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    The Sun placed a reporter at the NHS 111 call centre at St Charles Hospital in Ladbroke Grove, west London, which provides 24-hour support for callers from 11 boroughs in north, west and central London. A Department of Health spokesman said: The NHS is now urgently investigating and if any wrongdoing whatsoever is found, including criminal actions, we will want to see the police and relevant NHS regulators alerted as necessary. He described the claims as clearly completely unacceptable if found to be true. The newspaper said it found call handlers asleep at their desks or describing themselves on busy on the internal computer system to avoid new calls and new patients. Technical glitches reportedly ended with one handler hanging up on at least three patients, including one...

    Police have released images of three people they want to speak to after a teenage asylum seeker was beaten and left unconscious. The two men and a woman are being sought in connection with the attack on a Kurdish Iranian in Croydon, southeast London. The 17-year-old was waiting at a bus stop in Shrublands Avenue, near The Goat pub, with two friends at about 11.40pm on Friday when they were approached by a group of people. After discovering he was an asylum seeker, they chased him and launched a savage attack including repeated blows to the head, police said. The boy was left with a fractured skull and a blood clot on his brain. He remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition. His two friends managed to escape with minor injuries. Detectives investigating the assau...

    Abu Hamza The son of Britain’s most notorious hate preacher has been stripped of his UK passport after travelling to Syria to fight with jihadists. The Home Office took the highly unusual step of withdrawing the passport of the youngest son of the hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza, leaving him effectively stateless and stranded in the civil war. Sufiyan Mustafa, 22, whose father is in jail in the US after being convicted of a series of terrorism charges, has complained in an interview with an Arabic newspaper of his plight. He has pleaded for the option of coming back to his home in London. Mustafa is fighting alongside rebel units after fleeing Britain in 2013 following the extradition of his father to America to stand trial. He denies fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and t...