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Thousands of people went online to watch the first ever live-streamed SMEAR TEST  (Monday 27th March). See story SWSMEAR. Anna Cribb, 40, (Green top).went through the cervical screening procedure live on the ChannelMum.com Facebook page, with the video currently up to 11,000 views. ‘Hey Mummy’ vlogger, Anna, from Hampshire, volunteered for the live test having had her own scare and treatment to remove pre-cancerous cells after a routine smear test in the past. She said: “Having had abnormal smear test results when I was younger that resulted in laser treatment and a colposcopy I might not be here today to make this live video if I hadn't gone for my routine cervical screening. “If I could encourage one person to go to their appointment by proving today that the test is not awful then this has been worth it. “I want to remove the stigma and fear that so many women have of these tests. Having your smear may save your life.”  Latest figures show that one in every four women invited for a cervical screening in England last year failed to attend – meaning that out of around 4.2 million women invited just over three million booked a test.  According to NHS Digital, it is the second consecutive year that screening rates have fallen, with attendance rates in Wales and Scotland also going down.

Thousands watch the first ever live-streamed smear test

Thousands of people went online to watch the first ever live-streamed smear test today. Anna Cribb, 40, went through the cervical screening procedure live on the ChannelMum.com Facebook page, with the video currently up to 11,000 views. 'Hey Mummy' vlogger, Anna, from Hampshire, volunteered for the live test having had her ...

Racism for Dummies: How to detect reductio ad absurdum

Following the breakout of fake news, craftily edited viral vids and the various other bits of clickbait bollocks circulating social media the next big thing getting brainless users in a tizzy is the logical fallacy of reductio ad absurdum. Reductio ad absurdum, as the Big Bang's Sheldon Cooper so adequately describes, is ...

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Making the most online deals

I am sure by now most of us have seen, board meetings, Voice over internet protocol calls and deals brokered online, if not in person at least in movies. If this is not the case then I am sure you have used services such as Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft Skype, even ...

#helpthelaywers: crowdsourcing to defeat Trump

#helpthelaywers: how the internet is crowdsourcing the resources to defeat the Trump travel ban On Monday the 6th of March, US President Donald Trump issued a revised and somewhat downsized Executive Order dubbed Muslim Ban 2.0. The states of Hawaii, New York and Washington filed prompt lawsuits against the new ...

Don’t let the far right make it about them

Of all the disturbing photos, live video reports and sensationalist news accounts of the shocking events at Westminster yesterday satirist site News Thump was the rag that got it right this morning. The people of London, it reported, showed their defiance by "stoically remaining unfriendly and really quite impatient" on ...

Bristol Punks IDLES Extend UK Tour

A week ago I found myself in the middle of a mad scramble. Bristol natives IDLES had just dropped their utterly disgusting debut album, Brutalism, and their show at the Moth Club in Hackney was utterly sold out, even to slow-poke press like me. I'd searched out their Facebook page, Twitter ...

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