Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch
A surgeon is alleged to have used a Swiss Army knife because he could not find a sterile scalpel.
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Covid ambulance crews faced 'crucial PPE delays'
Crews say they faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients because of the time it took to put on equipment.
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Covid ambulance crews faced 'crucial PPE delays'
Crews say they faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients because of the time it took to put on equipment.
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Covid ambulance crews faced 'crucial PPE delays'
Crews say they faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients because of the time it took to put on equipment.
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Steep fall in young smokers in past decade
Nearly 12% of UK adults smoked in 2023 - the lowest level since 2011, the Office for National Statistics says.
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Drowned mum 'watched cold water swimming programme'
Gaynor Lord, 55, was found in a river a week after she disappeared, an inquest hears.
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Lucy Letby: Experts tell BBC about medical evidence concerns
Doctors and scientists' concerns contribute to speculation about the safety of the nurse's convictions.
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Sperm donor cash rises by £10 as UK faces shortage
The £10 rise comes into effect in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1 October.
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Joyful welcome by stranded astronauts for SpaceX capsule crew
A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked.
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UK to finish with coal power after 142 years
The UK's last coal power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, is due to end operations on Monday.
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'Kris is still saving lives,' says twin of late breast cancer campaigner
Maren Sheldon says her sister Kris - founder of charity Coppafeel - was a "beacon of hope" for many people.
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SpaceX docks at ISS to collect stranded astronauts
The craft will return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams - stranded since June - to Earth.
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An 'abomination' of a sub – and the boss convinced Titan was safe
A damning picture emerges from a public hearing into the failure of Oceangate’s Titan submersible.
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Fake: Ukraine’s National Debt Will Soon Exceed 1000% of the Country’s GDP
The propagandists multiplied the real data by 10: in fact, the national debt amounts to 97% of the GDP. Pro-Russian sources report that by the end of next year, Ukraine’s public debt will reach more than 1,000% of GDP. «They galloped normally on the Maidan» – the propagandists sneer at this topic. However, the propagandists […]
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Penguin chicks survive tearaway iceberg
For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.
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RT (Russia Today) as guerrilla activist
By EUvsDisinfo Most of the time, Kremlin mouthpieces such as RT and Sputnik conceal their continued defiance of EU and US transmission bans. They regularly ridicule warnings by Western governments about continued Kremlin influence operations, in particular meddling in democratic elections. They often interview sympathetic ‘analysts’ or politicians to claim that these warnings are baseless and ‘hysterical’ expressions […]
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Running Out of Red Paint
By EUvsDisinfo This week, many things have a slight United Nations flavour, as world leaders gather in New York for the 79th UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Week. In this context, the more fundamental topics of war, peace, global stability and security come into the limelight. For the Kremlin, the UNGA is a place to unleash […]
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Queen's Brian May quits RSPCA over its food welfare label
The association has had to run spot checks on farms using its label amid welfare concerns.
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Prishtina, Kosovo
StopFake is proud to announce Prishtina as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. StopFake is 10 years old this year. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on tour. […]
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Sycamore Gap saplings to become symbols of hope
The National Trust is encouraging people to apply for 'Tree of Hope' descendants of the famous sycamore.
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