60 h. ago Illegal worker crackdown: Care providers fined almost £600,000 in just three months after Home Office raids

Care companies were fined between £10,000 to £210,000 for hiring illegal workers

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4 d. ago Starmer warned he must shut migrant hotels or face losing Labour voters to Reform

Labour grandee Lord Falconer tells PM to take action over migrant crisis after government won Court of Appeal challenge over Epping hotel

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5 d. ago DWP full list of 16 things you must tell them about or face fines or court

The rules will be particularly important if you're going on holiday this year

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7 d. ago Epping hotel migrant tells court 'I'm not a wild animal' as he denies sexually assaulting schoolgirl

Body-worn police footage shows Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, being handcuffed at the side of the road in Epping, Essex.

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7 d. ago Social care worker struck off after allegedly making racist comments and physically taking hold of colleague

Mary Fraser received the ultimate sanction from the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) following complaints on her conduct while working in Wishaw and Stirling.

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8 d. ago Coronation Street Aadi star's new movie with Hollyoaks actress available to stream now

Coronation Street actor Adam Hussain plays a young lad struggling to connect with his care worker in short film Spice For Life which is based on real-life story

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8 d. ago 'Best in the world' rugby star disappeared in a year and is now a care worker

In 1999, Peter Rogers was seen by many as the best loosehead prop in the world, having destroyed a succession of scrums during Wales' 11-match winning run under Graham Henry

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8 d. ago 'Best in the world' rugby star disappeared year later and is now a care worker

In 1999, Peter Rogers was seen by many as the best loosehead prop in the world, having destroyed a succession of scrums during Wales' 11-match winning run under Graham Henry

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9 d. ago Tearful sole survivor of toxic mushroom lunch tells court he is only 'half alive' after his wife was killed by tainted beef Wellington

Erin Patterson was convicted in July of murdering Don and Gail Patterson and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, with a lunch of beef Wellington pastries and foraged death cap mushrooms.

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9 d. ago Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants | Robert Reich

Leaders who value loyalty above all else have a symbiotic relationship with those unable to succeed on their own meritsLast week, Trump officials reportedly left behind documents describing confidential planning for the Trump-Putin meeting in a public area of an Alaskan hotel.That’s nothing compared with the actions of Emil Bove, Trump’s new nominee for the US court of appeals for the third circuit, who reputedly told subordinates at the Department of Justice that they should “consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’” and ignoring any court order blocking a planned deportation flight.Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.all the hundreds of ‘respectable’ guys who made careers out of boasting about their uncompromising integrity but have absolutely no loyalty . What I liked most about Roy Cohn was that he wo...

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1 week ago Mushroom lunch survivor forgives Erin Patterson, saying she has ‘become the victim of my kindness’

Ian Wilkinson tells supreme court he is ‘no longer Erin Patterson’s victim’ but is ‘compelled to seek justice’ for three murdered family membersErin Patterson plea hearing LIVE: Patterson in tears as victims bereaved by her deadly mushroom lunch lay bare their griefIan Wilkinson says he forgives Erin Patterson for trying to murder him but cannot offer her forgiveness for killing three other people with poisoned beef wellingtons, a Victorian court has heard.Wilkinson, a pastor whose wife, sister-in-law and brother-in-law were killed by Patterson after they were served the lunch in 2023, told the supreme court in Melbourne on Monday that he had not fully recovered from the death cap mushroom poisoning he suffered. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dog dies from heatstroke after 'common mistake' by doggy day care staff

French Bulldog, Benny, sadly didn't make it after a doggy day care worker brought him home 'barely alive'.

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1 week ago Dog dies of heatstroke after doggy daycare staff make terrible common mistake

Emily Gilbert has shared the warning signs of heatstroke after her pooch, Benny, tragically died. Her pooch was taken for a walk in the crippling heat by a doggy day care worker

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1 week ago Britain felt like a safer place to be trans in the nineties, says UK’s first transgender judge

Giving her first interview since she began the process of taking the government to the European Court of Human Rights, Dr McCloud tells Millie Cooke she no longer sees the UK as a ‘safe place’ for trans people

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1 week ago Huge drop in UK work visas handed to foreign nurses and carers following rule changes

There were over 182,000 work related visas granted in the year to June - a 36% drop on the previous year, Home Office data reveals

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1 week ago Bloke says 'manhood taken' as trans woman 'failed to reveal male genitals', court hears

The alleged victim told Teesside Crown Court: 'Throughout the full time, she was telling me she was on her period. It was like as far as I was concerned she was a female'

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1 week ago Man tells court how he found out his date was transgender after she performed sex act on him

Teeside Crown Court heard how Ciara Watkin, then 21, performed sex acts on the man after they attended a home in Thornaby a number of years ago.

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2 w. ago Kneecap tell supporters 'keep talking about Palestine' as they leave London court – video

Kneecap tell supporters 'keep talking about Palestine' as they leave London court – video  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Supporting freedom of expression is not wrong, Jimmy Lai’s lawyer tells court

Closing arguments made in Hong Kong media mogul’s national security trial, which has lasted more than 140 daysA lawyer for Jimmy Lai has argued that it is not wrong to support freedom of expression, as he began his final argument in the prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and newspaper founder’s landmark national security trial.The barrister Robert Pang is representing Lai in his fight against charges of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to issue seditious publications. Lai, 77, faces up to life in prison if convicted under a national security law imposed by Beijing after anti-government protests in 2019. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Lai has ‘unwavering intent’ to solicit foreign sanctions, Hong Kong court told

Prosecution makes closing arguments in media mogul’s national security trial, which has lasted more than 140 daysProsecutors in Jimmy Lai’s marathon national security trial have wrapped up their closing arguments in Hong Kong, telling the court that the elderly media mogul and activist had “unwavering intent” to solicit foreign sanctions.Lai has pleaded not guilty to two charges of conspiring to commit foreign collusion under the Beijing-designed national security law, and another charge under the colonial-era laws of conspiring to publish seditious materials. Prosecutors say Lai used his media outlet and foreign political connections to lobby for governments to impose sanctions and other punitive measures against Chinese and Hong Kong authorities. Continue reading...

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