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Experts warn the deadly 'Aussie flu' outbreak has hit the UK | Metro News
Experts warn the deadly 'Aussie flu' outbreak has hit the UK | Metro News: "Experts have warned the deadly ‘Aussie flu’ has hit the UK as figures reveal 1,111 people have been infected by the virus.
Cases of flu infection have more than doubled in the past week, with Public Health England reporting a 156% jump on the previous seven days."
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Friday, 15 December 2017
Russia could chop vital undersea web cables, warns Brit military chief • The Register
Russia could chop vital undersea web cables, warns Brit military chief • The Register: "The head of the British Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, has warned that Russia could cut off the UK by severing undersea communications cables.
In a speech made to military think-tank the Royal United Services Institute last night, the air marshal said: "There's a new risk to our way of life, which is the vulnerability of cables which criss...
Thursday, 14 December 2017
The pig farmer taking on Tesco - BBC News
The pig farmer taking on Tesco - BBC News: "Richard Baugh's family have been raising pigs for three generations at Woodside Farm in rural Nottinghamshire.
But Mr Baugh says he's been forced to change the name of his business after Tesco rebranded its own label pork products as "Woodside Farms".
He's now threatening legal action if the supermarket giant doesn't drop its new branding.
"What bothers me the most is it's not necessarily British food...
Home Office policy of deporting homeless EU citizens is illegal, High Court rules | The Independent
Home Office policy of deporting homeless EU citizens is illegal, High Court rules | The Independent: "Lawyers say ruling deals a blow to the Government's aim of creating a 'hostile environment' for EU citizens"
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UK weather: Snow buries UK before Arctic chill brings 10 days of -12C | Daily Star
UK weather: Snow buries UK before Arctic chill brings 10 days of -12C | Daily Star:
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Saturday, 2 August 2014
Dead beggar ignored for hours at airport
Thousands of passengers departing from Majorca's busy Son Sant Joan airport failed to notice the dead body of a German beggar for at least six hours on Thursday morning. The body of 61-year-old René Becker lay unnoticed on a bench outside the departure lounge of the airport for several hours, local daily Diario de Mallorca reported on Friday. The man known locally as 'El Barbas' ('Mr Beard') had been living outside the airport for seven years, surrounded by his few possessions. Early on Thursday morning, however, airport staff noticed that he seemed...
Spanish police crackdown on organised crime
The Guardia Civil and National Police dismantled 497 criminal organisations in 2013 and detained 6,292 people for drug and human trafficking, said Security Secretary Francisco Martinez last Thursday talking to the media. Police operations to crackdown on organised crime in Spain had a 97 per cent success rate, he added. As much as 83 per cent of all groups dismantled had been operating for less than three years, while seven out of every 10 criminal organisations were made up of nationals from more than two different countries. Most criminal organisations...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Ms Sandiford to be executed for drug trafficking.
A British grandmother has been sentenced to death by firing squad for smuggling almost 5kg of cocaine into Bali.Lindsay Sandiford was arrested in May last year after she tried to enter the Indonesian holiday island with illegal drugs worth £1.6 million hidden in her suitcase.Local prosecutors had called for the 56-year-old housewife to be jailed for 15 years. But today there were gasps in the Bali courtroom when a panel of judges announced Ms Sandiford would be executed for drug trafficking.As the shock verdict was announced, Ms Sandiford, from...
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Police have several leads in the investigation of the large forest fire that started a week ago.
Suspicions that it was started malicously has possibly strengthened. Sources claim that the fire spread quickly because there was more than one fire. Witnesses stated inter alia, have seen an unidentified jeep coming from a farm between Ojén and Marbella exactly where the fire then got an awesome course. In Marbella, it was announced yesterday that it is now able to restore electricity, water and telephone networks in all affected areas. It is now under the companies just the kind of disruption that is "normal". In areas Elviria Ricmar has repaired...
Thursday, 6 September 2012
experts believe we can actually become "addicted" to stress.
Stress can be physical,And then there’s the kind that’s in our heads — that OMG I’m so overwhelmed right now feeling. While psychological stress has some definite downsides (chronic freak-outs may increase our risk for cancer and other diseases), take a moment to exhale. In moderate amounts, stress can boost our focus, energy, and even our powers of intuition.Still, in some cases, stress does more than light a productivity-boosting fire under our butts. Both emotional and physical stress activate our...
For those red wine drinkers who’ve been feeling morally superior about all the health benefits of the relaxing glass or two sipped during dinner, there’s some bad news on the horizon.
Turns out, those glasses of wine would be a lot healthier if they were non-alcoholic, a new study shows. Spanish researchers led by Gemma Chiva-Blanch of the University of Barcelona found that non-alcoholic red wine reduced blood pressure in men at high risk for heart disease better than standard red wine or gin, according to the study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation Research. Although the reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure was modest, decreases of just 4 and 2 mm Hg have been associated...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Amber Gold affair is one of the biggest financial scandals to hit Poland since the fall of communism in 1989.
It was pretty much all the money Bozena Oracz had after a working life as an accountant: the equivalent of $15,000. She placed it in a fund investing in gold, with the hope of paying for her daughter's studies and getting treatment for a bad knee.Those dreams were dashed when she discovered she had fallen victim to an elaborate fraud scheme that has left thousands of Poles, many of them elderly, facing financial ruin.The so-called Amber Gold affair is one of the biggest financial scandals to hit Poland since the fall...
The Government is prepared to help seven hospital trusts with the “burden” of their private finance initiative (PFI) repayments
Minister of State for Health (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Government is prepared to help seven hospital trusts with the “burden” of their private finance initiative (PFI) repayments, a minister said today.The trusts are facing major problems because of PFI deals they have entered into.The Daily Telegraph said senior government lawyers and auditors are to be sent into seven trusts which are struggling with such contracts.It quoted Health Minister...
72 pairs of wellies (what did their owners wear to trudge out?), 177 portable chairs, 164 mats and 238 tents, including the pop-up type.
Festival wellies. These ones were at Glastonbury last year, but they give the Leeds idea too. Photograph: PALast week the Guardian Northerner brought you news of the startling number of tents abandoned at last year's Leeds Festival – over 700 – and the imaginative community trading scheme which collects and resells them.Here's how things are going this year, with sixty volunteers from all over Europe scavenging the...
An average of just 10 motorists a day are using a £1.3m car park built near Bristol, a council has admitted.
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The facility, intended as a park-and-ride, opened in June 2011 but will not get a bus service until 2015.South Gloucestershire Council said it was used by only 139 motorists in its first three months and raised £13,899.74 in revenue last year.The council said it wanted to make local firms more aware of the Stoke Gifford car park, which has 200 spaces.The new rapid transit bus...
The Paralympics are a "once in a lifetime" chance to change attitudes to disabled people in the UK
Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Paralympics are a "once in a lifetime" chance to change attitudes to disabled people in the UK, says the head of a disability charity in Wales.Ian Thomas, director of Scope Cymru, said the charity's recent survey had showed attitudes to disabled people were worsening.He said the exposure of a home Games - billed as the biggest ever - would help change those attitudes.The...
South Korea's coast guard says five crew members from two Chinese ships have been killed
South Korea's coast guard says five crew members from two Chinese ships have been killed and many are missing after a powerful typhoon blew the ships into rocks off the country's southern Jeju island.South Korea has issued a storm warning for the capital, Seoul, as Typhoon Bolaven pounds the south and west regions uprooting trees, sinking ships and cutting power to almost 200,000 homes.
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