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4 weeks ago | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Charlotte L. Hall |Wesley Holmes
A inquest jury concluded the circumstances surrounding how Aaron Ritchie and Ceri John Jenkins died were "unknowable"A man with severe autism and epilepsy and his "extraordinary" support worker lost their lives after falling into a canal. Two years later, an inquest has found it will never be known how the pair ended up in the freezing water. Ceri John Jenkins, 60, and Aaron Ritchie, 49, drowned in Wigan in a double tragedy in November 2023.
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2 months ago | 
easterneye.biz | Harrison Galliven |Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe
FORMER prime minister Rishi Sunak has been named an ambassador for Prostate Cancer Research, supporting its campaign for a national screening programme for men at high risk of the disease. The announcement follows Sunak’s visit to Oxford BioDynamics last week, where he learned about the EpiSwitch PSE blood test, which can detect prostate cancer with 94 per cent accuracy. This is seen as a major improvement over the commonly used PSA test.
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2 months ago | 
easterneye.biz | Harrison Galliven |Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe
CULTURE secretary Lisa Nandy has unveiled a £270 million investment backed ‘Arts Everywhere’ Fund to revitalise the UK’s “crumbling” arts and culture infrastructure after the Covid pandemic. In a lecture last Thursday (20) at Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace, Nandy said the new fund was needed to meet the vision of making the arts accessible to all and mentioned British Asian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 boxoffice hit Bend Like Beckham to illustrate the point.
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2 months ago | 
easterneye.biz | Harrison Galliven |Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe
THE John Whitgift Foundation has completed a £7.5 million sale of its Old Palace pre-school and primary school site to BAPS, which has promised to invest in the south Croydon School after it closed its doors last summer, writes . The prep and primary school on south Croydon’s Melville Avenue closed last July after serving many years as a high-performing girls’ school. The John Whitgift Foundation (JWF) cited long-running financial concerns for its closure.
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2 months ago | 
easterneye.biz | Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe
HADI MATAR, the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie on stage at a New York arts event in 2022, has been found guilty of attempted murder. A jury convicted Matar, 27, on Friday after a trial at Chautauqua County Court in Mayville. During the attack, Matar rushed onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution as Rushdie was being introduced for a discussion on writer safety. Some videos of the attack were shown to jurors during seven days of testimony.
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2 months ago | 
easterneye.biz | Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe
KING CHARLES praised the vital role of the British Asian Trust in addressing some of the most pressing challenges across south Asia and described the trust as “a beacon of hope for countless communities” Actors, politicians and businessmen attended the charity’s annual dinner and reception at the Peninsula London last Thursday (13). More than 300 guests attended and helped to raise £750,000 to support the trust’s work in child protection, education, livelihoods, mental health and conservation.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
easterneye.biz | Pramod Thomas |Charlotte L. Hall
EIGHT men have been jailed for a total of nearly 58 years for sexually abusing two children in Keighley during the late 1990s. The men were convicted in two separate trials at Bradford Crown Court for offences that took place between 1996 and 1999. The victims were girls aged between 13 and 16 at the time of the abuse, said West Yorkshire Police in a statement. Mohammed Din, 47, received the longest sentence of 14 years after being found guilty of 11 counts of rape against both victims.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
lincolnshirelive.co.uk | Charlotte L. Hall
A grieving dad, whose wife died just three days after getting a cancer diagnosis, is urging the government to mandate in-person doctors' appointments. Mike Barlow, from Boston, lost wife Laura in February this year, as reported on Lincolnshire Live. The mum-of-three had been in severe pain for months, believing it to be related to a diagnosis of endometriosis she'd received during a five-minute phone call with her GP.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
petnews2day.com | Charlotte L. Hall
About UsPet News 2Day is an online platform for the latest news, expert guides, and heart warming stories about pets from around the world. Our mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire pet owners and enthusiasts alike, providing them with up-to-date information and valuable insights about their beloved furry, feathery, and scaly companions.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Jack Alexander |Idling Action London |Charlotte L. Hall |Neil Greenberg
As of the 16 March 2020, the UK public was asked to ‘work from home if you can’ due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The following month, nearly half of those in employment reported they were indeed working from home (WFH). Similar, rapid changes to WFH were also reported in half of the US workforce (in May 2020) and across Europe (in July 2020). Photograph: iStock/triloksResearch done prior to the pandemic showed that WFH could be received both positively and negatively by workers.
