Laura Foster
Senior Health, Science and Wellbeing Reporter at BBC
BBC News reporter | Trainee Radio 4 newsreader & presenter | Taking a break from health & science stories to cover the east of England 📧 [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Laura Foster
Grieving mother says reopening bike track gives her purposeLaura FosterBBC News, NorthamptonshireReporting fromWellingboroughAlex PopeBBC News, NorthamptonshireLaura Foster/BBCDavinia Walsh said Dylan's Bike Track would be somewhere for young people to feel "protected and safe"The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed said working to reopen a bike track in his honour had given her "something to get up for in the morning".
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Laura Foster |Andy Trigg
Police have shot a man dead outside a railway station after reports he was carrying a firearm. Officers, who were called to Milton Keynes Central Station at 12:55 BST, said they challenged the suspect before shots were fired at him. A man who was nearby said he heard a "very loud" shot and then saw armed officers giving medical assistance to the man on the ground. A Thames Valley Police (TVP) spokesperson said "life-saving actions were immediately taken" but that he was pronounced dead at 13:44.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Phil Shepka |Laura Foster
Phil Shepka & Laura FosterBBC News, BedfordshireThe triple murder of a family by a teenager who wanted to commit a mass school shooting exposed a lack of "proper control" over who can buy a gun, a police and crime commissioner (PCC) has said. Nicholas Prosper, 19, murdered his mother, sister and brother in their home in Luton in September with a shotgun bought the day before using a fake licence.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Laura Foster |Brian Farmer
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yahoo.com | Laura Foster |Brian Farmer
The brother of a cyclist who died after an accident on the world's longest guided busway has welcome the "new attitude" of a council operator prosecuted by a regulator. Rob Moir, brother of Steve Moir, was speaking after Cambridgeshire County Council admitted breaching health and safety legislation at a hearing in Cambridge Crown Court. The council had been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after Mr Moir and two other people died in accidents on the Cambridgeshire guided busway.
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Right now on BBC Radio 4 we’re talking about how much caffeine is too much, how to have the perfect nap and finding out whether it’s better for our bodies to have a night out at 2pm rather than 2am. It’s all on this week’s #insidehealth ☕️ 😴 💃 https://t.co/dGx45DyrLF
