75 minutes ago Alzheimer's 'wonder' drug will be blocked by NHS from TODAY due to cost

Donanemab has been described as a game-changer for Alzheimer's, with research showing it slowed its progressions by 35 per cent

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2 hours ago NBA exec confirms league's plans to return to London after meeting with Mayor Sadiq Khan

The NBA hasn't played a regular-season game in London since the 2018-19 season but deputy commissioner Mark Tatum is hopeful that will change in the "not-too-distant future"

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2 hours ago EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Has Keir Starmer kicked the Downing Street cat in anger after Justin Welby's admission that he is the descendant of a slave owner?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Has Keir Starmer kicked the Downing Street cat in anger after Justin Welby 's admission that he is the descendant of a slave owner?

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3 hours ago Number of cats being abandoned in UK rockets as shelters battle to cope

Charity Cats Protection has issued an urgent appeal for donations to cover the rising costs of care after they helped 184,000 felines last year

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3 hours ago Households in England dumped 5.6m tonnes of packaging waste last year – councils

Councils are calling on ministers to ensure upcoming reforms focus on reducing unnecessary waste and making recycling easier.

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4 hours ago Worker scales UK’s tallest cathedral spire to change lightbulb at 400ft

A brave worker scaled the UK's tallest church spire to change its lightbulbs from more than 400ft in the air.

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4 hours ago Hundreds more babies in US died than expected in months after Roe was overturned

Study shows roughly 247 more infant deaths per month in October, March and April following supreme court’s decisionIn the 18 months after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, leading more than a dozen states to implement near-total abortion bans, hundreds more babies died than expected, new research has found.The research, which was conducted by researchers from the Ohio State University and published on Monday in Jama Pediatrics, compared data on infant mortality from the months before Roe’s downfall with data from afterward. Overall infant mortality, the researchers found, rose by 7% in October 2022, March 2023 and April 2023. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Husband’s viral letter sends the internet into a frenzy after shock ending

‘You could have given me a million guesses on how that letter would end, and I still wouldn’t have seen this coming,’ one person says

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5 hours ago One simple habit can 'reverse' cholesterol damage without needing drugs, study finds

High cholesterol during childhood has been associated with early signs of heart disease when people reach adulthood

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