COUPLES desperate to have a baby are resorting to unregulated commercial surrogacy abroad, which can lead to legal battles and losing the child, experts warn. New figures show the practice is rising but due to a chronic shortage of British surrogates, many people are going to countries where commercial arrangements are legal.
WHEN a group of aspiring young pop stars arrived at Ray Cooper’s office in 1995, he knew he had found the next big thing.
CASES against alleged rapists and violent offenders are being dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service over fears of disclosure errors “at the first sign of police delays”, warn lawyers. This has so concerned Victim’s Commissioner Lady Newlove she has asked for an urgent meeting with outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders, whose tenure has been plagued by the disclosure crisis.
THE end of paper prescriptions will come a significant step closer through government reforms geared at allowing more to be issued digitally. Current regulations only allow an electronic prescription to be used where a patient has a nominated pharmacy, to prevent people turning up at a chemist not able to receive them.
THE Pope has revealed he is ashamed of the Catholic Church’s failure to address the “repellent crimes” of sexual abuse by the clergy.
Friends and family gathered to mark Lily's very special birthday.
Much has been written about Kent's Roman roots and the empire's legacy continues to shape much of the county today.
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Work is due to get underway on plans for 250 homes, a GP surgery and a business park.
New theories have emerged of Roman Britain when Kent was the industrial heartland.
Charities have warned people abusing drugs need better care to prevent "preventable" deaths.
A BRITISH business has developed new wireless technology that will end the need for plugs around the house and in the office. Chores involving ironing and other domestic appliances could become a lot easier without cables.
RECKLESS company directors who dissolve firms to avoid paying off staff or who leave huge pension shortfalls are to face harsh new penalties.
PARALLELS have been drawn between the 1978 poisoned umbrella murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, and the recent novichok attack in Salisbury. Markov was on his way to work at the BBC in London when he was jabbed in the back of the leg by a man wielding a brolly.
THOUSANDS are set for windfalls on learning PPI compensation can be claimed on behalf of dead relatives.
A BACKBENCH Labour MP yesterday warned Jeremy Corbyn that the antiSemitism scandal engulfing his party risks killing it off. John Mann said that Labour’s future would be in jeopardy if the issue was not dealt with.
COUNCIL bosses have taken possession of nearly 5,000 homes in the past two years to pay for their owners’ care home fees. Deferred Payment Agreements mean homeowners use their properties as collateral if they cannot afford care bills.
THE Financial Conduct Authority reckons there could have been 64 million PPI policies sold and fewer than half of them have been claimed back.
HOPES that a British charity worker might be spared from returning to an Iranian jail were fading last night after a reprieve failed to emerge from authorities. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been freed on a three-day release on Thursday so that she could spend time with her four-year-old daughter Gabriella and family.
EXCLUSIVE: EU nationals living in Britain have spoken about their support for Brexit. Most cited Brussels' lack of democracy and accountability, while one said he was persuaded by Project Fear’s “meaningless and absurd forecasts” during the referendum campaign. German Stephie Albig, 25, moved to Britain from Nuremberg in 2013.
SCOTLAND’S motorway and trunk road network has 36 weak bridges, including some of the country’s busiest and most historic crossings. The list includes raised approaches to the Erskine Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing as well as the A-listed Bridge of Dee, in Aberdeen, which still features its original 16th century piers.
TORRENTIAL downpours and gales threaten widespread misery this weekend before the clouds part in time for the Bank Holiday. Almost a months’ rain will drench swathes of the country today while an Atlantic storm system whips up 50mph gusts.
THOMAS MARKLE is pleading for a “final chance” to make peace with his daughter Meghan and Prince Harry.
EXCLUSIVE: NATO and its allies are to conduct military war games to examine how the West would respond to a chemical attack by Russia, it emerged last night. It will be the first time since the Gulf War that major military powers rehearse the scenario, believed to have been prompted by Russia's use of Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury.
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