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Hundreds of babies and mothers died or suffered avoidable harm due to failures at Nottingham hospitals, damning NHS maternity scandal review finds
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Hundreds of babies and mothers died or were harmed due to “deeply embedded” systemic failures and “cruel” care spanning more thanContinue Reading
Senior minister claims Badenoch compared her to a Gestapo officer in heated clash after PMQs
Stay on top of the latest political news with our View from Westminster newsletter Get the latest political headlines with our free email Get the latest political headlines with our free email Kemi Badenoch and Bridget Phillipson clashed in parliament on Wednesday when the education secretary confronted the Tory leaderContinue Reading
Segro bid boosts FTSE 100 as gold and oil sink
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The FTSE 100 closed higher on Wednesday as gains in property stocks and housebuilders offsetContinue Reading
Britain’s electricity grid operator cancels power warning amid heatwave
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Discovery of prehistoric female-only cemetery changes what we know about early human society
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Extraordinary new discoveries are suggesting, for the very first time, that archaic (non-Homo-sapiens) early human society was far more complex andContinue Reading
Dementia care: how praise can help – and when it can miss the mark
Halfpoint/Shutterstock On a busy hospital ward, a nurse says “wonderful, wonderful” as a patient with dementia completes a task. It sounds simple, but moments like this can play an important role in how care gets done. Building on my doctoral research, a recent study I co-authored with colleagues examines howContinue Reading
Burnham latest: Miliband fails to turn up to PMQs as Badenoch accuses him of ‘betraying’ Starmer
Badenoch tells senior minister ‘I’ll never stop talking about how spiteful you are’ in heated clash after PMQs Kemi Badenoch and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson were involved in a heated exchange in the Commons after Ms Badenoch branded her a “spiteful class warrior”. The row escalated when Ms Phillipson accusedContinue Reading
Ancient Maya people were buried miles away from their teeth. Now scientists know why
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email The remains of some elite ancient Maya were buried at two different places far from each other, likely with a beliefContinue Reading
I took my kids to Toy Story 5 – now one of my daughters won’t touch her iPad
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent email Get the latest entertainment news with our free newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free newsletter The Toy Story films, revolving around a group of toys that secretly come to life when humans aren’t watching,Continue Reading
Wimbledon statement after qualifying suspended and all players forced off court
BBC commentators Annabel Croft and Andrew Castle were left scratching their heads at a Wimbledon tanoy announcement. Croft said:” Well, play has suspended here. It is quite an unusual situation as the heat is wreaking havoc with the electronic line calling system all aroud the ground.” A tannoy announcement thenContinue Reading