Friday, 29 August 2014

Daily Diamond - "Guardians" Proposed for Missing People

It is hard enough when someone you love goes missing without having to worry about what is happening to the life you hope they will return to.
Sadly, when a person disappears it is too often the case that their bills go left unpaid and their mortgage payments slide. This is because the person......
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Daily Diamond - A Student's Life-Saving Heart Research

A student from Hampshire has made a scientific breakthrough that could save the lives of people – specifically athletes – with an undiagnosed heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
HCM is an inherited condition in which the heart’s muscle wall becomes thickened......
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Thursday, 28 August 2014

Daily Diamond - Adorable White Lion Cubs Born

Four adorable lion cubs have been born at Circus Krone in Germany. But what makes these lion cubs newsworthy (apart from being ridiculously cute)? They are very rare white lion cubs.
The litter is made up of three males and a female, and all are healthy and eating well, but have yet to have been......
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Daily Diamond - Wireless Tech for Epilepsy Sufferers

Epilepsy affects one out of every 100 people, with more than 500,000 people in the UK and around 50 million in the world suffering from the condition. But epilepsy is notoriously difficult to diagnose and a sufferer needs to have had more than one seizure for it to be considered because many......
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Daily Diamond - River Turtles Found to Communicate Vocally

Over the last year, we have told you about the polite conversation of marmoset monkeys and the translated gestures of chimpanzees. And while animals are evidently capable of communicating with each other in their own way, few appear to do so vocally.
Now, scientists from the WCS (Wildlife......
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Daily Diamond - Police Stop-and-Search Changes

A new government code of conduct has been introduced which will see more than half of all police forces in England and Wales changing the way they handle stop-and-searches on members of the public, spreading to all 43 forces by November this year.
The changes were proposed earlier this year by......
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Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Daily Diamond - University Places Rise for A-Level Students on Results Day

A couple of weeks ago, students from across the UK received their long-awaited A-level results, nervously opening an envelope that could hold their future inside. For the first time in thirty years, the overall pass rate of A-levels has fallen slightly, as well as the number of A and A* grades.......
Read the full story at: University Places Rise for A-Level Students on Results Day