A 22-Year-Old Mother Found A Mushroom On The Ceiling Of Her Own Home

After a massive 20-centimetre mushroom sprouted on their bathroom ceiling, a couple has taken to using face masks in their own house.

Bella Lavin, 22, has also taken her 12-month-old daughter and their cat to live with her mother because she thinks the mushroom is a Coprinopsis picacea, a dangerous fungus.

The mushroom’s growth is attributed by Bella, who also resides with her partner Jordan Burton, to a leak in the apartment above her Cross Heath, Newcastle-under-Lyme, house.

She claims that Aspire Housing’s prolonged removal of the mushroom has negatively affected her mental health and she is dissatisfied by this.

Bella said, ‘It was just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I was in floods of tears because I am visiting my daughter—she’s only one; she’s my first baby—and my disabled partner had been feeling ill, and I felt so hopeless. 

‘Aspire is letting people live in places where something like that can be allowed to grow. There are people worse off than me living with top-to-bottom black mould in their flats. It’s a crisis that no one is dealing with head-on.’

Bella added, ‘Since this situation occurred, I’ve been trying to get away as much as I can.

‘I went to visit my daughter and I started to cry as I went to come back because that’s my baby; I want to be able to live with her.

‘Because of this thing, I can’t be her mum, and it hurts me. She’s my baby, and she couldn’t come home.’

Bella and Jordan had waited seven months for the flat. But Bella says she will ‘demand a rehousing’ if the mushroom returns.

She added: ‘I want people to see that this is a reality. I felt like no one was listening to me. People were saying to me, “Why don’t you just rip it out and put bleach on”it?”—but it’s not that simple.’

Aspire Housing’s head of transformation, David Jones, said: ‘We are aware of an issue with damp in Ms Lavin’s home as a result of a leak and have taken steps to resolve this. 

‘Ms Lavin contacted us through our online portal to report a damp and mould issue, and a repair visit was scheduled.

‘Following a phone call to highlight further concerns, we escalated this to an urgent appointment and attended Ms Lavin’s home the next working day, carrying out initial mould treatment works the following day.

‘We have scheduled a further appointment to address any damage from the leak that was identified in the home above and then we will continue to support Ms Lavin until these issues are fully resolved.

‘We understand that problems with damp and mould can be very worrying, so we would encourage customers to report these issues as soon as they are identified. 

‘We are dedicated to providing safe, decent homes and want all our customers to feel at ease in their homes.’

No matter how well she cleans it, the persistent issue appears to be a result of a leak. In addition to creating health issues, the mould problem should also be investigated by the council to see whether there is a ventilation issue. Although the council does not think that this is their concern, they do have a duty of care.

Household sprays and bleach will not reach this kind of mould, and spores can emerge through cracks and holes. The leak is from the flat above. This woman could have dealt with part of the problem, but with a baby she needed the underlying cause fixed as well.

Perfume From Vaginal Discharge TikTok Trend

Doctors are warning against a new viral TikTok trend that sees single women use their vaginal discharge as perfume.

‘Vabbing’—which involves smearing fluid behind the ears and neck—was popularized by American TikTokker Mandy Lee, whose original video has racked up 1.5 million views.

Proponents claim it increases the chance of attracting men by spreading their pheromones—chemicals made by the body to attract mates in some animals. 

Physicians, however, caution that there is no proof that this phenomenon occurs in people and that there is a significant risk of vaginal infections, particularly thrush, associated with this tendency.

MailOnline was informed by London-based private gynaecologist Dr Paraskevi Dimitriadi that it may also result in issues with conception.

According to Dr Dimitriadi, bacteria on women’s fingers can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, a condition in which the germs travel from the cervix to higher organs.

This may cause the fallopian tubes to become scarred, which would make it more difficult for fertilised eggs to enter the womb.

Vabbing—a combination of the words ‘vagina’ and ‘dabbing’—was first used as a hashtag on TikTok in June.

Since then, videos with the slogan have received millions of views.

