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The findings come in a new study by experts from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London and Action on Smoking and Health Putting vapes in plain packaging reduces their appeal to children and could even stop them taking up vaping in the first place, a major new study has found. Researchers discovered that removing bright colours, pictures and fancy lettering from packaging made youngsters less

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said penalties of £10-20 million would be more appropriate   The Environment Agency (EA) should not be issuing penalties of £250 million to water companies who dump sewage, its chairman has said. Speaking to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Alan Lovell said penalties of £10-20 million would be more appropriate, and stressed there was a difference between an EA penalty and a

It comes just four months after it axed 11,000 workers Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has revealed it plans to cut around 10,000 jobs globally, just four months after it axed 11,000 workers. The group’s founder and boss, Mark Zuckerberg, told staff in a company blog that Meta is also looking to ditch about 5,000 open job vacancies as part of his Year Of Efficiency push

Helen Webberley who founded GenderGP, was found to have committed serious misconduct by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel in June 2022   A GP who ran an online clinic for transgender patients is waiting for a High Court judge’s ruling after challenging a tribunal decision to impose a two-month suspension. Helen Webberley, founder of a website called GenderGP, was found to have committed serious misconduct by a Medical Practitioners

Science minister George Freeman had claimed that NHS datastore Genomics England was suffering attacks in 2014   A minister has withdrawn claims that a Chinese company made multiple attempts to hack into the NHS’s genetic database in 2014, with critics describing the official correction as “alarming”. Science minister George Freeman had claimed that NHS datastore Genomics England was “suffering several hack attacks from BGI each week” during 2014 in a

The bank says the cost-of-living crisis is also having an impact, with promises of high returns used by criminals to entice investors NatWest is imposing cryptocurrency payment limits amid concerns over rising numbers of scams. The cost-of-living crisis is also having an impact, with promises of high returns used by criminals to entice investors, the bank said. A daily limit of £1,000 and a limit of £5,000 over a 30-day

The energy regulator says it has examined whether suppliers were living up to their duties under the Government’s energy support scheme for businesses. Ofgem has started proceedings against a number of business energy suppliers as it found that more than half have work to do to show they are following the rules. The energy regulator said it had examined whether suppliers were living up to their duties under the Government’s

Eleanor Williams now faces eight and a half years in prison   A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after falsely claiming to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang. Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday after making a series of false rape allegations. In a Facebook post in May 2020, which was shared more than 100,000 times, she described

US authorities have described it as an 'unsafe and unprofessional intercept' A Russian fighter jet has struck the propeller of a US drone over the Black Sea, causing US forces to bring it down in international waters, the US military said. The US European Command said in a statement that two Russian Su-27 fighter jets “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of a US MQ-9 drone that was operating within