25 h. ago We must fight for our journalism, defiant BBC boss says after Trump legal threat

Outgoing boss rallies staff after Donald Trump’s court threat and demand for $1bn compensation

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3 d. ago 'My liver saved my baby's life, now she's starring in a GOSH Charity Christmas advert'

Two year old Ruby suffers from a rare metabolic condition and is one of the stars of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity’s Christmas appeal advert. Here, mum Elle Daniel and dad Steve McCann tell of how, against the odds, their dream of a family Christmas at home might just come true

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4 d. ago ‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her

Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. How did the system we trusted – and I worked for as a GP – fail us so tragically?I remember so clearly the moment it dawned on me that the mental health ward where my teenage daughter was being treated felt like little more than a prison. Ruth had been so trusting. So had we. That all changed the day she was moved from our local hospital to Thames Ward at Huntercombe hospital in Berkshire. When we left, she walked so easily down to the hospital transport with me and the play therapist – who hugged her tight and waved goodbye. When the van door opened at the other end, the stark building loomed over us. We were met and escorted up a flight of stairs and through the double, air-locked, doors, one slamming closed behind us, the person with the keys waiting for the first lock to click before ...

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4 d. ago The toxic battle for Ragley Hall: Earl of Yarmouth rages over £1.3m legal bill in bitter fight with his parents over their £85m stately home... sparked by him marrying an 'outsider'

Lord Yarmouth went to court against his own parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Hertford, after falling out with them over his wedding to former Goldman Sachs banker Kelsey Wells.

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6 d. ago Daughter of Yankees icon Alex Rodriguez reveals she 'hated' telling people about her dad as she opens up on 'weird' childhood

The 17-year-old appeared alongside her older sister, Natasha, in the new HBO docuseries, 'Alex vs ARod,' which focuses on the New York Yankees icon's life on and off the field.

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6 d. ago Brit drug mule gran Lindsay Sandiford set to fly back to UK after 12 years on Death Row

Lindsay Sandiford, a British woman, has been in a brutal legal battle with Jakarta in a bid to fight her drug smuggling sentence – where she was placed on Death Row

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7 d. ago ‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood

Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantationsRazor-straight rows of eucalyptus clones flank the Baixa Verde settlement in north-eastern Brazil. The genetically identical trees are in marked contrast to the patches of wild Atlantic forest – one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth – that remain scattered across the region.Surrounded by nearly 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of eucalyptus plantations, Baixa Verde is a rare example of a local victory over a multinational in Brazil. The rural settlement owes its existence to nearly two decades of legal battles over land rights – but the fight is not over yet. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Drugs mule Bella Culley's baby dad mystery and telling clues she left before prison hell

As British drug mule Bella May Culley is freed from prison, we look at all we know about her pregnancy - from her prison conditions to hidden clues about a romantic relationship

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1 week ago ‘Criminals get legal help – but I alone had to fight for my daughter’

Sarah was a single mother fighting to keep her daughter safe when her abusive ex took her to family court. She told Nicole Wootton-Cane she felt ‘too poor’ to protect her child after being refused access to legal aid

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2 w. ago HSBC profits fall 14% as bank takes hit from Madoff lawsuit provision

UK bank sets aside $1.1bn for legal fight stemming from criminal enterprise that collapsed in 2008

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3 w. ago Brit drug mule gran returns to UK after 12 years on Death Row as she faced firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford, a British woman, has been in a brutal legal battle with Jakarta in a bid to fight her drug smuggling sentence – where she was placed on Death Row

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3 w. ago Dad tells of legal fight with NHS to keep his daughter alive

Doctors wanted to move Fatima Ali, 11, on to palliative care within days before her parents Gohar and Rabia launched a historic legal fight to save her life

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3 w. ago Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for lifeThe Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if the company had sensed that an entire generation of fools like me was about to enter the world. Which is true. That was the time to strike. We were about to be drained of every dollar we received for birthdays, Christmases and all those times our dad didn’t want us to tell our mom about something. (Maybe that last one’s just me.)Despite being slightly older than the NES, a horror I’m only now forced to face as I write this, it felt like that console had always existed in my life. I don’t have many memories from my baby years because I was to...

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