Eleanor Lawson

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'Floodgates' opened on prison dronesEleanor LawsonJames PearsonBBC Political Reporter, Hereford & WorcesterGetty ImagesThe Prison Officers Association said without action it was "only a matter of time" until a gun was delivered by droneA former prison officer at a high-security jail where a member of staff was recently stabbed by an inmate, has said the "floodgates" have been opened on the use of drones to smuggle in weapons and drugs.

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Image source, ReutersImage caption, An inquest found that Tina Doig, who died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 2024, received a failed stem cell transplant which contributed to her deathA coroner has found a failed stem cell transplant contributed to the death of a 54-year-old woman, due to an NHS trust not undertaking appropriate testing on the donor and recipient. Tina Doig, who had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, received a stem cell transplant after a donation from her son.

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Stitch the skunk bringing joy at children's hospiceEleanor LawsonBBCCritterish Allsorts takes creatures like Stitch the skunk to animal therapy sessions at Zoe's Place Baby HospiceYou may have heard of a therapy cat or therapy dog, but have you heard of a therapy skunk? Dale Preece-Kelly, from Kidderminster, runs Critterish Allsorts, offering animal therapy to places like hospices, prisons, and care homes, where he hopes to "unleash the healing power of animals".

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'My mum was robbed of a life with her family'Eleanor LawsonBBCInquests have opened into 63 of Ian Paterson's former patientsA woman who was operated on by jailed surgeon Ian Paterson was "robbed of a life with her husband and children," an inquest has heard. Yvonne Cordon, who lived in Kingstanding, Birmingham, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33 and died six years later in November 2000.

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Coroner rejects Paterson's opioid claimEleanor LawsonPA MediaJudge Richard Foster has rejected Ian Paterson's theory that Elaine Morris died of opioid overdoseA coroner has rejected a suggestion by jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson that one of his patients died of an opioid overdose. The disgraced doctor told an inquest into the death of Elaine Morris on Tuesday that he was concerned her official cause of death - carcinomatosis and breast carcinoma - was incorrect.