The act itself is not totally dangerous, according to Dr Dimitriadi of the Centre for Surgery, a private cosmetic surgery facility in Paddington.

But ‘the question is how you collect the discharge’.

She said, ‘If you use dirty fingers inside your vagina to collect discharge, you can not only potentially traumatise the tissue in your vagina but also spread infection, potentially causing something as serious as a pelvic inflammatory disease. 

‘Dirty fingers could also cause bacterial vaginosis or thrush. 

‘If you have bacterial vaginosis or thrush, your discharge can be malodorous and will not help you attract a partner.’

Author and sex guru Shan Boodram developed the term “vabbing” in 2019 and claimed to have been using it for more than ten years to attract men.

‘I am certain that every single time I employ it, it makes me feel like an enchanted goddess with a delicious secret,’ she wrote in her book, The Game of Desire.

In June, a TikTok video featuring Mandy Lee rekindled the craze among younger viewers.

‘I swear if you vab, you will attract people, like a date, a one-night stand, or you’ll just get free drinks all night,’ she said in the video, which has since been deleted by the platform.

God help the next generation. Get ready for the next disease pandemic because this is a foul thing to do—it’s a waste product. Put it behind your ears and you’ll end up with infected ears. Put it anywhere that touches anything else and you have a disease event. What is wrong with people? Don’t they teach basic hygiene anymore?

A nasty culture has been spawned by social media.

What moron came up with this idea in the first place? More importantly, what group of troglodytes would do anything this repulsive and disgusting?

They now have a new perfume out; it’s called Eau de Pousse!

A Pensioner, 70, Worries About The Winter

A pensioner has said he is ‘scared for the winter’ because he can’t afford to put the heating on as Labour prepares to scrap the winter fuel allowance from millions.

Simon Moss, a 70-year-old retired customer service assistant, is facing a harsh winter ahead in his cold housing association bungalow.

He already limits his shopping to once a month and has given up alcohol, cigarettes, and holidays, as well as little indulgences like Sky TV. He also has two Universal Credit children, whom he makes every effort to support.

He is one of 11.8 million people in the UK who say they don’t have enough to live on, according to a new report from Christians Against Poverty.

They say their clients are typically £ 273 a month short of what they need to be able to cover their basics, such as food, energy bills, and rent.

Mr Moss, from Sunderland, said, ‘Life is a struggle; I never go out and hardly ever drink anymore.

‘I’m scared for the winter.’

Labour’s plans would see only pensioners on incomes low enough to receive pension credit getting winter fuel payments worth up to £300 this year, despite fears that many will be forced to choose between heating and eating. 

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the government would not ‘play fast and loose’ with the nation’s finances as she defended the decision to means test pensioners’ winter fuel payments.

She told BBC Breakfast: ‘We have to make sure that we can fiscally be responsible so that we can grow our economy so that we can pay for our public services.

‘And we said that in the run-up to the general election. What we didn’t realise is that absolute mess the Tories had left the… state of the finances, and we’re having to make difficult decisions.’

She said the government was taking action to support pensioners, with the household support fund extended to ‘help people who maybe are not entitled to pension credit, who are just above that threshold, who may struggle this winter’.

Protecting the state pension triple lock, which looks set to give an above-inflation rise in line with average earnings, also gives ‘some protection’, she said.

She acknowledged it was a ‘difficult choice’ but it was due to the ‘difficult circumstances because of the previous government and what they did’.

It is of little consolation to Mr Moss, who a few years ago found himself in a difficult financial situation and sought help from Christians Against Poverty (CAP).

With the assistance of his CAP Debt Centre Manager, he was able to go debt-free through a Debt Relief Order.

However, despite this relief, managing his finances remains a constant struggle.

People who have now retired have worked hard all their lives, and their entire weekly income is just over £200 a week. They qualify for pension credits, so they have to pay for everything, and now they are having their winter fuel payment taken from them. It’s okay for these politicians; they don’t have to worry about their winter fuel bills. Why? Because they are wealthy!

And don’t forget our government protects illegal immigrants and wraps them in cotton wool, but for those Brits that were born in the UK, well they can go and do one! What a warped world we live in.

