Wakefield Coroners’ Court heard that the father of two children who died whilst on holiday in Corfu in October 2006, “firmly believed” that his children would be alive today if Thomas Cook had inspected a faulty boiler. The children, Robert age...
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The parents of a one-year-old girl who died following heart surgery at Bristol Children’s Hospital (BCH) said that they voiced concerns regarding her care before she died. Isabella Janew, from Gloucester, was born with a rare heart defect in April 20...
A spa has been fined after customers fell ill with painful rashes. It was found that the Kensington Salon and Spa in Derbyshire was ‘bacteria-infested’ when four teenage girls fell ill in May 2013. An inspection following the incident dis...
Three police officers have been charged with manslaughter after a man collapsed in custody and died. 32-year-old Thomas Orchard collapsed while being held in a cell at Heavitree Road Police Station in Exeter not long after being arrested. He was imme...
A senior ambulance officer recently admitted to failings which played a part in the Hillsborough disaster. Paul Eason told the inquest that he and a colleague were supposed to be the “eyes and ears” of the ambulance service control room, but fa...
A recent inspection found that the A&E department of a Kent hospital is ‘still unsafe’. The Care Quality Commission carried out an inspection on 26 August and found that the hospital was unable to maintain safe standards of care. An earlier...
A business executive is suing a motorist from Norfolk for £2m over crash injuries that he claims ruined his career. 44-year-old Peter Siegel says that the car accident he was involved in in 2009 left him with a brain injury that severely affected his...
A compensation claim was recently opened on behalf of a baby that was subjected to heavy drinking while in the womb. The court appeal described the damage inflicted upon the unborn baby as equivalent to ‘an attempt at manslaughter’. The lawyers...
New figures have revealed that police dogs bite more than five members of the public every week in London alone. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found that compensation paid out to those bitten by police dogs has doubled i...
A father-of-one assaulted his three next-door neighbours with CS spray because their music was “too loud”. Arunas Kastentinavicius said at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court that he didn’t think there was anything wrong with using CS spray because it i...
50-year-old cyclist Melanie Burrows said that she feels greatly let down by police after they were unable to take her case further following a serious cycling accident. Another cyclist, who tried to overtake her at a junction in July this year, hit M...
A dog attack earlier this month saw two people hospitalised. The attack happened in Newbury on the 4th of September when two terriers attacked a couple of dog walkers. Both victims suffered serious injuries and required hospital treatment...
With a group of American mothers suing Fifa for putting their children at risk of concussion, lawyers believe that it wont be long before parents in the UK do the same. The group has accused the Football Association of acting “carelessly and negligen...
It has been found that over the last three years, an icy car park and an unsafe chair have cost Barrow Borough Council £16,000 in compensation. The largest of these payouts went to an employee that suffered serious back injuries after sitting f...
Disability campaigner Miro Griffiths has been awarded with an MBE having fought for disability rights since the age of thirteen. He was one of many recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, alongside the likes of Stephen Sutton for servi...
The NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been warned that gaps in their training for patients with tracheostomies could be putting lives at risk. A tracheostomy is a procedure whereby a tube is inserted into the windpipe (trachea) of a pati...
A report has found that delays in patients reaching A&E are seriously impacting the North East Ambulance Service. Within six months of last year there were a recorded 10,599 delays, with 196 being over two hours. This saw paramedics u...
Last year alone, Haringey Council paid out over £417,000 in compensation to pedestrians and motorists injured on the borough’s roads. The figures, which were released by the Liberal Democrats, found that a total of 19 people were awarded compen...
A recent report into the deaths of five cancer patients at a hospital in Kent has found that the surgery team was “dysfunctional”. The review of the cancer unit at Maidstone Hospital - carried out by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) – actually too...
The managing director of a roofing company has been fined for its dangerous work procedures after a member of public photographed one of the workers jet washing a roof without any safety measures in place. The photo was taken in June 2013, show...
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