Merope Mills An initiative allowing rapidly deteriorating patients and their families to seek a second opinion will play a role in “changing the culture of the NHS”, Merope Mills has said. Ms Mills began her campaign for “Martha’s rule” after her daughter Martha, 13, died of sepsis in 2021. Speaking on BBC R4’s Today programme, […]
7 hours ago Danai Nesta Kupemba,BBC News Karabo Mahapa Karabo “Kay” Mahapa wants to encourage his young audience to go out and vote South Africa’s social media influencers, popular with the youth, have been stepping into a new role ahead of this week’s general election – political mobilisers. With 42% of registered voters under the […]
Sanctions-breaking launch follows Pyongyang’s third and successful attempt to launch a spy satellite in November. North Korea has notified Japan of plans to launch a satellite between May 27 and June 4, after putting its first spy satellite into orbit at the third attempt last November. The Japanese Coastguard said the eight-day launch window began […]
Labour has said there will be no rises in income tax or National Insurance if it wins the general election – but some spending cuts have not been ruled out. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg she did not want to make any spending cuts. But she was “under no illusion about […]
When he was a cocksure 25-year-old, on the fast track to officiating big-time college basketball, Scott Foster was summoned for a sit-down with his dad. They met at a bar, and his father, Dickie, brought along a family friend with experience in high-level sports. They were concerned about Foster, who was mulling a daring career […]
News of the Conservatives’ plan to reintroduce national service for young people should it win the next general election continues to dominate Monday’s front pages, with the Daily Mirror calling it “desperate”. The move would “cost billions” and is “the last thing the military needs”, the paper says. It adds that a “leaked paper failed […]
A nine-year-old boy died from sepsis after doctors and nurses missed a “significant” GP note, an inquest heard. Dylan Cope, from Newport was taken to the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, on 6 December 2022 after his GP wrote “query appendicitis”, but this note was not read. The senior doctor on shift that night said […]
WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Biden reminded the graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that their oath is to the Constitution, not any political party or president, delivering an implicit rebuke of former president Donald Trump. In his 22-minute commencement address, Biden did not mention Trump by name, but he made clear […]
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3 days ago Harry Roy,BBC Radio Newcastle ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA Durham University scientists form part of the Euclid team A space mission involving Durham University scientists, designed to help understand the dark Universe, has released five new and spectacular images. The university is a key partner of the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Euclid space telescope, which […]