UK Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting took to the pages of the right-wing Sun newspaper to make his latest attack on National Health Service (NHS) workers and double down on his demands for privatisation. The Sun headlined with, “NHS NEEDS REFORM: Wes Streeting warns NHS that there’ll be no additional …
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Into the first week in October and the temperatures are surprisingly quite warm after the hottest September on record. As ever, here are seven weekly stories in Gloucestershire where we have a range of stories from all six parts of our county. This week the overwhelming news Gloucestershire Live has …
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Plymouth people who are sick or injured can benefit from special treatments at the newly opened Plymouth Oxygen Centre. The family-owned business, located in Stonehouse, offers accessible and affordable hyperbaric oxygen treatments. Bogdan and Cristina Buflea, who run the business, say the treatments have been proven to help speed up …
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A woman is running the London Marathon on Sunday (April 20) for her ex-boyfriend who has been diagnosed with cancer. She admitted she left him because she couldn’t cope with his diagnosis but is now keen to raise money for his cause. Danielle Epstein, 32, said she: ”felt like the …
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A commando who underwent five operations on his spine has told how he can finally play football again with his kids after a medical cannabis prescription ended years of crippling back pain. Rik Swaine, 40s, from Wales, suffers from a chronic inflammatory arthritis called Ankylosing Spondylitis which was aggravated by …
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It’s a different kind of junk mail. UK men now can package and send their semen to see if they can father children. British health technology company Jack Fertility recently debuted its postal fertility test, deemed the first of its kind in the area. Shy guys can collect their own …
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By Michael Susin The U.K.’s Office of Communications said Friday that it has warned Royal Mail it can’t continue to rely on the impact of Covid-19 to justify poor delivery performance. The regulator said an investigation between April 2021 and March 2022 concluded that the postal-services company failed to meet …
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Midwives could strike for just the second time in 140 years in a dispute over pay. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is urging its members in England and Wales to vote in favour of industrial action when a four-week ballot period begins on November 11. All RCM members who …
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A daughter has slammed the treatment of her 72-year-old mum – after having an operation to remove her brain tumour cancelled twice. Disabled Mary Clews was diagnosed with the benign brain tumour on August 21 after she went to A&E following two seizures. But despite being admitted to the Royal …
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TRAIN passengers face further disruption this month as railway workers announce strikes for September. Strikes or ballots for industrial action are being announced on an increasingly regular basis as workers across numerous sectors escalate their demands for better pay, amid grim forecasts over the cost of living crisis. Two strikes …
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