Day: August 10, 2025
Ancient ritual of blowing into shell ‘could help with common sleep disorder’
August 10, 2025Reacting to the findings, Professor Sophia Schiza, head of the ERS group on sleep disordered breathing, based at the University of Crete, Greece, said: “We know that OSA patients have poor quality of sleep, and higher risks of high blood pressure, strokes and heart disease.
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Massive clean-up effort aims to pull 180 tons of wet wipes from River Thames
August 10, 2025Sarah Hooper Published August 11, 2025 12:01am Updated August 11, 2025 8:14am 180 tonnes of congealed wet wipes – the equivalent to the weight of 15 double-decker London buses – are being removed from the River Thames in a month-long operation. Work to remove London’s so-called ‘wet wipe island’ will help improve the water quality […]
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NHS to recruit nurses and midwives before vacancies arise in new jobs boost
August 10, 2025New measures will be introduced to allow NHS trusts to take on newly qualified nurses and midwives before vacancies arise, the Government has announced. NHS providers will be able to begin recruiting before vacancies formally arise as part of a “graduate guarantee”, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said. Its change to the […]
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London’s disgusting ‘wet wipe island’ to be removed as work begins to excavate 180 tonnes of congealed waste
August 10, 2025London’s “West Wipe Island” has become a notorious feature of the Thames since it started to form a few years ago, posing a threat to wildlife and proving an embarrassment to capital. An enormous pile of wet wipes has formed an island along a 250-metre stretch of the tidal river near Hammersmith Bridge. But the […]
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LNER urges passengers ‘do not travel’ on East Coast rail line today
August 10, 2025Sarah Hooper Published August 10, 2025 11:57am Updated August 10, 2025 12:28pm Rail passengers are being warned not to travel today between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh due to urgent repairs to a bridge. LNER passengers are able to use their tickets on other services until Tuesday if their journey is impacted. These include CrossCountry, […]
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Manhunt after woman repeatedly sexually assaulted on train in London
August 10, 2025Sarah Hooper Published August 10, 2025 9:05am Updated August 10, 2025 2:46pm Police have launched a manhunt after a woman was ‘repeatedly sexually assaulted’ on a train to Vauxhall. The woman was aboard a South Western Railway train when she was assaulted between Barnes Bridge and Vauxhall at around 4.40 pm on May 13. Her […]
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I moved to the UK’s second most tedious place at 25 — I never want to leave
August 10, 2025When I pulled up to the kerb of my new abode in the languorous town of Surbiton, a smile broke across my face. Welcome to boring-town, I thought, having read the month before that the London burb had been dubbed the second most tedious town in the UK. But that didn’t make me regret the […]
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