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06/05/2014
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Children Mass Sickness On A Flight To London
Sixty children aged between 10 and 14 have fallen ill while on a flight from Dubai to London.
The children, members of a choir, were treated by paramedics on the runway when their Emirates Airbus A380 landed at Heathrow airport.
Some of the youngsters began feeling poorly after taking off from Dubai and a number of them started vomiting and suffering diarrhoea during the flight.
Four ambulances, a rapid response bike and a hazardous materials unit met the plane but although most of the children were treated on the runway, 11 of them were taken to Hillingdon hospital in west London, and later discharged.
The group had performed as part of the 64-strong Only Kids Aloud children's choir.
A Emirates spokesman said they are “working closely with the local authorities to investigate the issue”.
Met Police To Dig For Evidence In McCann Resort
Forensics Met Police officers will use ground penetrating radar equipment to examine three areas in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz after Portuguese authorities approved their plans of digging for evidence in the place where Madeleine McCann vanished nearly seven years ago.
Last month, police revealed they were investigating five new cases in which young British girls were sexually abused during holiday in the Algarve.
Madeleine McCann was three-years-old when she disappeared from the apartment where she was staying with her parents and two siblings on 03 May, 2007.
River Island Boycott Due Sexist Anti-Nagging Product
River Island removed a product from it website, which encouraged men to “gag” nagging women, after Twitter users threatened to boycott the store.
The item was a football on a string named the 'Domestic Anti Nag Gag', which appeared gagging a woman's open mouth with the caption: "Will you put a sock in it!!!"
The product, costing £4, was also surrounded by speech bubbles of sexist phrases.
In a statement to the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday the retailer said: "As soon as this product was brought to our attention we withdrew it from sale and removed it from our website.”
(CVS)
Sixty children aged between 10 and 14 have fallen ill while on a flight from Dubai to London.
The children, members of a choir, were treated by paramedics on the runway when their Emirates Airbus A380 landed at Heathrow airport.
Some of the youngsters began feeling poorly after taking off from Dubai and a number of them started vomiting and suffering diarrhoea during the flight.
Four ambulances, a rapid response bike and a hazardous materials unit met the plane but although most of the children were treated on the runway, 11 of them were taken to Hillingdon hospital in west London, and later discharged.
The group had performed as part of the 64-strong Only Kids Aloud children's choir.
A Emirates spokesman said they are “working closely with the local authorities to investigate the issue”.
Met Police To Dig For Evidence In McCann Resort
Forensics Met Police officers will use ground penetrating radar equipment to examine three areas in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz after Portuguese authorities approved their plans of digging for evidence in the place where Madeleine McCann vanished nearly seven years ago.
Last month, police revealed they were investigating five new cases in which young British girls were sexually abused during holiday in the Algarve.
Madeleine McCann was three-years-old when she disappeared from the apartment where she was staying with her parents and two siblings on 03 May, 2007.
River Island Boycott Due Sexist Anti-Nagging Product
River Island removed a product from it website, which encouraged men to “gag” nagging women, after Twitter users threatened to boycott the store.
The item was a football on a string named the 'Domestic Anti Nag Gag', which appeared gagging a woman's open mouth with the caption: "Will you put a sock in it!!!"
The product, costing £4, was also surrounded by speech bubbles of sexist phrases.
In a statement to the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday the retailer said: "As soon as this product was brought to our attention we withdrew it from sale and removed it from our website.”
(CVS)
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Ian Brady has issued a statement saying that he still wants to die despite losing his appeal for a transfer to a psychiatric hospital to prison. A tribunal in June ruled against the Moors Murderer's appeal to move from Merseyside's Ashworth Hospital to a facility in Scotland.
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