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Investigators will probe how Britain’s worst rail tragedy for a decade went unnoticed for a ‘significant’ period of time due to poor mobile phone signal. Passenger Chris Stuchbury, 62, train driver Brett McCullough, 45, and conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, were killed after a ScotRail 6.38am service from Aberdeen to Glasgow derailed and slid down an … Read more
Poor care is ‘the norm’ at baby scandal hospitals: Standards are still falling at NHS trust at centre of a maternity scandal, health watchdog warns Care Quality Commission said poor care is the norm at Shrewsbury and Telford Inspectors singled out incompetent leadership and out-of-their-depth staff They found examples of nurses blaming each other for … Read more
Walking through the City of London last week was an eerie and disturbing experience. This is an area I know well through my long career in finance. It is usually throbbing with life. Pavements are crowded, roads congested, offices packed, entrance doors in perpetual motion. Yet, on Monday afternoon, I felt as if I had … Read more
The rich get richer: ‘Wealth gap’ between rich and poor has existed in human society for at least 6,500 years since people started inheriting farmland from their ancestors, Polish skeletons reveal Richer people had better diets and were also buried with more grave goods Amount of copper ornaments reveals some people were wealthier than others Skeletons … Read more
Wether you eat a vegan or meat heavy diet and your socioeconomic status can be determined simply by looking at proteins in your hair, a new study found. A study led by a team at the University of Utah examined proteins in discarded hair found in rubbish bins from barbershops and salons across 20 US … Read more
While the world works tirelessly to combat the deadly coronavirus, a new report identifies the ‘greatest risk to human health’ – poor air quality. New data from the Air Quality Index (AQLI) reveals air pollution cuts global life expectancy by nearly two years. Nearly a quarter of the world’s population lives in just four south Asian … Read more
Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be infected with and die from the novel coronavirus, regardless of where they live, a new study suggests. Researchers found almost three times the number of cases and and deaths in wealthy minority neighborhoods compared to similar areas that have mostly white residents. This was true across … Read more
A window cleaner who says he gave away his dead brother’s fortune to the poor in gold coins faces a £250,000 bill after a judge ordered him to repay his family. Peter Ivory, 58, from Hendon, London, claims he ‘did the right thing’ by following tube driver Mick’s wishes not to let the rest of … Read more
Retired NRL star Sam Burgess made headlines last week when he revealed that rapper Kanye West had called him ‘poor’ to his face at a London hotel five years ago. Many Australians were left baffled by the anecdote – not least because Sam is in fact quite wealthy – but now the truth behind the pair’s … Read more
The most deprived areas of England have coronavirus death rates twice as high as the richest areas, stark official data confirms. People living in the poorest areas of the country, which are typically inner city boroughs in London, Birmingham and the north of England, have suffered an average of almost 140 Covid-19 deaths for every … Read more