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The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, according to federal data. Last month alone some 1,500 unaccompanied minors arrived on the southern border alone without their parents and were placed with sponsors who did not keep in touch with federal officials. And there is likely to be a lot more. According to McClatchy DC Bureau, some 5,945 unaccompanied children are unaccounted for, with just 50 per cent of kids ending up with their parents as their sponsors....

Stephanie Peacock MP tells Parliament about Amazon workers miscarrying and a carer forced to give urine sample to prove she was too sick to work. Stephanie Peacock MP for Barnsley East, sparked the Parliamentary debate following her Private Members Bill calling for greater protection of Agency Workers. Ms Peacock pressured the Government Minister Andrew Griffiths MP, to implement better and increased workplace inspections with swift action taken against employers. And in the wake of GMB’s landmark victory against Uber she...

The House of Commons was marred by controversy today after Tory whips refused to nod through a Labour MP on morphine in a crucial day in parliament. MPs have gathered to debate the EU withdrawal bill as Theresa May searched for a "meaningful vote" to head off a rebellion on Brexit. But the day has already agitated many politicians and commentators after the government decided not to “nod through” sick MPs. Two Labour MPs coming from hospital were denied entry, including one...

A mum has spoken of her ordeal as she waits to hear whether the Government will allow her severely ill daughter access to banned cannabis oil. Kelly Anne O'Neill is in despair that she cannot do more to help 24-year-old Danielle. Danielle was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was six and has suffered "horrendous" side effects from taking approved medication. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told the House of Commons that the use of cannabis in medical treatment will be...

Recco Williams, 21, and 18-year-old Reuben Blakeway targeted the 24-year-old woman as she walked home from Streatham Common railway station in south London

Mohammad Imran, 22, told police he had tried to obtain a fake passport because his mum would not let him have his own, the Old Bailey heard

Anita-May Davidson disappeared at around 9.15am this morning (Wed)

An "institutionalised regime" of giving “dangerous” amounts of opioids when there was no medical cause meant 456 patients who should have been cared for at a Hampshire hospital had their lives curtailed. Rt Rev James Jones who also chaired the Hillsborough Inquiry headed the probe for hundreds of families seeking answers about their relatives who died after being admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Today announcing the findings of his inquiry, he said that families had "remarkable tenacity and fortitude...

Annual redundancy spend would pay almost 300 much-needed paramedics’ salaries for a year says GMB union Ambulance bosses spent more than £10 million of public money on redundancy payments in just one year, research by GMB, the union for ambulance workers, reveals. The combined spend on redundancy and other forms of exit packages by the ten ambulance Trusts in England since 2010 is an eye-watering £31 million. In 2013/14 alone, the Trusts forked out more than £10 million on exit packages. This spend...