5 h. ago Yvette Cooper ordered to end detention of asylum seeker with schizophrenia

Home secretary could face legal action over decision to keep 25-year-old man from Nigeria in prisonYvette Cooper could face legal action over the decision to keep an asylum seeker with schizophrenia in prison.The high court has ordered the home secretary to release the 25-year-old man by 8 September, and the Home Office may have to pay him damages for breaching his human rights. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Failings in mental health care demand quicker and more decisive action

Editorial: Mental health services must not be allowed to shut themselves off from patients’ families. It is too late to secure justice for young people like Ruth Szymankiewicz, but it can never be too late to learn lessons from hospital failures

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9 d. ago DAME ANGELA EAGLE: 'Labour taking decisive action after asylum system left in disarray'

Writing for The Mirror, Dame Angela Eagle, Labour’s Minister for Border Security and Asylum, says the asylum system 'collapsed' under the Tories, but Labour has taken 'decisive action' to fix it

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1 week ago Ed Davey calls for review of terrorism legislation after Palestine Action arrests – UK politics live

The Lib Dem leader is seeking a review of the laws to prevent the ‘en masse’ arrestsIt is “absolutely essential” for the US to be part of European security guarantees for a potential Ukrainian peace deal, but there is “lots more work to be done” on what they will entail, a minister has said.“The really important progress yesterday was on the security guarantees, these issues that the prime minister and president Macron have been leading on within Europe, with 30 countries involved in planning with a coalition of the willing to make sure we can provide those guarantees.Those guarantees are really important. You’re right to say that there’s now lots more work to be done on the nature of those guarantees. That’s what is now under way.You’ve seen that happening immediately. It was already under way, as I say, across 30 countries, and now the United States is going to be involved in that.In the House of Commons, we abstained [from the decision to make Palestine Action a proscribed organi...

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1 week ago Citizen science water tests reveal ‘really concerning’ pollution in Windermere

Campaigners are calling for decisive action to improve water quality in England’s largest lake.

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2 w. ago ‘Systemic failures’ led to unlawful death of girl at mental health unit – family

A jury inquest ruled the death of Ruth Szymankiewicz, who was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health ward, as unlawful killing.

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2 w. ago Mental health nurse struck off for care 'failings' towards multiple patients

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) said Ross Allan’s actions fell “seriously short” of the conduct and standards expected of a nurse and amounted to “misconduct.”

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3 w. ago Hundreds of people face arrest at Palestine Action march on Saturday

More than 500 people are expected to attend the march in Parliament Square to protest against the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror group

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3 w. ago UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says

Professor Richard Thompson, a marine litter expert, says delegates must act decisively to ‘look next generation in the eye’Delegates at the UN plastic pollution treaty talks in Geneva must secure an ambitious global agreement so they can look future generations in the eye, one of the world’s leading marine litter experts has said.Prof Richard Thompson, who was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people this year for his groundbreaking work on plastic pollution, said decisive action was needed to protect human health and the planet. Continue reading...

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