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Rise in NHS birth centre closures ‘shocking’ denial of women’s rights, experts say

Twelve midwife-led maternity units have closed in England since 2019 with six closing since Labour came to power in 2024 NHS officials are shutting growing numbers of birth centres in a “shocking” denial of a woman’s right to have a midwife rather than a doctor oversee their baby’s birth, say campaigners. Twelve birth centres – midwife-led maternity units – have closed in England since 2019. Birth centres play a key role in ensuring that women can choose whether to have their baby at a unit in a hospital run by doctors, at one where midwives are in charge, or at home. Continue reading...

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Scotland trail in All Blacks’ wake once more despite Ewan Ashman hat-trick

Scotland 21-43 New Zealand Townsend ‘frustrated’ as first win eludes Scots again Scotland never got going; Murrayfield never got going; New Zealand did. Scotland have had some agonising defeats here in recent years, as they chase that first win against the All Blacks. This was not one of them. This was dispiritingly routine. Despite a hat-trick of tries in the first half for Ewan Ashman, the irrepressible hooker, Scotland could not register a point at all in the second. New Zealand cantered away to a tally of seven tries, two for Beauden Barrett who beetled through Scotland’s outside defences

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