Nearly 250,000 people awaiting adult social care needs assessment – report
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNearly a quarter of a million people in England were waiting to have their care needs assessed by the end of summer, according…
Smoking causes 150 cancer cases every single day in UK, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSmoking causes 150 cancer cases every day in the UK alone, according to a new study. Read More
Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Masuma Akhtar arrived at the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting…
Hospital director in Haiti says a gang stormed in and took hundreds of women and children hostage
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA heavily armed gang burst into a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday and took hostage hundreds of women, children and newborns, according…
Where fat builds up in men and women can be linked to cancer risk – study
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow much fat builds up in the body and where it is distributed can be linked to different risks of cancer for…
NHS lifestyle scheme has ‘huge benefits’ for people at risk of diabetes, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople at risk of diabetes reduce their weight and levels of bad cholesterol after undergoing “lifestyle counselling” in the NHS’s diabetes prevention programme,…
How to tell a child they are HIV-positive
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisclosing an HIV status to a child under your care is not as easy as it may sound. Read More
Married father-of-three asylum seeker, 33, helped to mastermind £220k Facebook and eBay parcel scam after he was allowed to stay in UK when he claimed he was being persecuted in Nigeria for being gay
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA conman won refugee status in Britain by claiming he was persecuted in Nigeria for being gay – before going on to have…
Brit tourist, 28, 'kills his 26-year-old wife by stabbing her 41 times with a screwdriver in Turkish hotel room - before husband is found covered in blood'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA British tourist has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing his wife to death with a screwdriver in their Turkish hotel…
British tourist 'kills wife, 26, by stabbing her with screwdriver in Turkish hotel'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA British tourist has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his 26-year-old wife to death in a Turkish hotel room. Read More