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‘Serious failings’ in sickle cell care, say MPs
A new report by an all-party parliamentary group has found “serious failings” in the treatment of people with sickle cell disease.
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COP26 climate summit begins in Glasgow
As the conference formally began here on the banks of the Clyde, hundreds of passengers hoping to travel to the climate summit by train were stranded after a tree fell on the tracks halting services from London.
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Homes evacuated and bridges swept away as flooding hits Scottish borders
Hundreds of homes have been evacuated, trains cancelled and two bridges have been swept away by surging floodwaters. All this after as much as a month’s worth of rain fell in the last couple of days, with more flood warnings in force across much of the country from Cornwall to Edinburgh. We reported from Dumfries,…
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£6.9bn to be unveiled for public transport in next week’s Budget
English regions will be given a total of almost seven billion pounds to improve urban transport, to be unveiled in next week’s Budget.
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‘Worst time in my 40-year career’ for NHS staffing, says National Care Association chair
We spoke to Dr Alistair Blair, the medical director for Northumbria Healthcare Trust, and Nadra Ahmed, the chair of the National Care Association.
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NHS consultant warns of ‘extremely challenging’ winter ahead amid Covid
We talk to Eliot Sykes, who is both a consultant and a director of the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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Brexit ‘has played part’ in lorry driver shortages, says Reeves
Before the news of Andy McDonald’s resignation from the shadow cabinet, we spoke to Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, and began by asking how much she believed Brexit was to blame for the HGV driver shortage.
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High wholesale gas prices ‘will feed through ultimately to customers’ bills’, Ofgem CEO says
We spoke to Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, and we asked if the energy market had allowed in too many unsustainable businesses which didn’t know what they were doing.
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Afghanistan: Hazara minority fearful of future under Taliban rule
Dozens of female footballers and their families have managed to escape from Afghanistan across the border to Pakistan, including one group who’d been in hiding after their homes were burned down and some relatives were captured by the Taliban. But there are entire communities left behind who are now living in fear, like the Hazara…
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Afghanistan: Women’s fears under Taliban rule
Talibs have now raised their flag over the presidential palace, heralding the dawn of a new era. And what that new reality means for Afghan women is now becoming clear.
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Hurricane Ida: Speaking to the victims as over a million face a month without power
Howling winds, driving rain and storm surges – Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana facing at least a month without power and in Mississippi a motorway has collapsed.
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Taliban ‘empowered’ by American cooperation, says former US Assistant Secretary of Defence
We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.
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Police failing to impose orders on men accused of abuse, say watchdogs
A joint investigation from police and fire watchdogs has found that police are failing to protect women by imposing restraining orders or bail conditions on men accused of domestic abuse, harassment, stalking and even rape.
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Over 30 Brits bid to become first physically disabled astronaut
More than 250 people have applied to a project which hopes to send a physically disabled person into space for the first time. Since it was launched earlier this year, 257 people have applied for the European Space Agency’s (Esa) “parastronaut feasibility project”, including 20 men and 11 women from the UK, Channel 4 News…
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Afghanistan: son and daughter reflect on the pain of losing their soldier father
Regimental Sergeant Major Darren Chant was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, leaving three children behind.
