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Widowed parent’s allowance claims for those not married or in civil partnership can only be backdated from 30 August 2018

Inquest into deaths of three prisoners within three weeks at HMP Lowdham Grange in 2023 criticises ‘poor leadership’

The employment tribunal is taking place in Dundee.

Nearly 4,000 doctors with qualifications from outside the European Union passed France’s medical licensing exam last year, according to the Health Ministry. While this marks an increase from the previous year, foreign doctors have voiced frustration over restrictive quotas and unequal treatment within the French healthcare system.

The Prince of Wales got candid about grief while visiting a charity with ties to his late mother.

Letters: We must remember that Kim Leadbeater’s bill offers assisted dying only to the terminally ill, writes Lyn Dade, whose daughter gave evidence to the committee. Plus, a letter by Prof Katherine Sleeman

The 42-year-old royal lost his own mother as a 15-year-old

Proposed change follows concerns by experts about protection from coercion and measuring mental capacity

Kim Leadbeater has written to MPs, stressing that it is important to ‘enhance’ the proposed legislation where necessary.

Report shows UK spends £11.7bn on hospital care for terminal patients who would rather die at home or in a hospice

A new study using a large collection of demographic data has revealed the lasting and damaging consequences for children placed in state care between 1950 and 1999 – including huge disparities in life expectancy compared with the general population.