo Cox has died after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency advice surgery. The mother of two children aged three and five was attacked
Read More
A West Yorkshire care provider has been fined £190,000 following the death of a disabled resident who broke his neck at a nursing home. The Care Quality Commission prosecuted Leeds-based
Read More
Child welfare professionals were gripped by a “sort of hysteria” when a woman and her two children made sex abuse allegations against a man, a High Court judge has said.
Read More
Claims used to promote some supplements for preventing dementia or aiding brain health are not backed up by scientific evidence, according to a report. A panel of experts tasked by
Read More
Almost 3,000 people with cystic fibrosis will miss out on a “breakthrough” treatment after the health watchdog turned it down for use on the NHS. The National Institute for Health
Read More
Loneliness among older men is becoming a “major public health challenge”, a charity has said. Age UK said around half a million men over the age of 65 in England
Read More
The “war on drugs” has failed in terms of public health and drug use should be decriminalised, two leading organisations have said. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and
Read More
Children living in refugee camps in northern France are being subjected to sexual exploitation, violence and forced labour on a daily basis, a Unicef report reveals. The harrowing picture of
Read More
The widow of Sir Clement Freud has apologised after the late broadcaster was accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s. Sylvia Woosley, who first met Freud
Read More
Social care agencies “missed opportunities” to help an aspiring teenage model who went on to take her own life. Coroner Katy Skerrett said there was a lack of communication by
Read More