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‘I felt robbed’: bereaved parents hope for answers from Sussex maternity review

"My belly just didn't feel right," she said. "I didn't feel any movements." Chiara, her first child, had been diagnosed with a hole in her heart during a 20-week scan. Since then, Cacciacarro's pregnancy had been classed…

University 365: Does the UK Need to Rethink the University Model?

The Office for Students continues to identify significant financial pressures across the sector, while the House of Commons Education Committee has warned about the risks of institutional insolvency. Universities are…

What Does it Really Mean to be Work Ready?

But have we made the definition too narrow? If somebody has the right qualification and the technical skills to get a job, are they work ready? What about the confidence to contribute when they get there? The ability to…

Almost 75% of A&E staff in UK face violence or aggression daily or weekly

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said understaffed and overcrowded emergency departments were contributing to increased targeting of medics. In a survey of more than 2,000 workers in the UK, 63% said they…

BBC News presenter reveals she has blood cancer

Moshiri, who joined the BBC in 2003 and is one of the news channel's best-known anchors, told the BBC she wanted to share her diagnosis to raise awareness about the disease. "It's been two years since my diagnosis and…

The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial

That's how many people are believed to have lost their lives in this year's early-summer heatwaves – the death tolls for the August heatwaves have yet to be counted. In a sense, these people died in a series of natural…

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff

Think cognitive change not cognitive decline: one way people think about our cognitive function is by comparing it to what it was like when we were in our 20s and it's not a valid comparison. It leads to an assumption…

My dad’s determination to choose life despite his cruel illness has taught me gratitude | Nomi Kaltmann

Since then his illness has progressed, affecting his mobility and making ordinary tasks, like walking, increasingly difficult. My dad is softly spoken and endlessly kind but beneath his gentle exterior is a steely…

Some Americans call us ‘Europoor’ - but there are seven ways we’re exceedingly rich | Emma Beddington

This is, apparently, what proud American patriots (the kind who describe themselves in those terms on their flag-forward X profiles anyway) are calling us Europeans , mocking us for our low salaries, high taxes and…

Mental health groups have ‘failed to acknowledge’ risk of violence, says Mind chief

The inquiry into the Nottingham attacks is examining the events leading up to , when 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates, were fatally stabbed by Valdo…