Hospitals Beat Bed Blocking By Using Floor Of Local Care Home – At Third Of The Cost
A hospital is beating bed-blocking by sending elderly patients to a care home - at a THIRD of the cost of keeping them on wards. An entire floor on a newly-built care home has been commissioned so patients from Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil, Somerset, can leave hospital. Pensioners who no longer need to be monitored by medics but are not able to live safely and independently at home can go there. And instead of sitting on hospital wards waiting...
Outrage as students wear vile ‘consent is a myth’ t-shirts on bar crawl
Horrified drinkers have spoken of their disgust after a group of students on an annual bar crawl wrote "CONSENT IS A MYTH" on their t-shirts. According to people who attended the student event, other t-shirts had "rape is not a crime" and "she CAN be asking for it" hand-written on them. The group, consisting of five males and one female, were allegedly refused drinks at the bar and told to leave by shocked bar staff. A student wearing the 'consent...
Liam Fox convenes new board of trade – and he’s the ONLY member
Liam Fox has announced a new board of trade with just one member - himself. Announcing the board today the Department for International Trade said it would “ensure the benefits of free trade are spread throughout the UK”, naming more than a dozen advisers to the body including former ministers and business leaders. However, the Secretary of State for International Trade is the only official member of the board and would be its chair. To put that into context, a...
Lloyds bar £1 coin sign leaves customers baffled
A sign in a Lloyds Bar has left customers baffled this week. The notice warned locals that the bar would not be accepting the old £1 coin but would give them out as change. The old "round pound" will stop being legal tender on Sunday October 15, which means legally the Wetherspoons chain has to accept them. But that wasn't an option for customers at one chain after a notice warned that they wouldn't be allowed to use them as...
Man dies after choking on a kebab while drinking down the pub with his mates
A man died after choking on a kebab in the toilets of his local pub. Dai ‘Radar’ Rees, 51, was enjoying a night out with friends when he popped out to buy the snack at 9pm. But he returned to the bar choking and ran to the toilet - where his friends later found him unconscious. Freelance journalist John Adey, 68, was drinking with Mr Rees at The Lamb Inn in Cardigan, west Wales, at the time of the tragedy....
David Lammy MP backs call to break ‘us and them’ divide between youth and police
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP, head of the recently released Inquiry into Racial Disproportionality and the Criminal Justice System, was among leading speakers at the ‘Ubuntu* Police and Youth Engagement Symposium,’ hosted by the Tutu Foundation UK at the House of Lords on Tuesday 10th October. The event reviewed the interim findings of an external evaluation of the ‘Ubuntu* Police Youth Roundtable Project,’ an initiative aiming to diffuse tensions in high crime areas by encouraging positive dialogue between the...
How blockchain will transform big data analytics
It’s no secret that big data analytics is taking the business world by storm, imparting a whole new world of corporate intelligence value. What is not so clear is how businesses seek to deal with the copious quantities of data that will be generated by big data applications. Blockchain poses a possible solution as it represent an immutable, consensus driven, self-verified platform for transactions. Clear audit trails and transparency regarding data origin all contributes to an effective framework for dealing...
QuotedData’s economic round up – October 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – October 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the companies mentioned. Kindly sponsored by Martin Currie. October Economic and Political Roundup Roundup Sterling bounced against the US dollar during...
Football team from Indian slums haven’t lost a game during big UK tour
A football team from the slums of India is touring Britain - and are so far undefeated. The fifteen impoverished youngsters from Mumbai are currently on a unique soccer tour of the UK - and haven't lost yet. They are playing against school teams in Britain in a series of games set up by he Oscar Foundation, an organisation for 'social change and awareness'. On Monday they played against a team of fee-paying schoolboys at Beaudesert Park School in Stroud.,...