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Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

His mother had lived in the same house for 83 years. When the floods came, no one was ready. This is Paul Gilbert’s story

Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading...

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Man housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes

Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea that the public sphere belongs to men

The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor

Nicola Green, 42, speaks out after significant legal victory against department that accused her of fraud * UK politics live – latest updates The mother of a teenager with cerebral palsy has demanded an end to the “sickening harassment” of unpaid carers after a significant legal victory against the government. Nicola Green, 42, was pursued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for more than a year after she was accused of fraudulently claiming nearly £3,000 in carer’s allowance. Continue reading...

US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database – meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study – and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused. While the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denies it’s a registry, the agency did confirm a sweeping database of autistic people will power a $50m study on autism. Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said last week that he plans to announce results from the study within months. Continue reading...

Hugh Kirsch’s case one of wave of evictions of vulnerable residents caused by crisis in adult social care funding A pensioner with severe learning disabilities who was a victim of one of the most notorious care home abuse scandals of recent years has been told he faces eviction over a dispute about who pays for the costs of his state-funded care. The family of Hugh Kirsch, 66, said they had been warned he would have to leave his supported home because the council that funds his care refused to increase fees in line with costs and his care provider could no longer afford to subsidise the price. Continue reading...

Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026

Exclusive: Richard Harris, 71, died last July after series of errors at troubled Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton A troubled NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a series of potentially fatal delays to treat a tumour, in a case that is being investigated by police as possible corporate manslaughter. Richard Harris, 71, died last July after a series of errors in the neurosurgery department at the Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton, which is part of University Hospitals Sussex NHS foundation trust (UHSussex). Continue reading...

Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him

I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all

Language, history and arts are what make us a nation – and they’re at risk when funding is slashed to levels among the lowest in Europe What is a nation? There are several, varying definitions, but ultimately it comes down to the same answer: a large…

Exclusive: Several women claim City grandee exploited his position to harass or sexually assault them in the 1990s One of the world’s most celebrated financiers, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, has been accused of exploiting his position at the storied bank to…