Northern Ireland hospitals: Healthcare in ‘perfect storm’
BBC Prof Mark Taylor says a solution needs to be found for all of the trusts A consultant surgeon has said Northern Ireland’s emergency departments have been in the midst…
The Wanted singer ‘wrote will from hospital’
Getty Images The Wanted singer Max George has revealed he wrote his will from a hospital bed before having surgery for a heart condition. “I thought I was going to…
Driving instructor fined for illegal parking during lesson
Merseyside Police The instructor had stopped so the student could quickly visit a shop, police said A learner driver and their instructor who parked on double yellow lines because the…
Injured walker’s mountain rescue hampered by parked cars
Edale MRT A helicopter form Humberside was called to assist in Derbyshire’s Peak District Parked cars hampered the rescue of a walker who suffered “very painful” injuries in a fall…
Trump threats cast ominous shadow over icy fjords of Greenland
BBC The sun is rising over the ice-covered mountains of Nuuk fjord and we are travelling along one of the world’s last wild frontiers. But there are shadows gathering here…
‘I’d be dead if I hadn’t opened my guitar shop’
supplied Guitar Shack has had six different shops in Sheffield starting in Walkley in 2007 It all started in a quiet Sheffield suburb. Former musician Ross Jackson had just turned…
Girl, two, tries new foods in hospital car park
Gemma Whatling Seren had her first anaphylactic shock when she was eight months old A two-year-old has allergies so severe that her parents have to get her to try new…
Los Angeles fires: ‘Everything is gone’
BBC Professional chef Daron Anderson always tells people he was “born in the kitchen” – quite literally. The 45-year-old was delivered by homebirth at 295 West Las Flores Drive, where…
Sudanese army claims capture of key eastern city from rebels
The army in Sudan says it has captured a key city in the country’s east, one of its biggest gains yet in an almost two-year-long war against rebel forces. Footage…
Police officer dies after collision near Thirsk
A North Yorkshire police officer has died after she was struck by a lorry while helping at the scene of an earlier road accident. PC Rosie Prior was standing on…