46 m. ago House blast and rape suspect appears in court via prison video

Paul Solway, 57, is accused of destroying property with intent to endanger life after an explosion ripped through a terraced property in Derby.

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2 d. ago Driver admits causing serious injury after crashing stolen car into care home

Two elderly residents at Highcliffe Care Home, Witherwack, Sunderland, died following the crash which happened last month.

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4 d. ago Court service accused of IT bug 'cover up' after malfunction made evidence go missing

An internal report leaked to the BBC found the body took several years to react to the malfunction.

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9 d. ago Former priest accused of leading evangelical Church of England cult says followers gave him ‘sensual’ massages to relieve tension headaches

Christopher Brain, who denies one count of rape and 36 counts of indecent assault, claims he engaged in kissing, massaging and stroking with ‘close friends’ from the Nine O’Clock Service, a court heard

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9 d. ago 5 PIP mistakes that could prevent people from up to £749 payments

Some common mistakes on PIP forms could prevent people from getting their entitlement over simple issues like missing evidence and not using the right phrasing

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3 w. ago Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science

Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.That war appeared to enter a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science. Continue reading...

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