4 h. ago Warning to parents over certain drinks after 'public health risk' fears

Parents have been urged not to give pre-school children sweetened soft drinks amid health concerns

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23 h. ago Children should not be given ANY drinks with artificial sweeteners, says Government review

UK review finds 'diet' fizzy drinks and beverages like Fruit Shoot should not be given to young children while adults should cut down on them amid fears of long term health harm

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23 h. ago Parents issued warning over 'diet' drinks being given to children amid health fears

UK review finds 'diet' fizzy drinks and beverages like Fruit Shoot should not be given to young children while adults should cut down on them amid fears of long term health harm

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24 h. ago Young children should avoid drinks with sweeteners, experts say

However, for older children sweeteners are a better alternative to sugar, they suggest.

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49 h. ago Government turns down Oldham's request for 'more powerful' review into CSE

The Home Secretary responded to a letter from the council

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50 h. ago Children challenge government in High Court over 'unprecedented' VAT hike on private schools

The Government is fighting a judicial review over its controversial policy to make private schools pay VAT on fees

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3 d. ago I quit drinking at 44 for my health, children and sanity. Now, six years on, my reason for staying sober has become so embarrassing I wince to even admit it: AMANDA GOFF

I still remember myself at my worst as a drinker. Yet it's not the awful memories that keep me away from alcohol six years later. Instead I have a far more shameful reason for why I'm still sober at 51...

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4 d. ago Government asks MP watchdog to review expenses rules after £900 ‘pet rent’ claim

Dan Jarvis said the Government would urge the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to change expenses rules.

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1 week ago Arizona’s execution pitted experts against politicians. Experts lost | Austin Sarat

The governor dismissed an ex-judge studying the death penalty in the state and failed to heed a leading voice on the matter. It’s no surpriseOn Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for “kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert”.Gunches’s case was unusual in many ways, not least that he stopped his legal appeals and volunteered to be executed, then changed his mind before changing it again. His execution was scheduled to be carried out almost two years ago. It was put on hold when the Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, commissioned an independent review of the state’s death penalty procedures after a series of botched executions. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review – what Doge is trying to destroy

The Moneyball author is joined by writers including Dave Eggers and Geraldine Brooks in a hymn of praise to the workers who keep America’s cogs turningIt is a tad obnoxious for Michael Lewis, perhaps America’s most consistently successful nonfiction author, to open his new book by boasting that a previous one sold half a million copies, but bear with him. The book in question was 2018’s The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis smartly responded to Donald Trump’s first administration with profiles of a handful of unknown federal government employees in order to valorise what Trump scorned and highlight the cost of breaking it. His point in the introduction to Who Is Government? is that you could lift the lid on any department and find a similar treasure trove of stories: people you’ve never heard of, doing work whose importance you’ve never understood.Last year, Lewis assembled a crack team of long-form writers to uncover more of these stories for the Washington Post, and those articles are co...

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2 w. ago SNP Government told to apologise over 'failure' to carry out safeguarding review despite pledge 5 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Cole-Hamillton warned "nobody else is allowed to be alone with children or vulnerable adults without a basic check being done first".

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2 w. ago Mother hits out at 'poison' slushies and calls for ban after girl left unconscious

Kim Moore claimed her daughter Marnie became pale and unresponsive around ten minutes after having the drink

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2 w. ago Toddler became 'floppy and unconscious' after drinking 'poisonous' slushy drink

Kim Moore, 35, faced every parent's worst nightmare when her daughter went pale and unresponsive shortly after she drank a slush-ice drink at a children's party

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2 w. ago WASPI campaigners to stage protest outside High Court in state pension war

The WASPI group is calling for a judicial review that could force the Government to reconsider its decision not to offer compensation

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2 w. ago Peter Andre banned kids' treat after hearing alarming health warning

Peter Andre has revealed he has banned his youngest children from drinking slushies after reading a 'scary' health warning that has made him rethink his parenting.

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2 w. ago Peter Andre bans kids' treat as he's 'scared' by alarming health warning

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Andre has revealed he's banning sweet slushie drinks from his youngest children after learning of an alarming health warning around the popular ice treats.

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2 w. ago WASPI update after £150K legal bid to get compensation for women born in 1950s

The Women Against State Pension Inequality group is seeking a judicial review to force the Government to reconsider its decision to rule out a compensation package

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2 w. ago 'Tough' subjects could be dropped in schools to make way for 'renewed focus' on AI and climate science, curriculum tsar hints

Professor Becky Francis, who is chairing the Government's curriculum review panel, said children need to be better equipped for the 'challenges of the future'.

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2 w. ago EBacc limiting pupils’ access to vocational and arts subjects, review chief says

Prof Becky Francis, chairwoman of the Government’s curriculum and assessment review, said national assessments and qualifications are ‘working well’.

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3 w. ago Symptoms of glycerol intoxication to look out for in children after urgent slushy drink warning

Scientists warn that children under eight years old should not drink slushies

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