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Scottish island with population of just 30+ seek new residents.

The remote Scottish island - The Isle of Rum which lies off Scotland’s west coast is seeking interested people to apply to live in new houses being built in a bid to expand her community.  The homes are based in Kinloch, the only village on the remote island, which currently has a population of about 30. 

Meet Ruthie Tompson the Disney Animation Pioneer who has survived both the Spanish flu and the Corona virus

Born in 1910 in Portland Maine, Ruthie Tompson was just 8 when the Spanish flu pandemic broke.  While her memories of that cataclysm are thin ("I was young at the time"), she's spoken of wearing a mask, amid crowds of others doing the same, during celebrations that marked the end of World War I.

Glasgow man attack three cops after believing his girlfriend broke lockdown rules to see other men

A 35 year - old man named as Edward Harrison from Glasgow flew into rage as he turned on his girlfriend Frances Ferguson at her home in Glasgow’s Blackhill in April after believing she broke the government’s imposed lockdown rules to be with other men.  He trashed her car before attacking three police officers when they turned up to tackle him.

MIT engineers design an affordable and reusable face mask that's as effective as an N95

Engineers and researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed a new type of face mask that could    potentially be a game-changer. In a laboratory setting, the prototype worked as well as a N95 respirator at filtering out virus-containing particles.

Family awarded £37m - One of the largest maternity negligence claims in NHS history

The NHS has been ordered to pay £37m in compensation to the parents of a brain-damaged child after one of the country's leading hospitals admitted it was at fault in a maternity negligence claim against it.  The reason for the award is because the child at the centre of the £37m payout, who cannot be named for legal reasons suffered brain damage at birth due to maternity staff at the NHS trust not spotting he was in the breech position - meaning feet or buttocks first. This should have been picked up before labour but once midwives recognised what was happening and his heart rate began to drop, his mother was rushed to surgery for an emergency caesarean section. The delays in being born meant he was starved of oxygen for too long and suffered permanent brain damage, leaving him with complex disabilities and needing two carers during both night and day. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has admitted mistakes in how the boy’s birth was handled in 2013 which consequen...

Woman treated with hormone blockers to reassign gender as a teenager takes NHS to court- I should have been told to wait.

Keira Bell said the care she received for gender dysphoria, a condition where a person experiences distress due to a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity, steered her towards medical treatment. Ms Bell, who used to identify as a boy, was 15  when she went to the Tavistock Centre in London. She said after "roughly three sessions" she started receiving hormone blockers.

Finally we see a picture of princess Beatrice in her wedding dress

Its no longer news Princess is married.   About 20 close friends and family including Beatrice's parents, Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew attended the socially distanced ceremony, which was officiated by The Reverend Canon Paul Wright and The Reverend Canon Martin Poll.  Prince Andrew put the Epstein saga behind him  and proudly walked his daughter down the aisle.

Hong Kong to require passengers from ‘high-risk’ countries to test negative before flying as city records 38 new Covid-19 cases

The  government of Hong Kong     is drafting tighter measures to weed out imported coronavirus patients amid a third wave of local     infections which is stretching her hospitals and quarantine facilities. 

Email Ordering Amazon Employees to Delete TikTok From Phones Sent ‘In Error’ -- Spokesman

Amazon.com Inc. sent out emails requiring its hundreds of thousands of employees to remove the TikTok app from company mobile devices due to unspecified security risks. 

From the house of Moschino - 2021

United States looking at banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps - Pompeo

The U.S. is "looking at" banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during an interview on Fox News on Monday. 

Former Labour Party MP Eric Joyce pleads guilty to making indecent photo of a child.

Former Labour MP Eric Joyce has pleaded guilty at Ipswich Crown Court to making an indecent photograph of a child. The former shadow minister, from Worlingworth, Suffolk, was arrested in November 2018. Joyce quit the Labour Party to serve as an independent MP for Falkirk in 2012 before stepping down ahead of the 2015 general election.

Halle Berry decides against playing Transgender character in upcoming film.

Halle Berry has pulled out of the running to play a transgender man in a upcoming untitled film after social media backlash. The news that Berry was considering playing a transgender man in a yet to be titled film was met with a wave of crticism on social media with people highlighting the ongoing problem in Hollywood of a cisgender actor playing a transgender person

2 NHS Paramedics stabbed in Wolverhampton.

A man has been arrested after two paramedics were stabbed in Wolverhampton. They were attacked after attending a callout to check on the welfare of a man in Stephens Close at about 12.15pm on Monday. A statement from the West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "Shortly after arrival, the crew used their emergency alert to say that they had been stabbed.

Ellen DeGeneres show will not be cancelled - Show producers say amid ratings slump and scandals linked to her off-camera conduct.

Telepictures can confirm it’s untrue,' reps for the talk show host's production company told the New York Post on Wednesday following rumours that The Ellen  DeGeneres show might be canceled' amid sagging ratings and multiple reports of unkind off-camera behaviour the past three months.