51 minutes ago Former nurse who poisoned vulnerable child with laxatives has prison sentence cut

Tracy Menhinick was found guilty of wilfully ill-treating the boy over three years, putting his life in danger. She was jailed for seven years, but her sentence has now been reduced

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53 minutes ago Newborn baby fighting for its life after heavily pregnant woman, in her 30s, plunges to her death from 17

The little baby is today receiving 'critical care' after a woman, aged in her 30s, fell to her death from Shakespeare Towers in Burmantofts, Leeds, yesterday morning.

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57 minutes ago Pregnant woman falls to her death from high rise as newborn baby fights for life

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT A heavily pregnant woman has died after falling from the 17th floor of a block of flats in Leeds while her newborn baby fights for their life at hospital

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57 minutes ago Older people making new claim for £3,900 State Pension boost could get backdated payments before Christmas

Pension Credit claims can be backdated by up to three months and provide access to the Winter Fuel Payment.

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64 minutes ago One in 10 Brits found to add surprising food to their classic roast dinner

Roast dinner is a British classic and a new survey has shown the variations that people have made to it including a surprising number who have chosen to add one item

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71 minutes ago Heavily pregnant mum dies after falling from tower block with newborn fighting for life

The woman, in her 30s, died at the scene

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74 minutes ago To my distant cousin Justin Welby: our family’s slavery history is truly awful. Let’s be open about it | Alex Renton

The archbishop has admitted his connections, but must go further. Backing the campaign for reparations would be a startAlex Renton is author of Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of SlaveryI don’t know my newfound cousin Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury. We’re not close, in any sense. But we do have a mutual great-great-great-grandfather: Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, who died in 1838. He is five generations back on Welby’s side, six on mine. It is not as wildly unlikely as you may think – at six removes we all have 128 grandparents. But this particular historical figure is significant because of what he and tens of thousands of British people like him did – the fallout of which is still dividing and toxifying society today.Welby’s statement confessing Fergusson...

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79 minutes ago David Hasselhoff says Baywatch's Michael Newman ‘saved my life at least four times’ in moving tribute

‘The Hoff’ described Newman as a ‘warrior’ following his death

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83 minutes ago Selfies, hugs and protests: King Charles’s new approach in spotlight during ‘fast and furious’ royal tour of Australia

Issue of Aboriginal sovereignty front and centre during head of state’s whirlwind first visitFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKing Charles and Queen Camilla have left Australia after more than 30 official engagements – and a fair share of controversy – packed into just four full days on the ground.In the stage-managed whirlwind were churchgoers, bushfire scientists, a violinist, authors, dancers, architects, chefs, surf life savers, schoolchildren, republicans and monarchists – and unscripted discordance as activists took up Aboriginal sovereignty directly with the crown. Continue reading...

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85 minutes ago Leeds tower block horror as pregnant woman plummets 17 storeys and newborn baby fighting for life

West Yorkshire Police said in a statement that a woman "in the late stage of pregnancy" fell "from a height" at the tower block in Burmantofts, Leeds, this week

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