London bus operator withdraws electric fleet after Wimbledon bus fire
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA fleet of electric buses has been taken out of service after a doubledecker caught fire in south London this week. Read…
Number of women in UK who die during pregnancy rises sharply
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of women who have died during pregnancy or soon after has risen sharply to its highest levels for 20 years,…
Dog attacks: Victims double since pandemic, surgeon says
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSurgeons at a plastic surgery unit in West Sussex say they are treating double the number of dog-attack victims since before the…
Girls outperform boys from early education to university, UK study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new study has found that girls outperform boys in the UK from primary school through to university. Read More
DR Congo floods: Chaos in Kinshasa as river rises to near-record level
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFloods have wreaked chaos in Kinshasa – the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo – with water pouring into homes and…
Swedish blood donor study reveals high prevalence of undiagnosed TBE infections
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of infections by the tick-borne TBE virus that are not detected by health services is far higher than previously assumed….
Social care crisis laid bare as quarter of NHS beds occupied by dementia patients
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The scale of the crisis in social care is laid bare as figures show that dementia patients occupy a quarter of all beds in the NHS….
UK universities at risk of falling into financial deficit as policy banning Nigerian students from bringing dependants takes effect
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany universities in the UK are at risk of falling into financial deficit due to the astronomical decline in the number of…
AFCON team 'half hour from death' after oxygen supply on plane failed as players passed out in horror flight
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGambia’s national team have spoken of the horror they experienced after being ‘half hour from death’ on a faulty plane to the…
Cholera cases soar globally amid shortage of vaccines
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCholera cases soared last year, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization, which recorded 4,000 cholera deaths and 667,000 cases globally….