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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Update: Officers searching for missing Poole teenager Kayla Orchard are please to confirm she has been found. Kayla, aged 15, was reported missing having last been seen on a bus in the town at around 9.15pm on Monday 28 March 2022. Following searches and enquiries by officers, she has now been located. We...
Update: Officers investigating a report of a concern for welfare incident in Poole are pleased to confirm that the woman involved has been located safe and well. Dorset Police received a report at 6.53pm on Monday 28 March 2022 that a female passenger of a car shouted for help while the...
Labour MP Dawn Butler has said she is taking time off to recover after being diagnosed with breast cancer following a routine mammogram. The 52-year-old said "everything stood still" when she received the diagnosis but that the cancer had been identified at an early stage and a subsequent operation was...
From 1 January 2022, if you are aged 25-49, the gap between routine tests has now changed from 3 to 5 years, meaning an additional 2 years between cervical screening and potentially seeing further deaths from cervical cancer! On average 3197 cases of cervical cancer are discovered each year with 854...
“The history of medicine is littered with wonderful early results which over a period of time turn out to be not so wonderful — or in fact even adverse…there are a whole string of recent examples where preliminary data led to a lot of excitement and caused changes in...
The Chancellor, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, today presented his Spring Statement to Parliament. Responding to the Statement and what it means for unpaid family carers across the UK, Carers Trust’s Chief Executive Officer, Kirsty McHugh, said: “Carers Trust research last month showed that unpaid carers are at the sharp...
A desperate plea by money saving expert Martin Lewis for government to step up and start representing the people they are supposed to. “As the ‘Money-Saving Expert’ I am virtually out of tools to help people now. It’s not something money management can fix. We need political intervention.” Martin Lewis appeals...
Officers investigating a serious injury road traffic collision in Lytchett Matravers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant dashcam footage to come forward. Dorset Police received a report at 4.08pm on Monday 21 March 2022 of a collision in Wareham Road involving a bus and a pedestrian. Officers attended, along...
A crackdown on under-age sales of e-cigarettes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, has revealed that more than half of the shops visited by trading standards are illegally selling vaping products to children. Two 14-year-old volunteers were sold a disposable vape in three out of five premises across BCP without being...
The liver is the largest internal organ in the body, with over 500 different functions, including: digestion, metabolism, removal of toxins, and nutrient storage. If our liver is unhealthy, it inhibits the body to work properly, effectively digest food, and clear toxins from our body. Illness can more easily set in. It...