The festive season and mental health
Read More Extravagant spending and parties may not be enough to charge your 2023 battery Christmas as we knew it before Covid was a time filled with festivities, colour and laughter. It was a time for exchanging gifts, buying new clothes for the kids and hosting extended family members at your own expense, so that […]
UK nurses begin unprecedented walkout
Read More UK nurses on Thursday begin an unprecedented strike as a “last resort” in their fight for better wages and working conditions, despite warnings it could put patients at risk. Up to 100 000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are holding a one-day stoppage from […]
Bank of England raises interest rates to 3.5%
Read More The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to 3.5% in an effort to combat double-digit inflation that has caused a widespread cost of living crisis. Members of the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted to increase the cost of borrowing after the consumer prices index (CPI) in […]
Family of man who died after crossing Channel did not hear of death for 11 days
Read More When Hussein Haseeb Ahmed died after crossing the Channel, 11 days passed before his wife and seven-year-old daughter learned of his death. Ahmed, 31, died on 19 November, a week after arriving in the UK after a long journey from Kurdistan and being taken to Manston, a Home Office site where initial checks […]
Awaab Ishak death: Rochdale housing board quits after damning report
Read More The entire board of a social housing landlord has quit after an investigation found it left hundreds of tenants exposed to harmful damp for nearly two years following the death of an infant from respiratory failure in one of its mould-infested homes. Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) waited nearly two years after Awaab Ishak […]
Transgender Inmate on Missouri’s Death Row Asks for Mercy
The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri’s governor for mercy, citing mental health issues. Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her.McLaughlin was convicted of killing…
Blaine Holt to Newsmax: Patriot System No Game Changer for Ukraine
The United States’ plans to send the Patriot Missile System to Ukraine could offer the capital city of Kyiv some “great protection” against Russia’s bombs, but there are limitations with what it can do, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier Gen. Blaine Holt said on Newsmax…
Court orders Mantashe to release key planning records about new coal power
Read More The high court in Pretoria has ordered Minister of mineral resources and energy Gwede Mantashe to release key planning records for new coal power, after he refused to make them available. Mantashe did not release them believing that they were based on an electricity plan that could not be changed and those wanting […]
Boris Becker set for deportation after being freed from jail in UK – reports
Read More The three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been freed from jail and will be deported from the UK, according to reports. The PA Media news agency reported that Becker had been freed from prison after serving just eight months of his sentence. The 55-year-old German, who has lived in the UK since 2012, […]
Search continues for those feared missing after Channel boat incident
Read More Search operations continued in the Channel on Thursday amid fears that up to four people were missing at sea after a crowded dinghy packed with people trying to come to the UK sank in the small hours of the day before. Four people were confirmed dead on Wednesday, but the fear was that […]
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