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England cricket team delivers 'unanimous backing' to playing Tests behind closed doors



The England cricket team are ready to play Test matches behind closed doors this summer.




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Open letter to the meat industry in England in response to coronavirus

In these unprecedented times, we have published the following open letter thanking those working in the meat industry for their co-operation.




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How Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe gave Carlton Cole an erection in England training



Carlton Cole has revealed he completed an England training session with an erection.




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Joy for nature-lovers as white-tailed eagles return to England for first time in 240 years



WHITE-TAILED eagles have been spotted in England for the first time in 240 years.




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Eddie Jones extends England contract until 2023 to lead side into World Cup



Eddie Jones has penned a new contract with England.




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Eddie Jones determined to win World Cup after signing mammoth new England contract



Eddie Jones has signed a new long-term England contract as he looks to win the Rugby World Cup for the first time.




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Eddie Jones set for showdown talks with England ace Joe Marler over rugby retirement



Eddie Jones will hold talks with England ace Joe Marler over his future in rugby.




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England's Manu Tuilagi could seal Samoa switch as one of four stars Eddie Jones could lose



Manu Tuilagi may well end his international career away from England.




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Joe Marler delivers England rugby U-turn after considering his future



Joe Marler has performed a U-turn on his England future after considering retirement.




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Correction – Islamic Caliphate in rural England: 35,000 to pledge allegiance



On 29 July 2019, we published an article originally headlined "Islamic Caliphate in rural England: 35000 to pledge allegiance in mass conversion ceremony".




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England stars donate over £1m to the NHS to help continued fight against coronavirus



England players have donated more than £1million to the NHS to help the continued fight against the coronavirus crisis.




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Andrew Neil mocks Nicola Sturgeon as she admits NHS England did not take PPE from Scotland



ANDREW NEIL mocked Nicola Sturgeon after she admitted NHS England did not take PPE from Scotland.




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Sturgeon faces backlash over 'ridiculous' coronavirus plan to shut border with England



A CONSERVATIVE MP has lashed out at Nicola Sturgeon's bizarre coronavirus plan. David Mundell, the Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale, was enraged by reports Ms Sturgeon is planning to shut Scotland's border to England.




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Pick your England T20 World Cup team

After England's 2-1 T20 series win in South Africa, pick your team for the opening T20 World Cup game in October.




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Spot the ball: England win Women's World Cup final in 2017

How good is your eye? Can you pick out the correct ball in these photos of the epic 2017 final?




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Women's cricket future in England needs safeguarding, says ECB's Clare Connor

The ECB intends for women to play international and domestic cricket this summer but is "realistic" about the impact of coronavirus, says Clare Connor.




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Dom Bess on England, the Ashes, spin bowling and his fondness for 'the chat'

Dom Bess talks about England, the Ashes and why he looks up to Australia's Nathan Lyon.




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ECB could have acted faster on England World Cup win in 2017 - Naomi Dattani

The England and Wales Cricket Board could have been faster to act on England's World Cup win in 2017, says Middlesex captain Naomi Dattani.




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England's physical disability cricket team takes on running challenge

England's physical disability cricketers have taken on an energy-sapping challenge - they are running a collective marathon each day for 10 days.




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Brian Bolus: Former England, Yorkshire, Notts and Derbyshire batsman dies

Former England, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire batsman Brian Bolus dies aged 86.




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Mark Wood: England cricketers willing to isolate to ensure cricket is played

Fast bowler Mark Wood says players would be willing to go into isolation in order for England matches to take place this summer.




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Moeen Ali on England Test return and breaking down barriers

Moeen Ali tells the Doosra podcast he has only "two or three more years" left of playing top-level cricket for England.




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Jofra Archer: England bowler impresses on first day of Fifa tournament

England bowler Jofra Archer impresses with a 4-1 win over Newcastle's Rolando Aarons in the best of the action from the first day of the second Premier League Fifa invitational.




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Coronavirus: Garden centres in England to reopen next week

Stores following social distancing can reopen from Wednesday, a senior government source says.




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Odds against England

Why England's World Cup future continues to look gloomy




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England - Profile

An overview of England including key facts and notes on the media




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England bad at penalties? Think again - say the Germans

New scientific research, from Germany of all places, suggests English footballers are actually good at spot-kicks.




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AT#71 - Travel to Liverpool, England

Liverpool, England




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AT#118 - Travel to London, England

London, England




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AT#138 - Travel to England and Greece

Enlgand and Greece Revisited




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AT#280 - Travel to England's Lake District

The Amateur Traveler talks to Zoë Dawes from TheQuirkyTraveler.com about England’s Lake District. This beautiful pastoral area was made famous by the poets and artists in the romantic period, most notably William Wordsworth. Not far from industrial Manchester, the lake district is still a refuge for hikers and and other tourists tucked away in northern England. Zoë describes some of her favorite hikes like the coffin trail along the shores of Lake Windermere and favorite villages like Ambleside.




