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• Age and pre-existing conditions increase risk of stroke among COVID-19 patients

  28-10-2020 18:40
  
  Fourteen out of every 1,000 COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital experience a stroke, a rate that is even higher in older patients and those with severe infection and pre-existing vascular conditions, according to a new report.
  
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• Rules-based order on pavements too | Brief letters

  28-10-2020 18:04
  
  Childcare hearings | Cycling | Trade deals | ‘Essential’ productsI was dismayed to read about babies being taken into care during remote video hearings (Report, 27 October). My husband was a childcare solicitor for 30 years. Being with a client when they heard their child was to be removed from them was a part of his job that he considered extremely important, to give human comfort as well as legal advice. If he had a grave, he would be turning in it. He was probably one of those &ld
  
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• Covid-positive patients were discharged to Scottish care homes in spring – report

  28-10-2020 17:45
  
  Scottish government accused of playing ‘Russian roulette’ as report finds thousands also went untestedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Scottish government has been accused of playing “Russian roulette” over the discharge of patients who had tested positive for coronavirus into care homes last spring, as opposition parties reacted angrily to a delayed report that concluded the risk was “not statistically significant”.Care in
  
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• 'I needed to fix myself for my kids': breaking the cycle of domestic abuse

  28-10-2020 09:19
  
  Families with complicated lives are being helped by a project that supports both parents during their child’s first two yearsWhen Jess* was 11 weeks pregnant, she got into an argument with her boyfriend, Robbie*, who lashed out and hit her. Jess had suffered a previous miscarriage and was terrified of losing another baby.“I couldn’t go through it again,” says Jess. “The idea of losing another baby because of a decision taken by Robbie was really traumatic for me.&rd
  
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• Care village residents cycle for gold

  28-10-2020 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Locked down residents at Belong have been going for gold by travelling the world on their bikes — all from the comfort of their care villages. With the help of their support workers, residents across Belong care villages have worked hard to cycle their personal bests in this year’s Road Worlds for Seniors, a global competition for older people and those with dementia.
   
  Amongst the thousands competing, Belong residents have been exploring breath-taking landscapes through a linke
  
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• National online campaign launched by author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth to bring young and old together

  28-10-2020 06:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A national online campaign launched by author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth to bring young and old together to share the joy of poems has been boosted by a Royal recital. 
  The Duchess of Cornwall, a strong advocate of the benefits of poetry and literature, recorded WH Auden’s Night Mail which was posted online using #PoetryTogether2020 on National Poetry Day (1 October). 
  Celebrity Gogglebox and BBC Just a Minute star Gyles explained: “I love poetry and, during lockdown,
  
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