The main maternity hospital in the Gaza Strip's crowded southern city of Rafah stopped admitting patients, the United Nations Population Fund said. The hospital said it had been handling some 85 out of a daily total of 180 births reut.rs/4bap9Ap

A family member of Carmel, 39 a female hostage still captive in Gaza - her health, her safety, her fate unknown, sent me their simple plea to the Israeli government. “The ball is at your court. Sign the deal and bring them home now”. The families of the hostages are desperate.

Ukraine's state security service said it caught two agents for Russia plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other top officials as 'a gift' for Vladimir Putin as he was sworn in for a new term in the Kremlin reut.rs/3UOdnpy

38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/

thetimes.co.uk/article/e78c47…

My piece is here - on their lives, and what we have learnt about Alzheimer's, and all its complexities:

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The state of things right now, both from Haaretz.com:

Israeli sources: the deal isn't what we agreed to at all, it's a ploy

Foreign diplomatic sources: the deal is basically the same one Israel agreed to, the ball is in Netanyahu's court

'What evidence do you have, from the successive by-election defeats or the fact that you're potentially going to lose hundreds of council seats, that the problem is just messaging?'

Amol Rajan asks Conservative Party chair Richard Holden.

#R4Today

My sons - who NEVER do the dishwasher properly.

Who NEVER replace the toilet roll.

Have finally delivered.

Congratulations Stormzy (a young man who also ❤️his mum) on launch of #merkyfc HQ , sport, music and community for young people in London.

Call for corporate manslaughter charge against the prison service after inquest. And a powerful, moving interview with the brave Hennie Fenlon.
channel4.com/news/call-for-… via @jackielongc4

I increasingly believe this election will be a referendum on whether anything matters anymore. There's no rational case for Trump, but there's a loud contingent on the left that just wants to burn it down. Combine that with low information voters and Republicans circling the…

It’s for the referees to spot that - and Arsenal having been doing this to the goalkeeper and opposing defenders for weeks - as pundits congratulate the Gunners set piece guru. If this happens anywhere else on the field it’s a foul.

Anyone who covered Northern Ireland around the time of the Good Friday Agreement hung on Stephen Grimason’s every word. This is a lovely tribute from ⁦Mark Simpson⁩ to an extraordinary journalist. bbc.com/news/uk-northe…

Rishi Sunak refused to answer this on plane to Poland this week too.

Senior Tories believe threat of summer general election is being used to deter
rebellion against PM before perilous set of local elections this week.

Awful news. Stephen Grimason, former BBC N Ireland Political Editor, has died.
Stephen was a whirlwind of journalistic tenacity, superb contacts, insight, knowledge ... and constant mischief.
A brave, admired, and much loved colleague. RIP, Stephen.
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Exc 🚨: Family of postmaster Martin Griffiths, who took his own life after being hounded for £100k, say they were 'silenced' by 'gun to the head' NDA deal.

Widow Gina speaks after evidence of Angela Van den Bogerd, who devised £140k Post Office payout 👇

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New at Post Office inquiry: Angela Van den Bogerd admits she got her bonus in 2019 after 'lying' to the High Court in the Bates trial.

'So despite a finding in the High Court that basically you lied, you got your bonus?' Edward Henry KC tells the inquiry.

'Yes,' she says.

My dad didn’t even tell me day of court hearing - he knew I’d be very upset and distraught if I had known or if he was sent to prison in front of my eyes.

Angela ven den Bogerd knew days before 8th December 2010 that Horizon had issues.

#PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry

Shocked and saddened to see the revelations about Martin Griffiths's case at Post Office inquiry.

His suicide, the NDA, treatment of his family and Post Office's move to protect their 'brand reputation' - it is all utterly inhumane, and unforgivable.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

Van den Bogerd admits that she *still got her bonus* in 2019 despite being found that year to have misled the courts.

Suggests protection of Post Office Ltd was incentivised above all moral considerations.

The story of this meagre £140,000 payment to the widow of the sub-postmaster who walked in front of a bus, taking his own life, just gets worse. The Post Office insisted the money was paid in stages so they could stop payments if she spoke out about the case. I mean ,really?