Beer of the Week: Goose Island Beer Co. 312 Urban Wheat Ale

Set up in 1988 by founder John Hall, Goose Island Beer Company is now one of America’s most popular craft breweries. Inspired by Hall’s travels of Europe, through which he managed to experience some incredible tasting beers from the continent, Chicago was eventually the city chosen as a base for the brewery: a city that was, at the time, an ideal start with plenty of rapidly evolving tastes. Chicago is also home to the largest fresh water system on the...

456 patients died needlessly Gosport War Memorial Hospital inquiry reveals

An "institutionalised regime" of giving “dangerous” amounts of opioids when there was no medical cause meant 456 patients who should have been cared for at a Hampshire hospital had their lives curtailed. Rt Rev James Jones who also chaired the Hillsborough Inquiry headed the probe for hundreds of families seeking answers about their relatives who died after being admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Today announcing the findings of his inquiry, he said that families had "remarkable tenacity and fortitude...

£10 million spent by Ambulance trust on redundancies would pay “almost 300 paramedics’ salaries”

Annual redundancy spend would pay almost 300 much-needed paramedics’ salaries for a year says GMB union Ambulance bosses spent more than £10 million of public money on redundancy payments in just one year, research by GMB, the union for ambulance workers, reveals. The combined spend on redundancy and other forms of exit packages by the ten ambulance Trusts in England since 2010 is an eye-watering £31 million. In 2013/14 alone, the Trusts forked out more than £10 million on exit packages. This spend...

Alan Sugar hits back over racist World Cup tweet

Alan Sugar just tweeted and deleted this racist joke with a photo of Senegal's World Cup team appearing to be selling sunglasses and handbags:   Alan Sugar's deleted tweet But as people pointed out how appalling his xenophobic quip was, the Apprentice TV star doubled down and was far from apologetic. Bookmakers Paddy Power didn't waste any time responding by opening bets that tech mogul Lord Sugar would delete his Twitter account and lose his job on the BBC series...

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