January 8, 2018 In an effort to vault genetics into a new era of big data, six drug companies say they will decode the genes of half a million Brits and then make the data public all by 2020. The plan will turn the UK Biobank, the source of the DNA samples, into the world s single biggest concentration of genetic and healthÃÂ .
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Wednesday, 5th May 2021, 3:48 pm
Harborough MP Neil O’Brien has been handpicked by Boris Johnson to head up the Prime Minister’s flagship mission to ‘level up’ the country.
Harborough MP Neil O’Brien has been handpicked by Boris Johnson to head up the Prime Minister’s flagship mission to ‘level up’ the country.
Neil, 42, told the Harborough Mail today that he was “proud and excited” to have been chosen by the Premier personally to carry out his pledge to the north of England.
The Conservative MP is being handed the high-powered role weeks after making national and international headlines when he was hit with hardline sanctions by China – and banned from going there.
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By Hugh Pym
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image captionSir Simon Stevens stayed in the job to oversee the NHS rollout of Covid vaccinations
Think like a patient, act like a taxpayer. That was the mantra of the head of NHS England.
There is even a sign made by one of his children in his office as a reminder.
Sir Simon Stevens oversees an annual budget of about £130bn. But this does not stop him monitoring the smaller change. He took a pay cut compared to his predecessor when starting his role and banned first class rail travel amongst NHS management.
4 May 2021
Equalities Minister Liz Truss evoked Boris Johnson’s and Joe Biden’s globalist-progressive “Build Back Better” slogan when she announced the cost for trans people to legally change gender would be cut from £140 ($195) to just £5 ($7).
The minister for the notionally Conservative British government announced on Tuesday: “As we build back better, we want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in modern Britain.
“In the National LGBT Survey, 34% of transgender people told us that the cost of applying for a certificate was holding them back from doing so.
“Today we have removed that barrier, and I am proud that we have made the process of getting a certificate fairer, simpler and much more affordable.”
In Syria, British people are being unlawfully detained in hellish detention camps that are becoming Europe s version of Guantanamo – Elish Angiolini
In 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May issued an unprecedented public apology to two Libyan dissidents who at the height of the ‘war on terror’ were kidnapped, tortured and rendered to Colonel Gaddafi’s torture chambers with the help of MI6.
Tuesday, 4th May 2021, 4:45 pm
The controversial US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba saw protests outside the US embassy in London. Now British nationals are being similarly unlawfully detained in camps in Syria (Picture: Fiona Hanson/PA)