Three month supplies of slimming pills issued to former anorexic patient after cursory consultation with Romanian GP contracted by UK site Via: 'Dangerous' prescription drugs sold to UK patients and addicts without checks through regulation loophole, investigation finds
School work and social media blamed for rise to 13,500 patients from 7,300 in 1997The number of girls under the age of 18 being treated in hospital in England after self-harming has nearly doubled compared with 20 years ago, according to NHS figures.The figure reached 13,463 last year against 7,327 Read more
American pop star says she needs ‘time to heal and focus on my sobriety’The American pop singer Demi Lovato has spoken out about her battle with addiction, saying she needed “time to heal and focus on my sobriety” days after media reports said she was taken to a Los Angeles Read more
Charity urges government to change assessment process causing ‘chaos’ for working people Via: Universal credit claimants 'losing hundreds due to payment dates'
Michael Stirling to appear before magistrates on Monday Via: Samantha Eastwood: Man charged with midwife's murder
‘We asked them to investigate his death as a potential murder and asked them to as quickly as possible secure the evidence and look for toxicology tests, based on the murder by poison of Alexander Litvinenko. The police didn’t respond. Via: Police investigating Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy's death kept bosses Read more
Law enforcement searching a rural northern New Mexico compound for a missing 3-year-old boy didn’t locate him but found 11 other children malnourished and in filthy conditions. Via: ELEVEN malnourished children rescued from makeshift camp in New Mexico in hunt boy 3 missing Georgia
By July and August 1918, Australian forces on the Western Front were at their peak. They were seasoned, well-equipped soldiers with effective leaders at… Via: Diggers role in German army's black day
Today’s Birthday, August 6: Murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey (1990 – 1996 )Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the… Via: Today's Birthday 6/8
HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE:1623 – Death of Anne Hathaway, widow of William Shakespeare.1660 – Death of Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter who became a… Via: Today in History, August 6