26 h. ago 'Lethal' gas heater which poisoned university student, 18, with carbon monoxide had 'no visible warning label', coroner rules

Tom Hill, 18, was preparing to take a bath when he became overcome by the 'lethal' gas inside the 'small' bathroom of the remote Scottish Highlands home.

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26 h. ago Teen mum wakes to find 'completely healthy' newborn dead after just eight days

Arabella Mayer was born at the Royal Stoke University Hospital on June 12 - but her parents' joy was soon replaced with heartbreak after she died at just eight days old

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3 d. ago Parents of Scots teen who died at university call for action on 'prank spiking'

Mandy and Colin Mackie lost their son Greg in 2017, and are calling for 'prank spiking' to be criminalised.

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3 d. ago Doctor Hilary Jones issues urgent carbon monoxide warning as cases rise in summer

Northern Gas Networks has teamed up with Doctor Hilary Jones to highlight the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning, after confirmed or suspected cases of carbon monoxide incidents across the UK rose by 16% last summer.

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2 w. ago Tributes to a couple who died of 'carbon monoxide poisoning' while camping at their favourite place

The devastated parents of a couple who are believed to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning while camping have paid emotional tributes to the pair.

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2 w. ago Man and woman found dead in tent beside Scottish loch after suspected gas poisoning

Police said the deaths are from suspected exposure to carbon monoxide.

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2 w. ago Man and woman found dead in tent with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning

The bodies were found near Loch Awe.

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3 w. ago Couple found dead in tent killed by carbon monoxide as bodies 'lay undiscovered for week'

Adele Tait, 47, and her partner Craig Will died while camping together on the shores of Loch Awe, near Dalmally in Argyll.

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3 w. ago Inside Austrian school massacre: Students rang parents to say they were going to die while others pretended they were dead as 'bullied' ex

More than a dozen others were wounded as shots and screams rang out when the 21-year-old stormed into his old classroom blasting a shotgun and a pistol which he legally owned.

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3 w. ago Heartbreak as student dies at college sparking police probe into 'unexplained' death

The youngster, who has not been named, was found dead at Hartpury College in Gloucester on Friday.

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial

Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a picture of Wilkinson on the wall of her office, is aware of this – and also that the Treasury subsequently decided the policy was unaffordable. The meals were subsidised instead.Despite these initial charges, and later price rises, poorer children did gain, and keep, an entitlement to free school meals. The announcement last week that this is being extended in England to all those whose parents or carers claim universal credit – rather than restricted to families with incomes lower than £7,400 – should be welcomed by all objectors to child poverty. Being assured of a hot lunch in the middle of the school day makes pupils’ lives be...

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3 w. ago Southern California air regulators weigh a plan to phase out gas furnaces and water heaters

Air quality regulators in Southern California are debating proposed rules that would curb harmful emissions from gas-powered furnaces and water heaters

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4 w. ago Parents of university student, 18, who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at holiday cottage say portable gas heaters should be banned

Tom Hill, 18, was preparing to take a bath when he succumbed to the highly poisonous gas leaking out of the 'lethal' device at an 'idyllic' rental home in the Scottish highlands.

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4 w. ago Major change for families on Universal Credit announced as parents set to save £500 a year

The government has announced that hundreds of thousands more children will now be eligible for free school meals

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last month Universe may have started inside black hole, not from Big Bang

Theory suggests our universe ‘bounced’ from black hole inside larger ‘parent universe’

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