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Former politicians pay tribute after files show ‘Labour’s most successful leader’ was forced to consider selling legacy to pay for his dementia careMargaret Thatcher described him as “the most skilful of politicians” and Tony Blair thought him “Labour’s most successful leader ever”.Such elegies on the death in 1995 of Harold Wilson, 79, the twice Labour prime minister who had Alzheimer’s and colon cancer, betray nothing of the reality of his later years – spent in the unforgiving grip of dementia and, it has emerged, forced to consider selling his personal and political papers to meet the heavy and increasing costs

Public health adviser says higher temperatures caused by climate crisis pose danger for visitors not used to themThe climate emergency poses a “real risk” to Spain’s traditional mass tourist model as rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves hit the country’s most popular coastal destinations, a senior public health adviser has warned.Héctor Tejero, the head of health and climate change at Spain’s health ministry, said the increasingly apparent physical impacts of the climate emergency had already led the ministry to begin talks with the British embassy on how best to educate “vulnerable” tourists about coping with the heat. Continue reading... Source

Vyacheslav Zinchenko, 18, remanded in custody for 60 days after Iryna Farion shot in Lviv on 19 JulyA Ukrainian court has remanded an 18-year-old man in custody over the murder of a nationalist former lawmaker, state media reported.Iryna Farion – a divisive hardline campaigner against the use of Russian language – was shot near her flat in the western city of Lviv on 19 July. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/26/teenage-suspect-remanded-over-of-ukraine-nationalist-lawmaker Author : Agence France-Presse in Kyiv Publish date : 2024-07-26 19:22:54 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Scotland Yard considers legal challenge after decision, saying commanders are expected to ‘lead by example’The sacking of a senior police officer who failed to provide a sample for a drugs test when he was accused of smoking cannabis has been overturned.Former Metropolitan police commander Julian Bennett, who served in the force from 1976, was found to have committed gross misconduct by failing to provide a urine sample for a drugs test on 21 July 2020. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/26/sacking-of-senior-police-officer-who-failed-to-provide-drug-test-sample-overturned Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-07-26 20:23:47 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.