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Recent data shows 1,320 people in England and Wales died of asthma last year Via: Londoners more worried about air pollution than rest of UK, survey claims

Giving fewer transfusions and only in the most severely platelet-deficient babies reduced deaths and serious bleeding Via: Premature babies could have better chance of survival with less treatment, trial with 'major implications' finds

Rolling coverage of market reaction to Donald Trump’s trade optimism and US non-farm payrolls 1.58pm GMT With the words of Donald Trump, we are closing for the week.Thank you for following business live today. JJ 1.55pm GMT US president Donald Trump wasted little time in hailing the jobs report, encouraging Read more

Labour MP seeks answers amid reports PM stymied security services in 2016A Labour MP has asked Theresa May whether she or any other minister had ever declined a request from the security services to conduct an investigation into the controversial Leave.EU campaign donor Arron Banks.Ben Bradshaw wrote to the prime Read more

Readers discuss the scientists they would like to see on a new £50 note after the Bank of England asked for nominationsAdd your suggestionAlan Turing seems a popular choice here and rightly so. He’s the father of AI, which is very on trend technologically right now. He was also treated Read more

From Machu Picchu, Lima, Cusco and Lake Titicaca, Bailey’s Peru is a collection of images shot by the photographer while on location for Vogue in 1971 and Tatler in 1984. Struck by the natural beauty he witnessed on these assignments, Bailey set out to document people around the world in Read more

‘People dress up as Jimmy Saville and no one calls them a paedophile and the people who dress up as Hitler don’t get called supporters of Nazi propaganda either,’ woman insists Via: Mother who 'blacked up' young daughter for Halloween refuses to delete Facebook picture despite backlash

Sheets and bedding placed over sides of cot to prevent 19-month-old Ellie-May Minshull Coyle seeing outside Via: Pair found guilty over death of toddler tied to 'cage' bed

Sports minister Tracey Crouch resigned in protest over ‘unjustified’ delay on plans to cut the maximum stakes from £100 to £2 Via: Theresa May faces potential Conservative revolt over 'delays' to law on fixed-odds betting terminals

A new Met Office report has revealed that heatwaves in the UK are now lasting twice as long as they did 50 years ago and tropical nights are on the rise throughout the country. Via: Climate change sees more nights where temperatures don’t drop below 68F than ever before