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The House of Commons Wants Your Views on Modernising Parliament - Just Don’t Say ‘Knock it Down’ – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/10/17/house-of-commons-modernishing-parliament/

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Archaeologists discover ‘significant’ permanent side-effect of smoking | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/smoking-bones-research-leicester-b2630529.html

#Bones
#Smoking
#Archeology

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Ministers could merge disability benefits and want to cut future spending, says green paper – Disability News Service
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-could-merge-disability-benefits-and-want-to-cut-future-spending-says-green-paper/

#PIP
#UniversalCredit
#ESA
#DWP
#Disabled

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Deaths in police custody reach 17-year high, figures reveal | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-custody-deaths-iopc-report-b2630901.html

#Deaths
#Police

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Kemi Badenoch slammed over ‘disgraceful’ and ‘wrong’ mental health claims | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kemi-badenoch-mental-health-autism-jenrick-b2630847.html

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Yahya Sinwar: Hamas leader and mastermind of 7 October attack killed in Gaza, Israel says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-yahya-sinwar-hamas-gaza-october-7-b2630952.html

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Peace must top strategic priorities in the Middle East | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peace-must-top-strategic-priorities-middle-east

#MiddleEast
#Israel
#Gaza
#Iran
#Biden
#Netanyahu
#Lebanon
#Peace

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Marvel’s New Nonbinary Two-Spirit Hawkeye Was Inspired By Standing Rock’s Water Protectors | Them

I'd be interested in hearing from any Indigenous American folks what they think of this character.
https://www.them.us/story/marvels-new-nonbinary-two-spirit-hawkeye-inspired-standing-rocks-water-protectors-lakota-ultimates-comics

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Contraceptive side effects have put women like me off the pill forever | The Independent

Some can't take it for medical reasons. If you have high blood pressure even if treated Drs won't prescribe it, for example.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/contraceptive-pill-side-effects-sexual-health-b2628213.html

#SideEffects
#Contraception

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Will the Northern Lights be visible across Hampshire again? | Daily Echo

Not often they get this far south.
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24645083.will-northern-lights-visible-across-hampshire/

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#AuroraBorealis
#NorthernLights

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Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect | Rewilding | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/herd-of-tauros-to-be-released-into-highlands-to-recreate-aurochs-effect

#Tauros
#Highlands
#Scotland
#Rewilding
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Autistic kids with high support needs are being failed by Northern Ireland's health and social care system.

https://act.autism.org.uk/page/155586/petition/1

#Petition
#Autism
#Children
#NorthernIreland
#NI
#Health
#SocialCare

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Request a baby loss certificate - GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/request-baby-loss-certificate

#Miscarriage

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Unmasking Long COVID: Scientists Discover Hidden Viral Culprits in Blood
https://scitechdaily.com/unmasking-long-covid-scientists-discover-hidden-viral-culprits-in-blood/

#LongCovid
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Labour silence over PM’s work search comments, as Tory ex-DWP minister says: ‘You’d never have heard that from me’ – Disability News Service
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-silence-over-pms-work-search-comments-as-tory-ex-dwp-minister-says-youd-never-have-heard-that-from-me/

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The regular crashes of lorries into rail bridges | Hampshire Chronicle
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24617819.regular-crashes-lorries-rail-bridges/

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#Hampshire
#LowBridge
#LowBridges
#HGV
#HGVs


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The regular crashes of lorries into rail bridges | Hampshire Chronicle www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/2461781...#Romsey #Hampshire #LowBridge #LowBridges#HGV #HGVs

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I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? It's about UK govt proposals to be able to snoop at people's bank accounts. OK they are benefits claimants but don't they deserve the same right to privacy of any human being or do human rights only belong to some humans?

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-government-from-spying-on-all-of-our-bank-accounts?source=web-share-api-button&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=web_share_api&share=94d2930a-d947-4492-83dc-cd9d15d60d84

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Researchers identify genetic mutations for rare disorder causing cognitive decline
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-genetic-mutations-rare-disorder-cognitive.html

#Neuroscience
#CognativeDecline
#Genetics
#CSF1R
#Mutations

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Women with disabilities are twice as likely to experience domestic abuse as non-disabled women

https://proxigram.lunar.icu/p/DAQ-LHYKxjm/?igsh=NXZlaGQ0NGRnemlw

#DomesticAbuse
#DomesticViolence
#Refuge
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https://safelives.org.uk/research-policy-library/disabled-survivors-too/

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'I've noticed some disturbing trends in Long Covid ME/CFS research'
https://mecfs.substack.com/p/ive-noticed-some-disturbing-trends

#LongCovid
#ME
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If you do a search you find that quite a few authors agree that PEM can occur wit fibromyalgia

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=post+exertional+malaise+fibromyalgia&sort=pubdate

and I don't understand lumping all LC patients together - where does that come from ?