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How to Age Gracefully: Learn from Bill Gates, the Who and David Attenborough

Getting old isn’t nearly as bad as many people think it will be. Nor is it quite as good. Maybe it’s somewhere in between.

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Royal College of Psychiatrists says it cannot yet support assisted dying bill

College says it is neutral on assisted dying, but ‘many, many factors’ need addressing in proposal for England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Leadbeater praises MSPs’ assisted dying vote amid warning Bill is ‘inadequate’

Kim Leadbeater said she is ‘pleased’ that MSPs backed the general principles of assisted dying as psychiatrists raised ‘serious concerns’ over Bill.

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We will keep fighting, pledges MSP after assisted dying vote

The assisted dying proposals cleared the first hurdle at Holyrood on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

How Holyrood voted on assisted dying

MSPs backed the general principles of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill by 70 votes to 56 with one abstention.

Evening Standard

Sandie Peggie welcomes Supreme Court judgment on biological sex

The nurse publicly welcomed the judgement of the Supreme Court which ruled that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex.

Evening Standard

Kim Leadbeater urges MPs to back palliative care amendment to assisted dying bill

MP sponsoring bill in England and Wales says she agrees with Marie Curie that end of life care must be improved

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Campaigner describes how ‘hero’ father chose assisted death in Canada

Fiona Anderson’s father, John Bird, who had stage four cancer. went to Ontario on 2022.

Evening Standard

Police end investigation into three deaths at Dorset care home

Officers say two residents at home in Swanage died of natural causes and third had serious kidney infection

The Guardian - UK

McArthur hopeful ahead of crucial assisted dying vote on ‘historic day’

Supporters say there is a groundswell of public support for changing the law.

Evening Standard

Protests planned as Scottish parliament holds free vote on assisted dying bill

Opponents of proposals say it is ethically wrong to allow state to help someone take their own life

The Guardian - UK

Bill on Assisted Dying faces key vote at Scottish Parliament

Liam McArthur’s Bill would, if passed, allow terminally ill adults to seek help to end their life.

Evening Standard

Police say no ‘third party involvement’ in deaths of three people at care home

Two men and a woman died at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, in October 2024.

Evening Standard

‘Things could fall over’: businesses and public services on Starmer’s immigration crackdown

Social care, hospitality, health, universities and construction sectors raise questions over impact of plan

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Changes to nursery space requirements in England risk overcrowding, experts say

Pressure to create more childcare places to meet funded expansion plans threatens to undermine quality

Evening Standard

Nurses, universities and some Labour MPs criticise Government's new immigration rules

The GMB union said plans to scrap care visas could be ‘catastrophic’ for the sector

Evening Standard

OPINION - My immigration fix is simple: we must stop offering most immigrants a route to citizenship

A million here, a million there…soon you’re talking real numbers. And a million people in a single year is pretty well what we got in 2023, when the net migration figure was 903,000 – so the overall figure (not taking account of people leaving) was getting on for a million.…

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Nursing union boss condemns immigration plans as ‘pandering and scapegoating’

Sir Keir Starmer has set out a number of measures aimed at reducing the number of people coming to the UK.

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Evening Standard

Visas for foreign care workers: What the latest figures show

Indian nationals accounted for about one in five of care worker visas granted in 2023-24.

Evening Standard

Mental health deaths inquiry hears about ‘denial and defensiveness’

The falsification of safety records was ‘well known within the Essex context’, the Lampard Inquiry was told.

Evening Standard

Health Secretary Gray to abstain on initial assisted dying vote

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill will face its first vote on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

International Nurses Day 2025: what is it and how to mark the occasion?

Nurses across the world are being thanked and celebrated during a global appreciation of their essential roles in healthcare.

Evening Standard

Kate Forbes to vote against Assisted Dying Bill at Holyrood

The Deputy First Minister said she does not think ‘any amount of legal drafting can prevent people feeling pressured to die’.

The National (Scotland)

Anas Sarwar to vote against assisted dying legislation amid 'insufficient safeguards'

ANAS Sarwar has announced that he will vote against assisted dying when the proposed legislation is debated at Holyrood tomorrow ...

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer unveils immigration crackdown as PM promises to tighten 'every area of system'

The Prime Minister said without stricter controls on immigration "we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together"

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