A woman who killed a pensioner after she went missing from an acute mental health unit had previously told police she had “thoughts to kill others” and referenced “a bloodbath”,
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A mother tried to kill her three children in their own home after her mental health deteriorated following the birth of her third child, a court has heard. The 35-year-old
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A council is facing equal pay claims from thousands of women, according to a union which alleges some workers are paid up to £11,000 less than those in comparable roles.
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A former vicar who repeatedly beat a woman with a bamboo stick during a decade of “bizarre and cruel” abuse has been given an absolute discharge by a judge who
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Hospital failings and “neglect” contributed to the death of a premature two-day-old baby in a neonatal unit, a coroner has found. Cassian Curry was born in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ Jessop
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Hospital inspectors have found repeated maternity failings at one of England’s largest NHS trusts and expressed serious concern about the safety of mothers and babies. The Care Quality Commission (CQC)
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A couple who left an autistic man to live in squalor in a locked attic room until he nearly died have each been jailed for six years. Lorna and Craig
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The former director of the Government’s Covid taskforce has apologised for having leaving drinks in her office during lockdown. Kate Josephs (pictured) said she is “truly sorry” for gathering with
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Asylum seekers were previously removed from the hotel where a five-year-old Afghan refugee fell to his death from a window because it was unfit for refugees to stay in, it
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Maternity services at a hospital in Sheffield have been downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate” after the regulator found they did not provide “the standard of care women should be able
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