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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. 

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.