Starting salaries for teachers could rise up to £30,000 by 2023, according to news government plans. The Department for Education said the move would make new teachers’ salaries, set to rise to £30,000 by 2022-23, “among the most competitive” in the graduate labour market. Unions say the increase is long overdue, and necessary, to attract…
A mysterious spacecraft has been orbiting the Earth for the past 720 days, and only the US Air Force knows why… This is the fifth mission of the uncrewed and solar-powered x-37b space plane. The Orbital Test Vehicle 5 mission launched way back in September of 2017, with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9…
According to analysis carried out by Cancer Research UK, the number of cigarettes smoked each year in England continues to fall by more than a billion a year. On average monthly cigarette consumption fell by a quarter between 2011 and 2018, equating to roughly 118 million fewer cigarettes smoked each month. The latest available data…
According to a recent report published by the CDC, over 250 people across 32 states fell sick with a strain of Salmonella that’s resistant to multiple antibiotics between June 2018 and March 2019. At least two people died from the infection, and a further 60 cases were so severe that they required hospitalisation. The outbreak…
A Dutch doctor has appeared in court after performing euthanasia on a patient suffering with severe dementia. The 74 year old patient was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease when she died in 2016, and prosecutors say the doctor did not do enough to verify consent. It is the first case of its kind since the Netherlands…
An individual who used a vape and was later hospitalised with severe respiratory illness, has died. Making them the first person known to die from an illness causes by vaping. It comes after the CDC launched an investigation earlier this month following reports of a mysterious lung disease affecting almost 100 people this summer across…