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Claims are rising fastest in wealthy neighbourhoods – reversing a long-established pattern in which disability rates have been closely linked to deprivation. In relatively affluent Runnymede, Surrey, and Bracknell…
Our exclusive maps show how the proportion of 16 and 17-year-olds receiving personal independence payments (PIP) for the conditions has risen dramatically across the country since 2019. But some of the sharpest increases…
She went to Harvard University, where she learned to become even more high-achieving and ambitious, then landed an assistant job at the New York Times and worked her way up to become an opinion writer and producer. On…
The boy fell from the fourth floor of the King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Chlorakas on 12 July, the Times had previously reported. A further hearing will take place on 5 October when the prosecutor will set out…
Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died in the Real IRA bombing in the County Tyrone town on - the biggest single atrocity in the Troubles. It came less than three months after the people of…
Not content with the Trump-Kennedy Center furore or Lake America he is now moving on to the world’s greatest threat – Artificial Intelligence . The US President took time in his UN Speech in New York to try and assuage…
Married father-of-two Albert Ross, 67, died after being struck by one of the tubes on the Iberian Bulker vessel at Dunnottar Quay in July 2023. Sea-Cargo Aberdeen Ltd admitted failing to have a safe system in work in…
The former banker was found unresponsive inside his West London home on Cranbrook Road, Chiswick, on September 15. Melanie Lee, area coroner for London West, opened and suspended an inquest into his death at West London…
Accounting student Najmeh Amini, 23, was sentenced to death last week after being held in the notorious Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad for eight months on charges which included 'insulting the Supreme Leader' and 'clashing…
The coroner's office said Panettiere's death was an accident and that no signs of trauma were discovered that would have contributed to her death. Panettiere died last month at the age of 36 after she was found…