15 h. ago Hundreds of east London homes 'went without basic fire safety checks', claims whistleblower

A former employee of Populo Living claims a string of safety checks being missed was potentially putting people’s lives at risk

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33 h. ago How high is your risk of dementia? It may depend on where you live

Previous research has shown living in rural areas is associated with an increased risk for the brain disorder

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37 h. ago Los Angeles protests live: California governor calls Trump ‘reckless and immoral’ after president deploys national guard

Gavin Newsom says Donald Trump is putting lives at risk; US president calls for arresting people in face masks and says ‘bring in the troops’ in late night social media postsPolice clash with LA protesters as opposition to Trump intensifiesAbout 300 Guard troops have been deployed to LA so far.President Donald Trump earlier said he would deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, despite the objections of California governor Gavin Newsom. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Exposed: 'DIY Ozempic' sellers putting lives at risk by peddling super cheap but super dangerous self

Scores of dealers based in the UK and China are using social media to openly advertise their cut-price illegal fat jabs to vulnerable people.

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5 d. ago Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMUK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives will “never again” put the economy at risk with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor has said, in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.In a speech on the economy, Mel Stride went beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the party’s reputation. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Shocking moment 'controlling' boyfriend hurls abuse at sobbing girlfriend in doorbell footage as brute who monitored victim's TikTok is recalled to prison

'Controlling' Matthew Kowal, 34, was released early from prison under a government scheme to ease overcrowding, but was recalled within two months for breaching a no-contact order.

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8 d. ago Former Charles Manson cult member recommended for parole after governor blocked her release from prison two years ago

Patricia Krenwinkel, 77, is serving multiple life sentences for role in the brutal killings of seven people during the ‘Manson Family’ murder spree in 1969

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1 week ago How huge health funding cuts in Washington 'put lives at risk' in communities

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy

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1 week ago Brits planning holidays in Egypt warned of 'real risk' of travelling to 'vindictive police state' by ambassador after UK citizen was locked up in hellhole prison

Alaa Abd-El Fattah, a vocal critic of the Egyptian government, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2019, but still has not been released

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1 week ago Warning over deadly risk of Mounjaro that 'ripped a hole' in 34 year

Aimee Chapman, 34, from Southampton, was admitted to intensive care last summer after developing liver failure and a hole in her food pipe.

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1 week ago Mum with £19K Red Bull addiction goes cold turkey after chilling CT scan

Lucy Parker, 35, went in for a CT scan for another health problem only to be warned that she was at risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - she's now quit her Red Bull habit

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1 week ago UK politics live: minister defends Labour’s justice record after warnings of threat to public safety

Housing minister says previous government left prison system in state of ‘criminal neglect’ amid warnings over early release plan The government is seeking to give a boost to smaller developers with faster planning decisions and financial backing to speed up building new homes.It will set out the detail of proposals to cut red tape and for planning decisions to be shifted away from councillors and towards expert officers as part of efforts to meet Labour’s pledge to build 1.5m homes by 2029-30.We’ve inherited, as you know, a housing system that’s not building enough homes part of the reason it is broken is that we’re overly reliant on a small number of large volume housebuilders. So we’ve got to diversify the housing market and get smaller housebuilders back in the game.In the 1980s they used to produce about 40% of all homes. Today it’s less than 10%, and so the package we’re announcing today allocating land specifically to SME housebuilders, providing them with more financial supp...

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2 w. ago No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?The story is almost too compelling to be true: a group of war-weary young women, long deprived of sufficient food, are herded together to dine on abundant vegetarian delicacies three times a day. The only price: risking their lives with each bite as they may have consumed deadly poison intended for Adolf Hitler.The extraordinary account by then 95-year-old Margot Wölk created a sensation when it first appeared in a Berlin tabloid more than a decade ago. Her decision to break what she called decades of silence about her wartime experiences captured the imagination of German reporters, then global media, finally inspiring a documentary, two novels and a play. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Parents of murder victim warn 'more women will die' under new domestic violence bail law

Claire’s parents want First Minister John Swinney to explain why victims are being placed “in the line of fire" via new laws that make it easier for violent domestic abusers to be bailed from court.

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2 w. ago Tourists bin trips to popular destination after chilling prediction from 'New Baba Vanga'

The Japanese mystic, who's credited with predicting Covid-19 and the death of Princess Diana, has warned a devastating natural disaster is imminent, and could put 1000s of lives at risk

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2 w. ago Watch: Justice secretary update on prisons review as chemical castration considered for sex offenders

The justice secretary has said that many sentencing reforms aimed at easing prison overcrowding have been accepted by the government, including chemical castration for sex offenders.

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2 w. ago Paedophiles to be 'castrated' in Government's new prison plan that could be mandatory

Sex offenders could be forced to undergo chemical castration in a bid to curb their sexual urges and prevent reoffending, under plans being considered by ministers

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2 w. ago Swiss evacuate livestock by hoof and helicopter because of landslide risk over Alpine village

Swiss authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people moved out of a village threatened by a possible landslide from an Alpine mountainside overhead

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3 w. ago Legal bid over plans to use pepper spray in young offender institutions

Charity Howard League for Penal Reform has sent a letter before claim to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to withdraw the decision.

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3 w. ago Moment 'bubbly' prison governor arrested in flat after affair with drug lord unearthed

Kerri Pegg was confronted by cops at her flat in Orrell, near Wigan, where they found a tooth brush and Hugo Boss flip flops with the DNA of her crime boss lover

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