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    Asthma UK said that faulty inhalers could put people’s lives at risk as it called on patients to check whether their inhaler needed to be returned. The call comes after the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) urged asthma patients to replace specific batches of their Ventolin Accuhaler inhalers, used for the emergency relief of asthmatic symptoms, after it was discovered that a manufacturing issue resulted in some devices not delivering the full dose required. But the MHRA said that other asthma inhalers, including the more commonly used Ventolin Evohaler, are not affected. Bernadette Sinclair Jenkins, the regulatory assessment unit manager of the MHRA’s Inspections, Enforcement and Standards unit, said: It is important people check whether t...

    Kate Middleton has been spotted getting a tattoo today during her trip to Sunderland with Prince William. But don't worry it's not a permanent one. The Duchess was actually sitting for a henna tattoo, applied by young people at a new arts hub in the city. It will be two days before it washes off. And it's believed Kate reportedly asked for the henna design herself. The Duchess seemed delighted when Shajida Begum, 18, drew a black flower with a swirl. Miss Begum said: I said Would you like a design?' and she was like Yes, if you don't mind. She was saying that it was really pretty. I was just telling her how it works. I was telling her when she can wash it off I said 'when it becomes flakey'. Kate also asked the girls for a pack of bindis, which she said she w...

    The EU has ruled out the UK government’s preferred approach to a future trade deal, describing it as a risk to the European project, just as Theresa May is seeking to strike an agreement on the way forward within her cabinet. The inner cabinet is meeting at Chequers on Thursday to try to find an agreement among warring cabinet members on an approach sketched out to ministers by the prime minister’s Brexit adviser, Olly Robbins. Under what is understood to be the prime minister’s preferred model, the UK would stay lock-step in regulatory alignment with the EU in some areas while finding different ways to achieve the same outcomes in other sectors. Yet, with something close to incendiary timing, the European commission, hours ahead of the cabinet get-together, has pu...

    More than 60 backbench Conservative MPs have sent Theresa May a list of hard Brexit demands ahead of a crunch meeting, triggering a furious reaction from colleagues who branded the letter a ransom note. As dozens of members of the party’s European Research Group added their names to the correspondence setting out their expectations for Brexit with “full regulatory autonomy, other Tory politicians hit back. Nicky Morgan, an advocate for a soft Brexit who chairs the Treasury select committee, said: This isn’t a letter, it is a ransom note. The ERG clearly think they have the prime minister as their hostage. Letter from European Research Group to May The letter was sent to the prime minister as well as Brexit secretary David Davis, international trade secretary Liam ...

    A section of the M20 will be closed until at least midday after police found a body on the road. Officers were called at 6.05pm on Tuesday to the London-bound carriageway between junctions 10 and nine near Ashford. A body was found on the road and the person was pronounced dead at the scene, Kent Police said. The death is being treated as unexplained and the force is appealing for anyone who saw a pedestrian in the area to come forward. Highways England tweeted that the road will likely remain closed for ongoing investigations following a very serious incident, with drivers initially told to remain in their vehicles until police officers directed them to turn around. The motorway provides a link from the capital to the Channel Tunnel and ports of Dover. P&O F...

    The Hero’s Welcome editorial cartoon by Canadian artist Pia Guerra. As news of the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., unfolded last week, Pia Guerra, a 46 year old Vancouver-based artist, felt helpless. She couldn’t bring herself to go to sleep, so she began to draw. About 6 a.m., she came up with an idea. One of the first victims identified among the 17 people killed was Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard. Feis was shot after reportedly throwing himself in front of students during the rampage. Guerra was moved by the thought of this heroic man, the father of a young child, standing in front of bullets for students. It’s not often that an image pops in your brain and you feel a lump in your throat...

    Campaigners have called for urgent changes to the law to make upskirting criminalised alongside other sexual offences, as the first official figures on the craze show complainants as young as 10. Victims, politicians and equality groups have urged the Government to provide an effective criminal law for upskirting, which often sees perpetrators escape punishment for taking photographs or videos of a victim’s groin area from beneath their clothing. There is currently no law banning upskirting, with victims left to pursue voyeurism or indecency claims in a handful of cases. Campaigners say the situation echoes that of image-based sexual abuse often referred to as revenge porn which lingered in a legal grey area until a law was introduced in April 2015 following a nati...

    On Friday, the 35-year-old attended the Cantrepoint Awards at Kensington Palace, an event which is designed to celebrate the achievements of young people who have overcome homelessness. During the ceremony, the Duke of Cambridge spoke candidly about family life. He told guests Our third child is due in April, I'm getting as much sleep as I can. Raymond Stoner, head of Anston Properties, quickly suggested that the royal couple save time by having twins, to which the Duke of Cambridge joked, Twins? I think my mental health would be tested with twins. The evening marked 50 years since the charity which Princess Diana was a patron of was first established. He said, I feel immense pride in all Centrepoint has accomplished in that time, but with it, disappointment and f...