Emily Bell BBC News, Jersey Danny Parkinson BBC News, Channel Islands BBC Adam Dalton was born with underdeveloped arms and no hands A Jersey teenager born with a congenital limb deficiency (CLD) said learning to play golf had been “life-saving” for him. Adam Dalton, who lives by the motto “no hands, no limits”, has underdeveloped...
Ian Youngs Culture reporter PA Media Speedo Mick walked through the Scottish Highlands in January 2023 Michael Cullen went from sleeping rough in Liverpool to raising £1m by doing charity walks in all weathers in just his swimming trunks. His story is now being celebrated in a stage musical. Just as Clark Kent turns into...
Cameron Angus-Mackay, Andrew Thomson & Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland News SNS Ross County’s George Harmon reacts to an injury during Monday night’s play-off final Highland club Ross County’s battle for survival in the Scottish Premiership fizzled out with a 4-2 defeat to Livingston on Monday night. Relegation has left the Staggies – and its home...
Emma Saunders Culture reporter at the Hay Festival Getty Images Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Picture Imperfect, an adult sequel to her 1999 children’s book, The Illustrated Mum, is out in August Celebrated children’s author Jacqueline Wilson has said she “would feel very wary” of writing about her beloved character Tracy Beaker in an adult book because...
BBC A South African woman convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison, along with her two accomplices. The jail terms for Racquel “Kelly” Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn’s come more than a year after Joshlin Smith mysteriously disappeared outside her home...
A group of UN human rights experts is raising alarm over a recently-passed Israeli law that allows children as young as 12 years old to be sentenced to life in prison, saying that the legislation is likely a violation of international human rights law. The experts say that the law, passed late last year, is...
A former college principal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has been sentenced to life in prison for sending a parcel bomb that killed a newlywed man and his great aunt in 2018. A court found Punjilal Meher, 56, guilty of murder, attempted murder, and use of explosives in what became known as the...
Image Credit: WXIA A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her family’s wishes because of the state’s “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law. Adriana Smith was declared legally dead in February after a medical emergency caused her brain function to cease. Smith, a nurse, had been initially turned...
Fi Lamdin & Emma Petrie BBC News Caters Photographic Luke Melling, right, meets Alastair Hawken three years after a life-saving stem cell donation A man with a rare form of blood cancer has travelled 10,000 miles to meet the stranger who saved his life. Luke Melling, 31, from Melbourne, Australia, says he was “staring death...
Wilson said he chose to seek therapy about a year ago, a decision stemming from an argument he had with a Newcastle physio during a gym session. The physio, who noticed a change in Wilson’s mood and demeanour in subsequent days, suggested he would benefit from professional help. “What I’ve realised is when football and...
America’s largest abortion provider is struggling against a downward trend since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision clarified that abortion is not a constitutional right but a matter for state laws. Last August the NY Times reported that abortion clinics all over the country were going broke. In February of this year the Times offered a...
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The ability to afford basic needs and wants in line with living a “dignified life” in the U.S. is increasingly out of reach, new research finds, naming wage stagnation and soaring prices as factors driving unaffordability. According to an analysis released by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) last week, a “minimal quality...
Stephen McDonell China correspondent EPA Australian Matthew Radalj was held for five years in a Beijing detention centre, similar to the one pictured above in 2012 Sharing a dirty cell with a dozen others, constant sleep deprivation, cells with lights on 24-hours a day; poor hygiene and forced labour. These are some of what prisoners...
At 93 John Shipton is still working Read full article at source...