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Manchester’s violent night-time culture claims another victim

GS — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:39:46 +0000

Michael Flint, an 18-year-old father from Glossop, was found in a critical condition outside the Spar shop on London Road at 10pm on Saturday, July 4. He died in intensive care the following Friday.
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Just to put the swine flu scare into perspective…

GS — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:29:05 +0000

The media likes to talk about how millions died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. It’s true, but most deaths were in third world countries and unfortunately the same may happen this time.

When you look at the facts
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The Catholic church’s anti-condom message

GS — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:33:28 +0000

Last night’s Channel 4 News featured an extraordinary live interview with a Catholic anti-condom campaigner.

Video from Channel 4 News

It’s obvious that condoms do prevent the spread of HIV. That has been proved in the gay community. In some US cities
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Ill with stress

GS — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:40:43 +0000

We hear lots about stress in the workplace. When you’re effectively ‘trapped’ in a job and can’t escape the cause of the stress, it’s a terrible thing. But recently I’ve discovered that stress can creep up on you slowly and unexpectedly.

Dust from depleted uranium weapons causes a cancer epidemic in southern Iraq

GS — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:19:33 +0000

‘…consider the devastation of Iraq’s health, once the best in the Middle East, by the ubiquitous dust from British and US depleted uranium weapons. A World Health Organisation study reporting a cancer epidemic has been suppressed, says its principal author. This has been reported in Britain only in the Glasgow Sunday Herald and the Morning Star. According to a study last year by Basra University Medical College, almost half of all deaths in the contaminated southern provinces were caused by cancer.’

John Pilger writing in The New Statesman

Fast food: the reality

GS — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:09:09 +0000

Someone has photographed various fast food and put the photos alongside the glossy promotional images.

How to live 40% longer?

GS — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:31:10 +0000

Scientists believe that a reduction in calorie intake by 60 per cent of normal, while maintaining a healthy diet of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, could prolong our lives by up to 40 per cent. The Telegraph.

Update on the eye test/spectacles drama with Boots Opticians. But good service from Glasses Direct

GS — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:11:07 +0000

This is an update on this entry. Very pleased with the spectacles from Glasses Direct. I ordered a semi-rimless pair for distance (£25) and a pair for reading (£15). I placed my order by telephone on Wednesday 28 March and they arrived just over seven days later on the Thursday.

I’m going to order a second pair for distance and maybe some to use as sunglasses in summer. The prices mean you’re not stuck with only having one or at most two pairs of glasses — which has always been my situation in the past.

The problems have been with Boots Opticans, Market Street Manchester branch, whom I paid to
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Posterior Vitreous Detachment — update

GS — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:33:04 +0000

A surprising number of people have found my blog when searching for ‘posterior vitreous detachment’, after I wrote about what had happened to me. So I thought I would do an update. I’ll tell you up front that it is relatively good news.

Cowboy opticians and cheap spectacles (hooray)

GS — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:47:06 +0000

I could write a book about my bad experiences with opticians over the past twenty-five years.