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AT#284 - Travel to Wiltshire in England

The Amateur Traveler talks to Keith Kellet about the area around his home in Wiltshire England. Wiltshire has been inhabited since the end of the last ice age and has a rich depth of history including the icon site of Stonehenge. Averbury which is an even older stone circle can also be found there as well as the Salisbury Cathedral and the ancient town of Sarum. Keith describes this verdant region with its chalky hills, its rich lowlands, its ancient barrows, and its industrial age canals. Wiltshire is only about an hour out of London on high speed train so it can even be visited as a day trip from your stay there. We have forgotten more about its history than we have remembered so its ancient sites are covered in mystery and speculation.




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AT#315 - Cruise Barge Canals in England and Wales

The Amateur Traveler  talks to Richard Graw about his experiences cruising the canals of England in a canal boat (or narrow boat). The canals traverse through tunnels, up staircases of locks and even up over aqueducts.




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AT#334 - Travel to Yorkshire, England

The Amateur Traveler talks to Elspeth about her native Yorkshire in northern England. 




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AT#352 - Travel to London, England

The Amateur Traveler talks to Amber, an American Tour Guide in London, about her adopted city. Amber is an American expat from London who now takes people on walking tours of London.




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AT#359 - Travel to London, England part 2

Hear about travel to London as the Amateur Traveler talks to Amber from americantourguideinlondon.com. In this second part of a two part episode on London




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AT#416 - Travel to Southwest England

Hear about travel to Southwest England as the Amateur Traveler talks to Edith about her adopted home. This episode will look at the area southwest of Bristol, two hours west of London. Edith says that the area of southwest England is “archetypical English”. 

 




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AT#657 - Travel to Bath, England

Hear about travel to Bath, England as the Amateur Traveler talks to Karen Warren about her new hometown.




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AT#660 - Travel to Manchester England

Hear about travel to Manchester England as the Amateur Traveler talks to Helena Ringstrom about her adopted home.




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AT#704 - Walking the South Downs Way in England

Hear about walking the South Downs Way in England as the Amateur Traveler talks to Aaron Millar about this week-long trek.




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Sport24.co.za | Hales eyeing England return

Former England opener Alex Hales is confident he has matured as a player and believes he is ready to make a return to international cricket.




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England and Australia Are Failing in Their Commitments to Refugee Health

10 September 2019

Alexandra Squires McCarthy

Former Programme Coordinator, Global Health Programme

Robert Verrecchia

Both boast of universal health care but are neglecting the most vulnerable.

2019-09-09-Manus.jpg

A room where refugees were once housed on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Getty Images.

England and Australia are considered standard-bearers of universal access to health services, with the former’s National Health Service (NHS) recognized as a global brand and the latter’s Medicare seen as a leader in the Asia-Pacific region. However, through the exclusion of migrant and refugee groups, each is failing to deliver true universality in their health services. These exclusions breach both their own national policies and of international commitments they have made.

While the marginalization of mobile populations is not a new phenomenon, in recent years there has been a global increase in anti-migrant rhetoric, and such health care exclusions reflect a global trend in which undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are denied rights.

They are also increasingly excluded in the interpretation of phrases such as ‘leave no one behind’ and ‘universal health coverage’, commonly used by UN bodies and member states, despite explicit language in UN declarations that commits countries to include mobile groups.

Giving all people – including undocumented migrants and asylum seekers – access to health care is essential not just for the health of the migrant groups but also the public health of the populations that host them. In a world with almost one billion people on the move, failing to take account of such mobility leaves services ill-equipped and will result in missed early and preventative treatment, an increased burden on services and a susceptibility to the spread of infectious disease.

England

While in the three other nations of the UK, the health services are accountable to the devolved government, the central UK government is responsible for the NHS in England, where there are considerably greater restrictions in access.

Undocumented migrants and refused asylum seekers are entitled to access all health care services if doctors deem it clinically urgent or immediately necessary to provide it. However, the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’ policies towards undocumented migrants, implemented aggressively and without training for clinical staff, are leading to the inappropriate denial of urgent and clearly necessary care.

One example is the case of Elfreda Spencer, whose treatment for myeloma was delayed for one year, allowing the disease to progress, resulting in her death.

In England, these policies, which closely link health care and immigration enforcement, are also deterring people from seeking health care they are entitled to. For example, medical bills received by migrants contain threats to inform immigration enforcement of their details if balances are not cleared in a certain timeframe. Of particular concern, the NGO Maternity Action has demonstrated that such a link to immigration officials results in the deterrence of pregnant women from seeking care during their pregnancy.

