17 h. ago Campaigners welcome vaccine cash pledge but fear cut will see fewer lives saved

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the funds at Gavi’s global summit in Brussels.

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3 d. ago There is no doubt Chris Hoy has saved lives and deserves Scotland’s Champion trophy

Record View says since being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Sir Chris Hoy has helped raise awareness of the illness by speaking out.

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4 d. ago Bereaved Scot who lost partner to drunk driver backs calls for lower blood alcohol limit

Charles Pease, whose partner Theresa was killed in a horror crash in Mull in 2015, said the move could save lives.

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5 d. ago ‘Without Hope, we wouldn’t be here right now’: How Minnesota lawmaker’s daughter ‘saved countless lives’

Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman and his wife credit their daughter Hope’s quick thinking for saving lives after gunman Vance Boelter injured them and killed another lawmaker and his wife.

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8 d. ago MPs back bill to end criminal penalties for abortion in key vote

Parliament votes on biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in England and Wales in 60 yearsCasey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire police finding a young boy that was being, in my mind trafficked to London. But the data intelligenc...

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8 d. ago Women being prosecuted under 19th century law passed by men, MP says, before vote on decriminalising abortion – UK politics live

Parliament to vote on decriminalising abortion in what would be biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in England and Wales in 60 yearsCasey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire police finding a young boy that was being, in my mind tr...

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8 d. ago MPs to debate proposals to decriminalise abortion – UK politics live

Parliament to vote on decriminalising abortion in what would be biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in England and Wales in 60 yearsCasey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire police finding a young boy that was being, in my mind tr...

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9 d. ago Louise Casey criticises ‘public irresponsibility’ of officials over grooming gang race data – UK politics live

Casey tells MPs she was surprised to be asked to re-engage with issue 10 years after her Rotherham report but says it was right decisionGrooming gangs in UK ‘thrived in culture of ignorance’Casey says in the past government has talked relentlessly about the need for better data sharing between departments.But she says there is a need to consider making this mandatory.I was there when the tragedy of Soham happened. We knew at that point that if we had had better data sharing there’s a possibility that we might have saved those girls’ lives. There’s certaintly an absolute clarity that intelligence would have been much faster in either avoiding it or or actually finding that dreadful human being earlier.And we’ve known that forever onwards. And so I think there is also an issue that the Home Office can’t drag their feet on, looking at police intelligence systems, given we’ve living in the 21st century. Probably everbody in this room can connect within seconds. Yet we had Befordshire po...

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9 d. ago Hero doctor rushed to save lives when Air India flight crashed into his hostel

At least 29 people on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were killed whne the Air India flight 171 crashed last Thursday

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1 week ago Air India pilot's final decision before crash disaster 'saved dozens of lives'

The captain's quick actions prevented a direct impact on a building below.

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1 week ago Hero Air India plane crash pilot 'saved dozens of people's lives by diverting jet at the last second'

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a pilot with more than 8,200 hours in the cockpit, was at the controls when his Boeing 787 Dreamliner lost thrust seconds after lifting off from Ahmedabad airport

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1 week ago ‘Hero’ India Air pilot ‘saved dozens of lives’ in brave final decision before horror crash

India Air pilot Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 55, has been lauded for his quick-thinking actions which likely stopped dozens more people being killed when his Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed

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1 week ago Learn to Swim lessons in Lanarkshire teaching kids how to be safer in and around water

Swimmers are set to learn the crucial Water Safety Code as well as basic floating techniques which can make a massive difference when someone feels in danger in the water and that could help save their lives or someone else’s.

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1 week ago Libby Squire's mum says lives will be saved when sex offender loophole closed

Libby Squire's mum, Lisa Squire, she was horrified to learn men who commit indecent exposure often avoid being put on the sex offenders register because of a legal loophole

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1 week ago ‘Courageous’ drug policy campaigner Peter Krykant found dead aged 48

Scotland’s first minister among those to hail Peter Krykant amid tributes to him as a ‘one-man army, with a mission to save lives’

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1 week ago Air India Ahmedabad Plane Crash Live Updates: 'Aircraft's full fuel tank, intense heat gave no chance to save lives', says Amit Shah

Air India Ahmedabad Plane Crash Live Updates: 'Aircraft's full fuel tank, intense heat gave no chance to save lives', says Amit Shah  Times of India

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1 week ago Air India crash pilot may have saved thousands of lives in final heroic actions

The Air India flight crashed into a medical college as internet sleuths estimated the death toll could have been 'way higher' as a major hospital and high-density housing were next to the crash site

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2 w. ago Actions of PSNI in Ballymena ‘saved lives’ and ‘prevented pogrom’

The Police Federation said officers in Co Antrim faced attacks which were ‘totally mindless, unacceptable and feral’.

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2 w. ago Gladiator Giant says prostate cancer blood test could save lives

The Gladiators star has been raising money and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK and is urging men to have blood tests.

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2 w. ago Around 3,000 lives could be saved ‘by changes to heart failure treatment’

Some 614,000 adults in England are affected by heart failure.

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