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Thousands of children are drinking more alcohol each week than the recommended safe limits for adults, new figures have revealed.

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Safeguards to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse are an unlawful infringement of the human rights of staff working in the NHS and social care, five law lords ruled yesterday in a test case brought by the Royal College of Nursing.

The House of Lords outlawed a procedure that allows ministers to put staff on a provisional employment blacklist without investigating the strength of allegations made against them or listening to their side of the case.

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Addictions to over-the-counter and prescription drugs are a "significant" problem and require "urgent" attention, an influential group of MPs has warned.

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A hospital trust boss has apologised after staff tied five elderly people to chairs and wheelchairs to restrain them.\n\nThe patients were tied down with men's braces, bedsheets and wheelchair straps, sometimes for long periods.

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