5 h. ago New Zealand launches major inquiry into case of father who hid his children in a forest for years

The disappearance of a New Zealand father and his children into a forest for years before he was shot dead by police has prompted a major government inquiry

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6 h. ago Tom Phillips case: New Zealand to hold public inquiry into disappearance of fugitive father and children

Hearings will be held in private to assess ‘whether government agencies took all practicable steps to protect the safety and welfare of the Phillips children’, says attorney generalA public inquiry will be held into the authorities’ handling of the disappearance of fugitive father Tom Phillips with his three children, who hid in New Zealand’s wilderness for nearly four years, the government has announced. Phillips disappeared into the rugged North Island wilderness with his children just before Christmas in 2021, following a dispute with their mother. He did not have legal custody of his children.In August, he was killed in an exchange of fire with police after reports of a burglary in the remote town of Piopio, in the central North Island. A police officer was shot and required surgery. Continue reading...

Events

16 h. ago NHS Tayside destroyed 40 logbooks for patients treated by disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel

A total of 138 former patients who were harmed by the disgraced neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel are listed as core participants at the public inquiry

Science

16 h. ago Logbooks relating to rogue surgeon Sam Eljamel destroyed months before public inquiry

A representative for patients and families affected by the neurosurgeon’s treatments described this as either “gross negligence or possible malice”

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2 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star Gorka Márquez shows off his rippling six

Now the father of two young children with the former Hollyoaks actress, Márquez admits it was a shared passion for personal fitness that drew them to one another.

Culture

2 d. ago Giorgia Meloni takes on Italian judges over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

Society

3 d. ago Italian government clashes with its own judiciary over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

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4 d. ago Community fears right to inquiry for Skye's biggest wind farm could be dropped over planning delays

The wind farm would see 33 turbines at 200m high near Dunvegan.

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5 d. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain have gone into Covid lockdown?

UK coronavirus lockdowns could have been avoided altogether if the Government had approached the pandemic differently, a public inquiry has concluded.

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5 d. ago British father has his three children taken away by Italian authorities after he took them to live 'off

Authorities were called to the homestead in September 2024 after all five members of the family needed to be taken to hospital because they had been poisoned by mushrooms.

Society

5 d. ago Major breakthrough for bereaved families of Chinook helicopter tragedy victims as they battle for public inquiry

Families of the Chinook helicopter tragedy victims have made a major breakthrough in their campaign for a public inquiry after UK Government ministers agreed to a meeting.

Events

6 d. ago Covid inquiry latest: Boris Johnson put his reputation above public safety, say bereaved families

Damning report finds more than 20,000 lives could have been spared over spring and summer 2020 had restrictions started just seven days earlier

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6 d. ago I haven’t been able to grieve my son properly for 32 years – Doreen Lawrence

The peer told a public inquiry she had to constantly battle for justice and her family had been punished despite her son having done nothing wrong.

Politics

6 d. ago 'Too little, too late:' Former UK government slammed for its initial COVID

A public inquiry has criticized the U_K_'s initial COVID-19 response in early 2020 as “too little, too late.”

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6 d. ago Divided Stormont led to ‘chaotic’ Covid response, public inquiry finds

The report published on Thursday focuses on the core political and administrative decision-making across the UK in response to the pandemic.

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6 d. ago Police ‘tried to pit grieving parents of Stephen Lawrence against each other’

Baroness Lawrence told the public inquiry into undercover policing that officers tried to manipulate her relationship with her ex-husband Neville.

Society

6 d. ago Covid Inquiry report LIVE as Baroness Hallett set to announce findings

The second part of the UK Covid inquiry will be made public this afternoon.

Politics

6 d. ago Covid Inquiry report LIVE as Boris Johnson slammed over handling of pandemic

The second part of the UK Covid inquiry will be made public this afternoon.

Politics

7 d. ago ‘Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history’: the inside story of the Medomsley scandal

At a youth detention centre in north-east England, the paedophile Neville Husband raped and assaulted countless boys. Why was his reign of terror allowed to go on – and why hasn’t there been a public inquiry?When I met Kevin Young in 2012 he was in his early 50s, handsome, charismatic, smart – and utterly broken. The moment he started talking about Medomsley detention centre he was in tears.Young was born in Newcastle, in 1959. At two, he was taken into care, and his parents were convicted of wilful neglect. At eight, at a school in Devon, he was sexually abused by the gardener. At 14, at St Camillus, a Catholic residential school in Yorkshire, he was sexually assaulted by the headteacher, James Bernard Littlewood. But none of this compared with his experience at Medomsley, a youth detention centre in north-east England. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'War on drugs' or political agitation? Assessing Trump's actions in Venezuela – video explainer

In August, Donald Trump started a campaign of aggression against Venezuela. The US president first launched airstrikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of the South American country – a move largely condemned as extrajudicial killings – then deployed US naval assets in the Caribbean. The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, explains why the claims the targeted boats were carrying drugs destined for the US are dubious and what Trump's actions could mean for the Venezuelan president, Nicolás MaduroVenezuela’s Maduro urges Trump to avoid Afghanistan-style ‘forever war’ Continue reading...

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