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Police to examine smart motorway deaths
A coroner’s dossier has been demanded by police to establish whether Highways England is criminally responsible for two smart motorways deaths after scrapping the hard shoulder. South Yorkshire Police (SYP) have requested to examine files about Alexandru Murgeanu and Jason
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Councils fight residents over road closures introduced during pandemic
After a judge found that Sadiq Khan shut streets “unlawfully”, the lawyer who won the case says councils that introduced “unfair and irrational” road closures face a battle with residents. The suggestion is that the judgment found the London Mayor,
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Thomson joins dementia fight
After England World Cup winner Steve Thompson revealed that he had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia at the age of 42, Rugby authorities have been told they must make sweeping changes to the game. A group of eight Test players
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NHS settles two multi-million pound claims per week
The NHS’s head of complaints has told MPs that it is settling around two multi-million pound payouts every week for failings in maternity care. Helen Vernon, chief executive of NHS Resolution, said the largest single payout for clinical negligence this
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Woman teacher lost job due to handshake
A tribunal has heard that a female teacher was passed over for a job at a leading boarding school in favour of a male rival who had a “strong handshake”, Vanaja Greenwood applied for the role of full-time maths teacher
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McDonalds sue bigwig
Last year Mr Steve Easterbrook, the British corporate star who turned around McDonald’s, was fired and the American food giant stated that it was because he had displayed “poor judgment” by having had a consensual relationship with a junior employee.
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Courts told not to spare the mentally ill
The sentencing council has said that, if their condition is not to blame for their offence, criminals suffering from mental health problems should not escape justice. The council urges judges and magistrates to assess each case on its merits because
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Billionaire family battles over its £16 billion fortune
Mr Srichand Hinduja, aged 84, is suing his three younger brothers over controversy surrounding a letter stating that they all held each others assets. The brothers Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash and Ashok all signed a July 2014 letter stating, “assets held
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No shower for 14 days for prisoners with coronavirus symptoms
Following inspections of the conditions in three jails, Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, Altcourse in Liverpool, and Wandsworth in South London, findings emerged that prisoners with coronavirus symptoms were locked in cells for up to two weeks without being
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Humiliated bank employee wins £4.7m payment
An employee of the Natwest, owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, has won a record employment payout. She was hit by a car on her first day working for the bank at their Croydon branch. At the time she
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