Resolution Foundation points to growth in claims for conditions such as autism and says adulthood brings financial cliff edge Children in England and Wales aged 15 or 16 are now more likely to be receiving disability benefits than adults in their 20s to 40s, according to research highlighting a sharp […]
Month: August 2024
Exclusive: Home secretary cites knives and pressures of social media as she announces plans for ‘young futures’ unit to prevent crime ‘We fear the police’: young people share concerns with Cooper Teenagers have it “much, much harder” than previous generations because of knives, mental health pressures and social media, Yvette […]
David Wilkinson, 48, was part of ‘baying mob’ who left driver in fear for his life, court heard A man who was part of a “baying mob” who forced three terrified Romanians from their car during a riot has been jailed for six years, as the number of people sentenced […]
Door swipe data showing which staff entered and exited baby unit was ‘mislabelled’ until retrial, CPS says Evidence presented in the first trial of Lucy Letby showing which staff came in and out of the baby unit she worked on was incorrect, the Crown Prosecution Service has acknowledged. The nurse […]
Comments by Zelenskiy aide come as officials in strategic Pokrovsk say Moscow’s forces are ‘advancing at a fast pace’ Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates Ukraine’s lightning offensive into several Russian border regions is designed to persuade Moscow to engage in “fair” talks about its war in Ukraine, an aide […]
Personal assistant and two doctors among those indicted after Friends star died last year of ‘acute effects of ketamine’ Five people have been arrested and charged over the death of Matthew Perry, prosecutors said, including the actor’s personal assistant and two doctors. The doctors supplied the Friends actor, who died […]
US, Qatar, Egypt and Israel meet in Doha in effort to prevent fighting spiralling into region-wide Middle East conflict A new round of negotiations aimed at brokering a ceasefire in the war in Gaza and preventing the fighting from escalating into a region-wide conflict got under way in Doha, as […]
North of England lags far behind south-east in national exam grades and university application rates Pupils achieved their best A-level results in a generation on Thursday with marks that highlighted the growing gap between the strongest and weakest-performing parts of the country. While the national exam grades were among the […]
Clade I case comes after World Health Organization declares a global public health emergency What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency? Sweden confirmed its first case of the more contagious variant of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, marking the first […]
Military commandant’s office is being established in city, says president as discussions over prisoner exchanges restart Ukraine’s president has claimed Kyiv’s troops have full control over the Russian town of Sudzha, which had a prewar population of 5,000 people and contains infrastructure pumping Russian gas towards Europe. Sudzha, roughly six […]