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Daughter of British citizen and pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai who has been jailed by China reveals she has been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of cancer
Claire Lai, the daughter of jailed British citizen and Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, has revealed she has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of cancer at the age of 30. The news reportedly caused her 78-year-old father, who has endured six years in prison including prolonged solitary confinement, to break down in…
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Now scandal-hit NHS Tayside accused of electro-shock therapy failings
NHS Tayside, already the subject of a public inquiry over a rogue brain surgeon, has been accused of clinical negligence after admitting it failed to carry out proper checks on patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The health board did not conduct adequate assessments before or after the treatment, meaning doctors could not tell whether patients…
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Uproar as Australian man beats a puppy to death – before eating it – on an island near Bali during wedding festivities to local bride: As video explodes across internet, he responds
An Australian man has caused widespread anger after video emerged showing him beating a puppy to death with a stick and later boasting about eating it, during wedding celebrations on an Indonesian island near Bali. Robby Wirramanda, whose real name is Robert Knight, is a 53-year-old former prison inmate from Mildura, Victoria, who was previously…
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Two children, 11 and 13, and woman, 21, are rushed to hospital after fairground ride ‘malfunction’
Two young children and a woman were rushed to hospital after a fairground ride reportedly malfunctioned at Maltby Crags Fair in Rotherham on Friday evening. South Yorkshire Police confirmed that a boy and girl, aged 11 and 13, along with a 21-year-old woman, were injured while on one of the rides and taken to hospital…
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Hong Kong jails democracy activists as Green Party rocked by exodus, Chelsea cash nets £175m
Vigil organisers get up to seven years in a Tiananmen crackdown case; Green Party women quit citing misogyny while Gove offers Holyrood schools advice; frozen Abramovich Chelsea funds earn record interest, plus FBI, Meta and Hogwarts Legacy news.
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‘Sadness’ as Yorkshire benefits hotspot troubled with ‘litter and drugs’
Residents of Brightside, an area in north Sheffield, have spoken of their sadness after it was named one of Yorkshire’s benefits hotspots, with locals describing ongoing problems with litter and drugs on the streets. The area, alongside neighbouring Hillsborough, has the county’s highest proportion of working-age adults claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a benefit for…
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MPs reject assisted dying bill as 9/11 remembered and Kirk marks Charlie’s death
UK MPs voted down the assisted dying bill 286-270, Israel says it destroyed a huge Hezbollah tunnel complex, and America marked 25 years since 9/11 as Erika Kirk honoured her husband a year on.
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‘Onwards and Sideways’ Director John Madden on Returning to TIFF After 16 Years With His Parkinson’s Romantic Drama Starring Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans
Director John Madden is returning to the Toronto International Film Festival after 16 years to premiere “Onwards and Sideways,” a romantic drama inspired by writer Paul Mayhew-Archer’s own experience of living with Parkinson’s disease. The film, starring Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans, follows two strangers who are diagnosed with the condition on the same morning…
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‘Very hot’ coffee and tea linked to higher cancer risk in nearly 1 million adults
A large University of Oxford study has found that regularly drinking tea or coffee at very high temperatures is linked to a substantially higher risk of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), a cancer affecting the cells lining the gullet. Researchers said people who described their drinks as “very hot” had around three times the risk…