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Care homes neglect dubbed 'shocking'

The levels of medical negligence in Britain's care homes have been dubbed "shocking" after it was revealed that more than 650 older residents had died of dehydration in the past five years. medic...

Man left paralysed by fall at work

A man is now reliant upon a wheelchair after falling six metres though the roof of a farm building, a court has heard. Richard Cooke was working to take apart the roof of a cow shed at Manor Farm i...

Damages for LGV instructor's family

A court has awarded the family of an LGV driving instructor who died after he stood in the path of a lorry, which failed to perform an emergency stop, damages worth £178,357. Alan Underwood d...

Pendleton warns of pothole crisis

Olympian Victoria Pendleton has said that cyclists are now being deterred from using their bikes because of poor road surfaces caused by potholes. Pendleton, who won a cycling gold medal in the...

Demolition firm fined over injuries

A demolition firm has been fined £12,000 after a worker suffered a career-halting injury in a fall from a garage roof. H Cope & Sons Ltd appeared in court after the employee fell from a h...

£6.4m settlement for brain-damaged boy

An NHS Trust has been ordered to pay £6.4 million to an eight-year-old boy who suffered severe brain damage during his delivery at a birth centre in north-west London. The compensation was aw...

Fines issued for hospital asbestos leak

An NHS Trust, a security firm and its manager have been fined more than £9,000 in total after asbestos was released into a hospital. Northamptonshire NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust, Nutec...

Care home fined for lap belt death

Bupa Care Homes (BNH) Ltd has been fined £150,000 after failing to ensure the health and safety of residents at a nursing home which led to the death of an elderly woman. Brigid O'Callaghan, ...

Avandia legal bill to hit £2.2bn

Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has given an indication of the huge sums of money involved in product liability cases as it revealed that the cost of settling legal disputes over diabetes drug Avandia wi...

Council fined over worker well fall

Magistrates have heard how a council worker fell 6m down a dry well while clearing litter from a yard. The unnamed Mansfield District Council employee was collecting litter at the White Lion Yard i...


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