Getty Images Hundreds of bodies responsible for overseeing and running parts of the NHS in England will be scrapped, the government has said. The organisations to be abolished include Healthwatch England, which advocates on behalf of patients, and the National Guardian’s Office, which supports whistleblowers. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the current system was too…
Johnette Wilmot learned CPR when she was 17-years-old and never needed it in the 40 years since then. But, recently, when a 15-year-old went into cardiac arrest during a baseball practice, Wilmot remembered everything as if she had been trained yesterday. Evan Tucker had just finished his freshman baseball season at Pinson Valley High School…
Kate Whannel Political reporter Jack Fenwick Political correspondent PA Media Sir Keir Starmer has said his welfare reforms strike “the right balance” after making concessions to his own backbench MPs. The government’s initial plans, aimed at bringing down the welfare bill, would have made it harder for people to claim personal independence payment (Pip), a…
CREDIT: @bigg_chasing Absolutely gripping footage recorded during a recent apartment block fire shows a mother throwing her baby out from the third-floor window to a crowd of rescuers below. The arms of the rescuers envelope the falling child, and Cleveland news 19 reports that both mom and babe made it out unharmed. The ordeal began…
Lucy Manning Special correspondent, BBC News ‘He was slashing at me’ – officer who confronted Hainault sword attacker A police officer who confronted Marcus Monzo after he murdered schoolboy Daniel Anjorin with a samurai sword in Hainault, east London, last year says he does not see himself as a hero. Inspector Moloy Campbell engaged in…
Jesse and Sarah 20 Years (Family photo) A farmer in Kansas had an idea for an anniversary gift, but it was going to take eight months, one mile of land, and 65 million wheat seeds. Jesse Blasi and his wife Sarah were set to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year. And he was inspired…
Adina Campbell UK correspondent, BBC News Anadolu via Getty Images Child Q was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 – demonstrators highlighted the incident while campaigning against institutional racism outside the BBC’s HQ and elsewhere in 2022 Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed from the force after they conducted the…
– credit, Ruben de Heer / Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Looking as intact as the day it was forged, a 1,000-year-old sword has gone on display in the Netherlands. Capturing a transition in medieval military technology with its expert degree of preservation as well as a dramatic culture of weapon embellishment with its series of religious…
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “in denial” about the scale of Labour MPs’ welfare rebellion writes the Guardian. Some cabinet ministers “are now said to believe the welfare reform bill has no chance of passing in its current form”, it adds. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte grins at US President Donald Trump in a…
The solar catalyst – credit, Olov Planthaber, via Linkoping University Swedish engineers have improved the process through which hydrogen fuel is produced from solar electricity by 800%. Hydrogen fuel is considered one of the best renewable alternatives to fossil fuels in heavy machinery like planes and ships, but its creation requires electricity. That electricity can…
