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A Reform UK councillor has been suspended from the party after non-recent social media posts appeared to show him calling for a former Commons Speaker to be hanged.In a post on X from 2019, Kirklees councillor Dave Rowan appeared to write “Hang the Dwarf” in relation to a post about John Bercow.Also in 2019, before he was a councillor, Rowan appeared to post homophobic and Islamophobic statements.A Reform spokesperson confirmed Rowan had been suspended pending investigation.On X, Rowan appeared to write: “As a parent not at school.. I don’t beleive gays should have kids full stop..”A separate message said: “Too…

Prior expectations guide attention and support perceptual filtering during decision-making. In mice performing a visual discrimination task, choices depended on trial-by-trial differences between consecutive stimuli (|ΔDir|). We hypothesized that …

Aug 12, 2026, 12:22 PM ETWhich two teams will face off inside Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the 2026 Emirates NBA Cup?On Wednesday, the league unveiled the full group stage schedule for this year’s in-season tournament, with action taking place every Friday from Oct. 30 to Nov. 27 and on special Cup nights during Thanksgiving week (Nov. 24-25).After the New York Knicks became the first team to win the NBA Cup and NBA Finals in the same season, can Jalen Brunson & Co. keep their championship run going? They’ll have plenty of competition, specifically within the star-studded East Group B.Here’s…

Born Gaynor Hopkins in a council house in Neath, Tyler grew up with a love for music before she was discovered by talent scout Roger Bell in a Swansea club.Tyler released her first single, Lost in France in 1977, but it was the release of Total Eclipse of the Heart five years later which changed her life.The ballad spent two weeks at UK number one and four weeks in the US.The iconic love song’s music video surpassed 1.2 billion views on YouTube and has had over a billion streams on Spotify.Spotify previously said it had paid out more than $1.4…

We will all face death one day, but our attitude towards this is individual. How can our understanding of mortality shape our approach to life? Here, palliative care doctors and death doulas share what they know about the end – and how it informs the way they live.Prioritise people, not thingsDr Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor who works at an NHS hospital in Oxfordshire and is the author of several books, including The Story of a Heart. “I have learned what matters to my patients as they approach the end of their life,” says Clarke. “All the irrelevant stuff…

The board of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is said to have voted once again to move forward with Donald Trump’s controversial plan to temporarily shutter the building for substantial renovations, as well as to inscribe the US president’s name on the facade of its building, despite a federal order for his name to be removed from the signage.The board – mostly handpicked, staunch allies of the president – voted “to close the Kennedy Center’s main building, while keeping a newer addition to the campus, known as the Reach, open for limited programming and…

SOStainabilityWeekly Edited by Oke Epia, E-mail: sostainability01@gmail.com  | WhatsApp: +234 8034000706 Flakes and Flaks Last Friday, Nigeria’s Guardian Newspaper published a bold but damning report on methane emissions. The report highlighted regulatory failures, corporate negligence, and the contradictory behaviour of a state mouthing commitment to net zero but engaging in unfettered exploration of fossil fuels. Unexpectedly, there has been helter-skelter in boardrooms in Lagos, Abuja, and the Western headquarters of companies, regulators, and contracted lobbyist firms. Sadly, this frenzied reaction is not about the deleterious consequences of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the oppressed, suppressed, and repressed host communities of…

Beware, Americans: there’s a battery-powered threat cruising down beach paths, rolling up hiking trails and zipping along the streets of our cities.By now, you’ve probably seen footage on social media of teens racing along streets, popping wheelies and weaving around car traffic with reckless abandon. The Los Angeles Times recently dubbed them the “new Hells Angels”. Other news outlets have referred to them as “motorized menaces” terrorizing communities. Sounds scary.In reality, these aren’t members of a federally designated violent criminal organization – they’re young adults riding electric two-wheeled vehicles: e-motorcycles, e-scooters and e-mopeds that have often been illegally built or…

Nearly 100 children have been wrongly identified and detained as adults under Shabana Mahmood’s “one in, one out” deal with France, the Guardian can disclose.Home Office staff said that of 304 age-disputed cases arising from the scheme over nine months, 94 (31%) – were ultimately found to be minors. Children are supposed to be excluded from the scheme, while government policy limits immigration detention of unaccompanied children to 24 hours.The figures have emerged in a letter sent to the Home Office minister Anna Turley from Jane Leech, the interim chair of independent monitoring boards (IMBs), which scrutinise prisons and immigration…

For many women in Kano, the risks associated with childbirth begin long before labour. Cultural beliefs, religious misconceptions, financial hardship, delayed antenatal care and reliance on traditional remedies can prevent pregnant women from reaching health facilities when they need care. These barriers were highlighted at a two-day interfaith workshop in Kano, where religious leaders, health professionals, government officials and development partners examined how communities can help reduce maternal deaths. The workshop, titled “Save Lives: An Interfaith Workshop on Reducing Maternal Mortality”, was organised under the Advocacy and Implementation of Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition and Health (AIM-MNCNH) project and held on…