Scottish parents are smuggling prescription cannabis into the country to give to their seriously ill children. BBC Scotland’s Disclosure programme has followed mums travelling to Holland to get drugs they believe can make a huge difference to epilepsy seizures suffered by their sons. The situation raises multiple dilemmas – for the mum smuggling prescription cannabis, […]
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Martin Morris has a collection of 36,000 Marvel and DC comics built up over decades. The 63-year-old, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, started his collection when he was aged just five. His most valuable comic, a 1962 edition that introduced Spider-Man for the first time, is thought to be worth £10,000. Mr Morris has decided to sell
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Image copyright Getty Images Sir Philip Green has thanked landlords and suppliers who backed the deal that saved his retail empire. In an interview with the BBC, he batted away the suggestion the Topshop group had been on the point of going bust in typically combative style. “It didn’t come close to collapse – we
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According to the WHO South Africa has the highest obesity rate in Sub-Saharan Africa. But in the township of Tembisa, one lady is trying to inspire the community to get fit. 63-year-old Catherine Mathebe was unable walk without crutches due to her weight – but one day she heard a song on the radio and
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President Trump’s dispute with China has landed on the doorstep of Verizon, with Huawei demanding that the American wireless giant pay licensing fees on hundreds of patents, according to two people briefed on the matter. Huawei, one of China’s largest technology companies and the world’s biggest supplier of networking equipment, accused Verizon in a letter
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Rory McIlroy arrived at Pebble Beach with an extra wedge in his bag and an extra bounce in his step. He also brought the putter he used to shoot 61 on Sunday to win the Canadian Open after trading it for a Toronto Raptors jersey, a story all by itself. “The guy I gave it
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WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s use of an emergency declaration to push through arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, telling a hostile House committee that holding back the weapons would have only offered an opening to commercial rivals in China and Russia. In
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The federal government’s budget deficit in May rose to a record $207.8 billion, 41.5% higher than a year ago. Most of that increase reflected the impact of calendar quirks that shifted $55 billion in June benefit payments into May. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the increase in the May deficit from an imbalance of
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Providers of social care in the UK have told Newsnight they have seen a “frightening” decline in the numbers of EU nationals applying for jobs in the sector. Jane Stewart from Peach Nursing said she currently employed just one British carer out of 44. She said a drop in EU nationals applying for jobs meant
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Image copyright Getty Images Almost two-thirds of homebuyers who used the government’s Help to Buy scheme could have bought a home without it, an official report has said. However, they may not have been able to buy the house they wanted without the help, the report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found. It also
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