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Wes Streeting will axe thousands of jobs at NHS England after his ousting of its chair and chief executive in what health service staff fear is a power grab. The health secretary’s plan follows Amanda Pritchard’s shock announcement on Monday that she was stepping down as the organisation’s chief executive next month. She will be replaced, for the foreseeable future, by Sir Jim Mackey, the widely admired chief executive of the NHS trust that runs the acute hospitals in Newcastle upon Tyne. Wes Streeting will axe thousands of jobs at NHS Streeting plans to gain and assert much more control over NHS England as…

NHS Chief forced to step down as Health Secretary Streeting plays innocent, but isinde sources have suggested that she was given no choice but to resign or be fired. The NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has stepped down from her role, following weeks of criticism from MPs (mainly Labour) and suggestions that she lacked the drive to reform the ailing health service. Which translates as she resisted to make more staff cuts and use AI for healthcare. Streeting plays innocent While health secretary Wes Streeting insisted that he did not ask Ms Pritchard to step down, the NHS chief…

A woman has been arrested after an 84-year-old man was badly injured in a vicious dog attack in Warrington. Police say the pensioner was dragged into a back garden by the dog and ravaged. The victim was walking along Bardsley Avenue in Warrington at around 6.40pm on Monday when he was attacked by a suspected XL bully which had escaped from a nearby address in Cheshire. Officers had to shoot the dog 19 times in order to stop the attack. A second XL Bully was also destroyed inside the property, and a third smaller dog was seized. Woman has been…

Erling Haaland ‘feels better’ but Pep Guardiola will make a late call on his fitness Pep Guardiola has provided an injury update on Manchester City striker Erling Haaland ahead of Wednesday’s Premier League trip to Tottenham. Haaland, who has scored 19 goals across 25 top-flight games this term, was not named in the City squad who lost 2-0 at home to Liverpool on Sunday. The Norway international been struggling with a knee problem, which is also why he was an unused substitute for last week’s 3-1 Champions League defeat at Real Madrid. After the loss to Liverpool at the…

Ange Postecoglou rules SIX Tottenham players out of Man City clash | Football Tottenham are still dealing with a string of injuries and will be without six players when they host Manchester City on Wednesday night. Spurs are coming off a hat-trick of Premier League victories over Brentford, Manchester United and Ipswich Town, halting a worrying slide down the table. Ange Postecoglou’s team will not be happy with 12th in the top flight, where they currently sit, but they are looking upwards again after the trio of wins. Their injury headaches are easing but are not quite cured and…

Two Point Museum review – The memory of Theme Park and Theme Hospital lives on, as the latest Two Point business sim lets you play as Marcus Brody rather than Indiana Jones. Two Point Studios really are a great British success story. Founded by former Bullfrog and Lionhead alumni, who were there for the golden age of Peter Molyneux before his travails at 22Cans, their games have followed what’s turning out to be a delightful and entirely replicable formula. The first, 2018’s Two Point Hospital, was a charming, mildly eccentric management sim that hid its depth and complexity under dry…

We doubt Bloober Team’s going to make the next Bomberman (Konami) While Bloober Team is busy with its own horror project for this year, the studio will be working with Konami again for presumably another Silent Hill game. There was so much doubt surrounding the Silent Hill 2 remake in the run up to its launch. Between the poor trailers and the reputation of The Medium developer Bloober Team, fans didn’t have high hopes for it. So, the remake turning out to be an excellent revamp that retained everything great about the original 2001 game was a delightful surprise.…

Tony Hawk ‘wishes’ Kurt Cobain could have met their grandchild (Picture: tonyhawk/Getty) Tony Hawk has shared a tribute to Kurt Cobain as he reminisces over a Nirvana gig from the 90s and their shared ‘wondrous’ grandchild. The skateboarding legend is father to Riley Hawk who tied the knot with Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean in 2023 after dating for more than two years. They welcomed their baby boy, Ronin, in September last year, with Tony, 56, calling him his ‘favourite grandson’. In an Instagram Story, Tony shared a picture of a Nirvana gig in 1991, which he went to straight after a…

Of “attack on equality.” Thus, Vox Aragon has described the condonation agreement of 17,000 million euros of debt to Catalonia and the proposal of the Ministry of Finance for the rest of autonomies. Its spokesman Alejandro Nolasco, has criticized a press conference in the courts of Aragon, this agreement that also implies an increase of 2,000 million euros over the initial figure of 15,000 million euros that had been initially scheduled and that now has been elevated in the agreement between ERC and PSOE. A the latter party on which Nolasco has pointed out that “it is humiliated because Junqueras…

After 14 years of war, and 54 years of one family’s rule, Syria is now stepping into a new period of its history. The Assad regime has gone. Led by the transitional  government of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Syria will now have to build a new state and hopefully create a path to a new constitution and free and fair elections. Joining us to help us explain the problems facing this new Syria, Yvonne Ridley speaks with Bilal Abdul Karim, Syrian academic and expert on the political economy of the Middle East and Syria, and editor of the On the Ground…