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New £150 fines for litter louts who think it is their 'human right' to drop rubbishAdrian Evans, the chief executive of the Clean for the Queen campaign, also warned that littering has become so commonplace in Britain that some people think it is their "human right" to drop rubbish
270lb man 'sits on son and suffocates him' while playing video gameThe child's seven-year-old sibling witnessed the incident
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NHS hospital bosses given pay rises worth more than a nurse's annual salarySome hospital chief executives have been given pay rises of up to £35,000 Some managers’ earnings rose by almost a quarter, the findings from more than 200 NHS trust boards show. Patients’ groups accused the NHS of “scandalous excesses” at a time when the health service is facing the greatest financial crisis in its history. The head of the Royal College of Nursing said it was “immensely demoralising” to find that some executives had been awarded rises larger than a full year’s salary for the average nurse. The highest overall package went to Dr Tracey Batten, the chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare, who was paid £290,000 plus a £50,000 relocation payment to move from Australia.Several of those with the highest earnings left the NHS in recent months. The second highest earner overall was Peter Morris, the chief executive of Barts Health trust, on £275,000 until he resigned in February amid a growing financial crisis. The trust is now facing a deficit of £135 million, the largest any trust has ever had. Another of the highest earners, Dr Keith McNichol, who came from Australia to run Addenbrooke’s Hospital, resigned in September — just before a damning inspection report saw the trust plunged into special measures. A salary of at least £260,000 made him the fourth best paid chief executive.Tim Smart, who earned £255,000 a year as chief executive of Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust, announced his retirement in April, just after an inspection which later saw the trust rated as “requiring improvement”.Katherine Murphy, the chief executive of the Patients Association, said she was concerned that the NHS had developed a culture of “rewards for failure”.
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Quote270lb man 'sits on son and suffocates him' while playing video gameThe child's seven-year-old sibling witnessed the incidenthttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/270lb-man-sits-on-son-and-suffocates-him-while-playing-video-game-a6793441.html
When the Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens commissioned Mark Reed to make a one-tonne, £20,000, tree sculpture out of steel he soon realised it would be too expensive to post it there. So he decided to deliver it himself on the back of his 1989 VW camper van.
QuoteWhen the Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens commissioned Mark Reed to make a one-tonne, £20,000, tree sculpture out of steel he soon realised it would be too expensive to post it there. So he decided to deliver it himself on the back of his 1989 VW camper van.http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-01-02/a-norfolk-sculptor-has-driven-to-greece-and-back-to-deliver-a-work-of-artVid clip in link