A cancer charity is warning people to do more to protect themselves from the sun as the number of melanoma skin-cancer cases in the UK continues to rise. Cancer Research UK predicts there will be a record 20,800 cases diagnosed this year – up from a yearly average of 19,300 between 2020 and 2022. Its...
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 50 people have been killed and scores injured in an explosion at a refugee camp near Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed carrying out an air strike targeting a Hamas compound in the area. It says it is reviewing the incident. Earlier in the day Hamas fired...
1 hour ago Jayne McCormack,BBC News NI political correspondent Getty Images Mrs Long previously held the seat from 2010 until 2015 Alliance leader Naomi Long is to stand as a candidate in the Belfast East constituency in the general election. Mrs Long previously held the seat from 2010 until 2015, when the DUP’s Gavin Robinson...
Doffman says that regardless of whether the football industry ultimately accepts that there is a causal link between the sport and dementia, it must do more to support players who are diagnosed with brain disease. “Even if they felt it wasn’t linked, they have a duty of care,” she said. Towards the end of Kinnear’s...
PA Media Alex Cole-Hamilton said the Lib Dems would end “neglect” towards dental care in Scotland The Scottish Liberal Democrats have promised patients will be able to see an NHS dentist at the first time of asking as a flagship policy of their general election campaign. The party’s leader, Alex Cole-Hamilton, accused the SNP and...
Passengers who were on board a Dublin-bound flight which experienced severe turbulence have described seeing people ‘hit the ceiling’ when the aircraft dropped very suddenly. Twelve people was injured during the incident on board Qatar Airways flight QR017 from Doha to Dublin. Eight of them were taken to hospital after the plane landed safely at...
News of the Conservatives’ plan to reintroduce national service for young people should it win the next general election continues to dominate Monday’s front pages, with the Daily Mirror calling it “desperate”. The move would “cost billions” and is “the last thing the military needs”, the paper says. It adds that a “leaked paper failed...
When Murray played Wawrinka in 2017, the pair were operating in the peaks of their careers. But the physical exertions of the match – and that tournament – exacerbated a hip injury which derailed Murray’s career and later needed surgery to prolong it. Being able to return to playing with a metal cap in his...
Police are currently at the scene of a stabbing in the Upper Water Street area of Newry. A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital for treatment to injuries, which are described as life threatening, the PSNI said. A second man, aged in his 20s, has also been taken to hospital for treatment...
Ten people have been killed and at least 160 other villagers have been kidnapped from a remote community in Nigeria’s central Niger state, officials say. A large number of armed men, suspected to be from Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram, invaded Kuchi village on Friday night, local official Aminu Abdulhamid Najume told the BBC’s...