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25 years ago this week — 1999

‘I don’t know if hedgelaying is a dying art. But there’s a lot of old hedgelayers that are dying,’ says David Whitaker to chuckles from some of his fellow craftsmen. The occasion is the annual hedgelaying championship, organised by the National Hedgelaying Society, of which Whitaker is secretary. In a good year, the event draws

There were almost 250 applications to deprive children of their liberty in England in the first two months of a dedicated court set up to handle these cases.

There were more than 200 applications involving children to the national deprivation of liberty (DoL) court in its first two months of operation, latest data from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory shows.