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Cousin relationships are no longer a ‘majority’ in Bradford’s female Pakistani community amid rising awareness of the birth defect risks.A decade ago, a Government-funded surveillance project found that 62 per cent of Pakistani heritage women were in consanguineous relationships. This figure has since dropped to 46 per cent, researchers say. It comes amid a push to ban first-cousins from marrying.Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed drew huge flak yesterday after speaking against the motion.A senior Tory said it was ‘shocking’ that an MP would ‘defend this revolting practice’.Experts began tracking the prevalence of consanguinity in Bradford – home to one of the UK’s biggest…
A man whose family was killed in a house fire due to a faulty tumble dryer has urged others to check their machines for potential dangers. Pavan Bhatt lost his grandmother Champagauri, 86, and uncle Dipak, 66, in March last year after an electrical fault within the Hotpoint machine sparked a devastating blaze inside their north London home.The 30-year-old was returning from work when a panicked neighbour called to say his home was on fire. Pavan raced back as fast as he could and found find the house ablaze, with emergency services already on the scene. Sadly his two family members, who both had disabilities, couldn’t be saved. They…
Around 400,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed or maimed in bitter fighting with Russia since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky revealed this week.’Since the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed in action on the battlefield,’ the Ukrainian President said on social media. ‘There have been 370,000 cases of medical assistance for the wounded,’ he wrote, adding that ‘half’ of wounded troops return to the battlefield.The shocking casualty numbers – which are still lower than many Western estimates – come as Russia continues to make significant gains in Eastern Ukraine…
By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 09:50 EST, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 10:43 EST, 22 November 2024 Advertisement Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is launching six tourists aboard its $2.5 billion New Shepard rocket Friday, taking the crew more than 60 miles above Earth’s surface.Named NS-28 — no-nonsense shorthand for the 28th outing for the firm’s reusable, suborbital rocket — is preparing to blast off from Blue Origin’s West Texas spaceport.The launch window opens at 9:30amCT (10:30am ET), but the livestream kicked off 30 minutes before to show the six crew members gear up and strap into…
Emmy award-winning actress Shelley Long was spotted talking a mid-day fall stroll a day after her former Cheers co-star, George Wendt, was pictured being wheeled out of a dialysis clinic.The 75-year-old star, best known as the ditzy barmaid Diane Chambers on the TV sitcom Cheers, strolled alongside a male friend in the Los Angeles neighborhood as they walked a small white dog on November 20.The adorable pup’s leash was strapped to the belt loop of her pal’s black jeans. He also wore a black vest, a navy blue button-up shirt and a black cowboy hat.Long wore a blinged-out gray baseball…
President-elect Donald Trump is Time magazine’s 2024 ‘Person of the Year’.The magazine made its annual announcement early Thursday after releasing its shortlist on Monday.To celebrate the occasion, the president-elect headed to Wall Street to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning. This is the second time the 78-year-old is being named Person of the Year after he also received the title in 2016 after his first presidential election victory.It comes after Trump dominated headlines this year with his third bid for the White House and decisive win last month.The president-elect also survived a close assassination attempt in…
An Arizona mom who was vacationing at Disney World as Hurricane Milton wreaked havoc through Florida came forward to describe her experience of being hunkered down in the park. Sandra Guadarrama-Baumunk, 53, was visiting Disney World with her family when the storm made landfall and said their resort was ‘one of the safest places to be in a hurricane’ while applauding how accommodating it was.Resort guests were told to be in their rooms by 8.30pm on Wednesday in preparation for the storm. The hurricane left 3million Florida homes and businesses without power Wednesday night and destroyed about 125 homes. At least 13 people have…
Looking for a European break but keen to avoid the hordes? Traveller Luke Hoogmoed (@lukepatrickh) – who has built up an Instagram following of 393,000 with his travel content – is here to help. In a video posted on social media, the 25-year-old adventurer from the Netherlands shared 10 underrated European destinations that he thinks you won’t have heard of. And here he reveals more about his choices. He tells MailOnline Travel: ‘Most of the destinations in my video are located in Eastern Europe. When I travel, I like three things: safety, hospitality, and beauty. ‘And I think Eastern Europe, despite the prejudices many people have about it, is…
President Bill Clinton was so enraged by the treatment of his wife, Hillary, during her failed presidential bid that he couldn’t sleep for two years, he now admits – or stop complaining about the shock defeat.Writing in his new memoir, an emotional Clinton issues an apology to all those who found him hard going in the years following the 2016 contest, won by Donald Trump, which he describes as ‘the darkest election possible in the United States’.Clinton, president from 1991-2001, still blames Hillary’s defeat on a toxic combination of Russian propaganda, an unprecedented investigation into her use of emails by…
Steven Fine does not mince his words on the Budget – especially when it comes to capital gains tax (CGT).Rachel Reeves is reportedly planning to increase CGT on shares in the Budget by ‘several percentage points’ from the current rate of 20 per cent.That is hardly what Britain needs if it is to encourage ‘risk taking and investment’ says Fine, chief executive of City broker Peel Hunt.‘Tax rises like this would send the opposite message to entrepreneurs everywhere as well as investors in our capital markets,’ he says.He urges the Chancellor ‘not to take such a damaging step and choke…