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Donna DunnEmily and her family were reassured her cancer was not life-threatening, but she died from complicationsWhen Emily was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, doctors told her it was a “good cancer” to have – but she died aged 18 because of the side effects of treatment.Her mum Donna Dunn from Cwmbran, Torfaen, said there were “huge holes” in support for blood cancers in Wales, while a consultant haematologist said the workforce was “overstretched and understaffed”.Dr Ceri Bygrave highlighted “crumbling NHS infrastructure”, woeful IT systems and an ageing specialist workforce as major issues.The Welsh government said cancer was one of the…

Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei is in a critical condition in a Kenyan hospital, after allegedly being doused with petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend. The 33-year-old marathon runner, who competed at the recent Paris Olympics, had suffered burns to more than 75% of her body, police said. She was attacked at her home in western Kenya, where she had been training.There are concerns about the increasing cases of violence against female athletes in Kenya, some of which have resulted in death. Ms Cheptegei is said to have been rescued by neighbours after the incident that happened on…

Family handout/PA MediaSteve Dymond was found dead at his home seven days after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle ShowA guest on The Jeremy Kyle Show who took an overdose after appearing on the programme spoke of the TV host egging on the audience to “boo him”, his son has told an inquest.Steve Dymond, from Portsmouth, is thought to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the ITV programme in May 2019.The 63-year-old took a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his ex-partner, Jane Callaghan.His son Carl Woolley told the inquest in…

Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific has cancelled dozens of flights after a plane heading from the city to Zurich was forced to turn around due to an “engine component failure”.The company says it has now inspected all 48 of its Airbus A350s and found 15 aircraft with faulty parts that needed to be replaced.The planes’ Trent XWB-97 engines were made by British engineering giant Rolls-Royce.Since Monday, Cathay Pacific has cancelled almost 70 flights, including routes linking Hong Kong to Sydney, Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei.Cathay Pacific said the disruptions will continue until at least Saturday.”At Cathay, safety of…

BBCLast Saturday, a Telegram message popped up on Heejin’s phone from an anonymous sender. “Your pictures and personal information have been leaked. Let’s discuss.”As the university student entered the chatroom to read the message, she received a photo of herself taken a few years ago while she was still at school. It was followed by a second image using the same photo, only this one was sexually explicit, and fake.Terrified, Heejin, which is not her real name, did not respond, but the images kept coming. In all of them, her face had been attached to a body engaged in a…

SuppliedMilo weighed just less than 2lb (0.9kg) when he was bornA hospital trust has apologised to the parents of a baby who was given another mother’s breast milk after being born prematurely.Melissa and Callum say they were “let down repeatedly” during their son Milo’s treatment at Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) and Leicester General Hospital (LGH).Milo, who was born at 26 weeks in March, was fed stored breast milk from a woman who was not his mother on three occasions.University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), which runs the hospitals where Milo was treated, apologised to his parents and said changes…

Getty ImagesX was suspended in Brazil during the early hours of SaturdayBrazil’s Supreme Court has upheld a ban on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.A majority of three out of five justices have already voted in favour of the measure, meaning the ban will stay in place even if the two remaining justices were to vote against it.X has been suspended in Brazil since the early hours of Saturday after it failed to appoint a new legal representative in the country before a court-imposed deadline.It is the culmination of a feud between Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes…

Focus FeaturesWilliams came up with the idea to be depicted as a Lego figureA new film about the life of musician Pharrell Williams, told entirely using Lego, has made most critics happy, judging by early reviews.Williams, who also produces the film, is known for hits such as Happy and for being one half of production duo the Neptunes, who worked on some of the biggest hits of the last two decades.The new film, titled Piece by Piece, uses Lego bricks to predict Williams’s early life in Virginia through to his rise to fame. After its world premiere at the Telluride…

Getty ImagesRaising the windfall tax on the UK’s oil and gas companies will hit the government’s main goal of growing the economy, the industry has said.Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the planned hike would cause investment in the sector to plunge and result in a loss of £13bn to the UK economy from 2025 to 2029, putting 35,000 jobs at risk.The warning came as a leading business group warned that talk of tax rises and employment rights has “dented confidence in the environment for business in the UK”.A Treasury spokesperson said the government was committed to a “constructive dialogue” with…

BBCCai says violent and disturbing material appeared on his feeds “out of nowhere”It was 2022 and Cai, then 16, was scrolling on his phone. He says one of the first videos he saw on his social media feeds was of a cute dog. But then, it all took a turn.He says “out of nowhere” he was recommended videos of someone being hit by a car, a monologue from an influencer sharing misogynistic views, and clips of violent fights. He found himself asking – why me?Over in Dublin, Andrew Kaung was working as an analyst on user safety at TikTok, a…