“Misleading” Facebook ad banned for claiming “any vaccine given at any age” can kill a child
The post, which also claimed doctors would dismiss the death of a child as a result of a jab as ‘Sudden Infant Death Syndrome’ (SIDS), was also ruled to have caused "undue distress"
Children ‘most at risk of being knifed on way home from school’
As a new surge in knife crime grips the capital, researchers found the frequency of stabbings spike between 4pm and 6pm - attributable to incidents occurring on school days
Insects that live near streams ‘polluted by dozens of drugs and medicines’
And, worryingly, the chemicals are being passed in to the food stream when the contaminated insects are eaten by predators - both in the water and on land
Hundreds of mass graves with 12,000 victims found in former ISIS territory in Iraq
Hundreds of mass graves with 12,000 victims have been found in a former ISIS territory in Iraq. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on the findings today, detailing evidence of the 202 mass graves they have uncovered. From 2014 to 2017 UNAMI/OHCHR recorded up to 30,000 civilian deaths in Iraq during the conflict with ISIS. Thousands are still not accounted for. Kelsey Zorzi, Director of Advocacy...
The revolutionary device that helps frogs regenerate their legs
Scientists have designed the 'bioreactor' that can induce partial hindlimb regeneration in adult aquatic African clawed frogs by "kick-starting" tissue repair at the amputation site
Teenager stabbed to death on a south London housing estate was a drill rapper known as JaySav
The 16-year-old was murdered on a housing estate in Tulse Hill in south London last night
Mum of the youngest of the Grenfell Tower Five has said her son’s behaviour is nothing to do with her
Five men have been arrested over the burning effigy.
Maybe it’s time the anti-vegan critics just got over themselves
William Sitwell’s resignation from the Waitrose in-house magazine last week, after making some seriously ill-advised comments about veganism, generated the usual explosion of opprobrium from those who also see vegans as the devil incarnate. Writer Selene Nelson’s Twitter feed was jumping with trolls queuing up to castigate her for robbing poor Mr Sitwell, the hunt-supporting, heir presumptive to the Sitwell baronetcy, best chum of Jacob Rees-Mogg and erstwhile MasterChef judge of his daily crust editing an in-house marketing magazine for...
Yobs stick firework in homeless veteran’s pocket
A group of yobs have mocked a rough sleeper before leaving his clothes and skin burnt by putting a firework in his pocket.