The Government are to announce the sites of three elective hospitals as part of a number of high-profile announcements in the coming weeks aimed at bolstering support for the Sláintecare programme. The hospitals will be located in Dublin, Cork and Galway, fulfilling a key recommendation of the original Sláintecare report,Continue Reading
In raising rents from social to affordable for council tenants, the cost burden for tackling the housing crisis effectively falls on those most in need Goldstamp | Shutterstock The UK’s housing crisis hardly requires an introduction. It affects people across the housing spectrum — from leaseholders stuck with flammable claddingContinue Reading
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A former lab director at Theranos acknowledged on Friday that he had plenty of opportunities to address his concerns about the company’s technology with former CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Adam Rosendorff joined Theranos as a lab director in 2013. He testified that he felt the healthcare start-upContinue Reading
The hasty and badly organised US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August prompted fears among Washington’s other allies about the durability of US friendship. Kurdish troops in northeastern Syria, facing multi-pronged opposition from Islamic State fighters as well as the Assad regime and the prospect of Turkish incursion, have felt particularlyContinue Reading
Roman Chazov/Shutterstock The UK has approved giving one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to all children aged 12-15, with vaccines largely being given within the education system. Schools are helping coordinate the rollout, including the consent process. Under-16s need parental consent to have the vaccine. Unfortunately, schools, parents andContinue Reading
Sarah Holmlund/Shutterstock This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast explores why experts are worried about AIs becoming addicts. You can read the text version of this in-depth article here. The audio version is read by Peter Hanly in partnership with Noa, News Over Audio. You can listenContinue Reading
As a child, I was taught to laugh if I stumbled across a man who was indecently exposing himself. My experiences growing up reflect a wider societal view that indecent exposure is not a serious sexual offence. The older stereotype is of a comical “flasher” in a long overcoat lurkingContinue Reading
On Friday Morning on the 01/10/2021 Ex LMS Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No 45596 Bahamas and Ex LNER B1 Class No 61306 Mayflower Double Headed the Return Mayflower to Devon and Cornwall Rail Tour, the rail tour came down on Tuesday Evening from London Victoria to Exeter St Davids and onContinue Reading
PHP Law are delighted to share that our Partner, Russell Holland, has been appointed Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon. Russell was supported unanimously by a cross panel of Councillors and will be supporting Philip Wilkinson as the Police and Crime Commissioner. As part of his newContinue Reading
Say Grace is primed and ready to win a fourteen-runner Nursery Handicap over six furlongs of Newcastle polytrack tonight; under fabulous floodlights, on the fairest racetrack in the United Kingdom, this Rae Guest-trained Kodiac filly goes into battle having achieved a career-best time-handicap mark three weeks ago on a similarContinue Reading
