NHS turns 75: A look back at the healthcare service’s milestones
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Seventy-five years ago today, the NHS was launched by Aneurin Bevan at Park Hospital in Manchester. Read More
People who sleep very late may die earlier due to unhealthy habits, study says
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Night owls have a slightly higher risk of developing unhealthy habits and may possibly die earlier than those who rise early, according…
Junior doctors have voted to keep striking until next year
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Junior doctors in England have voted to extend their strike action for another six months. Read More
‘Seize and crush’ e-scooters, policing chief tells officers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A policing chief has told his force’s officers to “seize and crush” any e-scooters being ridden on any public land in his…
Is UK set for Tranq 'zombie drug' explosion? As substance that rots flesh and leaves addicts looking like 'walking dead' claims its first British victim,
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Not for nothing is it known as the ‘zombie drug’. Strong enough to knock out elephants, it has a staggering effect on…
NHS patients should be allowed to pay to speed up access, says Tony Blair
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Reading Time: < 1 minute NHS patients should be allowed to pay to speed up access to healthcare and use health service cash towards private treatment which…
Man dies in Marseille after being shot at time of riots with rubber bullet
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Reading Time: < 1 minute French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a 27-year old man, fatally shot by a rubber bullet during riots…
Women from Leeds and Pudsey helped smuggle millions of pounds on first-class flights to Dubai
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Women from Leeds and Pudsey were members of a gang that admitted hiding more than £100 million of drug money in suitcases…
'He has destroyed a family': Man murdered mum and her two young kids in horrific flat fire
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A man whose wife and two children were murdered by a “heartless” neighbour who had a “grievance” over rubbish being left in…
Gym owner jailed for supplying toxic 'diet pills' in landmark case
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Jamie George, 32, admitted distributing 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP), a highly toxic industrial chemical that is often advertised as a slimming aid. Read More