Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money have been wrongly spent on legal aid, the Daily Mail can reveal today. Huge sums of public cash have been siphoned off by dodgy lawyers and their clients. And the quango which controls legal aid payments wasted up to £20million on unjustified handouts last year, according to its own … Read more
The NHS agreed to pay damages totalling more than £1billion last year after serious mistakes during childbirth. Figures show 87 obstetrics claims were settled in which devastated families were awarded more than £5million each in compensation and future care costs. The cost of catastrophic errors by medics in the delivery room has tripled over the … Read more
Australia had a vast inland sea, California was an island – along with Korea – and bizarre and terrifying sea creatures populated the oceans. Welcome to the cartography of yesteryear, when maps were informed not just by mathematics and exploration, but also by huge dollops of folklore and imaginative speculation – as fascinating book The … Read more
Six months on from the coronavirus outbreak… and the Government is still clueless: BEN SPENCER analyses half a year of pandemic blunders By Ben Spencer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:47 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 07:42 BST, 16 September 2020 Doctors having to stay off work because they can’t get a test. Pleas … Read more
Six months on from the coronavirus outbreak… and the Government is still clueless: BEN SPENCER analyses half a year of pandemic blunders By Ben Spencer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:47 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 07:41 BST, 16 September 2020 Doctors having to stay off work because they can’t get a test. Pleas … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing growing questions over the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic with Britain’s official death toll now approaching 40,000. It is now 18 weeks since the first cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the UK on January 31. Since then the Government has been repeatedly rocked by rows and blunders as critics … Read more
A new pension scandal has seen married women miss out on thousands of pounds they were entitled to in retirement. One widow has now won back more than £100,000 after it emerged government blunders have denied some women a better-paying state pension for years. Former pensions minister Steve Webb revealed in analysis on Saturday that … Read more
A new pension scandal has seen married women miss out on thousands of pounds they were entitled to in retirement. One widow has now won back more than £100,000 after it emerged government blunders have denied some women a better-paying state pension for years. Former pensions minister Steve Webb revealed in analysis on Saturday that … Read more
‘We’re having a day of it!’ Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes can’t hide their frustration as the show is plagued with technical blunders By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 13:25 BST, 26 May 2020 | Updated: 13:25 BST, 26 May 2020 Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes couldn’t hide their frustration during Tuesday’s This Morning, as … Read more
Labour leader Keir Starmer tore into Dominic Raab over coronavirus testing and PPE blunders today as they faced off at the first ‘virtual’ PMQs. Standing in for Boris Johnson in the Commons, the Foreign Secretary defended the painful progress towards the target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month. But after … Read more