Vulnerable people including transplant patients and cancer sufferers have had food parcels stolen from their doorsteps, police have said. Shielded people who have been deemed those most at risk if
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A new scheme to give medical grade heroin twice a day to the worst addicts in a town has been called “the chance of a lifetime” by one of the
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A Passport Office worker with a sexual interest in children has avoided jail after he admitted stealing 30 photos of girls from applications and downloading horrific indecent images of abuse.
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The police watchdog has found evidence of serious failings leading up to the death of a man in custody. Stephen Berry, 43, had been detained for longer than normal as
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A police sergeant has kept his job despite him being found guilty of gross misconduct after sensitive information about sex offenders ended up in a skip. Martin Skirving-Chehab, a Cleveland
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A football-mad couple who campaigned to make matches more accessible for children with autism have received MBEs. Peter and Kathryn Shippey’s charity, The Shippey Campaign, introduced the first “sensory rooms”
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Confidential papers relating to paedophiles and their victims ended up in a skip after a police sergeant’s mother-in-law threw them out by accident, a disciplinary hearing was told. Martin Skirving-Chehab,
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Two doctors whose six-year-old daughter died while at the centre of a High Court life support treatment dispute have criticised specialists and hospital bosses involved. They say they are making
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Plans to give a town’s 15 worst heroin addicts two daily doses of diamorphine have been revealed. The treatment plan in Middlesbrough – using medical grade heroin – is the
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The way someone walks could be used to identify the specific type of dementia a patient has, researchers have revealed. Newcastle University scientists have shown that people with Alzheimer’s disease
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