3 h. ago Parents who raised £100K for their son before he died from cancer sue charity which refuses to hand over donations

Craig Evison and Victoria Morrison, whose son Kyle died in 2020 from an incurable brain cancer, are battling the charity Gold Geese at London's High Court.

Economics

5 h. ago Parents battle charity for £100k donations to dead son to be spent on terminally ill daughter

The charity says it cannot pay out, because the donations were made for Kyle when he was a cancer patient

Economics

4 d. ago Black SpaceX technician says in lawsuit he was fired for being late while white workers’ tardiness was ignored

Exclusive: L’Tavious Rice, 38, says the decision to terminate him while his young daughter recuperated from a heart transplant was ‘deliberate, cold, callous, cruel and intentional.’

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5 d. ago Parents accused of murdering baby son 'smoked outside' as nurses battled to save him

The baby's dad Daniel Gunter, 27, and mum Sophie Staddon, 23, have been accused of his murder and causing or allowing his death.

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1 week ago ‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanagesAs many as 35,000 Ukrainian children are still missing and thought to be held in Russia or Russian-occupied territories, according to an American team of experts, with families saying they are being forced to take desperate and risky measures to try to rescue them.As Russian forces began their invasion in February 2022, children were abducted from care homes, from the battlefield after the death of their parents, or under coercion directly from their families. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Esther Rantzen’s daughter makes urgent 'scaremongering' plea before assisted dying vote

Rebecca Wilcox, the daughter of the terminally ill broadcaster and Childline founder Dame Esther, said England and Wales must “catch up with the rest of the world” in changing the law.

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3 w. ago Parents whose sons are losing ability to walk face ‘nightmare’ battle with NHS

Families are now facing a postcode lottery over who gets the drug givinostat, which can slow progress of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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last month Joe Swash reveals 'constant battle' he and wife Stacey struggle with amid marriage concerns

They revealed on their reality TV series Stacey and Joe: Full House that they've been to marriage counselling to keep their relationship on track, but are still fighting a common parenting battle

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last month ‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza

A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughterReem Zeidan was terrified of being separated from her children. As they trudged for hours through the ruins of Gaza towards a food distribution centre, she rehearsed over and over again with her 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son what they should do and where they should wait if an Israeli attack turned the column of hungry people into a chaotic, panicking mass and the family were torn apart.It was the last conversation she had with them. She was dead before dawn broke on Tuesday, killed by a single bullet through her forehead. Her daughter and son spent nearly three hours beside her body, pinned down by gunfire. Continue reading...

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