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More than two out of five young passengers who die in car crashes are not wearing a seat belt, according to new analysis. The AA Charitable Trust, which conducted the research, said it highlights the “simple importance of wearing a seat belt”. Its analysis of Department for Transport data found 43% of car passengers aged 17-29 who died in crashes on Britain’s roads between 2019 and 2023 were unbelted. The […]

Vapes are four times more profitable to convenience stores than tobacco amid a nine-fold increase in sales of the devices in three years, according to a study. Convenience stores make an average profit of 37.1% for vape products compared with 8.5% for tobacco products, figures from September 2022 analysed by the University of Edinburgh show. Meanwhile, the average weekly number of transactions per store which included vapes rose sharply from […]

Drinking coffee in the morning could bring more health benefits than drinking a few cups throughout the day, according to a new study. Researchers wanted to assess whether the time of day people drink coffee has any impact on their health. They studied more than 40,000 adults in the US taking part in long-term studies examining health, nutrition and lifestyle. They found two distinct patterns of coffee drinking – those […]

State schools in England could face “very tight” budgets as rising costs are likely to outstrip the growth in school funding, a report has estimated. School costs could rise by around 3.6% in 2025/26 if the pay review body follows the Government’s recommendation for a 2.8% pay award for teachers in 2025, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The report on education spending in England estimates that mainstream […]

Exercising in the year before a cancer diagnosis can reduce the odds of the disease progressing by up to 27%, a study has suggested. The promotion of exercise “can yield important benefits”, researchers said, not only in cancer progression but also in the prevention and management of the disease. The South African study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, included 28,248 people with stage one cancers, the most […]

The Health Secretary has said he feels “ashamed” at the experiences of some patients in the NHS, admitting that some patients are being taken to hospital “to die” because the right care is not available when they need it. It comes after a number of NHS trusts declared critical incidents due to “exceptionally high demands” in emergency departments, with a patient at one hospital forced to wait 50 hours to […]

A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police said. The teenager was treated at the scene in Woolwich but died soon after medics arrived, the force said. The youngster was on a route 472 bus on Woolwich Church Road near the junction with the A205 South Circular Road, close to the Woolwich Ferry. Police were called at 2.28pm on Tuesday. No […]

Members will work to rule and ban overtime from January 20 Workers at the Civil Aviation Authority are to take industrial action for the first time in 40 years in a dispute over pay. The Prospect union said its members will work to rule and ban overtime from January 20, warning the action could have an impact on the industry and ultimately affect passengers. Prospect said the dispute is over […]

Will instead rely on 'community notes' Meta is to scrap its longstanding fact-checking programme in favour of a community notes system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Instead of using news organisations or other third-party groups as it does currently, Meta will rely on users to add notes to posts that might be false or misleading. The changes will affect Facebook and Instagram, the company’s two […]