How many asylum seekers will be cold this winter? It’s unbelievable what’s happening to our once great country – we look after everybody but our own. I bet all the immigrants will be nice, warm and toasty in their four-star hotels, with three square meals a day, but our pensioners go cold and hungry.

‘Path To Disaster’ Revealed In Grenfell Report

Grenfell Tower was turned into a deathtrap that claimed 72 lives due to ‘serious deficiencies’ in building standards, ‘dishonest’ manufacturers and a local authority with an ‘indifference’ to fire safety, a damning report has found.

Almost every organisation involved in the refurbishment and management of the 24-story, 120-apartment block in Kensington, west London, was found to shoulder some responsibility for the ‘decades of failure’ that contributed to the tragedy on June 14, 2017.

‘Unscrupulous’ manufacturers involved in the renovation of the 67-metre-tall tower a year earlier—including covering it in highly combustible cladding—were admonished for ‘systematic dishonesty’ and for ‘misleading customers’.

Architects demonstrated a ‘cavalier attitude’ to fire and safety regulations, while contractors and the cladding specialists did not properly concern themselves with the matter either. 

Grenfell United, which represents some of the families, said Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s findings made it clear their lawyers were correct to tell the inquiry that corporate bodies, such as Kingspan, Celotex, and Arconic, were ‘little better than crooks and killers’. 

Sir Martin, who today completed his 1,600-page inquiry report into failures in the build-up to the fire, said: ‘None of those involved in the design of the external wall or choice of materials acted in accordance with the standards of a reasonably competent person in their position.’

He said the fatal choice of combustible materials for the cladding of Grenfell Tower resulted ‘from a series of errors caused by the incompetence of the organisations and individuals involved in the refurbishment’.

But he also blamed the British Board of Agreement (BBA), the trade association, for its alleged incapacity to properly inspect construction materials used in the renovation before granting compliance certifications.

Sir Martin accused successive governments of an at-times ‘complacent and defensive’ attitude to safety, while the response to the tragedy from Theresa May’s own administration and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea local council in the immediate aftermath was ‘muddled, slow, indecisive, and piecemeal’.

Sir Martin said both the council, which owned the tower and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO), which ran it, showed a ‘persistent indifference to fire safety’, particularly that of its many vulnerable residents.

However, he saved some of his sharpest criticism for the people in charge of the renovation companies.

According to his initial investigation of the events of the fire night, the tower’s cladding panels violated building codes and deliberately contributed to the spread of the fire.

Building codes should be enforced by law, but they won’t be.

Those who are responsible should be brought to justice, and this should also impose a long prison sentence if they’re found guilty, and it should also be done as quickly as possible.

We will be told that lessons have been learnt, but they haven’t.

To have these public contracts approved, these large corporations lubricate the gears, and those tasked with making sure everything is in order merely turn a blind eye out of concern for the men who take them out to steak dinners at the golf course. For this reason, we need to follow the money.

High-rise flats are dangerous. Flats should only be four stories with lifts in them. Pull down all the high-rise flats and build new ones that have the highest building regulations. No cladding, just old-fashioned brick-built flats that can stand the test of time.

In my neighbourhood, there are apartments that are nearly completed. I asked one of the builders when they would finish. It says it all—he was unable to utter a word of English and needed someone to interpret for him. After that, he was clueless!

Doctor, Who Inspired The ITV Show Starring Joanne Froggatt, Reveals A&E Reality

A top palliative care doctor has revealed how she has to speak to dying patients on trollies without even a curtain for privacy as she lamented the ‘broken’ NHS.

Dr Rachel Clarke admitted she ‘can’t really exaggerate how grim and crisis-laden conditions are’ and described conditions in A&E wards in Britain as ‘Dickensian’.

Speaking to Andy Coulson on his Crisis What Crisis? podcast, the doctor from Didcot added that ‘crisis conditions are the norm now and it’s horrendous.’

The book Breathtaking, written by renowned physician Dr Clarke, exposed the reality of working on a Covid ward and was adapted into an ITV series starring Joanne Froggatt.

