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Public pressure appears to have played a part in NHS Cornwall’s decision not to privatise a part of it’s service, reports Cornwall Live The county was planning to launch the “Accountable Care System” for health services. It was claimed that this would push the NHS towards privatisation. Protests took place outside the County Hall during inquiry sessions over the plans, and eventually it has been shelved. Critics had said that the ACS would create an "Americanised" health system. The Council...

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The Sunday Times has been accused of employing a former actor to carry out the longest-running, most organised and grossly invasive spying operation in Fleet Street’s history, a Byline investigation has revealed. John Ford was paid up to £40,000 per year by Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday broadsheet to obtain phone bills, recover ex-directory phone numbers and penetrate private financial material, such as banking and mortgage data. Ford admits that several email accounts were successfully hacked, each of which were done "to order" on the...

A newspaper in a city with prominent links to slavery has issued an apology after running a controversial front page more than two decades ago. The Bristol Post's 1996 splash - headlined 'Faces of Evil' - includes 16 mugshots of black men jailed for dealing crack cocaine in the city. Editor Mike Norton said the report "ostracised a large section" of Bristol's African and Afro-Caribbean community "with its black faces ranged in rows like slaves held in cages". The Bristol...

Two Sun Online journalists have sent Twitter into hysterics after they tried to out two students for correctly surmising the moral of Frankenstein. Reporters from the beleaguered red top were scraping the barrel yesterday as they took aim at "generation snowflake" for sympathising with Mary Shelley's monster. The headline sensationally reported that the fragile academics feel the "monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is in fact a VICTIM" - even though that is literally the story of the book. TLE Film...

A headteacher who was named the best in the country for turning around a failing school is quitting the role due to the stresses of the job. Matt Middlemore was awarded the title 2016 for his work at Tregolls School. The primary school in Truro, Cornwall, was rated the 15th worst in the country but after years of hard work from Matt it is now in the top ten per cent. However, the "superhuman" effort needed to change Tregolls' fortunes...

This shocking footage shows a British diver swimming through swathes of plastic rubbish off the coast of Bali. Richard Horner, 45, captured the dramatic images to highlight the ongoing threat of ocean pollution across the globe. He filmed himself swimming through the deluge of wrappers and bags alongside sea life off the picturesque Indonesian coast of Manta Point Bay on Saturday (3/3). Richard Horner captures sealife swimming amongst masses of plastic pollutants at Manta Point, Nusa Penida, Bali. March 3,...

Donald Trump is set to meet with members of the video game industry just days after he backed off the National Rifle Association. The President believes increased violence in video games could be behind the recent shootings in the country. In response to the shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day, Trump held a White House roundtable where he said: “We have to do something about maybe what they’re seeing and how they’re seeing it, and also, video games.” “I’m hearing...

Over 500 workers at the Hinkley Point C nuclear site have refused to work and many are currently staging a sit in protest, in the staff canteen. One construction worker, who didn't want to be named said: “The site was shut down from Thursday until late last night, due to the bad weather. However, the management have refused to pay our wages or any subsistence, and left us all out of pocket. "The workers were told this via a text...