Lucy Letby: doctor who raised alarm calls for regulation of NHS executives

Dr Stephen Brearey says officials ‘absolutely’ need to be regulated in similar manner to medical practitioners

NHS executives should be regulated similarly to medical practitioners, the paediatrician who first raised the alarm on Lucy Letby has said, after clinicians’ concerns about her were “turned on the head”.

The behaviour and accountability of senior officials within the health service “absolutely” needed to be regulated, said Dr Stephen Brearey, who first carried out an urgent review into the nurse sentenced on Monday to a whole-life term for the “sadistic” murders of seven babies.

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The Onion's Essential College Shopping Guide

College can provide a rich, rewarding experience for students if they really prioritize materialism and bring cool stuff. Here is The Onion’s essential college shopping guide.

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Jeremy Hunt plays down tax cut plans despite lower borrowing than expected

Chancellor says government must not alter course as interest rate rises add to cost of debt

Jeremy Hunt has played down the prospect of pre-election tax cuts despite news that the public finances are in less bad shape than the government’s spending watchdog forecast in the spring budget.

Stronger tax receipts from an economy that has so far avoided recession meant the UK’s budget deficit stood at £4.3bn last month – the fifth highest for a July since modern records began in 1993 but £1.7bn below the estimate from the Office for Budget Responsibility.

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Starmer claims he could not afford university if he were student now due to Tory policies – UK politics live

Labour leader criticises government over increasing costs for students

Good morning. We’ve had energy week, small boats week and NHS week. At the Downing Street lobby briefing yesterday the PM’s spokesperson was asked if this was education week (according to the No 10 news grid), and replied categorically that it wasn’t. But it certainly feels like it. Yesterday the Department for Education put out a story about childminding, and fielded a junior minister for the morning broadcast round. This morning Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, is in the radio studios, promoting an announcement about free schools. And on Thursday the GCSE results are out.

And Keir Starmer is getting in on the act too. In a statement released overnight, he criticises the government for increasing costs for students and claims that, if he were a young person today, because of his working class background he would not be able to afford to go to university. He says:

There wasn’t any spare money knocking around to fund me going to Leeds. I worked before I went and then got by on grants, as many young people do. I vividly remember carefully calculating rent, bills and food.

Going to Leeds to study was a turning point for me; it will be a deep betrayal if one of the legacies of this Tory government is university, apprenticeships and skills becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

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Dio Kemp inquest: doctors say there were no signs of infection when toddler first taken to hospital

Dio died of sepsis eight days after she was initially assessed at Monash Medical Centre

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The two doctors who initially assessed Victorian toddler Dio Kemp, who died of sepsis eight days later, have told an inquest there were no signs she had the infection when she first presented at hospital.

Dr Timothy Martin and Dr Tobias van Hest, who were working at Monash Medical Centre’s emergency department when the three-year-old first presented in November 2019, gave evidence at a coronial inquest into her death on Tuesday.

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Things To Never Say To Your Freshman-Year Roommate

While acknowledging their existence or uttering a single word isn’t recommended, here is what you should definitely never say to your freshmen-year roommate.

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UK chip designer Arm starts US listing process after snubbing London

New York’s Nasdaq to host IPO after British government failed to persuade tech firm to list in UK

British chip designer Arm has started the process of listing its shares on New York’s Nasdaq, in one of the biggest flotations of recent years after the London Stock Exchange lost out.

The company, owned by Japanese investor SoftBank, registered to list its shares late on Monday night, after months of waiting amid tricky conditions for stock market floats.

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Apple's defense against apps vandalizing other apps still broken, developer claims

Cupertino appears to be blasé about long-standing macOS bug, so coder has blabbed

Apple last year introduced a security feature called App Management that's designed to prevent one application from modifying another without authorization under macOS Ventura – but a developer claims it’s not very good at its job under some circumstances.…

Jefferson County Kentucky schoolbus routes are impossible, with not enough drivers. Want to try driving some of their routes? These people did [Interesting]

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Asylum seeker children to get postcards after murals painted over

Cartoons Not Cruelty campaign inspired by government order to remove artwork at reception centres

Thousands of asylum seeker children will be sent postcards with bright and cheerful cartoons on them after ministers recently ordered murals at two reception centres to be painted over last month.

The scheme, run by Cartoons Not Cruelty, will see 9,300 welcoming messages and postcards sent to children under the age of 14 who arrived in the UK last year. They will be assisted by the Refugee Council and the platform Find Others.

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Hitler’s birth house in Austria to be turned into police station

Critics say controversial plans will fulfil dictator’s wish for building to be become district authority offices

The redesign of the house where Adolf Hitler was born will go ahead as planned, Austria’s interior ministry has said, after a documentary aired new claims about the late Nazi dictator’s wishes for it.

After years of legal wrangling, the government decided to turn the house in the northern town of Braunau, where Hitler was born in 1889, into a police station with a human rights training centre. Work will begin on 2 October.

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America’s Richest Account For 40% Of U.S. Climate Emissions

A new study has found that the wealthiest 10% of Americans are responsible for almost half of planet-heating pollution in the United States, in part because of the fossil fuels generated by companies they invest in. What do you think?

