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Local emergency medical charity given a life-saving start to the New Year
Two volunteer doctors secured by Bravo Medics to deliver life-saving treatment and support an overstretched NHS Bravo Medics today announced it has recruited two new volunteer critical care doctors to assist their two current responders. This milestone is a major move for Bravo Medics who only launched in 2020 butContinue Reading
Hoteliers renew calls to extend VAT reduction
Hoteliers in Bristol have made a fresh plea to the Government to extend the current reduced rate of VAT for their businesses, which face a bleak start to 2022. Most members of the Bristol Hoteliers Association (BHA) suffered a difficult end to 2021 with many reporting business was at leastContinue Reading
Unsustainable Farming in the West Country
I’m shocked that George Eustice, MP-Camborne & Redruth, & UK Secretary of State for the ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS, is ignoring science. He, his Government, & Chemical, & Oil industry friends, are promoting the very destruction of these things, while disregarding real solutions. Already ignoring the public comments ofContinue Reading
England throw away dream start in Fifth Ashes Test to let Australia off the hook
ENGLAND tossed away a dream start with another demoralising Ashes performance on day one of the Fifth Test. From 12-3, Australia were somehow allowed to reach 241-6 when rain curtailed play. Talk about letting a team off the hook. 5 It proved to be another difficult day for England captainContinue Reading
Omicron: viral load can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense
Before omicron, people in the UK with COVID symptoms or a positive test had to self-isolate for ten days. But when the new variant of concern arrived, the government changed the self-isolation period to seven days. On the other side of the Atlantic, the US Centers for Disease Control andContinue Reading
Culture in London: the faces to watch in 2022 – Visual art
I can’t remember a time when contemporary art in London was as shapeshifting and multifarious as it is today. There have been times when certain media or approaches seemed off the menu or beyond the pale, when certain groups held sway. But in 2022, increasingly, anything goes, and often withinContinue Reading
Garda investigation into killing of Ashling Murphy could go in ‘multiple directions’
Updated 1.15pm A Garda investigation into the killing of Ashling Murphy could go in “multiple directions,” according to former Assistant Garda Commissioner for Dublin Dr Pat Leahy. Gardaí are continuing to hunt for the killer of the 23-year-old schoolteacher from Co Offaly, after releasing a man they had been questioningContinue Reading
The science that is helping researchers find the ‘disappeared’ in Latin America
In most Latin American countries where there has been a high level of civil conflict over the past few decades, there are still huge numbers of missing people due to forced disappearances. In Colombia alone this number is estimated to be more than 120,000 people after five decades of bitterContinue Reading
‘Lorna’ and ‘Spike’ tick enough boxes for an EWD!
Lorna Cole ticks enough boxes for an eleven-runner Classified Stakes over five furlongs of Wolverhampton tapeta tonight and the biggest is devastating ‘pocket rocket’ Hollie Doyle a wizard in minimum trip sprints on all-weather surfaces. These set-weight class 6 races have become a favourite on my modus operandi which areContinue Reading
Asylum seekers: why UK needs to change how it assesses the age of new arrivals
Lena Si / Shutterstock In the first week of January, the Home Office announced that it would set up a committee to advise on the use of scientific methods – such as x-rays and MRI imaging – to determine the age of asylum seekers. Age assessment is part of theContinue Reading