Ruth Green

Jan 13, 2025 | righttoequality.org | Ruth Green

by Ruth GreenIt’s mid-morning, and a gaggle of barristers file into a hearing room clutching laptops and case notes. Two parents, flanked by their interpreters, take their seats. I arrived on the second day of the father’s evidence in a case that arose after the couple’s four-month-old baby was presented to A&E with a head injury, initially blamed on a fall. The mother later said one of the older children had dropped the child.

Sep 22, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Ruth Green |Daniel Wainwright |Dan Johnson

‘If mine is bigger, I’m going to win’: Getting zombie knives off the streetsFaron Paul (left) who runs his own knife amnesty company collects a blade from "Matthew" (far right) who says "everyone walks around with one" [BBC]Buying a zombie knife is as easy as getting a takeaway delivery, says Matthew, 20. He got his first blade, a Rambo-style knife, aged 16. On a quiet country lane south of Luton, Matthew - which is not his real name - says “everyone” walks around with one.

Dec 19, 2023 | news.nestia.com | Fiona Trott |Ruth Green

Image caption, Michaela Ali has been living in temporary accommodation since March because there are rats in her housing association flat By Fiona Trott & Ruth Green BBC News Landlords are failing to resolve increasing numbers of complaints about rats in rental properties - and some are even blaming tenants' lifestyles, a leading housing official says. It follows a tenfold increase in rat complaints in the past four years, the Housing Ombudsman for England adds.

Dec 19, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Fiona Trott |Ruth Green

Landlords are failing to resolve increasing numbers of complaints about rats in rental properties - and some are even blaming tenants' lifestyles, a leading housing official says. It follows a tenfold increase in rat complaints in the past four years, the Housing Ombudsman for England adds. It is a growing problem that needs to be "tackled with urgency", Richard Blakeway told the BBC. The government says it has new powers to crack down on bad landlords.

Nov 7, 2023 | news.nestia.com | Ruth Green

Image caption, The tumour in Ray's jaw was diagnosed only after he paid to see a dentist privately By Ruth Green BBC News Lack of access to dentists is costing lives because mouth cancers are not being spotted or treated early enough, a health charity has told BBC News. The disease killed more than 3,000 people in 2021 - up 46%, from 2,075 a decade ago, latest figures obtained by the Oral Health Foundation show.