She also discussed the difficulties in providing palliative care, the misinformation about COVID-19 in particular, and the harassment that she and many other critical professionals encounter online.

Discussing the current state of palliative care in the NHS, Dr Clarke said: ‘You can’t really exaggerate how grim and crisis-laden conditions are.

‘You know, we all see the news headlines. I walk into the A&E handover in the morning and I see a team who look absolutely broken from the night shift.

‘There are ten ambulances queueing outside each with a patient, some of those patients are dying, they literally can’t even get into the hospital. There are patients in corridors on trollies.

‘I might have to have an end-of-life conversation with a patient on a trolley in a corridor who doesn’t even have a curtain around them. It’s horrific; it’s sort of Dickensian. This is how broken the NHS is at the moment.’

She said that such ‘crisis conditions’ are the ‘norm now and it’s horrendous’, adding: ‘So you roll up your sleeves and you go into this chaotic situation, and it feels like fire-fighting, often.

‘You really have to be on your best possible game as a doctor, because you have patients who are frightened, who are in extreme suffering, families who are distressed, and you have to go into that crisis situation and try and make a difference; do the best job you can.’

Dr Clarke said it was ‘unspeakable how bad conditions are’.

She continued: ‘I think if people in Britain—if the public knew that there were people suffering at the end of their life in this way—that was wholly avoidable, that we could fix if we changed the way we are managing the NHS and funding the NHS—they would want to do that immediately. You wouldn’t wish that on your worst enemy, let alone someone you loved.’

Dr Clarke also explained how she tries to control her emotions while dealing with tough situations, adding, ‘I allow myself to cry.

‘So at work, I will be hard as nails in the sense that my emotions don’t matter; the emotions of my patient and my family are what matters. So I will not indulge my emotions in a way that stops me doing a difficult job. I’ve got to do it as well as possible.’

She said that if she was ‘talking to a six-year-old about Mummy dying’, she would not allow her emotions to get in the way of the conversation ‘as well as I possibly can’.

But Dr Clarke continued, ‘Then I’ll go and have a cry with my members of my team. We all do that sometimes; we know that we need to look after each other.

‘And I don’t mind if I’ll sit in the staff car park and cry for a bit before driving home, because that’s human. That’s a natural reaction to the unavoidable suffering that’s a part of being a human being.’

She then spoke about new Health Secretary Wes Streeting and his statement that the ‘NHS is broken’ and needed ‘saving’, which was issued shortly after Labour won the General Election.

Dr Clarke said, ‘I was really delighted that he said that because it’s just empty pretence pretending otherwise. That doesn’t help anybody. The NHS is in crisis.’

She continued, ‘It has been for a very long time. And you know, there’s a very simple bottom line here, which is a country gets the health service it is willing to pay for.

‘And if you want a world-class health service, you pay for it one way or another. I favour general taxation; some people favour insurance, but you have to pay for it. And there isn’t really a shortcut.

‘I think at the moment the very fact that we as individuals are good at pretending the bolts from the blue are never going to happen to us. You know, “I know cancer is out there, but I’m never going to get cancer. I know that horrible car crashes are out there, but I’m never going to have a horrible car crash,” and suddenly need hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of NHS care.

‘The very fact that we are good at denying that truth is one of the things that is causing the NHS to fail.’

She also claimed that ‘shaming people because they smoke, they have a bad diet or they don’t exercise’ is not going to bring about healthier lifestyles.

Dr Clarke said, ‘In fact, it’s probably likely to make that individual worse because they won’t want to see a doctor or present if they’re only going to come away feeling shamed.

‘If you are wealthy enough to afford your five a day or your thirty different fruit and different vegetables a week, then you are more likely to have a healthy diet.

‘It is much, much cheaper to buy a McDonald’s and fill up yourself and your kids on tasty, delicious, and sort of nutrition-free McDonald’s than it is to buy expensive kind of guava and chia seeds, quinoa, whatever it is, your nice middle-class Waitrose supermarket basket, and spend two hours rustling up whatever those ingredients would make.

