| No Images? Click here   A legal battle over Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for five weeks ahead of the Brexit deadline will be heard by the UK’s highest court on Tuesday.The Supreme Court in London will hear appeals from two separate challenges brought in England and Scotland.  Labour’s ruling body is drafting fresh emergency plans to allow it to take temporary control of the party if Jeremy Corbyn should suddenly quit as leader.A paper on ‘the role of the Acting Leader’ of the party is set to be discussed at the National Executive Committee (NEC) hearing on Tuesday in an apparent bid to clip the wings of deputy leader Tom Watson, HuffPost UK has learned.  A failure to act on climate change, coupled with Brexit uncertainty, could risk food supplies, MPs have warned.A report by the Environmental Audit Committee states that people’s health could be at risk from the spread of new diseases and heat stress as the climate warms – a situation the NHS is not yet ready to deal with.  Three teenagers are among four people arrested by police on suspicion of murdering newly-married police officer Andrew Harper following the emergence of new evidence, detectives said.Thames Valley Police said they re-arrested two 17-year-old boys and an 18-year-old man from the Reading area, and had also arrested a 21-year-old man from the Basingstoke area.  An American woman has become the first person to ever swim across the English Channel four times without stopping.Open water marathon swimmer Sarah Thomas completed the challenge on Monday morning after more than 54 hours of swimming.   Kym Oliver, 33, from south London has had her fair share of bad sexual health appointments. There was the time, aged 20, when her legs were hoisted into stirrups and the nurse left the room – with no explanation – before returning with a male consultant and five junior doctors. Without greeting Oliver, they started discussing the tilted position of her cervix.“I felt like a curiosity in a museum,” she says. Although she left that checkup with a “bad taste in her mouth”, she had at least been able to access the service.  Alarm bells about the dangers faced by vulnerable children being sent to live many miles away from home were first raised in a parliamentary inquiry in 2012.A report by the All Party Group for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults warned then that placing looked after children a long way from home was causing them to go missing. We raised the same concerns in 2016. Gareth Thomas doesn’t look like the kind of person who scares easily. He is a big, brawny man and a former international rugby star, but you could see the fear in his eyes as he paused before announcing on Saturday: “I am living with HIV.”Despite the enormous progress we have made in treating HIV, despite the fact that someone with diagnosed HIV can now expect to live as long as anyone else, this infection remains one of the most stigmatised of all medical conditions. People with HIV are frequently feared, shunned and rejected. Being open about your HIV status still requires courage. Mental health support in the workplace still leaves much to be desired, with wellbeing and burnout proving to be major obstacles employees face on an everyday basis.I should know. Deciding to step back from my job to focus on my wellbeing was not an easy decision to make. It actually took several months before I decided enough was enough. Even on medication, I could feel myself falling back into a darker place and I realised I needed to break this harmful cycle.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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