Foster places in short supply and council budgets buckling as social service referrals increase by up to 40% in some areas Analysis: shocking if not surprising A social worker’s tale: ‘FaceTime isn’t enough’ A looming crisis of children suffering abuse, neglect and poverty has been exposed, with growing numbers of […]
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James Markham is believed to have died after confronting a group of youths in Chingford on Monday evening Two 14-year-old boys have been arrested after a man was stabbed to death in Chingford, east London. It is believed that James Markham died after he confronted a group of young people […]
Gerry Layton, a royal supporter from Leeds, bought the cake topping and marzipan base for his collection of memorabilia An ardent royalist has bought the topping from a slice of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding cake for £1,850 ($2,565) at auction, more than 40 years after the couple married. […]
Travellers have complained of unfair prices, missed deliveries and slow processing of PCR tests Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government is coming under pressure to intervene amid concerns that its Covid testing regime for travellers is close to collapse, with thousands failing to be properly […]
High commissioner urges Home Office to stop flight because of Covid cases and spread of Delta variant Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The hours before a controversial Home Office charter flight to Jamaica was due to take off were mired in chaos and confusion as more […]
Authorities say about 8,600 people may have been affected See all our coronavirus coverage Authorities in northern Germany have appealed to thousands of people to get another shot of Covid vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution. The […]
Teacher-assessed grades in lieu of exams benefit those at independent schools as gap with state education widens The gap between private and state school A-level grades has grown to its widest in the modern era as part of a record-breaking set of results in which black pupils and male pupils […]
Possible ruling in Chinese court comes amid tensions over death sentence handed to another Canadian, and fate of an arrested Huawei executive A Canadian entrepreneur charged in China with spying days after the arrest of a Huawei executive faces a possible verdict on Wednesday, as Beijing steps up pressure ahead […]
Francis Goncalves, from Cardiff, wants his family’s experience to encourage people to get vaccinated Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A man from Cardiff has claimed he lost his mother, father and brother from Covid within a week because all three had chosen not to be jabbed […]
Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires […]