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A new grant scheme has been launched in Wrexham to capture the voices of those living in poverty. The scheme, based in Wrexham and supported by Member of the Senedd Lesley Griffiths, aims to gather ...
Government U-turns over winter fuel payments and welfare reform have left Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a multibillion-pound fiscal shortfall.
West Mercia Police previously said the 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, will face a first hearing at Telford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. Blades faces two allegations ...
A teenage boy who killed elderly dog walker Bhim Kohli is set to have his sentence reviewed at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday. Mr Kohli, 80, was punched and kicked, slapped in the face with a shoe ...
A funeral director is due to enter pleas to 63 charges spanning more than 10 years after a major investigation into human remains found at his premises. Robert Bush, 47, faces 30 counts of preventing ...
Live facial recognition will be expanded across the country as part of a Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing. The technology will be deployed to catch “high-harm” offenders, with new rules ...
Donate-a-phone schemes and computer workshops will receive Government backing worth £9.5 million, as part of a plan to help older people and low-income households access an “essential for modern life” ...
The project, led by Heriot-Watt University and involving researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University and the University of Stirling, aims to help people with hearing loss by ...
NHS Blood and Transplant are trying to encourage more people aged 50 and over to join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Progress in cancer survival rates in the UK has “slowed down”, experts have warned. The news comes as a study suggests survival between the most and least deadly types of the disease is wider than ...
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said motorists are often ‘first on the scene’ when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.
Rare species from water voles to adders across England have been helped with cash from the Species Recovery Programme’s capital grants scheme.