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Five billion people can't afford surgery – a team of innovators could soon change this

Have you or a loved one ever needed surgery? Imagine what your life would be like if you couldn’t have it. Billions of people around the world lack access to surgery because equipment and general anaesthesia are too expensive or unsuitable in their region.

The Conversation

Polio: we're developing a safer vaccine that uses no genetic material from the virus

Recent reports of poliovirus detected in samples from a sewage treatment works in London have rightly generated significant concern among public health agencies and medical staff. The poliovirus detected is what is called vaccine-derived poliovirus – this is not “wild poliovirus”.

The Conversation

First five businesses announced for KPMG and Nexus Leeds incubator space

KPMG and Nexus say they are open to interest from other businesses that could benefit from the space

Birmingham Post

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Improved disease control in public buildings ‘could save UK billions a year’

Measures such as improved ventilation would boost economy by helping prevent ill health, says report

The Guardian - UK

The Queen's Birthday Honours 2022: Full list of 12 people from Leeds awarded honours

Leeds had no shortage of worthy recipients this year

Leeds Live

Why we're searching England for new dialects

When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak the same language as you or have a different accent. You’ll also notice if they use different dialect words or phrases to describe things.

The Conversation

Leeds cleaner slams 'rude' city-centre students with 'no manners'

The city centre has an abundance of student flats but cleaner Patrick says many of the occupants 'lack manners'

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Leeds university students' defiant message as they refuse to leave occupied building

Earlier today, the group occupied the finance offices of the university

Leeds Live

Leeds university students storm building and refuse to leave room for 3 days in protest

The students have been inside since Monday

Leeds Live

School workshops being organised to inform parents how to make packed lunches 'less unhealthy'

More than 100 schools are expected to be enrolled onto a School Food Matters scheme over the next five years after packed lunches were found to mostly contain unhealthy snacks

Manchester Evening News

Schools holding lessons telling parents how to make 'less unhealthy' packed lunches

Only 1.6 per cent of homemade lunches are deemed to be nutritious enough

Wales Online

Still whanging? Dialect hunt aims to update prized English language archive

Leeds University shares library of 1950s vernacular and launches project to preserve today’s phrases

The Guardian - UK

Warning as stroke-inducing condition sees a 'staggering rise'

Not everyone experiences symptoms of the condition and diagnosing it is difficult

Liverpool Echo

Heart condition with hidden stroke risk 'on staggering rise', experts warn

The heart condition outnumbers the people with the four most common cancers.

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Warning over 'staggering rise' in people with condition that causes strokes

The condition now outstrips the combined number of people diagnosed with the four most common types of cancer

The Independent UK

‘Staggering rise in the number of people with stroke-inducing heart condition’

According to the study, the condition now outstrips the combined number of people diagnosed with the four most common types of cancer.

Leeds Live

'Nowt wrong with it' say Leeds weed smokers enjoying 4/20 in Woodhouse Moor’

Thousands of people attended the annual celebration of cannabis at Hyde Park in Leeds on Wednesday

Daily Record

Mum forced to leave son at Ryanair check-in as 'confusing' passport rule ruins holiday

The University of Leeds scientist was left devastated when a member of Ryanair staff at Leeds Bradford Airport told her she couldn't travel

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Humiliated Leeds mum forced to leave her son at Ryanair check-in after passport mix-up at Leeds Bradford Airport

Devastated Ana Tiganescu - who is a scientist at the University of Leeds - was told she couldn't board a Ryanair flight to Portugal despite her passport having six months before it expired

Manchester Evening News

My five-year-old is now eligible for a Covid vaccine – an expert's view on what you should do

'I am among the unlucky few to experience a child becoming seriously unwell, my son being admitted to hospital at just 14 weeks' - one viral oncology professor shares his story

Daily Mirror

Covid warning as UK faces 'very damaging wave' of infections with pandemic 'not over'

A "very damaging wave" of Covid infections could be on the horizon for the UK, according to Dr Stephen Griffin, associate professor at the University of Leeds

Leeds Live

Huge climate change protest to be held in Leeds on Friday

'There is never going to be a better time than now'

France 24

Sixty years after Évian Accords, Algerian War leaves painful legacy

It's been exactly six decades since the ink was signed on the Évian Accords, an agreement aimed at ending an almost eight-year conflict that claimed the lives of more than 300,000 Algerians. But France is still struggling to come to terms with its colonial and wartime legacy in Algeria. We're…

Leeds Live

Leeds University professor accused of 'pro-Putinist propaganda' hits back at government ministers

Tory MP Robert Halfon says some university professors are spreading Kremlin 'lies'

Leeds Live

The Leeds woman who took on the Nazis and changed the world forever

A plaque honouring Esther Simpson OBE is being unveiled at the opening of a new University of Leeds building named after her

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