A lorry driver who stabbed his partner’s mother to death in a frenzied drunken attack after she came to her daughter’s aid has been jailed for life with a minimum
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Six former staff members at a boarding school for boys with learning difficulties have gone on trial accused of a catalogue of offences linked to an alleged “culture of neglect”
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A review of social services and police contact with a nine-year-old boy before he was killed by his mother and stepfather has found he was classed as “safe and well”
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The police watchdog has launched an inquiry into a force’s response to concerns raised for the welfare of a nine-year-old boy before he was held down in a bath and
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A mother has been jailed for 27 years and her partner has been ordered to serve at least 32 years in prison for killing nine-year-old Alfie Steele, who was repeatedly
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Neighbours had raised concerns for months before a nine-year-old boy was killed by his mother and her partner, who have been convicted over his death, with a safeguarding review now
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An internet “justice” group’s work to “expose” people wanting to “meet underage girls for sexual purposes” led to the arrest of a man now accused of child sexual offences, a
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Staff at a Rape Crisis centre forced to close its counselling services waiting list earlier this year due to funding pressures said the decision was “heart-breaking”. Jocelyn Anderson, long-serving chief
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Two agency nurses whose “gross failures” contributed to the death of a disabled woman were allowed to keep working at a care home because they “knew residents well”, a coroner
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The parents of a poorly five-year-old boy are “rejoicing” after tests showed a cutting-edge cancer treatment has left him leukaemia free. Oscar Saxelby-Lee and his family flew halfway round the
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