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Once confined to the fringes of muscle culture, there are now more than a million steroid users in the UK. While the physical effects of the drug are well known, less discussed is how it alters the mind. Everything from depression and paranoia to brain shrinkage and memory loss have been linked to steroids. Are users unwittingly giving up their mental health in pursuit of bodily gains?

MORE than £150 million needs to be spent to bring hospital buildings in the district up to scratch, figures have revealed. NHS Providers warned that the speed at which the NHS estate is falling into disrepair is putting patients’ lives at greater risk and making it more difficult for frontline staff to provide the right quality of care. Chief executive Chris Hopson said the backlog is now “broadly equivalent to the annual cost of running the entire NHS estate”. He added: “More ...

A RETIRED Bingley nurse who is now proprietor of nursing homes across the Bradford district has come back as a volunteer to help with Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. David Crabtree, 67, is proprietor Crabtree Care Homes Services Limited, which runs two nursing homes and and one home care agency in the Bradford district, including Sunningdale at Manningham, The Raikes Residential Home for the Elderly in Silsden and Ladies in Waiting, a domiciliary care agency in Ilkley. "Ive seen the deaths tha...