Almost all leading medical organizations in the United Kingdom have raised concerns about these policies, highlighting the negative impact on public health and the lack of financial justification for their implementation. Many have highlighted that undocument migrants use just and estimated 0.3% of the NHS budget and have pointed to international evidence that suggests that restrictive health care policies may cost the system more.

Australia

In Australia, all people who seek refuge by boat are held, and have their cases processed offshore in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru, at a cost of almost A$5 billion between 2013 and 2017. Through this international agreement, in place since 2013, Australia has committed to arrange and pay for the care for the refugees, including health services ‘to a standard of care broadly comparable to that available to the general Australian community under the public health system’.

However, the standard of care made available to the refugees is far from comparable to that available to the general population in Australia. Findings against the current care provision contractor on PNG, Pacific International Hospital, which took over in the last year, are particularly damning.

For instance, an Australian coroner investigating the 2014 death from a treatable leg infection of an asylum seeker held in PNG concluded that the contractor lacked ‘necessary clinical skills’, and provided ‘inadequate’ care. The coroner’s report, issued in 2018, found the company had also, in other cases, denied care, withheld pain relief, distributed expired medication and had generally poor standards of care, with broken or missing equipment and medication, and services often closed when they were supposed to be open.

This has also been reiterated by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, which has appealed to the Australian government to end its policies of offshore processing immediately, due to health implications for asylum seekers. This echoes concerns of the medical community around the government’s ongoing attempts to repeal the ‘Medivac’ legislation, which enables emergency medical evacuation from PNG and Nauru.

Bad policy

Both governments have signed up to UN Sustainable Development Goals commitment to ‘safe and orderly migration’, an essential component of which is access to health care. The vision for this was laid out in a global action plan on promoting the health of refugees and migrants, agreed by member states at the 2019 World Health Assembly.

However, rather than allow national policies to be informed by such international plans and the evidence put forward by leading health professionals and medical organizations, the unsubstantiated framing of migrants as a security risk and economic burden has curtailed migrant and refugee access to health care.

The inclusion of migrants and refugees within universal access to health services is not merely a matter of human rights. Despite being framed as a financial burden, ensuring access for all people may reduce costs on health services through prevention of costly later-stage medical complications, increased transmission of infections and inefficient administrative costs of determining eligibility.

Thailand provides an example of a middle-income country that recognized this, successfully including all migrants and refugees in its health reforms in 2002. Alongside entitling all residents to join the universal coverage scheme, the country also ensured that services were ‘migrant friendly’, including through the provision of translators. A key justification for the approach was the economic benefit of ensuring a healthy migrant population, including the undocumented population.

The denial of quality health services to refugees and undocumented migrants is a poor policy choice. Governments may find it tempting to gain political capital through excluding these groups, but providing adequate access to health services is part of both governments’ commitments made at the national and international levels. Not only are inclusive health services feasible to implement and good for the health of migrants and refugees, in the long term, they are safer for public health and may save money.




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England and Australia Are Failing in Their Commitments to Refugee Health

10 September 2019

Alexandra Squires McCarthy

Former Programme Coordinator, Global Health Programme

Robert Verrecchia

Both boast of universal health care but are neglecting the most vulnerable.

2019-09-09-Manus.jpg

A room where refugees were once housed on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Getty Images.

England and Australia are considered standard-bearers of universal access to health services, with the former’s National Health Service (NHS) recognized as a global brand and the latter’s Medicare seen as a leader in the Asia-Pacific region. However, through the exclusion of migrant and refugee groups, each is failing to deliver true universality in their health services. These exclusions breach both their own national policies and of international commitments they have made.

While the marginalization of mobile populations is not a new phenomenon, in recent years there has been a global increase in anti-migrant rhetoric, and such health care exclusions reflect a global trend in which undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are denied rights.

They are also increasingly excluded in the interpretation of phrases such as ‘leave no one behind’ and ‘universal health coverage’, commonly used by UN bodies and member states, despite explicit language in UN declarations that commits countries to include mobile groups.

Giving all people – including undocumented migrants and asylum seekers – access to health care is essential not just for the health of the migrant groups but also the public health of the populations that host them. In a world with almost one billion people on the move, failing to take account of such mobility leaves services ill-equipped and will result in missed early and preventative treatment, an increased burden on services and a susceptibility to the spread of infectious disease.

England

While in the three other nations of the UK, the health services are accountable to the devolved government, the central UK government is responsible for the NHS in England, where there are considerably greater restrictions in access.

