The appalling way Britain treats its most vulnerable and frail citizens in expensive care homes has been laid bare. Devastating figures show residents languish within substandard and inadequate facilities at one in five sites. Regulators blame the “increasing pressure” the £16billion-a-year sector
Labour last night warned of a “mental health crisis” after the number of children needing hospital treatment due to self-harm shot up. Hospitals recorded more than 20,000 admissions in one year, an increase of more than a third compared to 2012. The
Doctors are increasingly being asked by baffled parents of overweight children how to cook quick, cheap and simple fresh food. In further evidence of Britain’s growing obesity crisis medics say a disproportionate amount of their time is now being spent teaching the
Senior figures in Tory HQ are bracing to lose more than half their seats in the upcoming May local elections, in a sign the result could be even worse than initially predicted. Election experts Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher recently said the
A huge new crisis looms for China as 300m people are set to exodus the workforce and the pension fund is dipping. According to the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country’s pension pot could run out – and that prediction was
Extinction Rebellion activists staged their latest protest against super yachts and wealthy tourists over the Easter weekend in Ibiza. This time their target was the £198million Lady Moura yacht, owned by the Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego. The protesters unfurled a banner
The Canary Islands continue to grapple with a relentless influx of migrants as more than £100 million has been allocated to address the crisis. Since the beginning of 2024 until mid-March, more than 15,000 migrants have arrived illegally in Spain. A staggering
A former Royal Marine and an ex-special forces hero were among three Britons killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza. James Henderson, 33 was part of a team of World Central Kitchen aid workers travelling in a convoy of cars in
Heartless shoplifters and the cost-of-living crisis have forced a devastated cancer charity boss to shut up shop. Heartbroken Graeme Sergeant says a perfect storm of thefts, waning donations, the domination of larger charities and personal reasons led to the decision by trustees
Argentina and Colombia have agreed to end a diplomatic spat that escalated over right-wing Argentine President Javier Milei’s visceral attack on his leftist counterpart in Colombia last week, prompting the country to order the expulsion of Argentine diplomats. In a joint statement