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Fatima Khan File Photo U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders recently announced the top-11 authors of his 11th annual State of the Union essay contest with one hailing from Essex High School (EHS). Among the finalists was Fatima Khan, a junior at EHS, who wrote her essay about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, police brutality, and overcriminalization. Among the topics the other decorated essays focused on were the state of democracy in the U.S. and the need to strengthen the country’s democratic institutions. “During a year that has been immensely challengin...

A junior doctor who was close to death after being trapped under her van is set to make a full recovery thanks to the interventions of the region’s air ambulance. Elle Stott, 27, from Liverpool, had been enjoying a bank holiday weekend in the Lake District with her friends and had just said goodbye to them, after planning to stay one more night before returning home. She parked her campervan in a layby at Whinlatter Pass and went to retrieve something from the back, but as soon as she closed the doors it started to roll away. Ms Stott said: “I ran after it thinking I’ll jump in ...

AN ALMOST tragic incident highlighted the importance of the Great North Air Ambulance for one junior doctor.

© EPA/STR Electronic intelligence-gathering antennae used by GCHQ in Yorkshire, Britain The new 'authorised history' of GCHQ, Britain's largest intelligence agency, ignores or simply dismisses its most controversial activities as supposed scandals, giving a thoroughly one-sided account of the spy agency. First, it was the Security Service, MI5; then the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; now GCHQ has approved an authorised . GCHQ was the most secretive of Britain's security and intelligence agencies. Its eye-catching modern headquarters, widely referred to as "the doughnut", is now the best-...

First, it was the Security Service, MI5; then the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; now GCHQ has approved an authorised history. GCHQ was the most secretive of Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Its eye-catching modern headquarters, widely referred to as “the doughnut”, is now the best-known building in Cheltenham, a spa town in southwest England. GCHQ has more than 7,000 staff – many of them computer wizards, mathematicians and linguists – excluding Royal Air Force, Navy and Army signals experts working with the agency. It takes up the lion’s share of Britain’s £3-b...