Clara Bullock & Nicky Price BBC News, Gloucestershire Manpreet Pinder Manpreet Pinder volunteers as a breastfeeding peer supporter Two mums who struggled to breastfed their babies have said they would have struggled without the help of a peer support group. Manpreet Pinder, who has since trained as a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter, and her sister, […]
BBC Tom Parker, 37, broke his leg in a fishing accident three miles off the Devon coast Tom Parker was working alone three miles (4.8km) off the Devon coast when his fishing boat hit a wave and lurched to one side. “I was pulling one of the ropes and I slipped and fell,” he says. […]
President Donald Trump has called on the head of US chipmaker Intel to resign “immediately”, accusing him of having problematic ties to China. In a social media post, he said CEO Lip-Bu Tan was “highly conflicted”, apparently referring to Mr Tan’s alleged investments in companies that the US says are tied to the Chinese military. […]
A chemical that scientists worry might have an impact on human reproduction has been found in rivers across the UK. Researchers from York University analysed samples from 32 rivers in all the UK’s 4 nations and found traces of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) at 98% of the test locations. TFA is what’s known as a “forever […]
Al-Obeid was known as the ‘Pele of Palestinian football’ and became one of its brightest stars. Palestinian national football team player Suleiman al-Obeid has been killed in an Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza. Al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces attacked people waiting near an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, […]
Twenty people have been killed and more than 30 injured in central Gaza after four trucks overturned on a crowd, the Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Crowds rushed to the vehicles on a road south east of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday evening. They climbed on top of the trucks, causing the drivers to lose control, […]
Karen Wagner speaks with Rep. Mike Flood before a town hall at Kimball Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Neb., on Aug. 4. Rebecca S. Gratz for The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rebecca S. Gratz for The Washington Post/Getty Images Representative Mike Flood felt the full […]
Getty Images Environment Agency warns England will have a shortage of 6 billion litres a day by 2050 England faces huge future water shortages and needs a “continued and sustained effort” to reduce demand, including more hosepipe bans and ‘smart’ water meters, warns the Environment Agency. The watchdog says that without dramatic action, England, which […]
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that the former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro be put under house arrest. He is standing trial over allegations he plotted a coup, which he denies. The judge in charge of investigating Bolsonaro, Alexandre de Moraes, said the decision was because Bolsonaro hadn’t complied with restraining orders put on him last […]
Amy Amy has had multiple emergency ambulance callouts this year As a child, Amy was often violently attacked. At 15, she was threatened with a knife. Now diagnosed with complex PTSD, she’s spent over a decade isolated at home with her mum, desperately seeking help. She has seen a psychiatrist only once. “I was self […]