News round-up: Judges condemn council over adoption case

‘Disgraceful’ – Judges condemn council that rushed through adoption of baby girl before her natural father could prevent it

The conduct of social workers who rushed through the adoption of a baby girl before her natural father could prevent it was damned as “disgraceful” by three senior judges yesterday.

Lord Justice Thorpe said the decision to place the child with adoptive parents 24 hours before the father was due in court to fight for his daughter gave the “clearest inference” that the council was out to “gain its ends by means more foul than fair”.

Drug companies win Alzheimer’s appeal against watchdog

Tens of thousands of Alzheimer’s sufferers and their families had their hopes raised yesterday as two drug companies won a landmark victory in the Court of Appeal.

Read more on this story in The Times

16,000 kids in hospital for self-harming

A shocking 15,955 children were admitted to hospital for self-harming last year as cases soared by a third.

Read more on this story in The Daily Mirror

Cases of drug-resistant TB have doubled, study shows

Health officials are blaming a rise in drug-resistant tuberculosis in Britain on immigration and inadequate measures to control outbreaks among prisoners and drug users.

Read more on this story in The Guardian