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UK fertility timebomb: Crisis as birth rates drop to all time low with some areas becoming ‘baby deserts’ as so few are having children
Health

UK fertility timebomb: Crisis as birth rates drop to all time low with some areas becoming ‘baby deserts’ as so few are having children

Britain’s fertility timebomb was laid bare today with the lowest birth rate ever recorded in official statistics.  England and Wales recorded an average of 1.44 children per women of childbearing age as of 2023, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) today. Experts fear falling rates will lead to population decline — with fewer working age adults

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Sick pay timebomb that risks a lost generation of workers
Business

Sick pay timebomb that risks a lost generation of workers

BBC The UK is sick. It’s much sicker than other similar countries, and the situation is getting worse, snowballing into a health, social, medical, economic, and potential budgetary crisis. We are heading to an all-time record for health-related benefits, according to recent forecasts, and the Treasury is worried. The rise in the bill for working-age

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I went on a terrifying trip on the doomed Titan submarine and knew it was a timebomb and the CEO was a cowboy: One of the last passengers tells what it was really like underwater
World

I went on a terrifying trip on the doomed Titan submarine and knew it was a timebomb and the CEO was a cowboy: One of the last passengers tells what it was really like underwater

The call came one morning in June last year, when documentary cameraman Brian Weed was at his home in California. ‘Had he heard?’ one of his colleagues asked. ‘The Titan sub is missing.’ The same exchange was criss-crossing the globe, in horrified texts and phone calls as news that the submersible, taking wealthy tourists on

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I thought I had acid reflux, then doctors discovered ticking ‘timebomb’ health condition that could kill me any minute
Health

I thought I had acid reflux, then doctors discovered ticking ‘timebomb’ health condition that could kill me any minute

For years, Rich Bugay struggled with a burning mouth he thought was due to acid reflux. But no matter how often the father-of-three, from Michigan, used cough drops— the symptom never seemed to go away.  Doctors failed to diagnose him for years — some thought he had chronic reflux, and he even underwent a colonoscopy

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