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Second nursing student drop since Tories removed bursaries “puts patient care at risk”
Nursing student numbers have predictably fallen for the second year running since the Conservatives got rid of bursaries for students. According to figures published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) after A-Level results were received this week, applications for nursing courses in this country are down again, an 8% fall from 2016. The fall in applications to study nursing of around 5,000 a year exacerbates a worrying shortage of 40,000 nurses across the UK. Justin Madders MP, Labour’s...
Call for smoking ban in home as figures show almost a third of smokers’ kids ‘likely to die from lung disease’
Older people exposed to passive smoking in childhood are much more prone to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which hampers breathing, reveals a study
Boris Johnson new favourite to become next Tory leader
A wave of support for Boris Johnson to be the next leader of the Conservative Party has come crashing on the bookies, with odds slashed to 9/2 from 6/1 today. Johnson is now the number one contender for Theresa May’s job, ahead of ally and current Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who are joint second favourites at 6/1. Staunch Brexiteer backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg sits further back at 13/2, having been as short as 5/1 to replace...
Brexit charity launches self-help guide for EU citizens
Brexit charity Here for Good has criticised the government for failing to provide certainty on the rights of EU citizens following the launch of their second comprehensive self-help guide. Co-authored pro-bono by two leading immigration and public law firms - Wesley Gryk LLP and Bindmans LLP – the guide answers many of the questions asked by EU citizens over their future status in the UK. It criticised the government for not giving any clarity over rights in over two years...
15-year-old boy today appeared in court charged with terrorism offences
The teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of possessing a document or record likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism, namely the 'anarchist corner'
The earliest evidence of life on earth dating back 3.4 billion years has been identified
The microscopic fossilised bacteria open a window to when the planet was just over a billion years old - and have survived temperatures of 300 degrees centigrade.
Librarian late for flight used bomb threat to delay Gatwick plane
Jacob Meir Abdellak would never have made the Norwegian flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles, so he decided to alert police to a fictional threat.
One teen critical & three others wounded after London attack which left two nearly disembowelled
Fight erupted between teens on Camberwell estate.
Krankies prank on Donald Trump goes viral
A prank tweet to Donald Trump has gone viral after it caused outrage amongst American Republicans. The old photo shows "Wee Jimmy Krankie" sporting a Make America Great Again cap with a plea to get the school to overturn a decision to remove the hat. The tweet by Bri Spong Un says Jimmy is a "huge fan and a retweet might make the school let him wear his cap". Although Trump has yet to retweet the photo it has caused...