Day: April 26, 2015

    A superbug has closed a ward at the hospital where Prince William and Kate’s second baby is due to be born. A surgical unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, has been shut down after eight patients were infected with potentially deadly CPE (carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae). The Duchess of Cambridge is nearing her due date and is expected to return to the hospital’s exclusive Lindo Wing to give birth to the fourth in line to the throne. But the 20-bed Zachary Cope ward, specialising in vascular surgery, has been out of action since April 15, the Sunday People can reveal. A source said: “There is a massive deep-clean operation going on. There’s no suggestion it could spread to other units but it couldn’t be worse timing.” Three affected patients developed s...

John Rees from the Stop the War Coalition, argues that the dismissal of Tower Hamlet’s first-elected Muslim Mayor Lutfur Rahman yesterday was outrageous. The Tower Hamlets electoral fraud trial was a political event from the beginning. Indeed, everything you need to know about the decision of High Court Judge Richard Mawrey to declare void the election of Britain’s first Muslim Mayor is contained in his summary judgement. In it he said that Muslims in Tower Hamlets are “not a real minority” because, apparently, there are so many of them in the borough. Like the rest of his remarks it will fuel every racist stereotype that has ever been uttered about Tower Hamlets, and it will legitimise the long and disgraceful war by Tories, Lib-Dems and the local Labour Party to stop the rise of Bangl...