A 45-year-old former cleaner says she is trapped in her own home after her flat became overrun with thousands of flies and mice. The Sutton resident suffers from severe spinal problems and bulging discs. It presently takes her 40 minutes just to climb the 14 steps up to her first-floor flat. But the physical painContinue reading “Sutton’s Got Flies, Mice, And Mayhem — And One Woman Left Climbing 14 Steps To Hell”
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Remember Having A Family Doctor?
This is one of the most painful shifts in the modern NHS — the collapse of continuity of care — the thing that once made general practice feel human, safe and personal. Continuity wasn’t a luxury — it was the spine of safe medicine. When a doctor knew your history, your family, your baseline health,Continue reading “Remember Having A Family Doctor?”
It’s Believed That 800 Corpses May Be Buried At An Irish Mother And Baby Home Site
Investigators at Ireland’s notorious mother and baby house of horrors have made a grim find, excavating what they now confirm to be part of a long-suspected burial ground where up to 800 babies are feared to lie. The excavation team, which started its painstaking work in July, revealed that it has uncovered compelling evidence ofContinue reading “It’s Believed That 800 Corpses May Be Buried At An Irish Mother And Baby Home Site”
NHS Doctors Give Disabled Patients Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Without Consent
Families have slammed the NHS for putting “do not resuscitate” orders on disabled patients without their permission. An investigation by ITV News discovered that numerous UK hospitals have put blanket ‘Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation’ (DNR) orders on at least 12 patients with learning disabilities after being ordered to cease the practice five years ago. The Care Quality CommissionContinue reading “NHS Doctors Give Disabled Patients Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Without Consent”
Down Syndrome: Heartbreaking Cruelty
Children with Down syndrome endured terrible abuse throughout the Victorian era. Many were left to die in hospitals, their deaths quietly attributed to “natural causes.” At home, they were frequently concealed away, sent to asylums, or disconnected from their families – out of sight, out of mind. The term “Mongol” was used back then, coinedContinue reading “Down Syndrome: Heartbreaking Cruelty”
Corbyn ‘Disgusted’ By ‘Cruel’ Government Cuts
Rachel Reeves has received a letter from Jeremy Corbyn condemning her and the government for their proposed reductions in disability allowances. In her spring speech last month, the chancellor said that the government would be drastically reducing the welfare budget. The £4.3 billion cuts package, which included significant reform to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), isContinue reading “Corbyn ‘Disgusted’ By ‘Cruel’ Government Cuts”
Guards Forcefully Strip A Girl Prisoner
The prison watchdog has said he was ‘deeply shocked’ after a vulnerable teenage girl was forcibly strip-searched by male officers at a child jail. Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, also blasted the ‘inappropriate use of pain-inducing techniques’ at Wetherby Young Offenders Institution (YOI) in West Yorkshire. The institution was holding 165 boys andContinue reading “Guards Forcefully Strip A Girl Prisoner”
Jean Descamps’ Body Camera Released In Transport Death
Investigations are ongoing regarding the death of a 26-year-old man who was being driven by Milwaukie police from a hospital. However, Milwaukie police officials released the body-worn camera footage of one of the officers late on Friday afternoon. On December 13, Jean Descamps was being transported by law enforcement from Providence Milwaukie Hospital to Unity,Continue reading “Jean Descamps’ Body Camera Released In Transport Death”
Esther Rantzen’s Daughter Says She Doesn’t Want Her To Die At Dignitas Clinic
Esther Rantzen’s daughter has called on Parliament to vote on assisted dying rules to stop her mother from travelling alone to the ‘horrific’ Dignitas clinic. The Childline founder, who was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer earlier this year, revealed she’d joined the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland and would consider going there to endContinue reading “Esther Rantzen’s Daughter Says She Doesn’t Want Her To Die At Dignitas Clinic”
It Is Imperative That The Government Releases Secret Files On The Royal Family
A few weeks ago, someone wrote in a newspaper outlet in the Royal section about the problems they’d had as a historian and biographer in trying to access historical royal records. Time after time they found themselves barred from peeking into even the most mundane files, including documents which had been brought with public moneyContinue reading “It Is Imperative That The Government Releases Secret Files On The Royal Family”
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