A law in Northern Ireland which prevents anti-abortion protests from taking place directly outside clinics does not breach the rights of protesters, the UK’s highest court has ruled. Dame Brenda
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Full abortion services are to be formally set up in Northern Ireland, the Government has announced. Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris (pictured) said he had written to the Department of
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Abortion services “will be commissioned in Northern Ireland” before legislation relating to the formation of the Northern Ireland Executive passes through the Lords, Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker has told
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A mother of a nine-year-old girl has said the doctor who attempted to cover-up the circumstances of her daughter’s death put their family through 26 years of “mental torment”. Jennifer
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Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland are subjecting young people to coercion, threats and sexual exploitation, a Westminster committee has heard. The region’s Children’s Commissioner Koulla Yiasouma (pictured) described both loyalist
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The leader of the DUP has repeated a claim the protocol delayed some heart surgeries from going ahead in Northern Ireland. In response, the Southern Health and Social Care Trust
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The public and health workers in Northern Ireland have been let down by politics, the outgoing Stormont health minister has said. Robin Swann will leave his post at midnight after
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The Government is to step in and commission full abortion services in Northern Ireland amid a long-standing political stand-off between local politicians on the issue. Secretary of State for Northern
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Legal proceedings have been initiated against a number of institutions in Northern Ireland alleging that Lord Mountbatten abused a boy at a notorious Belfast children’s home in the 1970s. Arthur
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The Prince of Wales spoke of his shock after hearing that a child as young as four had contemplated taking her own life. William and Kate were told of the
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