Sunday, 15 April 2012 11:45
Sunday, 15 April 2012 10:18
'And although he was very proud of his father, Dr George Hibbert could also later claim that his own career was flourishing as the self-proclaimed expert and psychiatrist called on by local authorities from across the country to assess whether hundreds of young mothers were fit to be parents. After the service, as he got into his black Porsche Turbo to drive home, he probably thought that, like his father, he would one day be respected and esteemed by the great and good of his profession.
But today, Dr Hibbert is famous for very different reasons. He is being investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) following accusations that he deliberately misdiagnosed parents as having mental disorders to allow social services to take their children into care.
This week, it was revealed that applications by local authorities to take children into care in England have reached an all-time record, soaring to 10,000 a year. Since 2008, the figure has more than doubled as the authorities decide ever-more parents should have their children taken away from them.'
Sunday, 15 April 2012 09:59
'Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attacked the European Union for imposing political conditions on an EU-IMF loan desperately needed by Budapest, in an interview on Friday.
"Creating political conditions -- for example over the justice system -- would amount to blackmail, which is unacceptable within the European Union," Orban told national radio MR1 in his weekly interview.
"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not set financial conditions, but the EU is flirting with the idea of imposing political conditions," Orban added.'
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