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Community Living Abroad: How UK Families Are Building New Lives in Portugal

If you spend time speaking to UK families who have moved abroad in recent years, Portugal comes up repeatedly. It is no longer seen only as a holiday destination or a retirement location. It has become a long-term lifestyle choice for working families, remote professionals, and early retirees looking for a different daily rhythm.

Across Lisbon, the Algarve, the Silver Coast and Madeira, new communities are forming that feel increasingly international while still connected to Portuguese culture. What stands out is not just climate or coastline, but how everyday life feels more...

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Urgent need for Schmallenberg vaccine says NFU

Every effort must be made to ensure a vaccine is available later this year to help combat the spread of the deadly Schmallenberg virus (SBV), the NFU said today.

The call comes as many farms with early lambing flocks across the country have experienced higher than normal losses with still births and deformities ranging from fused limbs to twisted necks.

The disease has spread across England and Wales to the Scottish border region and has now been confirmed on more than 1,000 UK farms. Although it is still being recognised by Defra and the European Commission as ‘low impact...

Poole man sought by police after recall to prison

Police searching for a 29-year-old man from Poole are appealing for help from the public in tracing him. Lee Ivan James Hogben was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a refuse lorry and smashing into police cars in a 70-mile chase across Dorset.

Originally from Poole, Lee has breached his licence conditions and been recalled to prison.

He’s described as a white man around six feet tall, of broad build and has short cropped brown hair which is gelled in a side parting.

He was last seen wearing a dark blue sports type jacket, dark trousers and carrying a...

HMV becomes the latest casualty in the retail sector

Coming hard on the heels of the failure of Comet late last year and Jessops earlier this year, Music and DVD chain HMV, has confirmed it will appoint an administrator, making it the latest High Street casualty.

25-year-old Devonport man found dead at his home

Detectives in Devonport are investigating the death of a 25 year old man who was found at an address in Stoke on Saturday 12 January 2013.

Ambulance staff called officers to the Albert Road flat at around 2.15 p.m. where they found the body of a man inside. He has yet to be formally identified.

Uniformed Officers and Detectives attended the scene and interviewed other residents at the address.

This will be referred to the HM Coroner. Police have not yet ruled out the possibility that the death is drug related.

Anyone with information regarding this matter is...

Police seek man after Wiltshire woman found dead

Wiltshire Police is appealing for the public’s help in locating a man officers would like to speak to in connection with an incident in Melksham.

Officers are keen to locate Richard Gordon Newton, 51 (DOB: 17/09/1961), from the Bowerhill area of Melksham.

This is in relation to the body of a woman being found at an address in Melksham yesterday morning (Sunday 13th January 2013).

Officers believe that Mr Newton might hold vital information on this incident and may be able to assist police with their enquiries.

A photograph of Mr Newton is attached.

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Building UK's biggest prison: a titanic waste of money

Government plans to build Britain’s biggest prison are a titanic waste of money that will do nothing to cut crime, the Howard League for Penal Reform said today (10 January).

In a move which echoes the ill-fated Titan jail proposal of the last decade, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that it is to start feasibility work on a new prison that could hold more than 2,000 prisoners.

The project - combined with the planned construction of four new mini-prisons - follows the opening of the G4S-run Oakwood Prison near Wolverhampton, which has been dogged with problems...

Met Office Warning for ice and snow at weekend

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice on 12th and 13th January 2013.

There will be outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow, with temperatures dropping afterwards, leading to a risk of icy surfaces throughout the UK.

They recommend the public to take extra care when travelling and to be aware of the risk of disruption, this Saturday and Sunday.

Serious road collision causes tailbacks on A38 at Plymouth

Update: The A38 eastbound was closed at 4.50pm for approximately 30 minutes.

An elderly gentleman is in hospital with what is described as a serious neck injury.

The collision occured just before the Crownhill turnoff, so traffic is now flowing okay around the Manadon roundabout.

Earlier: Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road collision on the A38 at Plymouth.

An HGV and a Rover car were in collision on the eastbound carriageway just before Manadon junction around 1.50pm today (9th January).

An elderly man, the driver of...

RMT announce rise in membership over last year

Rail, maritime and transport union RMT announced today that the organisation has continued to increase its membership in the past twelve months in the teeth of the most savage attacks on jobs and working conditions for a generation.

Membership figures released by the union today show that RMT has put on a net gain of 1,456 members through 2012, taking the total to 77,549 – an annual growth of nearly 2% in the most challenging circumstances.

The union has increased its membership year-on-year from the 59,277 total when General Secretary Bob Crow was elected in 2002.

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NICE guidance supports new device for healing bones

NICE has today (9th January), published new medical technology guidance supporting the use of a device to heal fractured bones.

The NICE guidance advises that the EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system benefits patients and the NHS when used for treating long bone fractures with non-union (bone fractures that have failed to heal after 9 months). However, the case for adopting EXOGEN routinely for long bone fractures with delayed healing, that is, fractures which do not show radiological evidence of healing after 3 months, wasn't supported because of uncertainties in the evidence....

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Community Living Abroad: How UK Families Are Building New Lives in Portugal

Urgent need for Schmallenberg vaccine says NFU

Poole man sought by police after recall to prison

HMV becomes the latest casualty in the retail sector

25-year-old Devonport man found dead at his home

Police seek man after Wiltshire woman found dead

Building UK's biggest prison: a titanic waste of money

Met Office Warning for ice and snow at weekend

Serious road collision causes tailbacks on A38 at Plymouth

RMT announce rise in membership over last year

NICE guidance supports new device for healing bones

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