Lucy Johnston

Bournemouth

Health and Social Affairs Editor at Sunday Express

Health and Social Affairs Editor, Sunday Express, freelancer + PR. Previously - Big Issue, Assistant Editor, Observer. [email protected]

Articles

Groundbreaking treatment kills aggressive blood cancer sparing healthy cells

3 days ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

Groundbreaking treatment kills aggressive blood cancer without harming healthy cellsCurrent treatments are brutal, leaving survivors with life-changing side effects. Experts believe the new discovery will lead to a safe and effective therapy.
School bans hit record high

3 days ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

Soaring school exclusions and suspensions (Image: Getty)Britain’s classrooms are in crisis with the number of children being banned for poor behaviour set to reach record-breaking levels. New figures reveal there were nearly 300,000 suspensions in a single term – Spring 2024 – a 12 per cent rise on the previous year. If trends continue, the number of suspensions this academic year could top 600,000, pushing them to unprecedented levels.
Victory for Better Bones - scanners rolled out across England in major NHS boost

3 days ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

Victory for Better Bones - scanners rolled out across England in major NHS boost Campaign win for Sunday Express as 13 new bone scanners set to transform diagnosis and care for thousands at risk of brittle bones By Lucy Johnston, Health and Social Affairs Editor of the Sunday Express 09:24, Sun, May 11, 2025 | UPDATED: 09:25, Sun, May 11, 2025 Share Article Bookmark Wes Streeting pledges to roll out bone scanners (Image: Getty) The Sunday Express’s Better Bones campaign has secured a major...
Vape fires surge across UK - alarming rise sparks calls for urgent action

1 week ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

Experts are warning of a growing fire safety crisis as research reveals a spiralling increase in vape-related fires across the UK. The number of fires sparked by vapes across the UK has risen by 348 percent since 2020 bringing the total to 1,056 last year, according to the research based on Freedom of Information requests to UK fire services. This equates to nearly one incident every other day.
Lockdown linked to soaring speech problems - one in five kids affected

1 week ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

SILENT STRUGGLE Lockdown linked to soaring speech problems - one in five kids sufferingNew research today reveals two million children across the UK now face speech and language challenges - a shocking 35 per cent increase since 2019, when the number stood at 1.5 million.
J.Lo takes the Red Sea by storm

1 week ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

J. Lo to play at Red Sea's Rixos Radamis, Egypt (Image: Getty)WITH 14 restaurants serving five-star cuisine, a luxurious infinity pool, and enough activities to keep the family entertained for weeks, you might think there’s nothing more a high-class resort could offer. But in a showbiz coup megastar Jennifer Lopez is set to headline a one-night-only concert at Rixos Radamis on July 4.
200,000 unecessary cancer deaths a year by 2050 without urgent action

3 weeks ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

Getty (Image: Getty)A leading cancer specialist has written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting urging him to launch an overhaul of cancer services, alongside a damning new report showing nearly 200,000 avoidable cancer deaths in the UK over the last decade due to poor care. The open letter, based on a range of official data, reveals that without action UK cancer deaths will rise to 200,000 deaths per year by 2040.
'He was like an angel...it was just a beautiful to hear his voice'

1 month ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

The Carousel Ball (Image: Getty)BEE GEES icon Robin Gibb never got over the death of his twin brother Maurice and suffered recurring dreams in which they would laugh and joke together as a band. In a rare interview his widow Dwina reveals Robin would wake up from these dreams "upset and haunted” by grief. Maurice, a key part of one of the best-selling pop groups of all time, died suddenly from heart failure ahead of emergency surgery in 2003, aged just 53.
'Britain heading for calamity' says Conservative peer

1 month ago | msn.com | Lucy Johnston

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'Britain heading for calamity' says Conservative peer

1 month ago | express.co.uk | Lucy Johnston

'Britain heading for calamity' says Conservative peerBritain is "flirting with recession" and current economic policies are "catastrophic for growth," Conservative peer Lord Moynihan said in a blistering attack on government policies.