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10Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Doctors worry as Government dithers on 7 day NHS

    Veteran health campaigner Myra Garrett joins Mayor Lutfur Rahman and Councillors Abjol Miah and Oli Rahman on last year's "Save our Surgeries" demonstration. One of the talking points in this year’s General Election were previously released figures which showed that death rates were higher in hospitals at the weekend than during the week. This difference could be explained by clinical factors. Hospital populations are smaller at the weekend, as routine and minor operations are not scheduled then and patients who came in on a planned basis earlier in the week are sent home. This means that very ill patients and patients admitted to A&E and pass away at the weekend represent a high percentage of the hospital population on Saturdays and Sundays than on other days. Anot...
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Tube Strikes Causes 200 Miles Of Tailbacks
6Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Tube Strikes Causes 200 Miles Of Tailbacks

People queue for a bus at London's Bus stops as commuters and tourists face a day of travel chaos because of a strike which has closed the underground Commuters faced 200 miles of traffic jams and huge queues for buses as the they battled to get to work with London's entire Tube network shut down for the day. Although 250 extra buses are being laid on by Transport for London, roads were crammed as many people switched to their cars in a bid to get to work on time. Shortly before 9am there were 428 separate traffic jams around the capital - a total of 197 miles of queuing vehicles, according to navigation software makers TomTom. The congestion was double the level of the previous Thursday, but significantly better than during last month's strike when there were 761 miles of jams. The wor...
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Three million Britons working night shifts and endangering their health
5Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Three million Britons working night shifts and endangering their health

    Maintenance workers arrive for their night shift at Victoria Underground station in London The number of people working regular night shifts has increased to more than three million since the recession, at a potential cost to their health and family life, new research has disclosed. One in eight of the workforce is now employed while the rest of Britain sleeps, with a particularly steep rise in female staff on antisocial hours. The TUC analysis follows studies suggesting a link between night-time working and increased likelihood of suffering such conditions as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and depression. It called for late-night staff to be given extra rights to protect them from exploitation which could harm their mental and physical health. The report wa...
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First Indian LoC enhanced to $862 million
5Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

First Indian LoC enhanced to $862 million

    India has extended a line of credit (LoC) of US Dollar one billion to Bangladesh for a range of projects in the railways, communications, infrastructure and other sectors. Out of this amount, $200 million was converted to grant which has been fully disbursed to the government of Bangladesh, an Indian High Commission press release said here today. Based on further negotiations, it said, New Delhi and Dhaka agreed to enhance the remaining credit line amount of $800 million to $862 million. "This was done to cater for increase in expenditure of the Khulna-Mongla and the Kulaura-Shabazpur railway line projects," the release said. EXIM Bank of India and the ERD of the Ministry of Finance, the government of Bangladesh, concluded all necessary formalities and inked the Secon...
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UK drivers do not know the correct speed limit
5Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK drivers do not know the correct speed limit

    More than a third of drivers do not know what the speed limit is on roads, a new study has revealed. A survey of 2,000 UK drivers by the Co-operative Insurance found that 36% could not say what the national limit was on a dual carriageway, while one in eight gave the wrong answer for motorways (70mph for both). A handful of those questioned thought the limit on dual carriageways was 80mph instead of 70mph. Younger drivers were more likely to give the correct answer, while motorists in London had the least awareness of speed limits. Steve Kerrigan of the Co-operative Insurance, said: "These figures show that all too often drivers are getting into their cars and driving with no real awareness of the speed limits in place. "It is interesting that younger drivers - who a...
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Heathrow power cut leaves thousands having to fly without luggage
5Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Heathrow power cut leaves thousands having to fly without luggage

    Thousands of holidaymakers are believed to be without their luggage after a power failure at Heathrow airport disabled the electronic baggage systems. The airport said it was working hard to reunite passengers with their bags as quickly as possible, after the second incident in the space of about a month that left many passing through Terminal 5 unable to fly with their suitcases. One passenger said that while he managed to get his bags on the plane as hand luggage, many others did not. Fintan Gormley, a member of the Baku Celtic supporter’s club (Baku CSC) who was flying home to Azerbaijan to watch his team play a pre-season friendly, said: “It was very bad. Luckily, I managed to get a massive bag on as hand luggage. It was full of the Baku CSC shirts, so we couldn’t ...
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Landlords renting properties to illegal immigrants to face up to five years in prison
3Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Landlords renting properties to illegal immigrants to face up to five years in prison

    Immigration Enforcement officers raid a residential property looking for illegal immigrants in Southall, West London. Landlords who rent properties to illegal immigrants will face up to five years in prison under a crackdown to be announced by the Government on 3 August. The move is part a drive to make it harder for migrants to live in the UK when they have no right to be in the country. It is also aimed at landlords who house immigrants in unsafe and overcrowded properties. A blacklist of “rogue landlords” and letting agents who are repeat offenders will be created and they will be banned. Under a law passed last year, landlords are required to check the residency status of tenants before offering them an agreement. If they fail to do so, face a civil penalty of up t...
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UK Muslim girls to joining IS in Syria was radicalised by IFE
3Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

UK Muslim girls to joining IS in Syria was radicalised by IFE

    London schoolgirls who they recruited three of her classmates to join IS in Syria was radicalised at an east London mosque who runing by Islamic Forum of Europe, it has been reported. Sharmeena Begum fled to Syria to join the terrorist group aged just 15 last December. Months later, three of her school friends at the Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets - Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana - joined her after she allegedly groomed them. The Mail on Sunday reported today that Sharmeena was radicalised at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel by women from a group called Islamic Forum of Europe. The group has previously been mired in controversy after one of its founders was accused of murders and war crimes in Bangladesh. The newspaper reported that Sharme...
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Kim Jong un is awarded global statesmanship prize by Indonesia
2Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Kim Jong un is awarded global statesmanship prize by Indonesia

    Kim Jong-un has been awarded a prize for global statesmanship. The North Korean dictator is to receive the award from the Bali-based Sukarno Centre. The news was announced by the daughter of Indonesia’s founding president, after whom the award is named. Rachmawati Soekarnoputri said: “We will give the award to President Kim Jong-un because he has been consistent in carrying out the ideals of the great leader, Kim Il Sung, which is to fight imperialism. “So this will be a sequel, where we give the award to Kim Jong-un for his persistence in fighting neo-colonialism.” Other previous recipients of the award have included Mahatma Gandhi and Aung San Suu Kyi. Earlier this month, it was reported that the North Korean dictator had ordered the execution of a man who runs a t...
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Queen puts quadruple portrait photographer at ease
2Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Queen puts quadruple portrait photographer at ease

    Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by the British photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas, with a technique that involves the use of mirrors to show each sitter from all four sides Photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas has produced a striking quadruple portrait of the Queen - in one picture - and joked how the monarch put him at ease during the shoot. Using mirrors he was able to capture full-length images of the Queen from the front, back and sides, creating a picture reminiscent of Anthony van Dyck's famous triple portrait of Charles I. The Duke of Cambridge and Duchess of Cornwall have also posed for the photographer and all the images will be part of the exhibition The Queen's People, featuring photographs of members of the Royal Household and senior ceremonial figures in their tra...
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