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Month: November 2019

How working night shifts affects employees
30Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

How working night shifts affects employees

    Millions of people around the world work the graveyard shift. As many go to bed, they’re only just starting their working day driving buses and taxis, caring for the sick and elderly and keeping international businesses running across different time zones. In the UK, the number of people who work night shifts has increased by 151,000 since 2013 to reach more than 3 million meaning night workers now account for one in nine (11.5%) employees. Working nights affects far more than just sleep. It can affect social lives, relationships and perhaps most worrying, physical and mental health. While a traditional 9-5 is the structure by which most of us plan a working day, when we look at mental health in the workplace, we can’t ignore those who work outside these parameters...
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Jack Merritt, 25, named as first terror attack victim
30Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Jack Merritt, 25, named as first terror attack victim

    The first victim of the London Bridge terror attack has been named as a Cambridge University worker who was a champion for ex-cons. Jack Merritt, from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, and a woman were stabbed to death by Usman Khan in Friday afternoon's rampage in the heart of the capital. Mr Merritt, 25, was a course coordinator for a prisoner rehabilitation programme, Learning Together, that was attended by the convicted terrorist and other offenders. His devastated father David paid tribute to him on Twitter, writing: My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily. R.I.P. Jack: you were a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. He wr...
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Reasons why you are dreaming about your ex
29Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Reasons why you are dreaming about your ex

    You are not alone. Dreaming about an ex is incredibly common and it doesn't necessarily mean you have a deep-rooted desire to get back together with him or her. Nor does it mean that you are dissatisfied with your current partner. Dreams and the unconscious mind are far more complicated than that. people, health, sleep disorder concept couple in bed at home, man snoring and young woman suffering from insomnia Still, it can be unnerving to not know why your former flame is making an appearance. Here, a few common reasons and how to work through each scenario. Reasons why you're dreaming about your ex: You are mourning the loss of the relationship. Even when a breakup is a good thing, we have to grieve the loss of the relationship and the person in our life....
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Two members of public die after London Bridge rampage
29Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Two members of public die after London Bridge rampage

    Two members of the public have been killed in the London Bridge terror attack, sources have said. Police confirmed earlier today that a suspect had been shot dead by officers during the response to the incident. It said that a number of people had been stabbed and that it was awaiting updates on their conditions. Sadiq Khan, London Mayor, said earlier that some had been injured seriously. The London Ambulance Service declared it a major incident and one picture on social media appeared to show a body covered with a blanket. Sources have now told the BBC that two members of the public have died. Several people were stabbed by the knifeman before he was grappled to the ground and disarmed by members of the public on London Bridge. Footage on social media showed o...
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EU calls for zero emissions by 2050
28Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

EU calls for zero emissions by 2050

    The European parliament has declared a global climate and environmental emergency as it urged all EU countries to commit to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The vote came as scientists warned that the world may have already crossed a series of climate tipping points, resulting in a state of planetary emergency. Intended to demonstrate Europe’s green credentials days before a crucial UN climate conference in Madrid, the vote also ratchets up pressure on Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the European commission, who declared this week that the EU would lead the fight against the existential threat of the climate crisis. Although passed with a comfortable majority, with 429 votes in favour, 225 votes against and 19 abstentions MEPs across the p...
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Widow evicted from home due to hostile immigration policy
28Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Widow evicted from home due to hostile immigration policy

    A widow who has lived in the UK for a decade has been ordered to move out of her home months after her husband’s death due to a controversial Home Office immigration policy. Nasra Nur, 38, who lives in Leicester, said she had been left suicidal after being told by her housing provider that she must urgently vacate her property just four months after her British husband, Sharif Ibrahim, died of kidney failure and heart disease. The Somali national was informed by housing provider PA Housing that she could not succeed Mr Ibrahim's tenancy due to her irregular immigration status, in line with the government's the right to rent policy, which requires landlords to check the status of prospective tenants. She has been warned that she has until 22 December to leave the pr...
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Corbyn claims PM wants to sell NHS
27Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Corbyn claims PM wants to sell NHS

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claims documents obtained by his party confirm the NHS would be on the table in post-Brexit trade talks with the US under a Tory government. Mr Corbyn revealed 451-pages of unredacted information today and said it showed a very different version of events to details officially released by the Government. He made the claims at an event in London, in which he again refused to apologise for alleged anti-Semitism within the Labour Party Boris Johnson has blasted claims the NHS would be included in negotiations as nonsense, while international trade secretary Liz Truss has likened Mr Corbyn's comments to conspiracy theories. Mr Corbyn, who insisted his party would never include the NHS in trade talks, said: Perhaps he'd like to explain why t...
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Europe’s last Soviet economy is nearing its hour of reckoning
27Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

Europe’s last Soviet economy is nearing its hour of reckoning

    Andrei Suslenkou, director for ideological work at the Minsk Tractor Factory, is proudly showing off the benefits his company offers, at low or no cost, to more than 30,000 workers and retirees. At the plant’s health clinic, 560 doctors and staff use sleek Western equipment to provide care from routine checkups to surgery, including laser eyesight correction. A Palace of Culture opposite the factory’s ornate, Stalin-era gates includes a plush theater wired for light and sound. It just hosted a concert in honor of the “Day of Machine Builders.” Outside the capital, a woodland sanatorium provides cures, vacations, and summer camps for 300 employees’ kids at a time. They were smart professionals back then who set up these social services, says Suslenkou, adding that ...
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Quarter of adults would not feel proud to have LGBT+ child
27Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Quarter of adults would not feel proud to have LGBT+ child

    A quarter of adults in the UK would not feel proud to have an LGBT child, a new study reveals. On online poll of 2,109 people by YouGov on behalf of the LGBT youth homelessness charity akt (formerly known as the Albert Kennedy Trust) asked people how they would feel in a range of scenarios if they had a child who came out to them as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. When respondents were asked whether they would feel proud to have an LGBT child, 26 per cent of those polled disagreed. Less than half (46 per cent) of people surveyed agreed with the statement that they would feel proud to have a child who had come out. The poll, which was undertaken in October, also found more than one in 10 (11 per cent) would feel uncomfortable living at home with their lesbia...
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Queen on form amid family crisis
26Nov By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Queen on form amid family crisis

    The Queen was on sparkling form as she opened the new headquarters of the Royal Philatelic Society today. The monarch, 93, viewed a portrait of herself during a tour of the society's new building in the City of London, which has been opened to mark the organisations 150th anniversary. And if she was still reeling from last week's events involving her beleaguered son, Prince Andrew, she wasn't showing it a bit. It comes days after Andrew, 59, announced he was stepping down from royal duties with the approval of his mother. The Queen brushed aside any concerns and happily joked with society members during the visit.  Kelly, arrived at the headquarters in a Range Rover, not her official Bentley, as the road was too narrow for her normal official car to squeeze down....
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