8 h. ago London GP says unlikely drug eases conditions from psoriasis to arthritis

London GP says unlikely drug eases conditions from psoriasis to arthritis  MyLondon

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5 d. ago UK weather maps turn purple as snow to fall '5cm per hour' this month

Northern England and Scotland will see rain moving east over the course of the day as conditions are expected to become “widely unsettled” towards the end of the month

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6 d. ago London teen denies drug dealing and carrying Rambo knife in Southend

London teen denies drug dealing and carrying Rambo knife in Southend  Southend Echo

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6 d. ago Weather tracker: wet conditions raise risk of flooding in south

Warnings issued for Serbia, Romania and Greek islands amid forecast of prolonged rainfall and strong winds While storms and hurricanes have churned in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, Europe has faced extreme conditions of its own. A low-pressure system that developed over the Mediterranean midweek moved north-east into south-eastern Europe on Thursday, bringing widespread showers, thunderstorms and prolonged rainfall.The system is expected to persist into Friday, with models on indicating 48-hour totals of 80-130mm of rain across much of the Balkans. Red weather warnings were issued for Serbia, south-west Romania, north-east Greece, and the Dodecanese and North Aegean Islands, highlighting the risk of flooding and threat to life. Strong winds also closed schools on Zakynthos in the Ionian Islands. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Hamas likely to accept Trump Gaza plan with key revisions, experts say

Turkey and Qatar putting pressure on group to make concessions – but condition it disarm a sticking pointMiddle East crisis – live updatesHamas is likely to provisionally accept Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire proposal in the coming days – but only on condition there are significant revisions of some of its key elements, analysts and sources close to the group say.Trump imposed a deadline of “three or four days” from Tuesday for Hamas to give its response to his 20-point plan, which aims to bring the two-year war in Gaza to a close and allow an apparently indefinite international administration of the devastated territory, or “pay in hell”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Urgent warning as deaths linked to popular party drug ketamine surge ‘20 times over’ in a decade

KETAMINE deaths are surging in Britain because people are using it as a cheap mixer for drug cocktails, warn scientists. The drug’s popularity has boomed and famous overdose victims include Friends star Matthew Perry and TV drag queen The Vivienne. A study by King’s College London estimated 123 people died from taking the drug in...

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2 w. ago ‘I’ve paled up for roles – like when I played Voldemort’: Frank Dillane on zombies, burnout and new film Urchin

He got so weary of Fear the Walking Dead that he fled to Berlin for two years. Now he’s is back in a riveting role as a street kid robber and jailbird. The young star talks nepo babies – and playing posh whiteWhen some enterprising director gets around to making Pete Doherty: The Movie, Frank Dillane won’t need to audition. With his black leather jacket, bed-head and baby face, this could be the youthful Libertines frontman seated before me next to a potted plant in an east London cafe. Unlike the young Doherty, however, the actor’s drug of choice is a flat white. And he isn’t hell-bent on sabotaging his career. Not any more.After playing the haunted, drug-addicted Nick Clark in four seasons of the zombie TV spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, Dillane, now 34, fled to Berlin for two years and turned his back on fame. A glance at some of the video interviews he did to promote the show is enough to explain why: he looks at best fidgety, at worst bored and resentful. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Bjorn Borg reveals his 'shame' as a father and how he fled to London to battle drug issues in new extracts from his book

The 11-time Grand Slam champion is famously private. He has spoken rarely about his private life but now, in Heartbeats released on Tuesday, he bares all.

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3 w. ago TikToker says she was spiked with airborne ‘zombie drug’ on the London Underground

TikToker says she was spiked with airborne ‘zombie drug’ on the London Underground  The Tab

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4 w. ago Merck to cancel London drug research center, lay off scientists : FT

Merck to cancel London drug research center, lay off scientists : FT  Seeking Alpha

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4 w. ago Merck slams UK as it scraps £1bn London drug research centre

US company says country is ‘not internationally competitive’ and lays off 125 staff

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last month Disabled little girl returns to school after council axed her transport to school

Jessica McMillan, who battles life-limiting condition Hurler syndrome, had to stop going to school after East Ayrshire Council stopped her transport - and her parents were furious

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