
Amir Khan Backs £500,000 Appeal for Fighter Welfare Inquiry
Former world champion Amir Khan and Liverpool's Paul Smith are backing a fundraising drive for an investigation into medical care, pay and support for combat sports fighters.
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Former world champion Amir Khan and Liverpool's Paul Smith are backing a fundraising drive for an investigation into medical care, pay and support for combat sports fighters.

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Southern Health Trust expects to move births from Daisy Hill to Craigavon next month because it cannot staff both units, and families say the journey is a risk.

The British Retail Consortium says retailers can no longer hold back price rises, with food and non-food inflation both up in October.

A Cardiff University report finds drug-related deaths account for a far larger share of deaths among supervised prison leavers in Wales than across England and Wales.

Chancellor John Healey is suspending tariffs on more than 100 products ahead of the Budget. The Conservatives call the plan "cheaper gherkins".

The chancellor will replace the rule that cost carers a week's payment for earning pennies over the limit with a taper, though it will not arrive before 2030.

The Busted guitarist said doctors had given him a few years to live before his younger brother Chris donated a kidney. Both are recovering from surgery.

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A misconduct panel banned a principal and a science teacher from teaching after they watched two pupils fight at a Gloucestershire school in 2019.

The Liverpool children's hospital has accepted full responsibility for the death of Eleanor Aldred-Owen, who died in 2024 after surgery, and apologised.

Michael Marra has made a direct appeal to the energy secretary to approve production at Rosebank, the UK's largest untapped oil field, ahead of Wednesday's Budget.

A Northern Ireland man who confronted a best man at a wedding reception in the Adelphi Hotel was handed an 18-month community order and told to pay compensation.