Care home manager is jailed after fleecing her patients to send £23,000 to conman she fell in love with on Christian dating site Helen Hughes, 56, took money from residents of the Ashton Park Care Home She took £23,000 in total from five different residents in Newport, South Wales She gave the money to a … Read more
Police in Hong Kong have fired pepper spray to disperse protesters who defied an official ban and gathered in a park to mark the 31st anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on democracy students at Tiananmen Square. The scuffles broke out in the working-class Mong Kok district when demonstrators tried to set up roadblocks with metal … Read more
Health and safety probe is launched into group of care homes where 14 residents died from Covid-19 after whistleblowers claimed they were told not to wear face masks Guidelines said workers did not have to wear the masks if symptoms not present Care home group Horizon Care said no symptoms were displayed before April 2 … Read more
Jeremy Richardson, who runs one of the UK’s biggest care home chains, is at the heart of the Covid-19 crisis. As chief executive of Four Seasons Health Care, he has seen more than one in 20 of the elderly residents in his homes die in the pandemic. Already under heavy financial pressure, the virus has … Read more
One in 20 care home residents in London has died from the coronavirus, shocking figures suggest. Analysis of Office for National Statistics data revealed there have been 4.7 Covid-19 deaths per 100 care home beds in the capital. London’s care sector has been hit twice as hard as the South West, East Midlands and East of England, … Read more
Medieval cemetery discovered under a Berlin car park reveals its original residents’ lives were plagued by conflict, disease and poor diets Signs of rickets, scurvy and tuberculosis were found on some of the skeletons They had been buried around the former St Peter’s Church in Colln, now in Berlin Archaeologists suggested the remains reveal the … Read more
Test ALL care home residents and staff every week or coronavirus crisis in the sector will continue to burn, says boss of one of UK’s largest providers Sam Monaghan, chief executive of MHA, said routine testing was only solution Results from Government pilot found 20 out of 28 MHA homes had infected staff At least … Read more
Around a third of residents in a Liverpool care home have died after showing tell-tale coronavirus symptoms. Paisley Court Care Home, in Dovecot, which can care for up to 60 elderly residents, has recorded at least suspected 20 deaths. Parent company Care UK said the deaths included those who had shown symptoms but never confirmed … Read more
Two dams burst after several days of rainfall Tuesday forcing the evacuation of around 10,000 people in mid-Michigan, where the governor said one county could be ‘under approximately 9 feet of water’ by Wednesday morning. For the second time in less than 24 hours, families living along two lakes and a river were ordered Tuesday … Read more
Residents near former Earls Court Exhibition Centre seek reassurance amid possible Saudis’ £2.3bn deal Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Candy are in talks to buy Capital & Counties Local residents want reassurances from the potential new owners They have been in a decade-long battle with Capco and fear for their homes By Ben Harrington For … Read more