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England’s health and social care watchdog is “not fit for purpose”, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said, pledging immediate action to restore public confidence. Mr Streeting was reacting to an independent review into the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the body that monitors and inspects all health and adult social care providers to ensure safety and […]
A police decision to ram an escaped cow with a patrol car is being investigated as a criminal and internal misconduct matter. Surrey Police was heavily criticised after footage was posted online of a 10-month-old calf being rammed by a police car after midnight on June 15 following reports of a loose animal in Staines-upon-Thames. On Thursday, the force […]
Rachel Reeves is expected to unveil a black hole in the public finances of around £20 billion, signalling that tax rises could be on the way. The Chancellor will on Monday set out the results of the spending audit she ordered Treasury officials to produce. Her update will reveal “the true scale of the damage […]
The NHS has made an urgent appeal for more blood donors after it issued a national alert over shortages of certain blood types. National stocks of O negative and O positive blood have fallen to “unprecedentedly low levels” after increased demand from hospitals and high levels of unfilled appointments at donor centres created “a perfect storm”, NHS Blood and […]
Vice president Kamala Harris has told reporters that she is “ready to debate Donald Trump”. She accused him of “back-pedalling” away from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News on September 10. “I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on the debate stage,” she […]
Carrying backpacks and small children, hundreds of people sleeping on the streets of Paris climbed aboard buses surrounded by armed police on Thursday The group of largely African migrants headed for the fringes of the city in buses paid for by the French government and into temporary lodging until at least the end of the […]
There has been a call for calm after a police officer was suspended following a video which appeared to show a man being kicked as he lay face down on the floor. The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer was suspended on Thursday after the video was shared widely on social media and prompted protesters to […]
Now has been named the most complained-about broadband and landline provider in the latest quarterly figures from regulator Ofcom. Now received 22 complaints per 100,000 subscribers between January and March, well above the industry average of 11. Now received 12 complaints per 100,000 customers for its landline service, followed by EE and Virgin Media – both on […]
A man has been charged with being the owner of two XL bully dogs which mauled a grandmother to death. Esther Martin, 68, was savaged to death by two XL bullies in Jaywick in Essex on February 3 this year. An inquest hearing was told that she was found unresponsive inside a property in Hillman […]
Two Just Stop Oil activists have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tinned soup at one of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings. Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, both 22, damaged the frame of the post-impressionist’s Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery. The protesters, wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts, threw two tins of Heinz […]