8 minutes ago Cowboy builder who fleeced widow, 85, out of £8,000 after her skylights started leaking is jailed

Salford-based trader Christopher Parr, 36, removed roof tiles from an 85-year-old widow and then never returned after charging nearly £8,000.

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36 hours ago 'Corridor care' in overcrowded Scots hospitals has become 'normalised', warns nursing chief

Nurses are having "nightmares" due to their experience of working overcrowded hospital wards, health bosses have been warned.

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33 hours ago Swinney in apology to patients who have ‘unsatisfactory experience’ in hospital

It comes after a report from the Royal College of Nursing warned of a ‘corridor care crisis’ across the NHS.

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47 hours ago Tearful nurses reveal shocking reality of NHS corridor care as 'patient found dead under coats'

NHS nurses speak out at a briefing in central London to unveil the Royal College of Nurses bombshell report showing corridor care has become normalised year round and is 'worse than ever'

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8 hours ago Rogue builders left customers almost £125,000 out of pocket with shoddy work

Nicky, 31, and Kyle Middleton, 29, were the directors of N&K Kitchens Ltd, and left an intensive care nurse's house looking like a building site and open to the elements.

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47 hours ago 'Patients stripped of their dignity and shoved in places to die' nurses shock Welsh hospitals' report

Conditions in Welsh hospitals are 'unsafe, undignified, and unacceptable' as Royal College of Nursing report lays bare 'corridor care' scandal

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