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£100k fine over engineer's death

A maintenance engineer's death has led to a firm being fined £100,000. Supplier of aluminium extrusion products, Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Ltd, was also ordered to pay £13,375 in costs ...

Cancer danger medicine on sale

More than 900 packs of a Chinese herbal medicine that can cause cancer is on sale in the UK despite warnings to take if off the market. The packs of unlicensed Jingzhi Kesou Tan Chuan Wan are thoug...

Girl paralysed at 11 to get payout

A teenager left paralysed by an operation to correct spinal curvature will get a multimillion-pound payout, it is reported. Laura May, 16, from Chorley was paralysed from the chest down when she wa...

CPS to review policeman's gun death

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to review evidence from an inquest which found that a policeman shot dead in a training exercise was unlawfully killed. A Manchester Crown Court jury found th...

Dumper-death firm gets £20,000 fine

A construction firm which caused the death of one of its workers by failing to ensure site safety has been fined £20,000. Mark Wilkin ended up drowning when he got trapped under a dumper truc...

Family wins NHS compensation payout

The family of a 23-year-old mother who died after being sent home from hospital three times because doctors failed to diagnose her cancer has been awarded a "six-figure" pay-out from an NHS health bo...

Cervical cancer - the poor relation to other women’s cancers

Following her mother’s death from cervical cancer in February this year, Sarah Phillips has recorded her version of Paolo Nutini’s “Autumn” . She is hoping to propel ...

Firm fined £23,000 over crushed man

A building firm has been fined a total of £23,000 after a bricklayer was run over by a digger and seriously injured. Beverly Magistrates' Court heard that Andrew Trezise, an employee of L &am...

Cash vow follows E.coli outbreak

Welsh councils are to get extra funding to boost environmental health services after an E.coli outbreak struck 44 schools and killed a five-year-old boy. First Minister Carwyn Jones made the announ...

Repair boss rejects Concorde claims

A former Continental Airlines maintenance boss accused of manslaughter over the Paris Concorde disaster has told a court that his job was mainly administrative. Prosecutors say that Stanley Ford, 7...


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