New heat health alert issued as another UK heatwave approaches
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new yellow heat health alert has been issued across the south of England and parts of the Midlands, as more hot…
Butchers and hairdressers caught selling illegal cigarettes as North London team recovers £1.7m from crime
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA North London trading standards team recovered more than £1.7m from the proceeds of crime last year, including over £650,000 for two…
Venezuelan police officers arrested over alleged looting after earthquakes
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFour Venezuelan police officers have been arrested and are facing dismissal after being accused of looting cash from the rubble of a…
Venezuela death toll rises to 2,295, seven days of national mourning declared
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes rose to 2,295 an official said on Wednesday as interim president Delcy Rodriguez declared seven…
US issues travel advisory after cases of eye-bleeding disease are reported in region battling Ebola
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe US Embassy has warned Americans against travel to Uganda after health officials detected a case of a deadly eye-bleeding virus. Read…
Carer who took lonely patient home for family New Year's Day dinner sacked for act of kindness
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA carer who invited a lonely, disabled patient to join his family’s New Year’s Day dinner was sacked for the ‘act of…
Spain records more than 1,000 excess deaths due to June heatwave
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain has attributed 1,028 excess deaths to a blistering heatwave that hit Europe last week – a figure more than double the…
Hospital worker steals £279k of operating theatre equipment - and sells it back to NHS
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn ex-NHS worker faces jail after conning taxpayers’ out of £279,000 – by repeatedly selling the NHS’s own equipment back to them….
Tributes paid to pioneering gynaecological surgeon
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTributes from across the world have been paid to a pioneering obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon who has died aged 81, his son…
Four days to make victims fall in love: How global scammers use US tech to fleece people
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. Read More