Savile’s offending in NHS ‘scarcely credible’
The story of Jimmy Savile’s offending in NHS hospitals is unusual to the point of being scarcely credible. That is the opening line from Kate Lampard’s report.
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The story of Jimmy Savile’s offending in NHS hospitals is unusual to the point of being scarcely credible. That is the opening line from Kate Lampard’s report.
Raped by Jimmy Savile when she was a vulnerable teenage patient at Stoke Mandeville hospital, “Anne” describes how he changed in an instant from “cuddly” TV persona to a terrifying predator.
UK researchers have created a programme capable of playing a large number of computer games, looking only at the information on the screen.
Instead of “we were kicked out”, it would be sold as “we escaped” – and I think however positively today’s deal is spun, the push for Grexit will grow stronger as constraints become obvious.
Today is the Greek equivalent of Gettysburg. After the ECB agreed to extend emergency lending for Greek banks for only a few days, the Greeks have until tonight to reach a compromise deal.
Pro-Russian separatists have been accused of breaching Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire. But Moscow says they have done nothing wrong. Who’s right?
During the next 6-12 hours, two severe tropical cyclones, Lam and Marcia, are going to make landfall in northern Australia.
The interception of two Russian Bear bombers off the south coast of England is the latest “show of strength” that could have dangerous implications, senior military figures tell Channel 4 News.
Channel 4 News and Ecostorm win the Royal Television Society’s independent award for a “remarkable” film about the world of Bucharest’s homeless underground society.
There is no supersaver return option for Mars. Restrictions of weight and cost would make a “Mars return” mission very expensive indeed.
Though the Greek PM is still talking tough, a Greek exit from the Eurozone is looking ever more possible. But a planned demonstration of public emotion could yet have the most impact of all.
The new Emir of Kano emerged. He sat high on a magnificently decorated black stallion, his fist punching the hot air, master of all he surveyed. The city had seen nothing like this for half a century.
The European Central Bank abruptly cancels its acceptance of Greek bonds in a bid to isolate the country until it strikes a new reform deal.
Female jihadis publish a “manifesto” on women’s life under the Islamic State group, stating that girls can marry from age nine and labelling western education as “strange”.
“All-out war” on mediocre schools; apparent threats to “weaponise” the NHS and the “battle” to win voters. A distraction from the real wars that dog the planet?