London, July 24: Thousands of junior doctors in Britain are reportedly driving taxis due to a lack of work.
According to The Telegraph, most of these general physicians have been forced to take up menial second jobs to make ends meet because their ''greedy'' senior partners are not offering them full time posts.
Next week 2,500 doctors will qualify as general physicians (GPs), and according to the British Medical Association, a vast majority have not found full time jobs and will have to live ''hand to mouth.
It costs the British taxpayer around 250,000 pounds to train each graduate to junior doctor level and many are considering travelling abroad or working in another speciality even though there is predicted to be shortage of GPs.
London, July 24: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided to amend a legislation that insists that prospective foreign spouses have to take an English proficiency test before marrying a British citizen.
According to The Sun, the government has said that those intending to marry British citizens and settle here will be required to take language lessons only after they arrive.
The country’s Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said it would be impractical to demand tests beforehand because English lessons are not widely available overseas.
The report presented by the House of Lords claimed that a threat of pandemic is looming over Britain.
The report said, "Estimates are that the next pandemic will kill between two million and 50 million people worldwide and between 50,000 and 75,000 in the UK. Socio-economic disruption will be massive."
The report further added that changes in lifestyle are supplementary to such infections. The report mentioned various diseases like Malaria and TB which are developing resistance to the antibiotics. The report also presented concern over the various diseases that are now transmitted from animals to humans.
London, July 23 : Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, which including key government and consumer websites, in the past two weeks.
According to a report in The Times, using the virus, the hackers have been able to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites.
Experts described the Asprox virus as an alarming departure from commonplace viruses which tend to be spread through rogue e-mails and unregulated websites.
London, July 23 : British Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo has demanded that the drinks industry help tackle problems related to alcohol abuse, saying that boozing costs the country over 25 billion pounds a year.
She pointed out that booze-fuelled crime cost as much as 15billion pounds, while hangovers and days off caused by alcohol added about 7.4billion pounds more to the bill.
She even said that the NHS forked out 2.7billion pounds patching up injured drunks, and treating diseases caused by drinking.
London, July 23 : One in five Brit teens carries a weapon, according to a new survey.
However, Home Office stats released last week said only one in 16 carried weapons.
In the poll of 1,426 children aged 14 and 15, 19 percent of youngsters reported having carried a weapon at some point in the last 12 months, with 60 per cent saying it was for protection from attack.
In the study, conducted by Portsmouth University, 20 admitted they carried a weapon to attack.
One per cent said they had them only in lessons and 5.1 per cent said they did it both inside and outside school.
London, July 24: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided to amend a legislation that insists that prospective foreign spouses have to take an English proficiency test before marrying a British citizen.
London, July 23 : Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, which including key government and consumer websites, in the past two weeks.
