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  • HealthSky News

    'The worst thing you can imagine': Doctor who treated patients in infected blood scandal speaks out

    Edward Tuddenham is one of the few remaining haemophilia specialists to have treated patients at the beginning of the infected blood scandal in the early 1970s. To have infected patients with HIV and Hepatitis C in the course of treating them "is the worst thing you can imagine," he says. Prof Tuddenham went on to be one of the UK's leading haematologists, isolating the gene that makes the key "factor 8" protein lacking in many people suffering bleeding disorders.

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  • NewsAberdeen Live

    Parents pay tribute to baby who died in Aberdeenshire church car park

    Ivy Mae Ross tragically died following the incident on Wednesday night, and her parents have since paid tribute to the one-year-old who passed away after being taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

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  • NewsSky News

    New Caledonia: France bolsters security forces on island after deadly rioting over Paris voting reforms

    Police reinforcements have been arriving in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia as part of a major security crackdown following days of deadly rioting. An extra 1,000 personnel have been sent to the archipelago in addition to the 1,700 already deployed, after France imposed a state of emergency to tackle the unrest, which included a curfew and a ban on TikTok. Five people, including two police officers, have been killed in the violence which erupted following protests over voting ref

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  • NewsEvening Standard

    Protected Soho Tesco to be replaced with new office block and supermarket half the size

    A beloved Tesco’s in central London will be demolished and replaced with an office block and supermarket almost half the size under plans approved by Westminster City Council. Councillors said developers HECF Soho Limited had made “dramatic improvements” to the Dean Street and Soho Square scheme after refusing a similar design last year and voted unanimously to approve it during a planning meeting on Tuesday evening. Changes include carving out dedicated space for a supermarket to operate on g

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  • NewsAFP

    Decade-old image of Ugandan mudslide misleadingly shared as Kenyan landslide

    In the wake of a landslide in Kenya’s Kimende Escarpment, about 66 kilometres from the capital of Nairobi, online posts and publications shared an image of a rescue operation and claimed it showed the disaster. But the image is from Uganda and shows a mudslide that happened more than a decade ago.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv halts Putin’s advance in Kharkiv as Nato chief says Moscow ‘incapable’ of gains

    Putin’s troops lack skill and capability to achieve a breakthrough in Ukraine, says Nato official

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Hunt to unveil tax cuts and says they would rise under Labour ‘sure as night follows day’ - UK politics live

    Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his pre-electoral speech yesterday slamming the Tories for “14 years of chaos”

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