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Southern Cross Healthcare, which operates 730 care homes across the UK, has admitted liability in a case involving the negligent treatment of an elderly woman. Whilst a resident of Oakland care home in Rochdale, 82-year-old Betty Delaney experienced considerable physical suffering. Although exhibiting symptoms of mental deterioration, Mrs Delaney also appeared to be in agony [...]

Ian Castle, a GMB union member from Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, has been awarded £5,500 in compensation after his thumb was injured in an accident at work. Employed by P A Dunwell Transport Limited as a lorry driver, Mr Castle was in the process of unloading his lorry when the roof door crashed down onto [...]