Deirdre Shakespeare Harry, 13, is autistic and non-verbal but can walk unaided The mother of a young boy “restrained unnecessarily” in a chair in school has said she feels vindicated by a watchdog’s report into the case. Deirdre Shakespeare’s son Harry, who is autistic and non-verbal, was restrained in a chair at his special school…
Angela MacVicar believes her former friend’s deception has tarnished her own daughter’s le A woman whose best friend stole nearly £86,000 from a charity set up in memory of her daughter believes her crimes were fuelled by “greed, vanity and narcissism”. Angela MacVicar was in court last week to watch Lindsay MacCallum plead guilty to…
BBC Tom Marshall and his wife Dawn have discussed what he will do if he has Huntington’s disease A man whose parents took their own lives due to the pain of their illnesses has said he would consider doing the same unless assisted dying was legalised. Tom Marshall’s mother, who had Huntington’s disease, and father,…
A McDonald’s sandwich has been making people sick in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). E. coli, a type of bacteria that can cause serious stomach problems, has been found in McDonald’s Quarter Pounder sandwiches, the CDC announced on Tuesday. So far, the CDC has recorded 49 cases of…
A woman injured in an explosion at a house in which a man died was in a critical condition, a council said. Emergency services were called to the property in Cleat Hill, Bedford, at about 07:00 BST on Saturday. Bedford Borough Council said investigations into the cause of the explosion and subsequent fire were under…
Ireland has been revealed to be the slowest country in Europe to recover from the pandemic, with visitor numbers down by around 42 percent. In 2019, the beautiful country welcomed over 10.9 million overseas holidaymakers, but only 6.3 in 2023, according to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). What’s more, arrivals for the first six months…
Reuters Israel’s military said on Tuesday that tens thousands of Jabalia residents had been evacuated in the past 24 hours Palestinians who fled from the Israeli ground offensive on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza have given harrowing accounts of the situation there. One man told the BBC that he saw streets strewn with…
Police have raided a pizzeria in western Germany which they alleged served customers a side of cocaine when they ordered item number 40 on the menu. Authorities were tipped off about the scheme in March by food inspectors, and drug squad officers began watching the restaurant, criminal director Michael Graf von Moltke said on Monday….
The Speaker of Ghana’s parliament has suspended proceedings indefinitely following chaotic scenes in the chamber over a row about which party holds the parliamentary majority. Last week, it was discovered that four MPs had switched allegiance and would run for different parties in the 7 December general election. Speaker Alban Bagbin then declared that their…
At least six people have died as a result of Hurricane Oscar in Cuba, the country’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has confirmed. Oscar made landfall as a category one hurricane near the city of Baracoa in eastern Cuba on Sunday afternoon local time before weakening to a tropical storm. The province of Guantánamo was the worst…
