14 h. ago Mia, 12, was failed by medics before taking her life, inquest finds: Heartbroken mother says she 'will never forgive' the NHS

Chloe Hayes was speaking just minutes after an inquest jury delivered its damning findings into her daughter Mia Lucas's death.

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15 h. ago I will never forgive medics after daughter took her own life, says mother

Mia Lucas, 12, was found unresponsive in her room at the Becton Centre, which is part of Sheffield Children’s Hospital, in January 2024.

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16 h. ago 'I will never forgive them': Mother condemns hospital after girl, 12, took her own life on mental health ward

Chloe Hayes criticised a 'failure to provide appropriate care' for Mia Lucas, after an inquest jury found inadequate testing at Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) 'possibly contributed' to her death.

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44 h. ago Jane McDonald gives love life update after 'awful' personal tragedy

Jane McDonald has been in the public eye for 28 years, but the star has endured a difficult personal life, with the tragic deaths of her partner and mother

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59 h. ago Mother who hid children’s bodies in suitcases jailed for life in New Zealand

Hakyung Lee was found guilty of murdering her children and concealing their remains in a storage lockerA mother who murdered her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases stored inside a rented locker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand.Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea, was found guilty earlier this year of killing her children in a crime that has become known as the “suitcase murders”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Mother of tragic Mia, 12, who took her own life at psychiatric unit sobs as inquest hears bombshell new evidence that she WAS suffering from a treatable brain condition

In highly dramatic scenes, Mia Lucas's mother sobbed as a pathologist told an inquest she had just received results which proved the schoolgirl had been suffering from autoimmune encephalitis.

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5 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing's George Clarke left heartbroken after health diagnosis

Strictly Come Dancing star George Clarke has opened up about the moment he nearly lost his mother to a life-threatening brain condition, as he shared a heartbreaking post

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6 d. ago Fans rush to support Strictly Come Dancing's George Clarke after devastating diagnosis

Strictly Come Dancing star George Clarke has opened up about the moment he nearly lost his mother to a life-threatening brain condition

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7 d. ago Adam Peaty addresses family feud ahead of wedding to Holly Ramsay

Swimmer’s mother spoke out after the couple reportedly banned her from their Christmas nuptials

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8 d. ago Rabih Alameddine wins National book award for fiction with darkly comic epic spanning six decades

True to his irreverent style, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) thanks his psychiatrist, his gastrointestinal doctors and his drug dealersRabih Alameddine has won the National book award for fiction for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), a darkly comic saga spanning six decades in the life of a Lebanese family.The novel, which traverses a sprawling history of Lebanon including its civil war and economic collapse, is told through the eyes of its titular protagonist: a gay 63-year-old philosophy teacher confronting his past and his relationship with his mother and his homeland. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kate Middleton rewears her favourite Barbour waxed jacket for latest Mother Nature film

The Princess of Wales is renowned for her effortless countryside style - and she brings that relatable aesthetic to life in the latest installment of her Mother Nature film series.

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1 week ago Gemma Collins reveals 'toughest week of my life' as she shares health update on mum

Gemma Collins has revealed she's endured the 'toughest week' of her life as she still remains unclear why her mother, Joan, is unwell, and is still requiring hospital treatment

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2 w. ago Mother of woman, 22, who took her own life on hospital ward hits out at staff's 'indifference, ignorance and at times cruelty' as trust is fined £565,000

Alice Figueiredo, 22, took her own life in a mental health unit at Goodmayes Hospital, Redbridge, after more than 10 similar attempts.

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2 w. ago ‘My son Alexander walked out of the door with no wallet and only the clothes on his back. He never returned’

When 16-year-old Alexander Sloley vanished in north London, his family’s life was changed forever. Seventeen years later, his mother tells Harriette Boucher that she is still fighting for answers – and for other missing children to be found before it’s too late

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3 w. ago 'Don't join the Army': Mother of teenage soldier who took her own life after sex assault issues warning to women

Leighann McCready claims the Armed Forces has still not done enough to protect recruits after daughter Jaysley Beck was found dead in her barracks in 2021.

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4 w. ago Woman killed mother with repeated hammer blows before ending her own life

An inquest found that Joyce Wilshaw died after after being hit repeatedly to the head with a hammer by her daughter, Karen Wilshaw

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4 w. ago Daughter, 63, beat mother, 91, to death with a hammer before taking her own life by jumping out of bedroom in murder

Karen Wilshaw, 63, killed 91-year-old pensioner Joyce Wilshaw by repeatedly striking her in the head before jumping out the window at their home in the village of Cheadle, Staffordshire.

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4 w. ago Charlotte Crosby breaks down in tears as she shares an emotional update on her beloved mother Letitia's second cancer battle

Charlotte Crosby broke down in tears as she proudly revealed what gives her mother, Letitia, purpose in life after being diagnosed with cancer twice. 

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last month Liberation review – fiery and funny show brings 70s feminism to Broadway

James Earl Jones TheatrePlaywright Bess Wohl looks back on her mother’s activism in a moving and cleverly constructed look at how to balance the personal and the politicalThough not listed in the program, Liberation, an inventive and resonant new play by Bess Wohl, possesses a subtitle: A Memory Play About Things I Don’t Remember. The line presumably refers to the personal nature of the show, based in part on the life of Wohl’s mother, Lisa Cronin Wohl, who worked for Ms Magazine in New York during Wohl’s early years, but it also applies to the conversations at hand, within a women’s lib group in small-town Ohio, 1970. On the basketball court of a local rec center, six women hit the blinkered beats of second-wave feminism – workplace inequalities, consciousness raising, The Feminine Mystique – that many in the audience will only know secondhand, through family histories, re-creations like FX’s superb series Mrs America or inherited cultural shorthand. I, like Wohl – like anyone born...

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