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Sky videoE.coli outbreak: Public warned not to eat specific product recalled as 'precautionary measure'
A third company has begun a recall over fears of possible E.coli contamination - with customers being urged to avoid eating a specific product.
- Manchester Evening News
Three warning signs you might have high cholesterol
High cholesterol is a common issue that can lead to serious health problems if not treated early - but there are ways to spot it just by looking at someone
- CNN
Japan reports record spike in potentially deadly bacterial infection
Cases of a dangerous and highly fatal bacterial infection have reached record levels in Japan, official figures show, with experts so far unable to pinpoint the reason for the rise.
- SWNS
Forager lives off plants he finds and claims they even cure his aches and pains
A man who lives off a diet containing 70 per cent foraged foods claims he cures his pain - with stinging needles. Jack Page, 31, has been in pain for the last four years after a suicide attempt left with severe injuries. But after learning about foraging he started using plant-based medicine to help ease his agony. He claims using cleavers - a climbing plant - on his legs helped him to walk again. He now drinks a juice made from it daily for pain management as well as rubbing stinging nettles on his joints.
- HuffPost Life
The Best Type Of Nuts For Snacking, Depending On Your Health Goals
Whether your priority is weight loss, blood sugar management, women's health or brain health, there's a nut for you.
- Manchester Evening News
M65 horror crash leaves four firefighters in hospital after fire engine overturns
An area was taped off by police after the smash
- The Independent
Moment Arizona sheriff’s deputy shoots dead seven starving and abandoned dogs after giving them water
Animal rights groups say deputy lacked judgement while sheriff’s office argues he acted within agency policy
- SWNS
60 firefighters tackle balcony blaze in central London flats
Firefighters can be seen tackling a blazing fire in a residential block in central London. The footage, taken by an anonymous bystander, shows a raging fire in the four-bed flat on the third floor of a 22-storey residential block in Spitalfields, London. Around 60 firefighters and eight fire engines attended the scene, with onlookers reporting a response time of around 10 minutes. One woman was led to safety by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus, and a further three people were treated on scene by London Ambulance Service. All four people were taken to hospital as a precaution.
- The Telegraph
How Emmanuel Macron lobbed a grenade at the hard-Right and blew up French politics
It is a picture that will go down in the annals of French political history.
- Manchester Evening News
Doctor issues stark 'much worse' warning in E.coli outbreak amid major food recalls
An E.coli outbreak has left people across the UK in hospital
- INSIDER
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says
Xi Jinping told an EU leader that the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, per the Financial Times, amid increasing tensions.
- The Telegraph
Reform UK manifesto: Nigel Farage’s key policies at a glance
Reform UK will release its “contract with the people” today, as Nigel Farage sets out his party’s vision to repair a “skint” UK.
- The Independent
General election latest: Farage’s Reform manifesto called ‘unserious’ for spending three times more than Truss
Parties continue to jockey for position with three more weeks still to go in general election campaign
- Sky News
Tories heading for 'warfare', Farage predicts, as ex-Cabinet minister pleads with voters to 'unite the right'
Nigel Farage has predicted the Tories will soon descend into "warfare" as a former Conservative minister warned voters about a "Labour elective dictatorship" if they voted for Reform. The Reform UK leader told The Sunday Telegraph that divisions in the party were only going to "get worse" in the run-up to polling day on 4 July. Mr Farage was speaking as three polls this week painted a bleak picture for Mr Sunak - and a sunny one for his party.
- The Independent
‘A ticking time bomb’: Grieving mother’s warning over deadly Chinese opioid epidemic
Exclusive: Musician Dylan Rocha, 21, had no idea the drugs he received in the post were laced with a deadly type of nitazene
- Manchester Evening News
"If I hadn't had gone to hospital that afternoon, I could have died in an hour"
Lindsey Ellis was 'told to prepare for the worst'
- Sky News
General election: Nigel Farage 'terrorising' Tories and Rishi Sunak too afraid, says Lord Mandelson
Nigel Farage is "terrorising" the Conservative Party and Rishi Sunak is afraid to take him on, Labour grandee Lord Mandelson has told Sky News. The former cabinet minister and spin-doctor, who masterminded Tony Blair's 1997 landslide win, argued the job of the Tory leader should be to stand up to Mr Farage and Reform UK rather than seeking to appease them. Trying to outflank Mr Farage had only served to embolden the maverick politician and make him stronger, the peer said as he appeared on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.
- The Telegraph
Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet amid row with army
Benjamin Netanyahu has formally disbanded his war cabinet after the former general Benny Gantz resigned over the failure to form a Gaza war strategy.
- The Conversation
Modern-day outlaws, ‘sovereign citizens’ threaten the rule of law
At the core of sovereign citizen beliefs is the denial of the legitimacy of the government. They do not believe they must obey any laws, nor that they can be held to account for lawbreaking.
- Associated Press
The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process
The IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Department says. The proposed rule and guidance announced Monday includes plans to essentially stop “partnership basis shifting" — a process by which a business or person can move assets among a series of related parties to avoid paying taxes. Biden administration officials said after evaluating the practice that there are no economic grounds for these transactions, with Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo calling it “really just a shell game.”