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Day: August 4, 2017

Should not ignore common symptoms could be bowel cancer
ENGLISH, Life Style

Should not ignore common symptoms could be bowel cancer

    A 31-year-old woman who was ‘constantly bloated’ has urged others not to ignore the symptoms of bowel cancer that are easy to dismiss. Sherie Hagger was in so much pain, constantly bloated and suffered from diarrhea within an hour of eating or drinking. She tried to ease her discomfort with tea and hot water bottles on her stomach, she told News.com.au. Even plain water made her feel sick. As Hagger was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease aged 15, she put her symptoms down to a flare up of the inflammatory bowel disease and cut out gluten and dairy from her diet, but nothing worked. Hagger struggled for three months before she asked her doctor for a colonoscopy which identified she had bowel cancer. She believes the procedure saved her life. To treat the disease, Hagger underwe...
A huge number of British passport holder have applied for Irish passports to be safe
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

A huge number of British passport holder have applied for Irish passports to be safe

    Britons living all around the world are applying for Irish passports to safeguard their positions after Brexit, the country’s UK ambassador has revealed. Daniel Mulhall said many of a record 500,000 applications in the first half of 2017 had come from British people who fear losing their rights to live and work in the EU after withdrawal. That increase comes on the back of a 40 per cent rise in the number of Britons seeking Irish passports in the second half of 2016, immediately after the EU referendum. It’s risen very significantly, Mr Mulhall told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. We have to attribute that to the impact of last year’s referendum. On the 500,000 applications from around the world, the outgoing ambassador said: That’s an extraordinary number of passports well...
Rashan had paracetamol and caffeine packet in throat but no drug
ENGLISH, London

Rashan had paracetamol and caffeine packet in throat but no drug

    An object removed from the throat of a black man who died after a police chase consisted of a mixture of paracetamol and caffeine wrapped in plastic, according to forensic analysis. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which launched an investigation following Rashan Charles’ death on July 22, said it was taking the decision to release information given the inflammatory nature of some ongoing speculation. IPCC commissioner Cindy Butts said: At this stage we have not been provided with a confirmed cause of death for Rashan and our investigation is ongoing. 3 August: statement from Commissioner Cindy Butts, regarding the ongoing Rashan Charles investigation. Last week, the IPCC said the evidence it had seen so far suggested Mr Charles was detained by a Metrop...
Campaigners lost the battle to stop TH schools becoming free academies
ENGLISH, London

Campaigners lost the battle to stop TH schools becoming free academies

    Parents fail in bid to block Tower Hamlets schools becoming free academies. The Campaigners have lost the battle to stop two Tower Hamlets state schools becoming independently-run academies in east London after the summer holiday. Former school governor Shahanur Khan leads delegation to Tower Hamlets council to block Stepney Green College turning academy. A delegation from the Anti Academies Alliance failed to persuade the local authority’s cabinet to block the handover of Stepney Green Maths and Computing College and Clara Grant Primary in Bromley-by-Bow, which have both applied to the government for academy status. The move by the schools takes them out of council control with direct Whitehall funding which begins next month. They formally applied for 125-year leases on ...
General people have important role to help acid attack victims
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

General people have important role to help acid attack victims

    People who witness acid attacks can have an important role in minimising the harm to the victim, according to doctors. Dr Johann Grundlingh, consultant emergency physician at Barts Health NHS Trust, along with emergency medicine trainee Dr Jessie Payne and Dr Taj Hassan, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, claim that people need to be educated on how to deal with injuries caused by acid and other noxious substances. The trio, writing in the British Medical Journal, say the latest menace on our streets is leaving victims blind or severely disfigured, and is causing physical and mental distress for many. They suggest that corrosive substances now seem to be a replacement for carrying knives. The comments come after a recent spike in corrosive substance atta...