So, the number of people who have known to have died of Ebola in the current outbreak in west Africa has passed 5,000. But what does that mean for the affected communities?
I briefly visited Sierra Leone, one of the three most affected countries along with Liberia and Guinea, this week.
One...
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MINNEAPOLIS — THE Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.
There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths over the past six months. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that, by early October, there may be thousands...
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I do buy and sell, pure business, and I have this rather rare collection, a promotion pack for a movie about Mannerheim that never made it in the end. But there's unique material in it.
I was contacted by a woman, who wanted to buy. It was all adult, "Get from work at 4 O'clock"... After some...
Lindsey Lodge Hospice is a local hospice which gives support and treatment to terminally ill patients and where I spend one day a week as one of a team of volunteer chaplains.
From Friday August 1st Lindsey Lodge is one of three different charities being put forward from the East Midlands for...