8 h. ago My daughter wanted her own room so I made her a ‘Harry Potter style’ one – trolls say they’re ‘ringing social services’

IT'S not unusual for kids to beg their parents for their own bedroom, but for many families it's just not a possibility. But one savvy DIY fan took matters into his own hands when his daughter wanted a bit of privacy. Rather than splitting the existing bedroom in two, adding a curtain down the middle...

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18 h. ago Mountain Rescue Teams scrambled to emergency incident at Dovestones

Two walkers were found shivering in cold and wet conditions

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9 d. ago Mountain rescue teams are being inundated with callouts after influencers 'risk their lives' to take on daredevil routes

Rescue volunteers from Britain's busiest mountain rescue team have warned that callouts keeps going up 'exponentially', teams 'will not be able to respond' to every plea for help.

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9 d. ago ‘Exponential’ rise in mountain rescues threatens to overwhelm services as social media fuels risk

‘If it carries on like this, we won’t be able to respond’

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9 d. ago Judi Dench warns social media is fueling a ‘lack of interest in the arts’

The 91-year-old actress voiced her fears ahead of the release of Sky Arts’ Tea With Judi Dench

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1 week ago Will the BMA call off the doctors strike? New offer raises hopes as superflu threatens to overwhelm hospitals

It comes as Health Secretary Wes Streeting warns a strike in the run-up to Christmas would carry a ‘much different degree of risk’ to other walkouts

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2 w. ago Brits warned of train faux pas as millions prepare to cram stations for Christmas journeys

Millions of Brits are set to travel home by train this Christmas but they have been warned of the biggest social misdemeanours to carry out on the services, such as blaring music

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2 w. ago American tries UK's 'best' service station but isn't impressed by 2 things

Kalani Ghost Hunter, a social media star with 3.2 million TikTok followers visited Tebay Services in Cumbria, which is known as one of the best service stations in the UK

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2 w. ago Last movements of missing man traced on CCTV as concern grows

Riverbank, drone and mountain rescue searches have all been carried out by police looking for the missing man

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2 w. ago Care worker rapped for sharing pictures of vulnerable service users on Snapchat

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) deemed Laynajade Wolschke’s fitness to practise “impaired.”

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2 w. ago Coroner's swipe at 'silly' selfie culture after teen kills three pals in horror crash

A coroner exploring the deaths has issued a selfie warning after the court heard Spencer "had a history of bad driving", adding social media is fuelling the "requirement" for dangerous behaviour

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2 w. ago Venmo users have trouble sending and receiving money amid service outage

Users of the payment app Venmo are experiencing problems sending and receiving money amid widespread social media posts about service issues

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3 w. ago Warning over fake 'miracle' weightloss drug as professor says people are in 'panic'

Weight-loss expert Professor Franklin Joseph has warned that social media has fuelled a rise in dangerous counterfeit weightloss drugs

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3 w. ago Social media is 'chipping away at attention spans' and 'fuelling bad behaviour'

Sir Martyn Oliver used his annual report to state the influence of social media “clearly plays a part” in driving disruptive behaviour

Politics

3 w. ago 'My son made a sexualised comment he didn't understand – we've been referred to social services'

This week, Lala offers advice to a reader who has been left distraught after her 10 year old son made a sexualised comment in after school club, resulting in them being referred to children’s social care services

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3 w. ago 'Rage bait’ named Oxford University Press word of year as outrage fuels social media traffic in 2025

Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025

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4 w. ago West Lothian social care worker given warning over her conduct following investigation

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) gave Emma Drummond a warning that will stay on her registration for the next 12 months.

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4 w. ago More than 2,000 children disappear in social services care each year, report finds

A new report that reveals the rate at which vulnerable children go missing in the care of social services has exposed safeguarding failures, charities say

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last month Rescuers form 'human chain' to help family trapped near Greater Manchester beauty spot

Police and mountain rescue experts were drafted in

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last month More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care

Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central governmentMore than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian.The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children’s services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care. Continue reading...

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