🔺 BREAKING: Huw Edwards, the former BBC newsreader, has been charged with making indecent images of children. The 62-year-old, who quit the BBC earlier this year, faces three charges over the alleged activity between December 2020 and April 2022, the Metropolitan Police confirmed
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Birmingham city council has been forced to carry out more than 40,000 hours of manual bookkeeping to maintain day-to-day functions, The Times has learnt. Last year, the authority hired a team of 26 to perform emergency “cashbook roles”, which should have been automated by its new Oracle software, following a series of failures that doubled the initial set-up cost of the accounting system
Birmingham council has to do accounts by hand after £38m software bungle
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According to the Virgin Media O2 business movers’ index, 53% of those aged 18 to 24 commute five times a week or more, compared with 39% of people aged 55 to 64. However, on Fridays this trend reverses: 64% of workers aged 55 to 64 commute, compared with 53% of Gen Z, the lowest of all age groups. The trend for younger adults to flock to the office can be put down to differing lifestyles and work experience, according to Grace Lordan, an economist and the founding director of the Inclusion Initiative, part of the London School of Economics
Generation Z favours office work, but not on Fridays
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Switching to a vegan diet rich in vegetables and low in junk food may rapidly reverse one of the biological hallmarks of ageing, a study has suggested. Overweight adults who moved to a “healthy” plant-based diet for two months had a youthful shift in their “epigenetic clock” — a measure of biological age that looks at chemical tags that become attached to our DNA as we grow older, affecting the activity levels of our genes
Vegan diet may reduce biological age, twin study finds
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🔺 BREAKING: Police have declared a major incident in Southport after a number of people were injured in a reported stabbing. In a statement, Merseyside police said: “We can confirm that emergency services are in Southport following a major incident this morning, Monday, July 29
Southport stabbings: multiple injuries as police declare major incident
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The NHS paid a record £2.87 billion in damages and legal costs for the alleged mistakes of medical professionals over the past year. Half of that amount was related to claims over poor maternity care, figures show in the annual report of the body that defends legal claims for the health service. NHS Resolution’s report showed that the “annual cost of harm” — the value of reported claims and an estimate of expected future claims arising from incidents in the past financial year — for clinical negligence was £4.7 billion
NHS pays out record amount in damages for mistakes in care
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Junior doctors have struck an improved pay deal with ministers, in a breakthrough that could see their earnings rise by about 20% over two years. The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee has recommended an offer which would see a backdated pay rise of 4.05% for 2023-24, on top of an existing increase of between 8.8% and 10.3%. The overall package represents a pay rise of about 20%. The BMA’s committee has agreed to put the offer to its members, and if accepted it would spell an end to industrial action
Junior doctors offered 20% pay rise to end strike actions
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The downpour that struck the Olympics’ opening ceremony has increased fears that swimming events in the Seine will be cancelled despite more than £1 billion being spent on stopping pollution. Swimmers were banned from using the river for a triathlon training session on Sunday because of harmful levels of E.coli bacteria caused by sewage. The cancellation is embarrassing for the French, although the organisers hope the water will be clean enough in time for the individual triathlon races on Tuesday and Wednesday
E coli fear over Olympics triathlon after rain sweeps sewage into Seine
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In La Défense they longed for a successful defence and the sight of Adam Peaty not just retaining his Olympic 100m breaststroke title for a second time but delivering a victory that would go some way to protecting his sport from an ever-deepening crisis. For Peaty, it nevertheless remained a moment of triumph. Not in pure sporting terms but on a far more personal level, given the hurdles he has had to overcome to even secure a sixth Olympic medal
Adam Peaty misses out on gold as Nicolò Martinenghi wins by 0.02sec
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A new technology could dramatically reduce the time it takes to identify the correct treatment for sepsis infections, potentially saving many thousands of lives each year, scientists have said. Sepsis occurs when the body responds improperly to an infection and the immune system goes into overdrive, triggering inflammation, blood clots and leaky blood vessels. Blood flow is impaired, depriving organs and limbs of nutrients and oxygen. Without proper treatment it can lead to organ failure and death. At least 245,000 people are affected in Britain and at least 48,000 die from sepsis-related illnesses every year, according to the UK Sepsis Trust
‘Game-changing’ sepsis test could save thousands of lives
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