SAS Who Dares Wins just taught us how not to help somebody suffering a panic attack
A scene from Channel 4’s 'SAS Who Dares Wins', which aired last night, showed us exactly how not to react when someone is having a panic attack. SAS Who Dares Wins, for anyone unfamiliar, is a reality show that sees normal men from across the UK take on SAS-style training led by former SAS servicemen. Recruits endure physical and mental challenges that push them to their limits. The scene that troubled me, followed a task where recruits had clambered across...
Save some hens for a quid – 12,000 Free-range hens destined for slaughter house are £1-each
A whopping 12,000 free-range hens destined for the slaughter house are up for grabs at just £1-EACH. Despite helping to provide a banquet across Britain's breakfast tables thousands of the healthy egg-laying birds face being killed. Every year Babthorpe Hall Farm, near Selby, North Yorks., offer up 'their ladies' to members of the public for just a quid. The idea is to ship in 12,000 new hens to the farm every 13 months to avoid 'deteriorating shell quality' - so...
Mum of a baby born with a hole in her heart has hit out at the Government after a life-saving op was cancelled FIVE times
The mum of a baby born with a hole in her heart has hit out at the Government after a life-saving op was cancelled FIVE times due to unprecedented hospital pressures. Adorable one-year-old Evelyn Johnston-Smith was in desperate need of major surgery to correct the heart defect which was spotted at the 20-week scan. She was successfully treated with a pulmonary band to fix her heart on September 19, 2016, but doctors said she would need a larger band within...
Marr tells Tory PM May that he “would have died if he had stroke during NHS winter crisis.”[Full Interview]
"If I'd waited five hours to see a doctor, I'd be dead." Theresa May is confronted by Andrew Marr with the reality of the NHS funding and staffing crises on The Andrew Marr Show. In an interview in her constituency office, BBC presenter Andrew Marr explained to Theresa May that if he had suffered the stroke that incapacitated him in 2013 today, he may not have survived. Theresa May continued to insist that the NHS is better prepared and funded...
Fox hunting is a game for privileged people- such cruelty shouldn’t have a place in 2018
Theresa May has today backed down on election pledges to hold a vote on the fox-hunting ban in this parliament. The news will be welcomed by the majority of the population. Recent polling had suggested opposition to hunting in the UK was at an all-time high of 85 per cent, and with such a slender majority in parliament this was clearly deemed as an issue not worthy of upsetting that. Even though the Prime Minister remains strongly pro-hunting, even she knows...
Another U-turn! May drops manifesto pledge for foxhunting vote
The PM has said that she has decided not to press ahead with her plans to reintroduce foxhunting. May wanted a vote in Parliament, which would have ended the ban on this blood sport, if it had gone the Government’s way. This U-turn could anger rural Tories in Conservative heartlands. She told BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that she had “not changed” her personal view on hunting. She went on to say: “If I look back at the messages that we...
Dad who was found with more than 100 indecent images on his computer spared jail
A dad has been spared jail after more than 100 indecent images were seized from his computer. A judge told Adrian Hughes, 48, his viewing of sickening child pornography involving girls as young as three ‘is not curiosity, it’s perversion.’ Hughes was asked to think how he would feel if he had come across an image of his own son being abused. Police went to Hughes’s home in April last year, after indications he had been accessing indecent images online....
Restaurant fined £50,000 for serving food on wooden plates which could not be cleaned
A restaurant has been fined £50,000 after it continued to use wooden “plates” which could not be cleaned – despite being served with an improvement notice. Ibrahim’s Grill and Steak House was first visited in October 2016 after an alleged food poisoning outbreak affecting a party of 14. The steakhouse, in Acocks Green, Birmingham, was served with improvement notices by officers. A number of issues of concern were found, including a high-level reliance being placed on the use of disposable...
“If 0.001% going on strike can win this imagine what more can do!” As Tory activists complain, McDonalds staff celebrate pay victory
This weekend McDonalds workers are celebrating winning their biggest pay rise in a decade after staff at restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford went on strike at the end of last year. The high-profile #McStrike campaign was supported by Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn followed similar successful campaigns by McDonalds staff in United States and New Zealand. One staff member posted on social media: "WE WON THIS. Biggest pay rise for 10 years! If 0.001% going on strike can win this imagine...