The downpour that struck the Olympics’ opening ceremony has increased fears that swimming events in the Seine will be cancelled despite more than £1 billion being spent on stopping pollution. Swimmers were banned from using the river for a triathlon training session on Sunday because of harmful levels of E.coli bacteria caused by sewage. The cancellation is embarrassing for the French, although the organisers hope the water will be clean enough in time for the individual triathlon races on Tuesday and Wednesday
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In La Défense they longed for a successful defence and the sight of Adam Peaty not just retaining his Olympic 100m breaststroke title for a second time but delivering a victory that would go some way to protecting his sport from an ever-deepening crisis. For Peaty, it nevertheless remained a moment of triumph. Not in pure sporting terms but on a far more personal level, given the hurdles he has had to overcome to even secure a sixth Olympic medal
Adam Peaty misses out on gold as Nicolò Martinenghi wins by 0.02sec
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A new technology could dramatically reduce the time it takes to identify the correct treatment for sepsis infections, potentially saving many thousands of lives each year, scientists have said. Sepsis occurs when the body responds improperly to an infection and the immune system goes into overdrive, triggering inflammation, blood clots and leaky blood vessels. Blood flow is impaired, depriving organs and limbs of nutrients and oxygen. Without proper treatment it can lead to organ failure and death. At least 245,000 people are affected in Britain and at least 48,000 die from sepsis-related illnesses every year, according to the UK Sepsis Trust
‘Game-changing’ sepsis test could save thousands of lives
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GPs could bring the NHS to a “standstill” with their first industrial action in 60 years, policymakers have been warned, as doctors vote on action that could last months. The British Medical Association (BMA) has asked GPs if they support collective action amid a row over the new contract for services in England. The ballot closes on Monday, with action potentially beginning on August 1. Such action could mean the 37,000 GPs in England effectively halving the number of patients they see each day to 25
GPs ‘could bring NHS to standstill’ in contract dispute
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🔺NEW: Nicolás Maduro has been declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, in a move which was swiftly denounced as a fraud by opposition parties. According to the national electoral authority — which is controlled by the ruling socialist regime — Maduro received 51.2% of the votes, with his rival, the retired diplomat Edmundo González on 44.2%. The result, if not overturned, means Maduro will remain in power until 2031. Several regions have said they will not recognise the result
Opponents claim fraud as Nicolás Maduro wins Venezuelan election
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This week the chancellor will lay out a picture of this supposedly dire inheritance in an effort to frame the “difficult” decisions her party is going to have to make on tax and spending. It wouldn’t take a cynic to think that Reeves will use this apparent shortfall to pave the way for tax rises or, as Labour puts it, fix the “foundations” of the economy. But the state of the public finances is not always the same thing as the state of public services. In a recent report the Institute for Government found that a lack of money and investment was only one of the problems that have led to rising waiting times, poorer educational outcomes and endemic prison overcrowding
UK public finances: the state of each sector in charts
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Adopted by his grandparents at five, Sheldon Mills grew up in Cardiff with big ambitions. After six years at the FCA, he’s launching a rights revolution 🔗 Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/dQk-Qzke
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How bad is child poverty in Britain? On one hand, living standards have improved exponentially since the mid-twentieth century. On the other, a record 4.3 million children live below the poverty line. Sir Keir Starmer has made tackling this a yardstick for his premiership, yet on Tuesday it risked becoming his first political crisis, with seven MPs losing the whip for voting to remove the two-child limit on universal credit. What kind of difference would scrapping the two-child limit make — and emotion aside, what does the data tell us about the scale of the challenge faced by the new government? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dT-s8u9K
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Despite a growing economy, millions of young graduates are growing desperate — creating an unemployment ‘time bomb’ that Narendra Modi may struggle to defuse
The Indian jobs crisis driving the young to war zones to find work
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In 2022-23, 1.57 million children were registered as “persistently absent” from lessons in English state schools. That’s more than a fifth of pupils missing either a morning or an afternoon of classes at least once a week — twice as many as in 2019. About 140,000 pupils nationally were estimated to be home educated, 80 per cent more than in 2019
Generation homeschool: why 1.5 million children aren’t going to class
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