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Bindyp

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Aston Villa fan, Brummie Bird.

Labour Party Member. If you’re here to bash Starmer, don’t bother me with your angst. Centre left. After 14 years of Tory bollocks we need some grown ups in charge.

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  1. New RNA treatments for things like cancer, dementia & infectious diseases will be possible thanks to a new facility the government has announced today.

    The UK RNA Biofoundry, to be based in Darlington & backed by £30m funding, is part of the Life Sciences Sector Plan from the Industrial Strategy.

    New facility based in Darlington to springboard novel RNA therapies – which could help tackle cancer, heart conditions, infectious diseases, and more.

    Next-gen therapies for cancer, dementia and more fast-tracked with new facility

    New facility based in Darlington to springboard novel RNA therapies – which could help tackle cancer, heart conditions, infectious diseases, and more.

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  2. This is tragic and infuriating in equal measure. No child should be exposed to serious illness or death due to the stubborn ignorance or baseless superstition of his or her parents, still less the ignorance or superstition of other parents who allow their own unvaccinated children to infect others.

    After Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent MMR paper:

    Measles cases: up 1200% Mumps cases: up 70,000% Multiple fatalities

    People with no science knowledge were taken in by Wakefield.

    People with no science knowledge are taken in by anti-vaxxers.

    Listen to scientists

    www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

    Experts say country needs ‘wake up call’ with levels far below those needed for herd immunity

    Vaccine warning for England as one in five children start school unprotected

    Experts say country needs ‘wake up call’ with levels far below those needed for herd immunity

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    • GPS tags cut reoffending rates by 20% (from 33.2% to 26.2%)

    • tagging has avoided 16,000 arrests over 3 yrs, freeing up police time

    • offenders wearing alcohol tags stay sober on 97% of days

    The Government is also exploring new uses of tech to monitor offenders & reduce reoffending.

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  3. Prisons Minister, James Timpson, has given us some positive facts about the probation service and the outcomes from using various sorts of tags on offenders.

    • Probation officer numbers up 7% in a year

    • Trainees up 15%

    • 1,300 more to be recruited by March 2026

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    www.gov.uk/government/n...

    Reoffending by burglars, robbers and thieves has been cut by 20 percent thanks to the tracking of their movements with tags, a new report  has found.

    24/7 GPS tags lead crackdown on burglary, theft and robbery

    Reoffending by burglars, robbers and thieves has been cut by 20 percent thanks to the tracking of their movements with tags, a new report has found.

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  4. So Trump excuses Russia hitting civilians and civilian areas deliberately as a response to Ukraine attacking only military and refineries supply the military. An appalling duplicitous speech by a Russian loving President.

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