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How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug
On New Year’s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down.
The millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world’s computer systems, as technology struggled to distinguish between the years 1900 and 2000. The public, faced with daily predictions of …
Welsh ambulance service declares ‘critical incident’ after demand soars
A “critical incident” was declared by the Welsh ambulance service on Monday evening due to significantly increased demand and extensive handover delays.
The ambulance service, which covers 3 million-plus people across Wales, said more than 340 calls were waiting to be answered at the time the critical incident was declared.
…Paddy Hill, one of wrongly convicted Birmingham Six, dies aged 80
Leaky ceilings and sinking floors: inside St Helier hospital where staff fear for patient safety
St Helier hospital is older than the NHS itself. A once beautiful modernist building that admitted its first patients in 1941, it has been left to crumble. The white paint is chipping at every corner of its formerly gleaming exterior and its state of the art balconies have been fenced …
England’s rundown hospitals are ‘outright dangerous’, say NHS chiefs
Hospital buildings in England are in such a dilapidated state they risk fires, floods and electrical faults, internal NHS trust documents reveal, with leaders saying conditions have become “outright dangerous”.
Official papers from NHS trust board meetings show how staff and patients are being put at risk by an alarming …
Monday briefing: Law, order and what the future might hold for Palestine
South Korea orders emergency safety inspection of airline operations after Jeju Air crash
South Korea’s acting president has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operations, while authorities plan a separate check of all Boeing 737-800s, after 179 people died in a Jeju Air crash involving the aircraft on Sunday.
As shocked citizens began a second day of official mourning …
Israel orders remaining residents of Beit Hanoun to leave
Israel has issued new evacuation orders for all remaining civilians to leave Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza as part of a blistering three-month-old campaign that Israel denies is aimed at depopulating a third of the Palestinian territory, amid reports Israeli attacks have damaged two more struggling hospitals in Gaza City.
…South Korea in mourning after plane crash kills all but two onboard
Distraught family members gathered at Muan international airport in South Korea on Sunday after a plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok crashed, killing all but two people onboard, in the country’s
worst domestic civil aviation disaster
.Officials said all 175 passengers and four of the six crew …
Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly
When the scientist and inventor Prof Archibald Montgomery Low predicted “a day in the life of a man of the future” one century ago, his prophesies were sometimes dismissed as “ruthlessly imaginative”.
They included, reported the London Daily News in 1925, “such horrors” as being woken by radio alarm clock; …