Because of rare illness, Louise Moorhouse is on a special diet of pills or foul-tasting shakes. There’s a drug that would allow her to eat like anyone else – she took it for three years during a clinical trial. But the NHS won’t pay for it, reports the BBC’s Deborah Cohen – and the drug […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Pink was honoured with the outstanding contribution prize at the Brit Awards earlier this year Pop star Pink won’t post any more pictures of her children on social media after receiving a backlash for previous posts. The singer told The Ellen Show she had received “rude, mean-spirited” comments after
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Crossrail’s budget has risen by nearly £3bn since the project began London’s top transport boss should consider quitting, a report into Crossrail’s delays has recommended. The project, to build a new railway underneath central London, was due to open in December 2018 but it might not open until 2020 at
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As foreign leaders expressed solidarity with France as it mourned the damage at Notre Dame Cathedral, people around the world shared their grief on social media along with unforgettable memories from the Paris landmark. They posted selfies and family photos that were taken at Notre Dame days, years or decades before a fire burned through
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If you’re an Apple fan who has waited a year and a half to snag an AirPower wireless charging mat, we have bad news: In a rare reversal, the company has canceled the product. It was originally promised in September 2017, but sources told TechCrunch the charging coil design produced too much heat for safe
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Auburn gymnast Samantha Cerio has joined the ranks of the NFL’s Joe Theismann and Alex Smith ― and that’s not a good thing. The athlete was competing Friday at an NCAA regional semifinal in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when a blind landing in her floor routine went horribly wrong, ending her career as a gymnast. WARNING:
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The energy secretary says the UK has the “most detailed proposals” to hit carbon budgets, and backed legislation as the best way to tackle climate change. Claire Perry was responding to Ed Miliband’s call for a “climate emergency”, saying she was did not know what “that would entail”. The former Labour leader was asking her
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LOS ANGELES, March 31, (Variety.com) – Disney’s “Dumbo” had an underwhelming liftoff at the domestic box office. Tim Burton’s live-action remake debuted with $45 million from 4,259 North American theaters, below expectations heading into the weekend. While that was easily enough to top the domestic box office, it marks the lowest start among the studio’s
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Image copyright Alex Kilbee Image caption Liz O’Riordan was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 “Like many women, I did not check my breasts. I thought, ‘it’s not going to happen to me – I’m a breast cancer surgeon’.” Liz O’Riordan ended up having to give up the job she had trained 20 years
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Image copyright Press Association Emmerdale actress Shila Iqbal says she shouldn’t have been fired over historical racist and homophobic tweets she posted – but suspended instead. The 24-year-old, who played Aiesha Richards, was sacked earlier this month. At the time she apologised for using “inappropriate language” in tweets she’d sent in 2013, when she was
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