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Improving Clarity In News Category Titles And Openings

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Hymie

Obesity Increases The Risk Of Death From The Covid Virus

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9327011/Wake-call-West-experts-call-obesity-clamp-Covid-report.html According to the report by the World Health Organisation, no country where less than 40% of...

KARL

Covid Statistics

There is an interesting 14 day report available for the EEA at https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea which is updated fortnightly, then showing not only countries' but their individual...

dave50

What's Happened At The Borderd After Brexit, Any Hold Ups?

Anybody know if there has been hold ups at customs and queues of lorries waiting at the borders because of paperwork as was predicted? It seems to have gone quiet, I have heard the occasional snippet...

Theblip

Beware The Narcissist

Here’s what narcissism is: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder.htm. someone currently in the news ticks almost every box there, so should their claims...

Nurses Pay Rise

would you accept a tax increase to give the NHS staff a bigger pay rise? If everyone who clapped agreed they could pay them more but I wonder how many would actually agree to paying for it?

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Freed They Say

the woman who has been in the iranian slammer for five years has they say been freed. Pardoned last year and served the last day yesterday which doesnt sound much like a pardon to me Anyway good news...

Married Couple In America Give An Interview To Ophray Winfrey

What's the big deal? If you want to avoid watching it, I'm sure you will be able to do...

I Know It's The Weekend But 0 Deaths?

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ ....I hope that's right....

Farage

Nigel Farage has quit politics for good ......... Goodbye,,,,,and,,,,,Good Riddance.

If All Else Fails

Try that history lesson you did all those years ago... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56295261...

dave50

Is The Proposed 1% Rise For Nhs Workers Fair?

Considering what's been going on over the past year, the billions spent supporting the economy and the number of unemployed going through the roof when furlough ends, I think it is. The public sector...

Oh Dear

Boris Johnson ‘misled parliament’ over Covid contracts, court order shows...

Sunk

Are You Being Overcharged For Broadband?

Think yourself lucky. One resident in a small London Street has been charged £33,394.63 for broadband equipment....

wolf63

Flying Ships Do Exist

I can't get my head around how this happens but these photos are very good https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719...

Gotcha ...

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-mystery-sixth-person-in-uk-with-brazilian-covid-19-variant-of-concern-is-found-12236917...

Making Cash Cows Out Of The Terminally Dim?

https://news.sky.com/story/waterstones-and-amazon-urged-to-add-warning-tags-as-anti-vaccination-book-sales-surge-12234972 Like conspiracy theories through the ages, the latest one provides a rich...

webbo3

Serious Incident In South Wales

https://news.sky.com/story/number-of-casualties-as-police-deal-with-serious-incident-in-wales-12236835 \\Police are dealing with a serious incident involving a number of casualties in South Wales.//...

Apc2604

Should The Areas With Rising Covid Levels Be Put Into Much Stricter Restrictions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56210665 There is evidence that in most of these areas the rise is due to to multiple occupation housing and poor vaccine take up. Should these areas have strictly...

What Is Wrong With The Markle?

Has she got a psychological problem? One wonders what she is going to do next .... and why is she still a ‘Duchess’ ?...

How Low Can Thugs Go?

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gateshead-pensioner-79-brutally-attacked-19965710...

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