Parliament Hill Lido has urged visitors to have shorter swims now that temperatures have dropped.
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Opinion: Why the US is having shortages of antibiotics now
Remember the shortages of personal protective equipment in March 2020? Now it’s medications for kids.
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Scholar identifies alarming trends among US men
Richard Reeves, author of the book “Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It,” discusses why men in the US are more likely to die by suicide than women.
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Fauci shares lessons from pandemic, criticism of China’s zero-Covid policy ahead of his departure from government
The Covid-19 pandemic has carried a key lesson for public health officials, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday: When talking to Americans, be clear that science is often a moving target.
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Lack of investment could leave 600,000 English properties at risk of flooding
Number of homes at high risk likely to almost double by 2055, warns report by infrastructure commission
In England more than 600,000 properties face flooding in the future without investment in drainage, a report from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has found.
At the moment, 325,000 English properties have a 60% risk of flooding in the next decade, according to calculations by the NIC, due to a lack of investment in infrastructure.
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Gender diversity in UK tech industry ‘still terrible’, says Martha Lane Fox
Lastminute.com co-founder, now a peer, says little progress has been made in recent decades
The businesswoman and peer Martha Lane Fox has criticised the lack of gender diversity in the UK technology industry, saying it has not progressed in 25 years.
Lady Lane-Fox of Soho shot to prominence in the late 1990s as the co-founder of Lastminute.com, a travel booking website that became one of the symbols of the UK’s 1990s internet boom. However, she said many of the same issues she had experienced then are still prevalent in the tech industry.
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Platform workers should not rely on Medishield Life for work injuries as insurance body suggested: Koh Poh Koon
Dr Koh Poh Koon also said that the General Insurance Association of Singapore’s insurance coverage suggestions for platform workers would raise business costs for companies.
