Abigail Buchanan

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Abigail Buchanan

What do measles look like when they first appear? The measles rash appears a few days after cold-like symptoms begin. "It usually begins as small, flat red spots that gradually multiply and merge together," says Dr Jeremy Harris, a senior partner at The Private GP Group. "It typically starts on the face and then spreads downward to the neck, trunk, arms, legs and feet. The rash may be slightly raised and can feel rough or bumpy to the touch.

1 week ago | msn.com | Abigail Buchanan

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1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Abigail Buchanan

As the Government pledges £14.2 billion for the new power station on the Suffolk coast, it faces fierce opposition from residents Eastbridge, a small Suffolk village two miles inland from the coast, surrounded by marshland, has looked much the same for centuries. Over the past year, however, it has been transformed.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Abigail Buchanan

Exhibit A: a former criminology lecturer, who self-identifies as the “UK’s poshest thief”, nicking £1,000 worth of Le Creuset cookware. Exhibit B: middle-class commuters looting Marks and Spencer for snacks for the train home. Exhibit C: “well-off, middle-aged women” being blamed for a shoplifting spree in Haslemere, Surrey. Need I go on? “Shoplifting was always quite a grubby crime,” says Professor Emmeline Taylor, a criminologist and specialist in shoplifting and serious acquisitive crime.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Abigail Buchanan

Self-service checkoutsBecause otherwise decent and law-abiding citizens find it "easy to lie to a machine in a way you wouldn't try to deceive a person", Taylor believes the introduction of self-service checkouts is a major factor in the trend. According to a poll of 1,000 British shoppers commissioned by last year, 37 per cent of customers admitted deliberately failing to scan an item at the self-service checkouts (with men and the under-35s most likely to try conning the computerised cashiers).