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‘Every one of us has a different story’: a historic portrait of care system success
Poet Lemn Sissay gathered athletes, artists, CEOs and others who spent part of their childhoods in care for a powerful photograph to inspire young people in care today

24, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM

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Private UK care homes’ profit margins soared in pandemic, research finds
Amid staffing crisis and warnings that system is ‘deeply flawed’ companies caring for elderly and disabled enjoyed financial success

Shanti Das

24, Jul, 2022 @6:15 AM

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‘We’re all tired’: the everyday exhaustion of Australia’s third Covid winter
After enduring more than two years of pandemic, we’re facing yet another fresh wave. How can we push through the malaise?

Sophie Black

23, Jul, 2022 @8:00 PM

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Plymouth kinship carer wins legal bid over slashed payments
Sarah Becker’s judicial review win relating to financial help for grandchildren she raises will affect other councils

Louise Tickle

23, Jul, 2022 @6:02 PM

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Critical elements of leading Alzheimer’s study possibly fraudulent
The highly influential paper, first published in 2006, has helped guide billions of dollars in US federal research into the disease

Jessica Glenza

23, Jul, 2022 @4:57 PM

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Child vaping risks becoming ‘public health catastrophe’ in UK, experts warn
There are fears that the e-cigarette boom has the potential to create a generation of young people hooked on nicotine

Shanti Das and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

23, Jul, 2022 @1:43 PM

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Male ‘biological clock’ can affect chances of birth more than was thought, study finds
The research could help shape fertility education and messaging for couples trying to conceive through IVF

Hannah Summers

23, Jul, 2022 @1:00 PM

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Parole changes in England and Wales present ‘clear danger to the public’, unions tell Raab
Under new rules, panels will rarely received psychologists’ and probation officers’ recommendations on release

Mark Townsend and Michael Savage

23, Jul, 2022 @12:04 PM

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‘You can’t bring my boy back’: why are so many UK prisoners dying on remand?
Garry Beadle was a promising footballer before his life fell apart. Then, three years ago, he killed himself in prison, one of hundreds failed by the system

Simon Hattenstone and Eric Allison

23, Jul, 2022 @12:00 PM

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Man who killed his wife in ‘act of love’ calls for assisted dying law
Graham Mansfield, sentenced this week for killing terminally ill Dyanne, says if he had to do the ‘horrible act’ again, he would

Helen Pidd

22, Jul, 2022 @7:09 PM

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John Small obituary
Other lives: Social worker who moved back to his native Jamaica to become a lecturer at the University of the West Indies

Andrew Ballantyne

22, Jul, 2022 @4:44 PM

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Euthanasia and assisted suicide: what is the law in the UK ?
As Graham Mansfield is found not guilty of murder for killing his terminally ill wife, Dyanne, we look at key assisted-dying debates

Amelia Hill

22, Jul, 2022 @1:35 PM

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