The gift of life
A five-year-old girl will today receive a life-saving kidney transplant from her 64-year-old GRAN – the biggest ever age gap for a donation in the UK. Little Anna Harrison faced a lifetime of d ...
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This week in history – 1st December 2014
Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us. To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay ...
Urgent action is needed to prevent tens of thousands dying unnecessarily
New figures released by the ONS today show that there were 18,200 excess winter deaths last year from cold-related illness such as heart attacks and strokes. Although the overall number of deaths has ...
Government cannot take credit for fall in winter deaths among pensioners
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has called on ministers to acknowledge that today’s fall in the excess winter death figures among the elderly were du ...