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This 26 year old lives for free in a house she paid for on land she already owned. Why can all of you losers bootstrap yourselves similarly? [Facepalm]

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NASA still serious about astronauts living it up on Moon space station in 2028

Assuming the orbital hotel is even built by then

The first group of astronauts to set foot into NASA's Moon-orbiting Gateway space station will be the Artemis IV crew in 2028, if everything goes as planned.…

Top UK CEOs handed 16% pay rise as millions of workers squeezed – business live

Data from the High Pay Centre thinktank shows FTSE 100 bosses collected an average £500,000 pay rise last year, taking their median pay to £3.9m

The bosses of the UK’s 100 biggest listed companies collected an average £500,000 pay rise last year, while many of the millions of people working for them saw their pay growth fail to keep up with soaring inflation, our wealth correspondent Rupert Neate writes.

FTSE 100 chief executives received an average pay rise of 16% last year, taking their median pay to £3.9m, up from £3.4m in 2021, according to research by the High Pay Centre thinktank published on Tuesday.

At a time when so many households are struggling with living costs, an economic model that prioritises a half-a-million-pound pay rise for executives who are already multimillionaires is surely going wrong somewhere.

How major employers distribute the wealth that their workforce creates has a big impact on people’s living standards. We need to give workers more voice on company boards, strengthen trade union rights and enable low- and middle- income earners to get a fairer share in relation to those at the top.

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Microsoft submits new Activision Blizzard deal to UK regulator

CMA opens new investigation into acquisition as tech firm offers to sell cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft

Microsoft has filed changes to its proposed takeover of the video game maker Activision Blizzard, in a bid to win over the UK competition watchdog which previously blocked the $69bn (£54bn) deal.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Tuesday said it would investigate the new proposals, under which Microsoft will not acquire cloud rights outside Europe for existing Activision desktop computer and console games, or for new games released by the developer during the next 15 years.

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Controversial Chinese drone maker DJI debuts a cargo carrier

For dropping stuff in remote locations. Just don't mention the war in Ukraine, where DJI kit repeatedly appeared

Chinese drone-maker DJI, the subject of US sanctions, has released its first consumer cargo carrying drone – the FlyCart 30.…

New Hampshire man on the run from the cops activates ejection seat without a parachute. Fark: and the engine block flies into the second floor of a house [Scary]

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Mark Latham accuses One Nation of misusing electoral funds as he quits party

Party’s federal leader Pauline Hanson rejects allegations aired in parliament by ousted NSW leader

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Mark Latham has quit One Nation to sit as an independent in the New South Wales parliament after he was fired as the rightwing party’s state leader.

The upper house MP told parliament on Tuesday that he would resign, about two weeks after the party’s federal leader, Pauline Hanson, intervened in the NSW executive to have him axed.

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Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval

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Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft. The transfer of rights is designed to appease regulators in the UK that are concerned about the impact Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion deal will have on cloud gaming competition. The restructured deal has triggered a new regulatory investigation in the UK that could last until October 18th.

“To address the concerns about the impact of the proposed acquisition on cloud game streaming raised by the UK Competition and Markets Authority, we are restructuring the transaction to acquire a narrower set of rights,” says Microsoft president Brad Smith. “This includes executing an...

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Hospital detentions for new mothers challenged in Ugandan court

Two cases to be heard this month could serve as legal precedent to outlaw the holding of patients against their will for unpaid bills

Two women who were prevented from leaving hospital over unpaid medical bills are to have their case against Ugandan authorities heard this month in a case that lawyers hope will end the practice.

Akello Esther Susan, 23, and NS (known by her initials) are jointly suing the government, two district councils and church dioceses over their treatment after giving birth in 2020 and 2021 respectively.

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Tuesday briefing: Life term for UK’s worst child killer

In today’s newsletter: serious questions have been raised after the trial and conviction of a serial baby murderer

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The 10-month trial of Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old neonatal nurse found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more, came to a close yesterday. She will never be released from prison after a judge gave her a whole-life sentence, making her the fourth woman to be given such a jail term in the UK. The first woman to be sent to jail for life was Moors murderer Myra Hindley, who was convicted of the murders of two children between 1963 and 1965 across Greater Manchester. The other two women currently serving whole-life sentences are Rose West and Joanna Dennehy.

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Person of interest found in AC/DC manager’s 1993 murder after DNA breakthrough

Blood on Crispin Dye’s jeans linked to another Sydney crime scene from 2002, LGBTQ+ hate crimes inquiry hears

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A forensic breakthrough has identified a person of interest in the unsolved 1993 murder of former AC/DC manager Crispin Dye.

Dye, 41, died on Christmas Day in 1993, a day after he was attacked in Sydney’s Darlinghurst, where he had been celebrating the release of his debut solo album.

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Stan Grant resigns from ABC and four-decade media career for university role

Former Q+A host appointed professor of journalism and inaugural director of Constructive Institute Asia Pacific

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Stan Grant says he has walked away from the ABC and the media after four decades because he wants to change the toxic global news culture by working on something constructive.

“I’ll be working out of Monash University in a dual role as professor of journalism and director of the Constructive Institute,” Grant told Guardian Australia.

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