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The NHS has begun trialling a new iPhone adapter which can check whether someone has throat cancer.It is hoped the device will allow thousands of patients to be given the all-clear from the disease within hours – rather than days or weeks – as well as helping to detect cases early. People suspected of having throat cancer are usually given an endoscopy, which involves a long, thin tube with a camera inside being passed through their mouth or nose to look inside their body.The endoscope-i adapter, which can be attached to one of Apple’s smart phones, includes a 32mm lens…

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has called the UK’s current assisted dying law “psychopathic” after his terminally ill ex-wife travelled to Dignitas in Switzerland to die alone.The 60-year-old supported former music industry and charity sector worker Paola Marra – who he married in the 1990s – as she battled breast and bowel cancer before she flew alone to Zurich in March following a terminal diagnosis. She made the decision because the “pain and suffering can become unbearable”, she said in a film released after her death at the age of 53 called The Last Request. Please use Chrome browser for a…

The cost of government borrowing has jumped, while UK stocks and the pound are up, as markets digest the news of billions in borrowing and tax rises announced in the budget.While there was no panic, there had been concern about the scale of borrowing and changes to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules. At the market open on Friday, the interest rate on government borrowing stood at 4.476% on its 10-year bonds – the benchmark for state borrowing costs.It’s down from the high of yesterday afternoon – 4.525% – but a solid upward tick.As the morning has worn on that high…

Climate change caused by humans fuelled all the ten deadliest weather events of the last two decades, analysis has found.The ferocious cyclones, heatwaves, drought and flooding, including in Europe, have killed more than 570,000 people. All were all made more intense and more likely in a hotter atmosphere, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group at Imperial College London said as it marked its 10th anniversary.Its research shows how scientists can detect the “fingerprint of climate change” in complex weather events – such as the recent deadly flooding in Spain.”Climate change isn’t a distant threat,” said Dr Friederike Otto, co-founder and…

GB News has been fined £100,000 for breaking impartiality rules over a programme featuring Rishi Sunak, Ofcom has said.The regulator announced in May that the show called People’s Forum: The Prime Minister was found to have broken broadcasting rules. In response, GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos said the fine was a “direct attack on free speech and journalism in the United Kingdom”.”We believe these sanctions are unnecessary, unfair and unlawful,” he added.The hour-long show, which aired on 12 February, saw members of the public put questions to the then-prime minister. However, Ofcom received 547 complaints about the programme. The…

Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles – two followed by 36 zeros – after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube.Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the International Monetary Fund.Google – which owns YouTube – has a current stock market value of $2.16 trillion, so probably won’t be stumping up the cash any time soon.The fine is also still growing due to non-payment and, if not paid within nine…

Elon Musk has been summoned to an emergency court hearing on Thursday over the $1m prizes he has been awarding registered voters in swing states.The Tesla and X chief executive has been ordered by a judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to address a civil case by the city’s top prosecutor to stop Mr Musk and his political action committee, America PAC, from giving the cash away. The suit accuses Mr Musk of operating an illegal lottery and trying to influence voters in next week’s presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.Mr Musk and his PAC are backing Mr Trump, the…

Courteney Cox has paid tribute to Matthew Perry, a year on from his death.The 60-year-old actress wrote on Instagram: “Missing you today and always.” She followed the message with a heart emoji, and tagged the addiction charity set up in his honour. Perry was found dead at his home on 28 October 2024, aged 54. A medical examiner later ruled that ketamine was the primary cause of death.Both household names thanks to their roles in hit sitcom Friends, Perry’s Chandler Bing married Cox’s Monica in the seventh season of the US show, in a two-part episode titled The One With…

Lowri Williams is struggling to cover her basic expenses. Earning a low income with very little support, she says she feels like she’s “living hand-to-mouth” and barely getting by.She’s one of a large group of people in low-income households who are caught in a precarious position, earning too little to comfortably support themselves, but too much to qualify for significant financial help.For people like Lowri, working more or earning a higher income could mean losing vital support like Universal Credit, leaving them no better off and in some cases even worse off. Image: Lowri Williams in her home Higher tax…

A new radioactive therapy has shrunk a man’s deadly brain tumour by half, in what experts hope could be a breakthrough cancer treatment. Paul Read, a 62-year-old engineer from Luton, noticed he had a severe headache last December. Two weeks later, his wife Pauline was concerned he had a stroke as his face appeared to have dropped on one side. He was diagnosed with recurrent glioblastoma – a type of brain cancer which kills most patients within 18 months – after doctors found a large mass on his brain.Despite undergoing an operation on 27 December, followed by courses of radiotherapy…