Ministers have not adequately considered how assisted dying would affect disadvantaged communities, a palliative care doctor and clinical academic has said. Bradford-based Jamilla Hussain said the equality impact assessment for the assisted dying bill was “lightweight”, and her own research […]
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A woman has been cleared of illegally terminating a pregnancy, after taking abortion pills during lockdown. Nicola Packer took the pills at home in November 2020. She had been prescribed mifepristone and misoprostol after a remote consultation. She later delivered
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Russell T Davies has said gay society is in the “greatest danger I have ever seen”, since the election of Donald Trump as US president in November. Speaking to the Guardian at the Gaydio Pride awards in Manchester on Friday,
A bungling burglar has been jailed after he was caught out by a Home Alone-style bucket trap. The homeowners in Northumberland had set the snare after several recent reports of attempted break-ins in the local area. They had ribbed up
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Some of the UK’s largest police forces have reported increases in religious hate crimes in the past 18 months, figures reveal, with the number of incidents rising after the start of the Hamas-Israel conflict in autumn 2023 and again after
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A prison officer has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate at a Northamptonshire prison. Footage of the female guard and male prisoner was shared with other inmates at the privately run HMP Five Wells,
A man who was found dead at home in Staffordshire in the early hours of Christmas Day has been named as Louis Price. A 33-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after officers from Staffordshire police were called to
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Maenan, in north Wales, is not a place where very much happens. But earlier this week armed police descended on this tiny settlement, leaving neighbours in “disbelief”. They learned that a man they had sometimes seen near his home on
Representatives from Gypsy and Traveller communities have said they want “accountability not apologies” after children attending the Christmas markets were “forced on to trains” by police. National charity the Traveller Movement held preliminary talks with lawyers on Monday, , and
“The best year of my life in football now doesn’t feel like something I can celebrate,” said Manchester City’s Jack Grealish after burglars raided his Cheshire house while his family was home. The invasion of the England football player’s home
