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HEARTLESS Tory Iain Duncan Smith dragged the elderly grandparents of a severely disabled teenager back into court yesterday in a bid to overturn a previous verdict that declared the bedroom tax discriminatory.
Appeal judges had confirmed that Paul and Sue Rutherford, who look after their 15 year-old grandson Warren, unjustifiably “suffered discrimination” under the new rules.
The discretionary payments the Rutherfords receive to cover overnight care for Warren will run out next month, leaving the couple in dire straits.
ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency