Kim Pilling
UK
Kate joins celebration as young mother marks end of chemotherapy treatment
The ceremony came as a welcome surprise for patient Claire Lorente, her partner Pablo and son Enzo.
By Kim Pilling
4 Jun 2026
Crime
Nurse photographed thank you card from alleged victims’ parents, court told
Lucy Letby is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others.
By Kim Pilling
15 May 2023
Crime
Murder-accused nurse ‘stunned’ at death of first alleged victim
Lucy Letby is on trial accused of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital
By Kim Pilling
5 May 2023
Crime
Murder-accused nurse ‘sickened’ by being blamed for baby deaths
Lucy Letby entered the witness box at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday to give evidence
By Kim Pilling
2 May 2023
Crime
Murder-accused nurse tells jury she had not harmed any children
Letby, who is accused of killing seven children and trying to kill another 10, has entered the witness box to give evidence in her murder trial
By Kim Pilling
2 May 2023
Crime
Accused nurse wrote note because ‘everything got on top of me’, court told
Lucy Letby denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another 10 at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit.
By Kim Pilling
27 Apr 2023
Crime
Lucy Letby trial: Nurse accused of baby murders weeps in the dock
Lucy Letby, 33, cried as images of her bedroom were displayed during her trial at Manchester Crown Court
By Kim Pilling
17 Apr 2023
Crime
Nurse Lucy Letby found caring for less poorly infants ‘boring’, trial hears
Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit.
By Kim Pilling
21 Mar 2023
Crime
Baby allegedly murdered by nurse Lucy Letby was injected with air, court told
Expert witness Dr Dewi Evans said that he believed the child was the victim of an ‘air embolus’ – in which gas bubbles block blood supply.
By Kim Pilling
15 Mar 2023
UK
Coin mosaic marks 90th birthday of Sir Michael Caine
The Oscar-winner actor played Harry Palmer in three 1960s films – The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.
By Kim Pilling
14 Mar 2023
Crime
MI5 not fit to keep us safe, says father of Arena attack’s youngest victim
The inquiry into the atrocity found it might have been prevented if MI5 had acted more swiftly on intelligence received in the months before.
By Kim Pilling
2 Mar 2023
Crime
Authorities ‘underestimated’ national security risk from Libya returnees
UK-born bomber Salman Abedi flew in from the North African country four days before his attack on the Manchester Arena.
By Kim Pilling
2 Mar 2023
Music
MI5 boss ‘profoundly sorry’ at failure to prevent Manchester Arena attack
Ken McCallum apologised after the public inquiry into the May 2017 atrocity.
By Kim Pilling
2 Mar 2023
Crime
Manchester Arena bombing ‘might have been prevented’, inquiry finds
Two pieces of information about suicide bomber Salman Abedi were assessed at the time by MI5 to not relate to terrorism.
By Kim Pilling
2 Mar 2023
Crime
Final report from public inquiry into Manchester Arena bombing to be published
Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders will release his findings on whether the terror attack by Salman Abedi could have been prevented.
By Kim Pilling
2 Mar 2023
Crime
Doctor ‘wishes he had gone straight to police over nurse concerns’
Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016
By Kim Pilling
28 Feb 2023
Crime
Doctor ‘felt uncomfortable at thought of Lucy Letby being alone with baby girl’
Letby, 33, is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others.
By Kim Pilling
28 Feb 2023
Crime
Nurse ‘tried to murder baby within two hours of her birth’, trial told
Lucy Letby is said to have deliberately dislodged the youngster’s breathing tube just moments before a consultant walked into the nursery room
By Kim Pilling
27 Feb 2023
Crime
Baby had dangerously low blood sugar levels over three days, Letby trial told
Nurse Lucy Letby is accused of adding artificial insulin to a bag of intravenous liquid the infant was receiving at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
By Kim Pilling
24 Feb 2023
Crime
Baby boy collapsed because of ‘slow injection of air’, Lucy Letby’s trial hears
Letby, 33, is accused of trying to murder Child M on the afternoon of April 9 2016.
By Kim Pilling
23 Feb 2023
Crime
Nurse accused of murdering babies breaks down as doctor gives evidence at trial
Lucy Letby, 33, wiped away tears as she sat in the dock at Manchester Crown Court.
By Kim Pilling
16 Feb 2023