‘And if you’re time-poor, if you’re money-poor, if you’re working three jobs to make ends meet, how do you have time to go running and buy nice, healthy food?’

She said that improving the health of the nation needs to begin with tackling the root causes of problems, so ‘we need to go for the drinks industry, the food industry’.

Dr Clarke also discussed how the country has been moving on from the pandemic.

The NHS’s inefficient and dishonest administration is the issue. Millions and millions of pounds are being pumped into the NHS’s sticky fingers.

Since patients cannot leave the hospital without a care package and there are not enough carers to cover them, funding for social care is badly needed. Carers ought to be paid more since they work long hours and get little in return. Most people couldn’t handle the difficulty of the work, and I have so much respect for those who can.

The NHS seems to be in dire straits, yet money keeps getting pumped into it apparently, but it seems to make little difference. Hospital managers are getting far too much money, and the NHS needs a massive overhaul from the top because something needs to be done. After all, it can’t go on like this, but the more we complain, the more it gives our government a reason to say, “Well, that’s okay; if you don’t like it, we will make it private.”

We should ban tourists from coming here and getting free treatment because there are too many freeloaders in the UK who have never paid a day’s taxes in their lives but receive everything handed to them on a silver platter. If you decide to travel, be sure to purchase health insurance.

The number of individuals using services who shouldn’t even be here is causing problems for the NHS. The NHS wouldn’t be broken if they stopped giving immigrants and the rest of the world free treatment. British people in the UK don’t get free treatment in other countries, so why should they get it here? Soon our government will make it private health care, so what will non-British citizens do then? Will they go back home because it would cost them a fortune compared to other countries, especially when tax is added to treatment?

Reducing demand or raising supply is the answer. In the previous 30 years, the population of the UK has expanded by 10 million, yet despite this, hospitals and general practitioners have not been able to keep up, nor could they, and NHS funding has increased.

Instead of attempting to control and cure the entire globe, the NHS and the UK should concentrate on taking care of their own.

If a public body like the NHS is struggling, look at it this way: if your bath is overflowing, your first act would be to buy a bigger, more expensive bath. No, that is not the answer; turn off the tap, pull the plug, and let it empty. It’s a shame we can’t do that while they’re crossing the sea!

Putin, 71, Calls For Handover Of Anti-Ageing Research

Russian scientists have been ordered to hand over details of their latest research into anti-ageing remedies in a suspected bid to keep alive Vladimir Putin and his circle of Kremlin cronies.

According to one source, the proclamation came from the ‘biggest boss’ and led to officials scrambling to fulfil the 71-year-old dictator’s supposed instructions.

Putin has long had an interest in anti-ageing but there now appears a new urgency to seek ‘active longevity.’

Independent news sources Meduza and Sistema obtained a letter from his health ministry dated June that demanded the most recent advancements in reversing the biological clock.

According to the reports, renowned medical researchers are surprised by it.

A source said: ‘The biggest boss set a task, and officials rushed to implement it in every possible way.’

An informant revealed: ‘We were asked to urgently send all our developments, and the letter came, let’s say today, and everything had to be sent yesterday.

‘To be honest, this is the first time in my life that I have ever encountered such a thing—usually, any national project or FTP [Federal Target Program] is preceded by a series of meetings with the participation of various specialists, some kind of public discussion,’ explained a doctor from a national medical research centre.

Experts were told to submit ‘development proposals’ to reduce cell deterioration, said the report.

They were directed to emphasise novel technologies that prevent cognitive and sensory impairment, immune system correction techniques, and novel bio-printed medical technology.

The Russian dictator currently has the legal authority to stay in office until 2036 after an extension was voted through in 2020, which means he would remain in power until he is well into his 80s. 

Putin is famously surrounded by a ring of ageing cronies such as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, 74, FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov, 72, senior advisor Nikolai Patrushev, 73, SVR spy chief Sergey Naryshkin, 70 next month, and speaker of the Russian senate, Valentina Matviyenko, 75.

