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‘I felt bad for my exes’: Awkwafina on making deeply personal TV – with her grandma
Awkwafina explores her family’s culinary legacy in a new Apple TV series featuring her grandmother, as she travels across the US learning from Asian American chefs to potentially revive her great-grandfather’s historic Cantonese restaurant.
How Maya Jama went from Bristol native to Celebrity Traitors star
Maya Jama, host of Love Island, competes in the final round of BBC’s The Celebrity Traitors, marking her rise from Bristol council house to major television presenter.
Ageing users and record deaths – the data behind Britain’s £9.8bn-a-year cocaine habit
Cocaine consumption in England rose 26% between 2021 and 2025, reaching an estimated £9.8bn annual market, with deaths hitting record levels as aging users face greater health risks.
Wellbeing support demand for cancer patients in Jersey grows
Macmillan Cancer Support Jersey reports significant growth in wellbeing support services over the past five years, with counselling sessions more than doubling and complementary therapy sessions rising substantially.
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A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter
Astronomers have identified the first stellar stream outside the Milky Way, a faint ribbon of stars that offers new insights into dark matter distribution and the universe’s gravitational structure.
‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed an AI-designed vaccine targeting multiple coronaviruses, marking the first time such a vaccine component was created by artificial intelligence and tested in humans.
NI health: Resident doctors begin strike action over pay
Resident doctors in Northern Ireland began a 24-hour strike on Monday over pay disputes, with consultants and specialist doctors having struck the previous week in the first such action for these groups in the region.
‘It can make you psychotic or give you a cardiac arrest’: why are so many children vaping the ‘prison drug’ spice?
Scientists found that 13% of vapes confiscated from children in English schools contained spice, a synthetic cannabinoid far more potent and dangerous than cannabis, with risks including psychosis and cardiac arrest.
‘Babies will be born in laybys’: maternity cuts leave women with stark choices in Devon
North Devon district hospital suspended maternity services due to unsafe staffing levels, forcing pregnant women to travel up to two hours to Exeter or Taunton for births.
Leading doctor rebukes NHS chiefs over transplant crisis
A senior NHS doctor has criticized the health service’s management of transplant services in England, citing workforce burnout, poor accountability, and cancelled operations in a leaked letter to BBC.
All aboard the cervical screening bus: how NHS clinic-on-wheels is saving lives
The NHS has launched mobile cervical screening buses across northern England, offering walk-in clinics to increase cancer screening rates among women who face barriers to traditional healthcare access.
IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about donors at northern Cyprus clinics
At least 30 British children may have been conceived using wrong donors at a northern Cyprus IVF clinic, with DNA tests suggesting parents received donors other than those they selected.
Lindsay Clancy begged for help before her children’s killings, mother-in-law testifies
Lindsay Clancy’s former mother-in-law testified that Clancy was “begging for help” before allegedly killing her three children, citing insomnia, appetite loss, and anxiety as signs of deteriorating mental health.
Record cyclosporiasis outbreak tests the response of a ‘weakened’ health system
A record cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to contaminated Mexican lettuce has sickened over 15,700 people, occurring amid significant cuts to federal and state food safety programs.
‘Billy’s thriving’: family’s joy as boy who helped legalise cannabis medicine in UK turns 21
Billy Caldwell, who helped legalize cannabis medicine in the UK, has reached his 21st birthday seizure-free and thriving after surviving severe childhood epilepsy that doctors initially said would be fatal.
UK men with heart disease at higher risk of developing and dying from cancer
Men with heart disease face substantially higher lifetime cancer risk compared with women, according to a 25-year UK study of 22,000 participants examining cardiovascular and cancer outcomes.