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Road bosses REFUSED to install extra refuge areas on deadly section of smart motorway

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A lethal section of smart motorway was made less safe because those in charge refused to install extra refuge areas, a damning report highlights. Road bosses made the decision due to a potential 2 per cent increase in overall cost to implement it, the document exposed by the AA shows.    The document, produced by Highways … Read more

Baby born with a swollen head defies doctors who told his mother to terminate pregnancy

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A four-week-old baby born with a hugely swollen head is defying doctors who told his mum to terminate her pregnancy because he wouldn’t survive birth. Lorenzo Pontone was diagnosed with severe hydrocephalus, a condition which causes fluid to build up in the skull, making the brain swell, at his mother Nikky Lewis’s 20-week scan. Nikky, … Read more

Labour MPs Dawn Butler and Marsha de Cordova fury after BBC gets them mixed up 

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Labour MPs Dawn Butler and Marsha de Cordova have expressed anger at the BBC, after the broadcaster mixed up the two women.  BBC Parliament aired footage of Battersea MP Ms de Cordova speaking in the Commons on Monday but labelled it as ‘Dawn Butler, Labour Co-operative, Brent Central’. Ms Butler, who is currently campaigning to become … Read more

Furniture chain IKEA announces it is closing its first ever large UK store leaving 350 jobs at risk 

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Furniture chain IKEA is scrapping its Coventry store – the company’s first major UK closure since arriving 33-years-ago – leaving 350 jobs at risk Ikea is planning to close down its Coventry store, the first large UK store closure  Retailer said that the store was built on seven levels which impacted costs  It added that … Read more

Scientists create artificial ‘virus’ to break walls of resistant bacteria and defeat infection

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Scientists create an artificial ‘virus’ which can track down and destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria without being spotted by the immune system Scientists used the inspiration of a virus to design antibiotic from ground up Viruses like ‘solid cages’ built from tiny blocks, with shape determining function Researchers took shape and used it as scaffold to build … Read more

Dappy DMs a fan calling her a ‘fat ugly pig’ and demands she ‘stop taunting him’ in BIZARRE tirade

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N-Dubz star Dappy has attacked another of his fans by direct messaging her to brand her a ‘fat ugly pig’, a ‘tramp’ and a ‘b***h’. The mother-of-one, Jade Easthope, 26, from Doncaster, tweeted that she liked the 32-year-old’s latest song Splash, posting: ‘#Guiltypleasure #Nananiiiii [Dappy’s catchphrase]’  This, however, prompted Dappy – real name Costadinos Contostavlos – to … Read more

Pregnant Jodie Turner-Smith responds to trolls who criticised her for showing baby bump on TV

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Pregnant actress Jodie Turner-Smith hits back at trolls who said she had ‘no self-respect’ after wearing a crop top on TV Jodie Turner-Smith, 33, is expecting first child with husband Joshua Jackson, 41 Actress, who is seven months pregnant, was trolled after Graham Norton Show Took to Twitter to share full-length image of outfit alongside defiant … Read more

Young Georgian and Victorian men had ‘anxiety’ about money and ‘manliness’

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Dramatic demonstrations of anxiety were common in young men born into wealthy families of the 18th and 19th centuries, according to a new study. Historians say that younger sons of the gentry – the wealthy land-owning class – occupied an unstable position in society and used attention-seeking terms as a call for support. British academics … Read more