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Legend, The Trust says the building cannot be adapted to meet the latest acute mental health standards.Item informationAuthor, Michele Paduano Role, BBC Midlands Today, Health Correspondent22 minutes agoA troubled inpatient mental health unit looks set to close following a series of safety concerns.These include fires, patients suffering broken bones and staff expressing fears over the risk of death at Hill Crest, Redditch.To plug the recruitment gap, the body that runs the institution is currently spending £2.5 million a year on branch and bank staff, according to the BBC.Herefordshire & Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust said the closure proposal was…
The eight-part series, Are you sure?!will debut on August 8 BTS members Jimin and Jung Kook will embark on a new travel series, titled Are you sure?!which will be released exclusively on Disney+ on August 8. The eight-part series will follow the duo as they travel to New York City, Jeju Island in South Korea, and Sapporo in Japan. According to the press release, the reality show will “take viewers on a fun-filled journey with Jimin and Jung Kook as they eat, shop, cook, camp, canoe, swim, and travel together” and will offer “a deeper look at Jimin and Jung…
When Hurricane Beryl strengthened to become the first Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, it did so about two months before the peak of hurricane season.Storms typically form and intensify in August and September, because that’s when Atlantic waters are warmest, loaded with storm-producing energy from a sunny summer. But Beryl strengthened in Caribbean waters that were as warm as they normally are in mid-September, just as the calendar turned to July.Its record-breaking intensification, occurring earlier in the year than any previous storm, is a harbinger of a historically turbulent year that scientists have been warning about.…
Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak won the most votes in the second round of voting.Leon Neal | Getty ImagesWhile there’s bound to be a reckoning after the election, and some serious soul searching as to where things went wrong, political analysts tend to agree there was not much that Sunak could have done to repair serious damage done by previous leaders in recent years.John Curtice, one of the U.K.’s most highly-regarded polling experts, put the party’s demise down to two irreparably damaging events in recent years.”This is not an election about the ideological position of the parties, this is…
Former President Barack Obama has confided in his allies that President Biden’s weak debate performance last week will make it more difficult for the commander in chief to win in November, according to a report. Obama, 62, already believed his former vice president’s path to re-election was going to be a tough road, and he now feels Biden’s Election Day prospects are even more precarious, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing several people familiar with his remarks to Democrats that have reached out to him. The 44th president reached out to Biden, 81, after last week’s debate and offered to…
LONDON — LONDON (AP) — United Kingdom elections have a distinct vocabulary that draws on traditions of parliamentary democracy as well as modern political slogans and spin.As voters go to the polls Thursday to elect a new government, The Associated Press deciphers some key words and phrases:Battle busLuxury coaches rented by the main political parties to whisk politicians and journalists around the country for campaign visits during the five-week campaign. Labour has a red bus emblazoned with the word “change,” while the Conservatives’ blue bus promises a “clear plan, bold action, secure future.” The centrist Liberal Democrats’ yellow bus has…
This photo provided by Hyundai Motor Group shows an aerial view of HLI Green Power, an electric vehicle battery plant jointly built with LG Energy Solution in Indonesia, on July 3. YonhapHyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday it has completed construction of an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant jointly built with LG Energy Solution in Indonesia, giving the Korean auto giant a fully integrated electric vehicle production system in the Southeast Asian nation.Hyundai Motor Group announced that it has held a topping-out ceremony for the Hyundai LG Indonesia Green Power (HLI Green Power) battery plant in Karawang New Industry City,…
Trae Patton/NBC On July 2, 2024, the The fifth episode of season 19 of “America’s Got Talent” airs with a new group of auditions and a Golden Buzzer recipient. Terry Crews the judges are back Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum And Sofia Vergarafeaturing performances from this diverse group as well as a few memorable acts that failed to advance. But who were the standout performers this episode? And did any of them improve when they shouldn’t have? Below, we rank the 11 artists who went from worst to best. Do any of Tuesday’s performers have what it takes to…
For for as long as I can remember, our country has been defined by what we might call three fundamental truths that we consider British: firstly, our commitment to freedom, tolerance and the rule of law; secondly, our instinct for fairness; and thirdly, as an island and a trading nation, our commitment to engage with the world.And while in the heat of an election battle it is hard to see beyond the claims and counter-claims on taxes, spending and immigration, it is clear to me that there is much more at stake on 4 July than the headlines suggest. For…
Down angle icon An angle icon pointing down. Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Russian economy, boosted by military activity, is now classified as a high-income country by the World Bank.Russia’s GDP grew by 3.6% in 2023, driven by rebound in trade and financial sectors.The World Bank also upgraded Bulgaria and Palau, while the West Bank and Gaza were downgraded. The Russian economy has defied sanctions in the two years since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, so much so that the World Bank now classifies Russia as a “high-income country.”On Monday, the World Bank announced that it…