3 d. ago ‘We’re excluded from the project we started’: Charity behind parkland hall restoration ‘does not accept’ council decision to end partnership

Efforts to restore Rock Hall have been led by Banana Enterprise Network for more than five years until their partnership contract was ended this week

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9 d. ago 'I visited the Greater Manchester charity shop where people queue to get in'

The site is home to a cafe where a cup of tea and toasted teacake cost me just £1.60

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1 week ago Gaza’s children: what can the future possibly hold for them?

Tens of thousands of children have been wounded in Gaza, which now has the most child amputees per capita in the world. Even those evacuated for treatment face an impossible pathWhen I entered the home in north-east Philadelphia, Elias, a lively four-year-old boy, grabbed the pack of KitKats I had brought with me and began swinging it over his head. He whirled around in circles, hollering something unintelligible. In a familiar scene – I have small children of my own – his mother tried to impose order, but yielded to the greater force of a kid on sugar kept indoors by a cold snap.Elias, his five-year-old sister Taline and nine-year-old brother Khaled were in the US because Elias and Taline needed urgent medical care. They had sustained staggering injuries when Israel’s military shot a missile at the house they were taking refuge in. The explosion cleaved Elias’s right leg off below the knee. Taline’s injuries were also severe; she arrived in the US with external fixators – pins and ...

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1 week ago There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. What can the future hold for them?

Tens of thousands of children have been wounded in Gaza. Even those evacuated for treatment face an impossible pathWhen I entered the home in north-east Philadelphia, Elias, a lively four-year-old boy, grabbed the pack of KitKats I had brought with me and began swinging it over his head. He whirled around in circles, hollering something unintelligible. In a familiar scene – I have small children of my own – his mother tried to impose order, but yielded to the greater force of a kid on sugar kept indoors by a cold snap.Elias, his five-year-old sister Taline and nine-year-old brother Khaled were in the US because Elias and Taline needed urgent medical care. They had sustained staggering injuries when an Israeli pilot or drone operator shot a missile at the house they were taking refuge in. The explosion cleaved Elias’s right leg off below the knee. Taline’s injuries were also severe; she arrived in the US with external fixators – pins and steel in her legs – as she battled infection. ...

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2 w. ago Human rights charity hits back at council's claim over Albert Square homeless camp

A town hall chief has been accused of a 'gross misrepresentation' - which she refutes

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2 w. ago 'I found dream shoes in charity shop – you'll never guess what they're worth'

Thrifty reseller Emily claims she has discovered her "best ever charity shop find" after splashing out just £9.99 on an item she says is worth considerably more

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2 w. ago Israel threatens Hamas with 'total destruction' and pounds Gaza with 'dozens more killed' overnight as Brit bomb disposal expert, 51, is injured at bombed

Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Thursday struck several homes and killed at least 58 people across the Gaza Strip, according to three hospitals.

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2 w. ago British bomb disposal expert working for Manchester charity injured in Gaza explosion

Mines Advisory Group said the man's condition is 'unknown'

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2 w. ago British charity worker injured in strike on UN facility in Gaza

The 51-year-old was among the five people injured in an explosion at a UN Office for Project Services (Unops) facility in Deir al-Balah.

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2 w. ago Horror in Gaza as hundreds dead and injured in Israeli airstrikes

Medics could not cope with the injured and dying, as a total blockade on supplies meant they lacked basic necessities, including diesel for generators and essential surgical items like gloves, swabs, and syringes

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3 w. ago The Wanted's Tom Parker charity football match back for its third year in his honour

The singer died in 2022 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour

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3 w. ago British Airways sent 'huge, emergency fashion jet' from London to Paris during fashion week bomb scare

A “ginormous, emergency jet” was sent from London to Paris after bomb scare shut the Eurostar, as British Airways helped designers and stylists make the Victoria Beckham show

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