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More than 90,000 people have signed a petition calling for Giorgi Kakava, originally from Georgia, to be allowed to stay in Glasgow.

A church minister is calling on the Home Secretary to show “compassion, decency and common sense” in the case of a 13-year-old boy whose leave to remain in the UK has expired. Giorgi Kakava, 13, was three when he fled to Scotland from Georgia with his mother Sopio Baikhadze, who died in 2018. He was granted permission to stay in the UK along with his grandmother and legal guardian, Ketino Baikhadze, in July 2018 after the Church of Scotland launched a campaign. However, their residence permits expired in December. Reverend Brian Casey,  minister of Springburn Parish Church in Glasgow, sa...

email article Both commonly used methods of screening for gestational diabetes were equally effective at identifying complication risks, according to a head-to-head trial. In this study, over 20,000 pregnant women were randomly assigned to either a one-step screener using just a glucose tolerance test or a two-step screener involving a glucose challenge test followed by an oral glucose tolerance test. The one-step screening method diagnosed nearly double the amount of gestational diabetes cases versus the two-step process, reported Teresa Hillier, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Northwest in P...

Wintertime Sunshine: Brighten Your Meals—and Mood—With Citrus Chefs and bakers share tips and recipes for making the most of peak citrus season That the year’s coldest, darkest season is also prime time for citrus feels like a small gift from nature. Just when we’re most in need of sunshine, weighed down by dreary weather and a steady diet of rich braises and stews, oranges and clementines, grapefruits and pomelos, even humble lemons and limes are shining their brightest, here to lift and lighten our meals and spirits alike. In honor of the season, I asked a few citrus-loving chefs an...

Thursday's Afternoon Update | 1/28/2021 Florida Gov. DeSantis unveils state budget, eyes teacher pay raises Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday touted the state’s “fiscal health” amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying he’s proposing another pay raise for teachers and an increase in per-student spending. DeSantis rolled out his 2021-2022 budget during a news conference at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, saying Florida is better off than many other states that took a harder stance on lockdowns during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. More from WKMG and the Sarasota Herald-Tr...