Couple’s suicide over care home fears

Couple’s suicide over care home fears

A couple who had been married for 60 years killed themselves rather than face the prospect of being sent to different care homes.
The bodies of Tom Hughes, 82, a retired dentist, and his wife Nancie, 86, were discovered next to each other in their flat.

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Rewards for good hospitals, action on failing schools

The government produced its draft legislative programme yesterday. It includes plans to reform pupil referral units for children excluded from mainstream education; to extend the right to request flexible working to parents of children aged six to 16; and to introduce individual budgets for NHS care for people with long-term conditions.