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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Hey Stockport! How's about you do this with your bit of the A6?

New Report Warns: NHS Faces Crisis in Consultant Recruitment The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is rapidly approaching a critical juncture in the recruitment of consultant doctors. Recent investigations reveal an alarming statistic: in certain r

Huge shortage of NHS consultants with highest vacancies in Greater London and South East. Paediatrics, psychiatry, surgery and radiology are areas suffering most from lack of consultants. Result of poor NHS workforce planning and overreliance on doctors from overseas
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The UK must pay attention to those suggesting folks with learning disabilities or autism can access assisted dying with “special care”.

There’s no amount of guardrails to make this safe.

Look at Canada. Disabled people have MAiD “suggested” to them in lieu of treatment

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

A social media tiles with a cut out image of a female Blackbird accompanied by the words: Blackbirds are brown half of the time / Or Sexual Dimorphism in birds Daple brown feather down Speckled white throat When they gave me my name I didn’t get a vote

It’s #NationalPoetryDay.
To celebrate we’re sharing poet Jenny Lester’s poem about one of our favourite birds!
Enjoy folks 🤎

Sexual Dimorphism in birds
or Blackbirds are brown half of the time

Dapple brown feather down
Speckled white throat
When they gave me my name
I didn’t get a vote

Campaigning for inclusive cycling, Wheels for Wellbeing Wheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling.

A recording of the event will be available in the next couple of weeks, but if you would like to like a copy of the Guide, it is now available on our website.

wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

This makes me very happy

North-south autism assessment divide in the UK leaves children waiting three years longer Children in the North of England are waiting up to three years longer than those in the south for an autism diagnosis, new data analysis shows.

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

At least 2 students injured after shooting at a Denver-area high school, officials say | CNN At least two students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, where more than 100 law enforcement officers cleared the school “room by room” as it w...

Another day to be glad I was born British without insane American gun laws that make it so easy for murderers to gun people down at will

Lots of talk about Charlie Kirk’s death but this also happened today and it’s barely news because it’s just another day in America www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

Doctor claims Covid jabs may be linked to cancer in royal family Aseem Malhotra told Reform UK’s party conference that the vaccination was a ‘significant factor’ in the diagnoses of King Charles and the Princess of Wales

Given importance of health to the voting public, it seems politically naive of Nigel Farage and Reform to have their health policy so closely tied to Dr Aseem Malhotra, whose speech today confirms his switch from once respected clinician to conspiracy theorist quack: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

Covid vaccines do not cause cancer.

It seems extraordinary that we have to say that, but health misinformation is being given a huge platform by disgraced ex-doctors linked to extremist politicians. Please don't worry - there is no truth whatsoever to these ridiculous claims.

The employment rate of non-EU born migrants exceeded that of the UK-born for the first time on record.

Confirms other evidence that recent migrants (even if they did not arrive on work visas) are very likely to be working/have high employment rates.

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking Tuesday. Here’s how to see it | CNN The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on Tuesday. Here’s the best way to view the celestial event.

The Perseid meteor shower will reach peak activity late this week. Observers are encouraged to consult the meteor-shower calendar for optimal viewing windows and planning.

Calendar:
www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showe...
🔭☄️🧪
#Perseids #astronomy #meteors #stargazing

Great to see this getting coverage from Disability News Service.

This is so incredibly ridiculously exciting - Mobility aid laws are going to be reviewed and made fit for purpose!
Woo!
(& yes, I do think this is *that* exciting!)
#disability
#ActiveTravel
#MyCycleMyMobilityAid

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.

Former Wigan Athletic youth player jailed for mowing down pensioner

Media coverage is fuelling a backlash against e-bikes. But often, the stories aren't even about e-bikes at all.

Last week, the BBC reported that an "e-bike" was involved in a serious incident. But it was actually a high-powered electric motorbike.

Here's how it got changed...🧵

The #TransPennineTrail might have “low value from a cultural heritage perspective” but it’s shocking that in 2025, a planning application can be made which could disrupt a long-distance walking & cycling route with no alternative provided #ActiveTravel @sustrans.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social

Evening Light, Blencathra, by Lake District artist Susan H. Glassford. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Good to see a segment on barriers to women cycling on North West Tonight, spoiled slightly by the TfGM rep talking about the very thing that’s a barrier - routing through poorly lit parks.

This not good enough and @cyclinguk.bsky.social should be having words #MyRideOurRight @walkridegm.org.uk

Measles: Child dies at Alder Hey Children's hospital as cases surge Seventeen children have been treated at the Liverpool hospital for the virus since June.

Please everybody. Don't listen to anti-vaxxers. They're murderers by proxy. Good, rigorous science has proved the efficacy of the measles jab over many years.
For the sake of your children, and grandchildren, and generations to come, shout them down. Stand up for life!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’"

Shame on ANY Labour who voted for Keir Starmer and Liz Kendal's two tier welfare system

David Oliver: Bottlenecks in postgraduate medical training are an abject failure of medical leadership In proving medical negligence, courts need to establish that there was a professional duty of care and that there was a breach in that duty resulting in harm.1 Those tests would surely be met if appli...

www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Spaghetti

Terrifying. Just plain horrific that an advanced nation can crash and burn like this.

Yep, hang in there.... The alternative is not going out! Do it if you can!

Man With Disabilities Begs Hospital To Stop Pushing Suicide Hospital staff have repeatedly pushed a Canadian man with disabilities to accept euthanasia, cutting off basic needs like food and water.

“The hospital is not to ask me about suicide. Do not ask. Do not ask. How many times do I have to tell the hospital?”

Roger Foley is a disabled Canadian who went public with recordings of hospital staff pressuring him to do assisted suicide

Now they’re denying him food & water

Retaliation is real

Reporter: “What’s the bar for sending in the Marines”

Trump: “The bar is what I think it is”