A ban on junk food advertising across London’s entire public transport network will be introduced next year. Any posters for food and drinks that re high in fat, salt and sugar will be vanished from the Underground, buses and bus shelters. The London mayor Sadiq Khan has said he wants to tackle child obesity in…
An 18 -year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder a man who won a police bravery award in 2009. Abraham Badru was gunned down on Ferncliff Road, Dalston on 25th March. Abraham was a personal trainer who won a bravery award for preventing a woman being gang raped, he was found with…
A tax fraudster known as John Dalton used many identities to spend nearly a decade on the run has been jailed. John Dalton committed a £3.8m VAT fraud before fleeing the country in 2007. The 54-year-old re-emerged in Spain where he was detained and sent back to the UK in 2017. Inner London Crown Court…
Figures for England show that nearly one in four women have a mental illness with emotional problems such as depression and anxiety being the most common. The official NHS report found that young women aged between 17 to 19 were two times more likely to suffer with mental illness; 23.9% reported a disorder. In children…
This year 320,000 people were recorded homeless in Britain. It is a rise of 13,000 on last years figures and meaning around 36 new people become homeless every day. London has the highest rate of homelessness but in the Midlands, Yorkshire and north-west England the numbers are growing faster. There are around 67 people homeless…
There are nearly 7,000 children and young adults under 25 with type two diabetes in England and Wales. This is 10 times the number that was reported before (according to Diabetes UK). Its analysis of 2016-17 data found most were being treated in GP practices rather than specialist units. The condition is said to be…
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