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Apr 24, 2024 - World

Staff at private mental health hospital near Weston-super-Mare missed chances to prevent Lily Lucas’s death, jury findsAn inquest jury has found there were “gross failings in care amounting to neglect” before a woman had a heart attack at a private mental health hospital due to complications from drinking excessive amounts of water.Lillian Lucas, 28, known as Lily to her family and friends, died in September 2022 after being found unresponsive in her room on Milton ward at the Cygnet hospital in Kewstoke, near Weston-super-Mare, where she had been an inpatient since June. Continue reading...

Apr 24, 2024 - World

Suspects being questioned by National Crime Agency in Kent on suspicion of immigration offencesThree men have been arrested in connection with a Channel boat crossing that led to the deaths of five people, including a young girl.The three have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK illegally. The suspects – two Sudanese men aged 22 and 19 and a 22-year-old from South Sudan – are being questioned by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in Kent, the agency said. Continue reading...

Apr 24, 2024 - World

Three taken to hospital after incident at Amman Valley school and teenager held on suspicion of attempted murderA teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a school in south-west Wales.Dyfed-Powys police said the injuries were not life-threatening and officers were continuing to investigate the incident after they were called to Amman Valley school in Carmarthenshire at 11.20am on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Apr 24, 2024 - World

President Mohamed Muizzu and his People's National Congress on Wednesday further consolidated their position in Parliament with six independent candidates, elected in Sunday's polls, joining the ruling party.

Apr 24, 2024 - World

Slovakian MEP pulls dove from bag and frees it as ‘symbol of peace’, prompting criticism from colleaguesA Slovakian MEP has raised eyebrows by producing a live bird from a bag and releasing it into the European parliament in what he said was a gesture of world peace.To the bafflement and surprise of the MEPs present in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Miroslav Radačovský, the leader of the rightwing Slovak Patriot party, reached into his bag and released a dove into the chamber. Continue reading...