Undocumented migrants and refused asylum seekers are entitled to access all health care services if doctors deem it clinically urgent or immediately necessary to provide it. However, the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’ policies towards undocumented migrants, implemented aggressively and without training for clinical staff, are leading to the inappropriate denial of urgent and clearly necessary care.

One example is the case of Elfreda Spencer, whose treatment for myeloma was delayed for one year, allowing the disease to progress, resulting in her death.

In England, these policies, which closely link health care and immigration enforcement, are also deterring people from seeking health care they are entitled to. For example, medical bills received by migrants contain threats to inform immigration enforcement of their details if balances are not cleared in a certain timeframe. Of particular concern, the NGO Maternity Action has demonstrated that such a link to immigration officials results in the deterrence of pregnant women from seeking care during their pregnancy.

Almost all leading medical organizations in the United Kingdom have raised concerns about these policies, highlighting the negative impact on public health and the lack of financial justification for their implementation. Many have highlighted that undocument migrants use just and estimated 0.3% of the NHS budget and have pointed to international evidence that suggests that restrictive health care policies may cost the system more.

Australia

In Australia, all people who seek refuge by boat are held, and have their cases processed offshore in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru, at a cost of almost A$5 billion between 2013 and 2017. Through this international agreement, in place since 2013, Australia has committed to arrange and pay for the care for the refugees, including health services ‘to a standard of care broadly comparable to that available to the general Australian community under the public health system’.

However, the standard of care made available to the refugees is far from comparable to that available to the general population in Australia. Findings against the current care provision contractor on PNG, Pacific International Hospital, which took over in the last year, are particularly damning.

For instance, an Australian coroner investigating the 2014 death from a treatable leg infection of an asylum seeker held in PNG concluded that the contractor lacked ‘necessary clinical skills’, and provided ‘inadequate’ care. The coroner’s report, issued in 2018, found the company had also, in other cases, denied care, withheld pain relief, distributed expired medication and had generally poor standards of care, with broken or missing equipment and medication, and services often closed when they were supposed to be open.

This has also been reiterated by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, which has appealed to the Australian government to end its policies of offshore processing immediately, due to health implications for asylum seekers. This echoes concerns of the medical community around the government’s ongoing attempts to repeal the ‘Medivac’ legislation, which enables emergency medical evacuation from PNG and Nauru.

Bad policy

Both governments have signed up to UN Sustainable Development Goals commitment to ‘safe and orderly migration’, an essential component of which is access to health care. The vision for this was laid out in a global action plan on promoting the health of refugees and migrants, agreed by member states at the 2019 World Health Assembly.

However, rather than allow national policies to be informed by such international plans and the evidence put forward by leading health professionals and medical organizations, the unsubstantiated framing of migrants as a security risk and economic burden has curtailed migrant and refugee access to health care.

The inclusion of migrants and refugees within universal access to health services is not merely a matter of human rights. Despite being framed as a financial burden, ensuring access for all people may reduce costs on health services through prevention of costly later-stage medical complications, increased transmission of infections and inefficient administrative costs of determining eligibility.

Thailand provides an example of a middle-income country that recognized this, successfully including all migrants and refugees in its health reforms in 2002. Alongside entitling all residents to join the universal coverage scheme, the country also ensured that services were ‘migrant friendly’, including through the provision of translators. A key justification for the approach was the economic benefit of ensuring a healthy migrant population, including the undocumented population.

The denial of quality health services to refugees and undocumented migrants is a poor policy choice. Governments may find it tempting to gain political capital through excluding these groups, but providing adequate access to health services is part of both governments’ commitments made at the national and international levels. Not only are inclusive health services feasible to implement and good for the health of migrants and refugees, in the long term, they are safer for public health and may save money.




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CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Reception at the London Zoo in Anticipation of the International Day for Biological Diversity, 17 May 2010, London, England




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Should we scrap the internal market in England's NHS

The "internal market" was created after the 1987 UK general election focused attention on inadequate funding in the NHS, long waiting lists for elective surgery, and large unwarranted variations in clinical care. Economists attributed these problems to a lack of incentives for efficiency, and the remedies offered included increasing competition...




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Type 2 diabetes affects 7000 young people in England and Wales, analysis shows




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Covid-19: Home testing programme across England aims to help define way out of lockdown




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Bank of England: British economy could decline 14 percent

A Bank of England report said Thursday the British economy could fall as much as 14 percent this year, which would be its worst showing in more than 300 years.




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[ Politics ] Open Question : Is it true many British and American banks and companies(Bank of England,UIC,Prescott Bush,etc) gave money and goods to Hitler secretly?




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A digest of the results of the census of England and Wales in 1901 : arranged in tabular form, together with an explanatory introduction / comp. by William Sanders, and produced under the general supervision of Thomas G. Ackland.

London : Layton, 1903.