Manchester bride's Paralympian brother has legs stolen

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Mr Booth, paralympian, has had his legs stolen two days before his sister’s wedding. He has appealed to the thieves to return them because he wants to walk his sister done the aisle for which He has been practising for four months. His wheelchair and artificial legs were in his care when the car was stolen. Mr booth lost his legs to meningitis when he was nine and has become a wheelchair athlete. Luckly his friend can lend him a wheelchair but he still hopes that his legs will be returned before the wedding because he really wanted to carry out his father’s duty.
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How pathetic can people get?! If you need a car, buy one and otherwise you take the bus or the tube. It is not that expensive. If you cannot afford it, get a job! If the car was stolen by some teenager trying to act cool, I hope he realizes that he or she has just become the saddest living creature on earth! If they must, they should keep the car, But at least give the man his legs back!

Major deficiencies in artificial feeding, inquiry finds

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Artificial feeding; to absorb food via a tube. The report from the National Confidentional Enquiry showed that major problems have been found in the way hospitals provide artificial nutrition. A lot of complications could have been avoided if it was done right, for example giving the amount of food to babies. Other problems were putting patients unnecessarily at risk. NCEPOD chairman Bertie Leigh said: "It is deeply depressing that the quality of care is so often unsatisfactory. Indeed, in discussion with the NCEPOD steering group the scale of disappointment verged on disbelief." Watchdog NICE has been asked to develop guidelines on nutritional support for newborns.

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I thought we were living in the “modern world”. Of course we have all this new technology and appliances that we first would not even dare dream of, but in order to stay in the “modern world” we need to know how to work with it. You should not use something if you are not sure, especially if it is unnecessary. I think that hospitals should get a kick in the ass and start pulling up their socks otherwise we might just die of something that was invented to save our lives.

Parents reject 'bossy' lunch box advice, says Ofsted

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Schools are seen as bossy and interfering when they tell parents what should not be in the lunchbox. Parents prefer advice on how to prepare healthy lunches. Inspectors, visiting schools to see how they got the healthy eating message across found that primary schools offered fruit and that secondary schools did not meet the standards because they provided deep-fried lunches and teachers did not feel comfortable telling parents what to do. Some schools still provide free school meals and their major weakness, as in many other schools, is the lack of monitoring and provision to ensure that school food is prepared as it should be.

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I think that it is very important that children learn to eat healthy foods. It gives them energy to concentrate which is one of the requirements at school. I can understand that children enjoy the deep-fried, fatty snacks and that’s why a school should cut down that supply of food and enlarge the supply of healthy foods. Give all students a card which they can buy. With this card they can have a healthy meal every day of the week and 2 snacks. This could ensure that children eat less snacks. I do not think you should take all snacks away because they could always get it somewhere else.

Man guilty of £40m raid on Mayfair jewellers Graff

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Aman Kassaye, 24 has been found guilty of taking part in Britain’s biggest jewellery robbery. He forced a employee to hand over gems with a value of 40m pounds while holding him at gunpoint. The shop assistant was taken hostage so that the robbers could get to the getaway car. The shop manager was held to the floor with a gun to her head. Kassaye has also been charged with conspiracy to rob, kidnapping and possession of a firearm. Six other defendants deny being part of the robbery. The jewellery is still yet to be recovered.

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I know that some people are having money trouble, especially with the financial crisis still going on, but why do they always have to go bad. Stealing jewellery is one of the worst ideas ever in my opinion because if they are poor, they need to sell it in order to get money. That means that you have to look at the mafia or other criminal organisations because no one is his right mind is going to buy stolen jewellery from them. The chance that they end up dead will rise with about 90%, If hey do not end up dead, they end up working for the organisations and end up in jail because they will eventually get caught. So what is the point?

Bald man wins police hair drug test appeal

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A man who wanted to join the police, and who was at an advanced stage of the recruitment process, was rejected because he did not have hair. The man, whose name is not mentioned for security reasons, undertook legal actions because the police corps were discriminating against him. The man had to give them hair with a length of at least 3 cm or 200 body hairs, which he also did not have, so that they could test it for drugs. The case opened at the High Court and lawyers for the PSNI wanted an alternative way to test him and that the policies had to be changed. The man won the case.

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I know that the policies and laws we make always have some way of leaving someone out and I know how that feels. I can really sympathise with this man who tries so hard to reach his goal and then gets pulled back because of a condition he has had all his life? Really, what is this world coming too. I am glad the judge ruled in his favour. If he did not, I would say the judge was nuts and should retire. At least now they know that these things happen and maybe someday we will have policies and laws we can all work with.

Oona King in bid to be London's mayor in 2012

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The former Labour MP Oona King has announced her return to frontline politics by challenging Ken Livingstone to become Labour's candidate for mayor of London in 2012. The contest will be decided at the party conference in the autumn. Candidates have to have 33 names before they can take part in the hustings in June and July. David Miliband has announced 38 MP supporters, Ed Balls 20, Ed Miliband 18 and Andy Burnham 14. McDonnell has two, but more than 150 MPs still have to make up their minds before 9 June.

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I think that I only read these stories because I have to have a diverse range of topics for my blog. I do not find them interesting at all but I must say that I really like the idea of a women challenging a man. That has somehow always been, and probably always will be, the most interesting of all challenges because it is almost like a battle of the sexes. This makes it a bit easier to read and to follow.

Two boys guilty of attempted rape charges in London

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Two boys of age 10 and 11 have been found guilty of attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl. The boys, who were age 10 at the time had denied two charges of rape and two of attempted rape of a child under 13. They were convicted of two counts of attempted rape. Both boys were ordered to be registered as sex offenders, although the judge said he was "not quite sure" how this worked with children of their age. Prosecutors told the trial that the girl was playing with a friend when the boys had approached her. They took her to a block of flats, a bin shed and a field and said they were playing doctors and nurses.

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I would like to know how the boys reacted to all of this. The victim is of course the one who suffers but the boys do too in this case because I do not think they are to be fully blamed. I wonder if they ever saw a psychiatrist during the trial to exclude any mental diseases or see what kind of roll the parents and the school played. I somehow think that the boys were influenced by someone or something else. A “normal” and happy child does not show such behaviour.