Councillors are due to get an update on the reforms within Cumberland Council’s children’s social care service this week.

In the past decade spending on children with SEND in England has almost doubled, reaching £11.6bn ($15.5bn). Yet even as ...

Detectives are continuing to investigate a suspected double murder on a residential street. They have arrested a 43-year-old woman on suspicion of murder. It follows the deaths of Meraj Ul Zahra, aged ...

IN July, the British government announced that English schools would start teaching children how to combat misogyny from the start of its new academic year, as sexist content promoted by so-called ...

Former Sinn Féín leader Gerry Adams is to take legal action over the British government's decision to prevent him from claiming compensation for unlawful detention in the 1970s. As part of legacy ...

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A Hartlepool teenager has been warned “all options” are open after being found guilty of performing a sex involving a rocking horse in a children’s playground. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

Date of assessment: 5 to 6 June 2025. Nightingale Hospital Exeter provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at outpatients, surgery for orthopaedics and ophthalmology and ...

Former England footballer Alan Shearer and actor Sir Michael Caine have joined calls for the prime minister to ban smacking. The pair are among a host of famous faces and campaigners who have signed a ...

A SEX predator has been convicted of raping a doctor in a late-night attack. Mihai Nicolae Patran pounced on the 27-year-old stranger as she walked in Glasgow‘s Mitchell Street in the early hours of ...

Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled. GCHQ's cyber ...