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Storm Lilian threatens 80mph winds, power cuts, and travel disruption Storm Lilian is on her way to make sure you all have a great Summer Bank Holiday weekend. This flurry of bad weather will move northwest early tomorrow morning, forecasters say, with winds above 75mph expected. These winds will batter northern England and Wales and parts of southern Scotland. ‘Warnings highlight potential travel disruption, the possibility of power cuts and dangerous conditions near coasts,’ the Met Office said. Read More ↗

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Six key unanswered questions over sinking of Bayesian superyacht The bodies of five of the six missing passengers recovered following the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht have now been identified, including that of British tech magnate Mike Lynch. The £30 million vessel capsized with 22 people on board during freak bad weather while moored off the coast of Sicily at around 5am local time on Monday. They had been celebrating Mr Lynch’s acquittal in a fraud trial in the United States. Other passengers whose bodies were recovered amid renewed rescue efforts yesterday include Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer…

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Everything you need to know about the new £6 EU visa scheme What’s the first thing you do after returning from a summer holiday? Start planning another one, of course. But heading to Europe next year will be a little different for Brits, thanks to a new visa scheme called ETIAS. As it stands, visitors from the UK can visit the EU’s Schengen area (a borderless collective of 29 countries) for up to 90 days, every 180 days, without a visa. The new scheme means anyone travelling to popular tourist hotspots including Portugal, Spain and Greece, will need to apply…

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Alzheimer’s ‘wonder drug’ won’t be available on NHS because it’s too costly The NHS spending watchdog has recommended that a ‘groundbreaking’ Alzheimer’s drug shouldn’t be made available on the NHS. It comes just days after experts in the UK hailed it as the ‘beginning of the end’ for the devastating disease. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) have now said the benefits of lecanemab are ‘just too small to justify the significant cost to the NHS.’ The drug was deemed efficient at slowing Alzheimer’s disease by the The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) earlier this…

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