‘We received this paper, and frankly, I was shocked,’ said another indignant source.

‘The message itself puzzled me.

‘Well, of course, now we have no one to restore except these old stumps [elderly Russian politicians].

‘That is, right now [during the war], we have to drop everything.

‘This cynicism is even perplexing.’

A source close to the Kremlin said: ‘All the modern research discussed in the national project is quite expensive—it requires a lot of money and expenses.

‘Developing new drugs costs billions, not a single national project can handle that, especially now.’

Some see the hand of close Putin ally, Mikhail Kovalchuk, 77, head of the Kurchatov Institute, Russia’s leading nuclear institute, as being behind the initiative.

Though the media has been saying that Vladimir Putin doesn’t have much time left, he continues to survive despite everything thrown at him and is another international leader who gets away with doing as he pleases.

In addition to being disliked, he has embarrassed Russia and placed it on the worldwide defensive.

However, I see, as many others probably will, a high window and a long drop to his future, and I’m sure there will be many scientists out there thinking of a way to get rid of him.

I never know if the Russians are thick or smart because they’re great with technology and space exploration and bomb-making, et cetera, but then they, meaning Vladimir Putin, go on like a bunch of Neanderthals, but then we are all a delusional race, trying to extend our lives on this miserable planet.

Winner Of £580 On EuroMillions Still Unpaid

A fortunate lottery winner who won £580 in the EuroMillions claims he has been waiting weeks for his riches and is unable to afford to leave his home.

After winning £582.20 in the lottery in July, 71-year-old Pete Daly was informed he would receive his money in ten days, but 33 days later there is still no sign of his money and now Mr Daly, from Wirral, Merseyside, can no longer afford to leave his house.

Mr Daly says he’s also having to rely on his local food bank to combat his hunger. 

Having found out he won, Mr Daly said he paid for his car insurance renewal out of his monthly budget, leaving him with no money in the bank until the winnings from the lottery came in.

The delay in the payout has left Mr Daly ‘desperate’ for money as he looks to carry out simple tasks such as getting a haircut, filling his car with petrol and buying new shoes.

He told the Liverpool Echo, ‘I won £582.20 and every time I ring them up, I get a different story. I have been paying for the lottery for 10 years; that is £10 a week. 

‘I finally make £500 and they won’t give me it.

‘I need this money, I’m struggling, money is the difference to being able to live, it sorts me to be able to live, not living well, but living.’

EuroMillions apologised for the delays and said it was ‘working on new ways to help further improve the claims process’.

The lottery operator Allwyn said it was forced to introduce a revised claims process for winning tickets following the Post Office’s decision to no longer pay ‘mid-tier’ National Lottery retail prizes between £500.01 and £50,000.

This has led to a small number of these payout claims being delayed, the operator said.

With this revised retail claim process, Allwyn asks players to fill out an online form to start their claim or call their Customer Care Team.

Retail prizes up to £500 can still be awarded in-store, while online winners’ winnings remain unaltered and proceed in the same way as before.

In a statement, the company said, ‘We’re very sorry to hear the concerns raised and colleagues have now called Mr Daly with an update. We successfully process hundreds—sometimes thousands—of prize claims every week.

‘This is following the introduction of a revised claims process that we had to bring in earlier this year following the Post Office’s decision to no longer pay National Lottery retail prizes between £500.01 and £50,000.

‘Unfortunately, a small number of these claims are delayed for various reasons. However, we’re continuing to work on new ways to help further improve the claims process and would like to reassure our winners that they will definitely receive their prize.’

The man claims he must utilise food banks to get food, but he also claims he cannot afford to leave the house.

Some winners are now having to wait months for their payout, which means the operators are keeping funds back, which ultimately gives them additional interest. More than a bit dodgy.

This man’s winnings should have been paid to him and he should not have to wait that long for it, it’s not that difficult to achieve. It’s just money mismanagement here and nothing else.

However, perhaps this man should have waited for his payout before paying out for his car insurance in full. That would have made more sense, but he was told that he would only have to wait ten days for his money.

