Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has undergone surgery on a hip problem in the United States.

The health watchdog has called for a national strategy to overcome the problem of placing vulnerable children in care homes that do not meet their needs.

A child in foster care did not receive a single visit from a social worker in nine years and others were fostered to homes where undisclosed allegations had been upheld against adults, according to a review of foster and children’s residential services.

Legal actions against the makers of faulty hip implants are being stalled by missing files and lengthy delays in accessing records.

Some people have been left wheelchair-bound while actions over faulty prosthetics drag on, writes Ernest J Cantillon