8 h. ago Shop workers left with 'nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks' after abuse

Research reveals how more than three quarters of shop staff have experienced intimidating behaviour in the past year, with almost half saying they felt the abuse had got worse in the last two years

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55 h. ago Huntingdon train attack knifeman told woman 'the devil is not going to win'

Dayna Arnold, 48, lay on the ground when passengers fled in a panic before the attacker stood over her with a six-inch blade.

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6 d. ago WhatsApp joke turns into a privacy NIGHTMARE: Users are left questioning the company's end

WhatsApp's misjudged joke has left some users questioning the validity of the company's end-to-end encryption system.

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9 d. ago BBC's banned Halloween show that gave children nightmares and panic attacks

The BBC tried to get into the spooky season with a spoof documentary about the spirit world, but the effects caused by 'Ghostwatch' left kids terrified and others spiralled out of control

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9 d. ago BBC show that gave kids nightmares and panic attacks was never aired again

Ghostwatch was a one-off horror show aired on BBC One on Halloween night in 1992, and the show was so chilling that the BBC has never broadcast it again

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1 week ago Tesco makes major change to deliveries impacting anyone who orders online

A Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) survey of workers found 77% were a victim of abuse and 13% were assaulted. Some 26% refused a delivery out of fear for their safety.

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1 week ago BBC show that gave children nightmares and panic attacks was never aired again

The 1992 show was billed as a drama based on a real-life story but presented like a live broadcast documentary

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1 week ago Woman now 'wakes up crying' after worker sexually assaulted her in corner shop

The victim said she had been suffering with her mental health ever since

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1 week ago Jennifer Walton: Daughters review – a stylish and painful debut

(Local Action)Fiction, folk and a devastating diagnosis feature in the producer and DJ’s literary penmanship, her gentle, gothic vocals thick with morbid, magical thinkingMiss America, the centrepiece of Jennifer Walton’s stylish, painful debut record, sits us down in a hotel room near JFK airport, watching on as Walton learns that her father has been diagnosed with cancer. The Sunderland-born musician had been touring the US for the first time, drumming with indie band Kero Kero Bonito, and now grief greys everything out. Faltering piano and hushed strings accompany gothic dispatches from the tour van: “Cattle farm and broke down shack / Strip-mall, drug deal, panic attacks.”Walton’s gentle vocals are deadpan, with the record’s tension brought by her penmanship (encompassing fiction, folksy sayings and blunt diary entries) and her sharp, surprising maximalism. Few songs this year have stronger novelistic flair than Shelly, which witnesses the killing of a deer and spirals into a pe...

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1 week ago Nurse was left 'sobbing and shaking' when transgender NHS worker repeatedly asked 'when she was getting changed' in female locker rooms at hospital

A nurse has told an employment tribunal she was left 'sobbing and shaking in a panic attack' when she was forced to share a changing room with a transgender colleague.

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2 w. ago ‘I wish I took part sooner’: how a medical trial transformed a young person’s life

Exclusive: Gulliver Waite signed up after antidepressants and talking therapies failed to alleviate clinical depressionMillions of young people risk missing out on new treatments for health conditions and having to use medicines that are unsafe, ineffective or inappropriate because so few take part in medical research. One of those bucking the trend explains why he signed up to a study and how it transformed his life.Gulliver Waite was diagnosed with clinical depression at 19. For years, he struggled with extremely low mood, anxiety, frequent panic attacks and occasional paranoia. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I wish I had taken part sooner’: how a medical trial transformed a young person’s life

Exclusive: Gulliver Waite signed up after antidepressants and talking therapies failed to alleviate clinical depressionLow participation in medical trials puts millions of young people at riskMillions of young people risk missing out on new treatments for health conditions and having to use medicines that are unsafe, ineffective or inappropriate because so few take part in medical research. One of those bucking the trend explains why he signed up to a study and how it transformed his life.Gulliver Waite was diagnosed with clinical depression at 19. For years, he struggled with extremely low mood, anxiety, frequent panic attacks and occasional paranoia. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago My cultural awakening: ‘The Specials helped me to stop fixating on death’

After several people close to me died I became obsessed with fitness and gripped by panic attacks. But then a ska cover taught me life doesn’t have to be serious all the timeMy anxious disposition means I think about death a lot. But a cluster of people I loved dying in 2023, and most of them unexpectedly and within a few months of each other, was enough to shake my nervous system up pretty significantly. Five funerals is too many. The first was my nan: she was the family matriarch. The oldest person in the family, so there was a level of acceptance among the sadness. But soon after it was her son, and then her granddaughter (my cousin). The latter two were shocks, completely upending my nervous system, one compounding the other. From there, two more followed. Death was all around. It wasn’t just a part of life by that point – it was something to expect soon and often.At first I seemed fine. Despite concerned friends and partners asking if I was hiding anything, ...

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2 w. ago Strictly's Karen Carney declared love after being 'crushed' in panic attack admission

The former footballer is taking part in the BBC One dance contest this year and has opened up about her confidence

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2 w. ago Dramatic CCTV footage shows Scots shop worker fighting off armed robber with parcel

Goawech Chan, 18, was moved from prison to the State Hospital in Carstairs prior to the court hearing so doctors could make a psychiatric assessment.

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2 w. ago West London shop that paid illegal worker in food loses licence

JK Off License in Ealing was caught following an immigration raid

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3 w. ago London people smuggler caught after yacht of migrants ran aground

Mohammed Ali Nareman, 37, was deemed unfit to stand trial because he suffered from depression, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress disorder

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3 w. ago Kelvin Fletcher and family left dealing with 'nightmare' after farmhouse fire

Kelvin Fletcher and his family are back for a new season of their hit ITV show, Fletcher's Family Farm, but the family have faced their fair share of challenges in recent months.

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3 w. ago Family horrified after stranger stabs their two dogs at park

What should have been a lovely day out turned into every families worst nightmare when their two pets were knifed - with one left injured so severely that she had to be put down.

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3 w. ago Justin Fields' nightmare London game left Bears fans thankful for Caleb Williams

Justin Fields' nightmare London game left Bears fans thankful for Caleb Williams  Bear Goggles On

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