News / UK and world by Press Association September 12, 2018, 1:05 pm FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter More than 1,200 people traumatised by the Grenfell Tower fire received mental health treatment in the year after the blaze, figures show. Some 1,108 people entered therapy for trauma-related conditions or complex grief between June 14 2017 and July 2018, Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Trust said. Another 126 patients with long-term mental health problems had their conditions worsened by the west London blaze, which claimed the lives of 72 people. The “vast majority” of patients are still receiving help as trauma therapy is a “lengthy process”, said John Green, who heads the Grenfell mental health response. The unprecedented need after the disaster transformed the trust into “the largest trauma service in the UK”, while its screening and treatment programme is the largest of its kind … [Read more...] about 1,200 traumatised by Grenfell fire received mental health treatment
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Schizophrenic Man Gouged Out Grandmother’s Eyeballs As They Had ‘Demons Behind Them’
Sep 25, 7:41 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury National By Susmitha Suresh 08/01/18 AT 8:56 AM A 21-year-old man from London who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia has admitted to one count of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility for gouging out his grandmothers eyes in a “frenzied and vicious” attack that killed her, the court heard Tuesday.Ilona Czuper, 63, was stabbed and slashed over a dozen times with a knife in an attack that happened two months after Kordian Filmanowicz was released from a psychiatric hospital. He almost obliterated her head with a concrete slab after removing her eyeballs, before proceeding to crush their pet cat and dog with a pavement slab.The man, who was from Mitcham, was fixated with eyes, believing they represented “the demons of those behind them,” prosecutor James Mulholland QC said.When he was at a psychiatric unit in Croydon in 2016, … [Read more...] about Schizophrenic Man Gouged Out Grandmother’s Eyeballs As They Had ‘Demons Behind Them’
Trump Says He Will Meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June
President Donald Trump has revealed the time and place for his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it will take place in Singapore on June 12. "The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!" the president tweeted Thursday morning. Trump is providing details for the first time about the history-making meeting between a sitting American president and the leader of North Korea over denuclearization. The last summit between the two nations came at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Trump had said he favored holding the meeting at the Demilitarized Zone, the heavily fortified border separating the Koreas. But the island nation of Singapore was favored by most of his advisers. Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and host of his TV series “Anthony Bourdain:Parts Unknown,” has died at the age of 61. (Published Friday, June 8, 2018) The … [Read more...] about Trump Says He Will Meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June
Runners invited to celebrate their bodies whatever their shape
News / UK and world by Press Association May 16, 2019, 6:57 pm Updated: May 16, 2019, 8:41 pm Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter Runners including Loose Women presenter Andrea McLean will run 10km (6.2 miles) in their underwear on May 27 to inspire others to be proud of what their bodies can do, whatever their shape. The Celebrate You team – some just wearing underwear – will join other runners at the Vitality London 10,000 which starts on The Mall and finishes opposite Buckingham Palace. Runners will pass famous landmarks including Nelson’s Column, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. While most runners will be wearing a little more than just knickers and a supportive bra, some of the Celebrate You team – which includes The Great British Sewing Bee’s Esme Young and author Giovanna Fletcher – will be wearing sports underwear to show that fitness is for … [Read more...] about Runners invited to celebrate their bodies whatever their shape
When Is Brexit? UK Is Lurching Toward a No-Deal Nightmare
World The cupboards of Jo Elgarf’s London home are bursting with provisions. Dried foods, canned goods, tinned meat, coffee, powdered milk, detergent. “Anything that has a long shelf life,” she says. The hoarding began a few months ago as British negotiators struggled to settle on the terms of the country’s impending divorce from the European Union. Tabloids blared the prospect of a “no-deal Brexit”—and doomsday scenarios quickly followed: Gridlocked border crossings, strangled supply lines and grounded flights. The pound, analysts predicted, would likely tumble while food and medicine stocks thin and Brits face a host of new immigration restrictions if leaving the isles. Elgarf, a 42-year-old mother of two, found herself stockpiling non-perishable goods and imported products—staples of modern-day living that could be harder to come by as Britain goes its own way. And she’s far from alone. Elgarf moderates a Facebook … [Read more...] about When Is Brexit? UK Is Lurching Toward a No-Deal Nightmare
