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HARRY COLE: Here comes the girls! Boris Johnson promotes first of his rising star female MPs 

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HARRY COLE: Here comes the girls! Boris Johnson promotes first of his rising star female MPs By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:45 GMT, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 00:51 GMT, 23 February 2020 Boris Johnson has promoted the first swathe of rising-star female MPs from the 2019 intake. Fourteen Tories first elected … Read more

Coronavirus experts say it’s NOT the rising numbers of infections they fear

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Coronavirus experts are more worried that they are unable to trace where clusters of the bug are breaking out than they are about the rising numbers of infections.    In South Korea, Singapore and Iran, clusters of infections are leading to a jump in cases of the new viral illness outside China.    World Health Organization officials … Read more

Takeaway shops soar in areas with the worst obesity rising by up to a third

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Takeaway shops soar in areas with the worst obesity rising by up to a third despite the Government attempting to crack down on fast food The number of takeaway outlets has gone up in the most obese areas of Britain  The Government promised to reduce the number of takeaways in June 2018  But figures show … Read more

Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier at risk of collapse and may lead to sea levels rising by two feet

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Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier has ‘three guns of warm water’ surrounding it threatening to destroy the ice sheet and raise global sea levels by up to two feet. A team of scientists from Oregon State University made the most of ice free waters in West Antarctica to look under the glacier – which is about the … Read more

NASA launches new program to study impact of rising sea levels on the Mississippi River Delta

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NASA announces new program to study flooding in the Mississippi River Delta outside of New Orleans, where 5,000 square miles of land has been lost to rising sea levels since the 1930s NASA will travel to Louisiana to study the impact of rising sea levels  The Mississippi River Delta outside New Orleans has been hit … Read more

Scientists warn switching from gadget-to-gadget may be behind rising obesity rates

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How constantly looking at your phone and the TV could be making you obese: Switching from gadget to gadget can impair self-control and make it harder to resist temptation ‘Media multitasking’ reduces function in the brain region linked to temptation  Those who check their phones a lot spend more time in ‘food points-of-sale’ Researchers warn ‘media … Read more