NHS Professionals is an NHS-owned solution to combating NHS staff shortages, supplying temporary staff to over 65 NHS Trusts across England. It plugs professional gaps while allowing 90,000 staff such as doctors, midwives, healthcare scientists, nurses to work flexible hours that suits them. And it works so well it even saves the NHS £70 million a year. And yet, Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt, in his rush to privatise every potentially profit-making part of the NHS decided to...

Britain's oldest teacher who has taught at least 3,500 pupils is still going strong in the classroom - at the grand old age of 89. Dedicated Irene Basham has been teaching children for almost 70 years - getting her first primary class in 1947. The sprightly pensioner began teaching at just 20 and continued at the same primary school as a deputy then headteacher of its infant school until her retirement in 1992. However, when retirement from Farfield Primary School...

A 'human snake' teenager who sheds her skin every six weeks because of an ultra-rare condition is set to get life-improving treatment in Europe. Shalini Yadav, 16, needs to constantly smear her body with moisturiser and have a bath every hour to stop it from hardening and seizing up. But her family are so poor they couldn't afford any specialist treatment to ease her ailments, leaving her unable to walk without a stick or straighten her limbs. A 'human snake'...

A father has vowed to withdraw his son from school until teachers stop giving him a daily detention - for wearing the wrong SHOES. Noah Stott, 12, has been given a detention three days in a row for wearing what teachers at Treviglas College said were trainers. His father Phil insists the black pair of Nike Air Force 1s, which retail at £74.95, were shoes as described on the brand's website. Noah Stott's Nike trainers. But the school said otherwise,...

The wife of a renowned lighting engineer for U2 and Pink Floyd admitted biting her six year old daughter and hitting her five year old son in the face, a court heard. Wealthy grandmother Susan Wynne-Willson, 69, is alleged to have abused three of her children, Poppy, Rosa and Daniel over 14 years from the age of four. Peter Wynne-Willson leaves Blackfriars Crown Court. It is alleged daily abuse included, wrapping them in urine soaked bedding, hitting them and stuffing...

Just when we thought London was the best-connected city in the world, it's become a little better: the first non-stop return flights between the UK and Indonesia begin on 31 October. Operated by five-star airline Garuda Indonesia, it will be the only airline to fly direct, and will cut out its previous stopover in Singapore for the return journey. Non-stop flights will run three times per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from London Heathrow at 21:155, landing in the...

Last year London was overcome with Hygge, the Danish art of getting snug and indulging in all the good things and people around us. Sales of Nordic-style knitwear soared and cosy bakeries specialising in pastries and cinnamon rolls proliferated across the capital. But now there’s a new lifestyle trend infiltrating the London mainstream, and this time it comes from a little further afield. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept centered on the affirmation of transience and the appreciation of a naturally...

Leading UK genocide charities Remembering Srebrenica, the Aegis Trust, the National Holocaust Centre and the Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Association have come together to collectively condemn the violence being carried out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The tragic and shameful treatment of Rohingya Muslims, often described as the most persecuted minority in the world, has now escalated into a humanitarian crisis. The Rohingya people are facing severe discrimination, escalating violence, forced statelessness, and, as reported by the United Nations, ethnic cleansing....

Here we are again, no matter how much I scream to the educated LGBT organisations continue to commission misleading research which serves no real benefit to people of the LGBT community. This week Stonewall and YouGov research found that more than one in five LGBT people have experienced a hate crime or incident due to their sexual orientation or gender identity in the last 12 months, compared with 16 per cent in 2013. Cue the outcry in the national press, but...