Office, Pub, Restaurant, And Factory MOTs

In a significant effort to detect diabetes and heart disease early, the NHS will begin distributing health MoTs to workplaces and industries early next month.

Middle-aged professionals, including bus drivers and care workers, will be provided health checks that include blood pressure, BMI, and blood testing for blood sugar and cholesterol.

Health officials believe that by focusing on 130,000 employees at their places of employment, they will be able to reach the most vulnerable and perhaps save thousands of lives annually.

More than 16 million people are eligible for an NHS Health Check, offered by GPs to over-40s every five years.

But only four in ten take up the invite, with lower rates among men, despite their increased chances of heart attack or stroke at an earlier age.

David Hargroves, NHS national clinical director for stroke, said he hoped that taking checks to workplaces such as pubs and restaurants would target those traditionally hard to reach.

He added: ‘Convenient and efficient NHS checks in the workplace could spot thousands of people at risk of a range of cardiovascular diseases, and with high blood pressure the biggest risk factor for stroke, early detection will undoubtedly save lives.’

Almost one in four deaths is down to cardiovascular disease which can lead to heart attack and stroke. Yet experts say around 80 per cent of cases are preventable with lifestyle tweaks and medication.

The £7 million scheme, which will run until March, will see the NHS join forces with local authorities to target big employers, such as Jaguar Land Rover. 

The company is offering the checks to 4,500 employees at its base in Solihull, West Midlands.

Healthcare professionals such as nurses will visit patients’ places of employment to do a brief lifestyle assessment, take their blood pressure, and BMI, and complete a basic blood test.

Louise Gittins, chairman of the Local Government Association, said: ‘Health checks can save lives. 

‘They can prevent people from developing largely preventable diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes and liver disease.’

It coincides with the NHS’s summertime campaign to check for possible cancer symptoms in gym patrons, which will be posted in changing rooms at hundreds of recreation centres.

Stickers reminding people to check themselves regularly are set to feature on mirrors in more than 240 leisure centres run by Better.

I wonder how the already broken NHS will deal with those who are found to have problems. For most people trying to get an appointment with a General Practitioner is like trying to climb Mount Everest, and virtually impossible for the average Joe. This will be another box-ticking exercise I expect, and as always, it’s not been thought through.

I thought that the NHS was stretched to breaking point at the moment, with people not being able to get appointments, but now people are being offered an overhaul, but then again I suppose an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and tackling issues before they become life-threatening saves money in the long run.

Or is this merely a cost-cutting measure since our government just wants to cut the expense of the National Health Service (NHS) and doesn’t give a damn about people’s lifespan or well-being?

Patients are advised to reduce weight by certain obscenely fat nurses. It’s hardly the best appearance, is it? It’s actually rather sad! I would be sitting there, telling her to take her own advice.

Over 1.6 Million Migrants Are Jobless In Britain

According to research released, a record number of immigrants residing in Britain are unemployed, costing taxpayers an estimated £8 billion.

Official figures show that 1,689,000 non-UK nationals are either unemployed or classed as economically inactive because they are not looking for a job.

The figure for the second quarter of 2024 surpasses the previous high of 1,676,000 recorded at the start of the year, and the 1,628,000 from early in 2012, according to analysis of Office for National Statistics data.

It covers people aged between 16 and 64 born overseas and have the right to live in the UK but excludes students and asylum-seekers.

Researchers at the Centre for Migration Control think-tank put the cost to taxpayers of record levels of migrant worklessness at as much as £8.5 billion a year.

They calculate that the total amount of public money attributed to workless migrants – including health, education, transport and housing costs, and welfare – could be as high as £20.3 billion.

It will put pressure on the Government to further crackdown on legal migration after measures by the previous Tory administration to stop foreign students and care workers from bringing family members with them to the UK led to a 35 per cent drop in visa applications in the first half of this year.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has paused the Conservatives’ plan to increase the income needed to bring a foreign partner to the UK from £29,000 to £38,700, and her main new policy is to reduce employers’ reliance on overseas workers by improving the skills of homegrown staff.

Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, said last night: ‘For all the talk of a fiscal ‘black hole’, the Labour Government seem to be missing the glaringly obvious fact that mass migration is causing economic pandemonium.

‘There is no reason for us to continue handing out so many long-term visas when we are currently having to bail out over a million migrants who are already in Britain but not working. This is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme, and we will only compound the problem if we do not change course soon.’

Mr Bates added: ‘Our elderly are facing a potentially deadly winter as Keir Starmer cancels the lifeline of the winter fuel allowance, but at the same time he is doing nothing to clamp down on workless migrants.’

Why hasn’t the Australian method been implemented by the UK government? Granting visas only to those who possess a trade or practical qualification that would support the economy of the UK.

Both governments could have sorted this problem out years ago, but it’s all part of a plan. What they don’t realise is, that it will all probably end in civil war.

In the UK, we have a very incompetent administration that has no regard for the nation or its citizens.

Illegals trying to enter our country should be sent away unless they have a trade and they can support themselves. Our government needs to adopt this attitude, but instead, they’re just rolling out the red carpet for them.

Our government clearly lacks intelligence, and no common sense. They don’t understand the consequences, and there is no logical thinking. I’m afraid it’s a leftie trait, and I fear for our safety.

Only those having a contract of work and skills, as well as proof that they can sustain themselves financially to pay for housing, private medical treatment, and their dependents’ education, should be permitted to join our nation.

Postman Sniffs Girl’s Shoes In Creepy Moment

This is the creepy moment a postman was caught on a doorbell camera ‘sniffing a girl’s shoes.’ 

In the shocking footage, the postman can be seen outside a flat shuffling through letters before posting them through the letterbox.

When a postman stops by a shoe rack outside an apartment, the ordinary footage of him going about his daily work takes an odd turn.

Then, bending over, he picks up a white trainer and seems to sniff it before walking away.

The event occurred yesterday at 11:25 a.m. at a residence on Balnagask Circle in South Aberdeen, Scotland’s Torry neighbourhood.

Mother of two Jade Mullen shared the video online and it has since been viewed more than 575,000 times, shared 1,000 times and received 900 comments.

She wrote: ‘I would just like to let everyone know just to watch out for this postman. 

‘He then turned around to sniff my daughter’s shoes – what an absolute creep.’

One person commented: ‘Wow that’s very weird behaviour.’

Another said: ‘I hope you’ve reported this that’s terrible of him that’s very very strange behaviour.’

A Royal Mail spokesperson said: ‘We are aware of the footage circulating on social media.  

‘We expect the highest standards from our posties and take any breach of those standards seriously. Local management is aware and is actively carrying out further enquiries.’ 

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: ‘We received a report of a man acting suspiciously in the Balnagask Circle area of Aberdeen on Wednesday, 28 August.

‘Enquiries were carried out and no criminality was established. Suitable advice was given.’

Notwithstanding the oddity of this practice, it is not illegal to smell someone’s shoes. However, it would make you ask yourself what this very creepy individual might do next. He could end up being a future child paedophile, he’s certainly showing the signs. Today it’s shoes, tomorrow it could be children’s underwear.

I suppose it’s not as bad as him scratching his backside and having a sniff. It would be even worse if he scratched someone else’s.

Postmen have a duty of care; they shouldn’t be sniffing a child’s shoe. He has betrayed this trust by participating in an activity that is, in fact, a fetish for anything having to do with children.

He made an active decision to behave inappropriately, in a public place while working in a professional capacity. This is behaviour indicative of someone who has no respect or regard for other people’s personal space or boundaries, and this sort of behaviour can escalate when not penalised.

There are a lot of people who will stick up for him, but how would you like it if the shoe was on the other foot? Pardon the pun.

Whether he did it on purpose or just out of bizarre kink, his life is over now that it’s been shared on social media. However, as a postie, you would think he would be aware that cameras are everywhere, capturing pictures.

Perhaps this is a new postal service that we don’t know about – record and sniff, quite literally.

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