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Pizza Hut is to shut 68 restaurants after the company behind its UK venues fell into administration. The company has not disclosed how many workers will impacted by the closures. DC London Pie, the firm running Pizza Hut’s UK dine-in restaurants, appointed administrators from corporate finance firm FTI on Monday. It comes less than a year after the business had itself bought the chain’s restaurants from insolvency. On Monday, American hospitality giant Yum! […]

Grieving families have welcomed the launch of an independent investigation into the maternity and neonatal services practices at an NHS Trust where they say their babies were failed. The parents say they felt gaslit, dismissed and even blamed for what went wrong at Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTH) NHS Trust. Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who met the families on Thursday, said he was “shocked” by their experiences of “repeated maternity failures […]

Sir Keir Starmer must open an inquiry into the scale of harm caused by online forums promoting suicide, a group of survivors and families of the bereaved have said. Meanwhile, multiple Government departments have received a combined total of 65 warnings about the risks from suicide forums and have failed to act, a new report said. In a letter to the Prime Minister calling for an inquiry, a group of […]

Prince Andrew and the royal family could face further embarrassment, with the imminent publication of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir in the week that the King is to pray with the Pope. The Metropolitan Police said they would look into claims in the Mail on Sunday that Andrew had passed Ms Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate. He is […]

Almost three in five doctors cared for patients in temporary spaces like hospital corridors, offices and cupboards this summer, according to a new survey. The poll suggests corridor care “has sadly become an everyday reality” for medics and is not confined to winter, according to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). Some doctors said they had even considered retiring early due to the issue. The RCP snapshot survey of 553 […]