Jim Murray from Bridgwater passed away peacefully at home with his wife Ally by his side. The father of three served with Avon and Somerset Constabulary for 20 years and leaves behind, Ally, who was his childhood sweetheart who he met at Chilton Trinity School and his sons, Richard, Callum and Simon. He also leaves behind his grandchildren Olivia, four, Erin, three, Chester, two and one-year-old Joel, as well as Wayne Byles, 38, who was all but a son since Jim and Ally took him in as a teenager. Jim was diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain tumour just after Christmas 2017 and was told that his survival prognosis was 12 to 18 months.
Posted on January 10th, 2021
The sunshine drug: vitamin D is created in the skin’s lower layers through the absorption of sunlight and plays a central role in immune and metabolic function Photograph: Getty Images
It’s cheap, widely available and might help us fend off the virus. So should we all be dosing up on the sunshine nutrient?
In March, as coronavirus deaths in the UK began to mount, two hospitals in northeast England began taking vitamin D readings from patients and prescribing them with extremely high doses of the nutrient. Studies had suggested that having sufficient levels of vitamin D, which is created in the skin’s lower layers through the absorption of sunlight, plays a central role in immune and metabolic function and reduces the risk of certain community-acquired respiratory illnesses. But the conclusions were disputed, and no official guidance existed. When the endocrinology and respiratory units at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals N
Support group launched for women who have experienced racial abuse
The new group has been launched by mental health charity Changes Bristol and begins this month
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£457,000 package: Louise Richardson (pictured) vice-chancellor of Oxford University has not taken a pay hit
Dozens of university bosses have taken no pay cut since the pandemic struck despite students suffering huge disruption, a Daily Mail analysis has revealed.
At least 46 vice-chancellors still have the same generous salaries they received before Covid-19 led to potentially months of lost learning.
Another eight who agreed to reduce salaries in the spring as staff were furloughed and lectures cancelled have now returned to full pay.
Only 22 university leaders are taking home smaller wage packets as a result of the pandemic.
It comes after UK universities asked for a £2billion bailout from the Government and a survey of 100,000 students found 65 per cent had no face-to-face teaching in November.
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Nick was raised on a small farm in Arncliffe, a village in the Yorkshire Dales, and educated in a one-room school four miles walk from his home.