Mid-Staffordshire scandal: day of reckoning beckons
The Francis inquiry report into the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust will soon be published – but will those held responsible be held to account?
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A senior detective is given a written warning and will keep his job despite being found guilty of gross misconduct over his handling of a high-profile double murder case.
The Francis inquiry report into the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust will soon be published – but will those held responsible be held to account?
The public inquiry into care standards in Mid Staffordshire delivers its report shortly. Channel 4 News describes how events there touched even those at the top of the NHS.
“Outrageous”, “reckless” and “frankly appalling”: Lord Justice Leveson delivers a damning verdict on the press. But David Cameron says he has “serious concerns” about the proposal of a new press law.
Former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames tells the Leveson inquiry the News of the World was involved in an attempt to “subvert” a murder investigation.
Journalist Joan Smith gives her personal account of why she’s giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry, set up to look at the ethics and practices of the press in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
The judge in the trial of the man charged with murdering Joanna Yeates instructs the jurors in the case not to “allow emotion or sympathy for her family and boyfriend” to cloud their judgment.
Vincent Tabak had a sexually motivated “determination to kill” Joanna Yeates, prosecutors have told a jury. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies reports from Bristol Crown Court.
The barrister representing Vincent Tabak, who is accused of murdering Joanna Yeates, says his conduct was “frankly disgusting”.
Jurors at the trial of Vincent Tabak, accused of murdering landscape architect Joanna Yeates, hear the Long Lartin prison chaplain state that Tabak told him in February he planned to plead guilty.
Jurors at the trial of Vincent Tabak, accused of murdering Jo Yeates in December of last year, have heard about his behaviour in the days before his arrest.
Police searching for missing architect Joanna Yeates have found a female body near a golf club in North Somerset.
Police release CCTV footage showing Joanna Yeates, missing since Friday, buying a pizza at her local Tesco in Clifton village, Bristol, on the night of her disappearance.
The family of a 25-year-old architect, missing for nearly a week in Bristol, say they fear she has been kidnapped, and that “Christmas is suspended until she comes back”, as Samira Ahmed discovers.
A public inquiry begins into the ‘appalling’ standards of care at Stafford hospital, which are believed to have caused hundreds of deaths. But not every official will give evidence, says Darsha Soni.