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NHS faces £85.8m compensation bill over maternity blunders
Cost of settling lawsuits where a baby's heart rate scan was misinterpreted has increased more than seven-fold since 2006The NHS is facing a spiralling bill for blunders made by maternity-unit staff...
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Barack Obama: Returning to the fray | Editorial
A fighting President Obama is better than one who pretends to stay aloofGone are the days when liberal America let itself be mesmerised by a big Obama speech. Long gone. Today's president acts only...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has earned record £322m from Lehman administration
Administration work on bank's European business thought to have earned PwC highest fees from any UK corporate failureAccountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers have earned £322m in fees from the collapse of...
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Letters: Concern over the Poppy Project
We are astonished to hear (Report, 12 April) that the Ministry of Justice has awarded vital public funding to support victims of sex trafficking to a religious group (the Salvation Army) instead of a...
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Corrections and clarifications
• In early editions, the photo caption that accompanied a report of the jailing for life of two members of an east London street gang convicted of the murder of a girl of 16, Agnes Sina-Inakoju,...
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Letters: Diversity, Oxford and disadvantage
Congratulations on giving two pages to the scandalously low proportion of black students at Oxford (Grades aren't enough. You have to get over people's preconceptions, 13 April). But such a heavy focus...
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Letters: Older and wiser on life expectancy
Madeleine Bunting (Magic of the midlife mind, 11 April) is incorrect to say middle age is a modern phenomenon because life expectancy was much lower in the past. Life expectancy figures from the past...
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Letters: The shameful treatment of Bradley Manning
By insisting that the treatment of Bradley Manning in the marine corps brig was "appropriate and meets our basic standards", Obama is saying that it is normal to hold hundreds of navy and marine...
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Letters: Police penalties
George Monbiot suggests that police officers found to have made false statements should be sacked (Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth, 12 April). There is a...
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Stillbirth rate in UK one of Europe's highest, Lancet finds
Report says many of 4,000 babies stillborn each year could be saved with increase in awareness and researchAround 4,000 babies die unexpectedly in the last months of pregnancy or during labour every...
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Weatherwatch: pollen and rain
Usually, we blame the movements of the jet stream for April showers, but recent research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters suggests that meadows and moors, grasslands and...
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Divorce app could help couples decide if their marriage has a future
The makers of the £9.99 app say it provides a practical view of the legal process, while critics say it trivialises divorceAnyone contemplating separation can, from today, use the same technology that...
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David Cameron on immigration: full text of the speech
Prime minister's address to Conservative party members on the government's immigration policyA year ago, we were in the middle of a general election campaign. And there was one message I heard loud and...
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Country Diary: Durham city
I could hear the toads' mating calls – more chirping than croaking – long before I reached their breeding pond. They'd been emerging from the woodlands for several days, crawling across wet grass with...
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Esther Addley's diary
If only there was a flame of BBC fat-cattery, that would be yours, Mark✒The clock is ticking at the BBC, from which deputy director general Mark Byford will shortly take his leave as part of the...
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In praise of … the Paraguayan harp | Editorial
Forget its fey image in Europe - in South America, and Paraguay in particular, it is the sound of the plains, hot nights and cold beerIn Europe the harp has angelic associations. It is seen – unjustly...
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Council elections: Disparate democracy | Editorial
Westminster's focus may be the AV campaign – but the local elections may prove a better guide to the political futureLocal elections are always shaped by national circumstances. This year will be no...
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NHS is failing to protect vulnerable babies and must learn from its mistakes
A medical negligence solicitor on the problems of misinterpretation of cardiotocogram traces by maternity staffSince 1999 I have worked on around 40 to 50 obstetric cases involving cardiotocogram (CTG)...
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Review | Theatre | Electra | Gate | Brian Logan
Gate, London"I found your story very difficult to listen to." So says Electra to Strophius, who has told her of her brother's death. And so say I to director Carrie Cracknell and adapter Nick Payne,...
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New Orleans police convicted over killing in wake of Katrina
Police department facing string of cases, many of them relating to period immediately after hurricaneThe New Orleans police department's reputation was further tarnished on Wednesday when two officers...
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