Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced a national investigation into maternity care in England. The “rapid” inquiry will urgently look at the worst-performing maternity and neonatal services in the country, including Leeds, Sussex, Gloucester, and Mid and South Essex. Streeting has met parents who have lost babies in a series of maternity scandals at some...
Reuters The Air India Boeing 787, that crashed in Ahmedabad last week, seen here over Melbourne in December Less than 40 seconds. That’s how long Air India Flight 171 was airborne before it plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood in Ahmedabad in one of India’s rarest aviation disasters in recent memory. Investigators now face the...
Rob Flett and Adam Harcus BBC Scotland News Getty Images Options for greater autonomy were found to be too expensive or too difficult Orkney Islands Council has accepted it must remain part of the UK – after spending two years exploring opportunities for greater autonomy. Officials looked into various models for “alternative governance”. These included...
A fifth man has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Exmouth, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said Ben Helliker, 26, of Halsdon Road in Exmouth has been remanded to appear in front of Exeter Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. Officers were called at about 00:45 BST on 31 May...
Merlyn Thomas & Emma Pengelly BBC Verify BBC The Israeli military has admitted to BBC Verify that it conducted a previously unacknowledged strike on the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza, which reportedly killed at least one Palestinian and injured 30 others. The strike took place on Sunday – hours after 31 Palestinians were killed in...
The April bombing of a Yemeni oil port by U.S. forces that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians and disrupted the delivery of lifesaving aid to one of the world’s most war-torn nations was “an apparent war crime” that should be investigated, a leading international human rights group said Wednesday. On April 17, a series...
Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News BBC Christine Rymer says she had no idea what her mother, Dorothy Readhead, had endured until she was contacted by the BBC Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of patients following heart operations at an NHS hospital, the BBC has learned. Documents seen by us suggest...
AFP The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has set up four aid distribution centre in southern and central Gaza The UN secretary-general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza on Sunday, amid disputed reports that Israeli forces had opened fire. Witnesses reported being shot at...
Six men arrested on suspicion of modern-day slavery offences in Devon have been bailed, police said. The group was arrested by Devon and Cornwall Police after a crash involving a van and lorry on Dolvin Road in Tavistock on 19 May led to the discovery of eight potential modern-day slavery victims. Police said the suspected...
An Garda Síochána Fiona Pender, 25, was seven months pregnant when she disappeared The disappearance of a pregnant Irish woman almost three decades ago has been upgraded to a murder inquiry. A new search is under way to try to find the remains of Fiona Pender, 25, who went missing in County Offaly. She was...
A car crash in Devon has led police to discover eight potential victims of modern day slavery. Devon and Cornwall police said it attended a collision involving a van and a lorry on Dolvin Road, in Tavistock, at 07:30 BST on Monday. During the investigation potential victims of exploitation offences were identified in the van...
He was in tears after was he booked against Tottenham two weeks ago, after which Potter said he was “frustrated” and had “given everything and in difficult circumstances”. Later that evening Paqueta’s wife Maria Fournier said in an Instagram post that they had “been living this nightmare for two years”. Paqueta was left on the...
Motown legend Smokey Robinson is under criminal investigation in Los Angeles over accusations of sexual assault. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed it had launched a formal inquiry into the allegations, saying the probe was in the “early stages”. The investigation comes after a lawsuit was filed last week by four anonymous housekeepers against...
The Gambian government has announced an investigation into the sale of assets seized from former President Yahya Jammeh, following widespread public concern. Some of the assets, including livestock and luxury vehicles, were sold off while a panel was still investigating the wealth Jammeh amassed during his 22-year rule. A newspaper investigation exposed alleged irregularities and...
Yesterday, Harvard send Sec. McMahon a letter which attempted to walk a fine line between finding common ground with the Trump administration and flipping them the bird. As Ed pointed out here, the administration’s response was to announce another round of funding cuts amounting to nearly half a billion dollars. The message is pretty clear:...