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Elon Musk, the self-styled tech visionary who designed a mini sub to help with the rescue of the 12 Thai boys stuck in a cave, wrote an ill-advised tweet in response to a British member of the Thai diving team’s comment to a journalist that he could “stick his submarine where it hurts”. Elon’s bizarre tweet referred to the diver as that “pedo guy”, apparently because he is a Brit living in Thailand, and a follow up insisted “bet ya a signed dollar it’s true”. Mr Unsworth is currently considering suing for defamation.
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The NHS have recently agreed to fund a new drug which aims to treat severe asthma. The injection of Benralizumab, which costs almost £2,000 per dose, will be used for those suffering from eosinophilic asthma. Following approval for NHS by NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) the drug will be given to patients as an injection once every four weeks for three months and once every eight weeks thereafter.
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While New Labour’s erstwhile tenure on the government benches produced a shamefully modest amount of initiatives aimed at redressing the legislative imbalance it inherited from the Thatcher/Major years in industrial relations law, one lasting change was the creation of a statutory right for workers to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings by a trade union representative.
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The National Health Service recently celebrated its 70thAnniversary. This has been a good opportunity for us as a society to take stock of where it came from, how important it is and what we want it to be in the future.
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A child has died after being thrown from a bouncy castle that eyewitnesses say exploded on a Norfolk beach. Politicians have since called for a temporary ban on the giant inflatables as an investigation is launched into the three year old’s death. Robert Halfon, the Conservative MP for Harlow, Essex stated, “After two horrific tragedies, the Government need to look at updates of regulations and inspection regime and consider a temporary ban on large inflatables in public areas until we can be sure that they are safe. “ There is speculation the inflatable exploded as a result of the heat.
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This week, it has been announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have accepted the recommendation of The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review to suspend the use of mesh slings for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). This suspension takes immediate effect and comes after years of campaigning by women affected by gynaecological and urological mesh implant procedures. It also follows guidance by NICE in December 2017 which recommended that transvaginal mesh implants for prolapse should only be used in the context of clinical research.
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With TRNSMT, Fiesta x Fold and Kelburn Garden Party in the space of one weekend, no wonder Glasgow had a sore head on Monday. Although festival goers were lucky enough to see the likes of Liam Gallagher, the Artic Monkeys, Stereophonics, Nile Rodgers and Goldie, was anyone else left wondering….. Why were there no women headliners?
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Buzz Aldrin is famous for being one of the first humans to set foot on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Nearly 50 years later, he continues to make public appearances, and continues to be an advocate for space exploration.
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