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Patient safety concerns raised over junior doctors strike

They're due to walk out from Tuesday to Friday next week Hospital leaders have expressed serious concerns about how they will be able to maintain patient safety during next week’s junior doctors’ strike. Training doctors in England will stage their longest walkout between April 11 and 15. NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said the timing of the strike and its duration present a “range of challenges over and above the disruption seen

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Plea hearing to be held for man accused of murder of beautician Elle Edwards

22 year old Connor Chapman, of no fixed address, is due before Liverpool Crown Court A plea hearing is to be held for a 22-year-old man accused of the murder of beautician Elle Edwards in a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve. Connor Chapman, of no fixed address, faces a total of nine offences in connection with the shooting at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral. Ms Edwards, 26, was fatally shot just

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Up up and away for a new kind of exercise as new aerial fitness studio opens

A new aerial fitness studio has opened in Lynn, offering a completely different way of keeping fit.Aerial Fitness & Fun is run by Sharon Wheeler, who has more than eight years’ experience of teaching aerial skills.The studio, based on the Hardwick Industrial Estate, offers a variety of classes, from aerial hoop, silk ropes and pole fitness classes and opened at the beginning of 2023.Owner Sharon Wheeler outside of the studio

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Extended HGV driver scheme starts up in town as organisers look to fill hundreds of jobs

An extended HGV driving course which could make hundreds of jobs available will have a training centre based in West Norfolk.The Department for Education scheme which aims to equip new drivers across the east of England has been lengthened for another 12 months, with the Driver Academy Group to head up the training.Courses went live again on April 1 at dozens of locations across the region, with the Hamilton’s Driver

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Drivers urged to avoid area after crash on major roundabout

Emergency services currently at the scene of a crash on Lynn's Hardwick Roundabout.Police were called following reports of a crash between two cars at 2.36pm at roundabout.The police, fire and ambulance are in attendance.Police currently on the scene of a crash at the Hardwick roundabout in LynnThe roundabout has been closed impacting on the A149, A47 and A10 into Lynn.Motorists are being urged to avoid the area and find alternative

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Do you recognise this man? Police release image after incident in town’s cinema

A teenager coming out of an evening screening at the Majestic Cinema became a target of an assault.Police are appealing for help to identify a man after an incident at the cinema in Lynn's town centre.On Friday, March 17 a teenage boy was grabbed and pushed to the floor inside the cinema as an evening screening came to an end.Have you seen this man? Police want to speak to him

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Sir David Attenborough warns we have a few short years left to fix natural world

Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have a “few short years” left to make a “choice” on how to recover the natural world. The 96-year-old naturalist and broadcaster was speaking in a new documentary coming to BBC iPlayer about the people trying to combat the decline in nature as well as looking at the wildlife and habitats at risk in the UK. In Saving Our Wild Isles, Sir

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Nottingham Forest owner keeps faith in Steve Cooper to secure top flight status

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has ended speculation over manager Steve Cooper’s future by confirming the Welshman will keep his job. Cooper had come under mounting pressure after Forest’s 2-1 loss at relegation-rivals Leeds extended their winless Premier League run to eight matches. Forest’s fourth straight league defeat on the road has left them above the bottom three only on goal difference. Marinakis has moved quickly to help stabilise the

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US President Joe Biden announces April visit to island of Ireland

President Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland will “mark the tremendous progress” since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago, the White House has said. Mr Biden will also visit the Republic of Ireland to discuss “close co-operation on shared global challenges”. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed the visit would last from April 11 to 14 and would take in Belfast, Dublin, Co Louth and Co Mayo.

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