The parents of a teenager who died after suffering an allergic reaction to his school dinner have accused staff of failing their duty of care.

A school nurse in England has admitted mistakenly downgrading a health care plan for a teenage boy with severe allergies and asthma just months before he died after falling ill during a detention.

A mother today told an inquest in Wales how she accidentally flushed her baby down a toilet before hiding his body in her car boot.

An inquest into the death in Thailand of backpacker Katherine Horton was formally opened and adjourned today.