Getty Images"Ballooning" NHS waiting times and delays getting vital treatment in A&E and cancer care is harming health and costing lives, according to a critical government-commissioned report.People have "every right to be angry," Sir Keir Starmer will warn on Thursday, adding the health service must "reform or die".Health Secretary Wes Streeting vowed to "turn the NHS around" after the review found it is still struggling from the effects of the
A photograph of Winston Churchill snapped in 1941 has been found in Italy after going missing from an Ottawa hotel and replaced with a fake.The photo - known as "The Roaring Lion" - was taken by Yousuf Karsh shortly after Churchill gave a wartime speech to Canada's parliament.On Wednesday, Ottawa police said the portrait had been found in the possession of a private buyer in Genoa, Italy, who was unaware
A New Zealand women's rugby player surprised King Charles III after asking him for a hug at a Buckingham Palace reception. The King said "why not" after winger Ayesha Leti-I'iga made the request, and he was then affectionately mobbed by a group of players. Afterwards he told the group "it was like being battered by a scrum". Source link
A nurse whose 10-week-old baby died after she left him home alone to go to work has been jailed.Ruth Auta, 28, left her son Joshua Akerele at her nurses' accommodation at the Royal Bolton Hospital shortly after 06:30 GMT on 20 December 2022, returning over eight hours later.She called an ambulance at 15:24, reporting her son was not breathing. He was pronounced dead at 16:40, despite attempts to resuscitate him.Auta,
Gavin HopkinsScotland's prison levels were said to be dangerously high before 477 prisoners were released early in June and JulyScotland’s prison population is now higher than it was before hundreds of prisoners were released early in a bid to ease overcrowding.A total of 477 prisoners were let out early in June and July under an emergency scheme introduced by the Scottish government in response to a sharp rise in the
Cheshire ConstabularyDoctors raised patient safety concerns but were ignored, the inquiry has been toldJunior doctors referred to Lucy Letby as "Nurse Death", a public inquiry has heard.The Thirlwall inquiry, set up to examine the NHS response to the serial killer, heard the head of nursing told a review into increased baby deaths that paediatricians thought Letby was "the common denominator".Nicholas de la Poer KC, on behalf of the counsel for
Durham PoliceMillie Bradley, 20, admitted assisting an offenderA woman who helped her boyfriend flee after he and a friend murdered a disabled man over a family's Facebook feud has been detained for more than two years.Ross Connelly, 46, was beaten to death at his home in Wheatley Hill, County Durham, by Lewis Armstrong, 18, and Harvey Hughes, 20, in May 2023.Armstrong's girlfriend, Millie Bradley, who was 18 at the time
A 12-year-old boy has been handed a 12-month referral order for taking part in riots in Manchester.The boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, appeared at Manchester Magistrates' Court after his sentencing was postponed because his mother went on holiday to Ibiza.His mother was also ordered to pay £1,200 compensation and will be subject to a 12-month parental order.District judge Joanne Hirst told the youngster it was "the
Wales' first minister has begun her first cabinet reshuffle, BBC Wales has been told.Eluned Morgan faces the decision of whether to reappoint the ministers who forced Vaughan Gething's resignation in the summer, including his former rival Jeremy Miles.Sources said that ministers have been asked to speak to Morgan on Wednesday.Former first minister Gething has already ruled himself out of returning to government.It is not clear how extensive the reshuffle will
Aurelie Boas tells the BBC what it has been like overseeing the posthumous publication of her husband's book about death. Source link
