Panorama reveals the appalling treatment of an elderly care home resident with dementia, captured on film after her concerned daughter hid a secret camera. A short snippett showing just one example of the shocking abuse this elderly woman suffered. The care worker recieved an 18 month jail sentence. source
The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, Buckingham Palace has said. All the Queen’s children are gathering at, or are travelling to, her Scottish estate near Aberdeen. “Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under […]
First Aid Kit perform Out Of My Head on Later with Jools Holland. Watch more Later… with Jools Holland on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer. Follow @BBC Later on Twitter or Later… with Jools Holland on Facebook. source
First Aid Kit perform Angel at Glastonbury 2022. Go to BBC iPlayer now to watch more. source
The BBC said Sunday that one of its reporters was arrested and beaten by Chinese authorities while covering protests in Shanghai over COVID-19 restrictions. China is seeing rare outpourings of public frustration in recent days in response to strict COVID lockdowns meant to curb the spread of the virus. In a statement on Sunday, the […]
European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion – the energy process that powers the stars. The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen. If nuclear fusion can be […]
It is estimated that a doctor dies every three to four weeks in the UK from suicide. Dr Dan Gearon’s cousin Liz took her own life in 2016. She had been an anaesthetist at King’s College London. Following Liz’s death, Dan created the charity, You Okay, Doc? to provide doctors with a safe space to […]
The first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease for nearly 20 years has been approved by regulators in the United States, paving the way for its use in the UK. Aducanumab targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, rather than its symptoms. Charities have welcomed the news of a new therapy […]
A baby boy has become one of the first patients to be treated on the UK’s NHS with Zolgensma, the world’s most expensive medicine. Little Arthur is one of around 40 children are born with the most severe form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) every year. The gene therapy has a list price of about […]
An international team of scientists, working on a project in the United States, say they have discovered strong evidence for the existence of a new force of nature. They say some sub-atomic particles – called muons – don’t behave in a way predicted by current theories of physics. The British funders of the research say […]