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Source: www.ghanaweb.com Alberta Obinim, 43, has been identified as the lady who passed away after being stabbed in Manchester. The incident occurred at approximately 11:20 p.m. on Sunday in Barnard Road, Gorton, and a 22-year-old male has been taken into custody on suspicion of murder, according to Greater Manchester Police. Two others, a 17-year-old girl and a 64-year-old man, also ...

Smitha Mundasad,Health reporter A cancer charity is warning people to do more to protect themselves from the sun as the number of melanoma skin-cancer cases in the UK continues to rise. Cancer Research UK predicts there will be a record 20,800 cases diagnosed this year – up from a yearly average of 19,300 between 2020 and 2022. Its analysis shows ...

Sanjana Idnani,Wales Live International students in Wales have been sleeping rough on campuses after struggling to find housing. Students have reportedly struggled to find affordable accommodation near to universities, meaning they travel to campus for lectures and sleep in university buildings overnight. Nida Ambreen of Bangor University’s Students’ Union said some regularly slept in the university’s 24-hour study space to ...

Image caption, A tree brought down by Storm Isha fell over a car in Belfast on Sunday evening By Sam Hancock BBC News Almost the whole of the UK is under weather warnings as strong winds from Storm Isha sweep in. Met Office amber wind warnings for all areas except London and parts of the South East are in place until ...

By Ed Thomas A growing number of women who say their children were handed to abusive partners by England and Wales’ family courts have abducted them and fled to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus. The BBC spoke to six of them to investigate some of their stories. “I’m told there is an arrest warrant out for me. Court orders say I can’t ...

Image caption, A 34-year-old woman received her sister’s womb in the first transplant of its kind in the UK By Fergus Walsh Surgeons in Oxford have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK.  The recipient was a 34-year-old woman, and the donor her 40-year-old sister, both of whom wish to remain anonymous. Doctors say both recovered well from surgery ...

By Lauren Hirst It was the spring of 2017 when an alarming letter arrived at Cheshire Police’s headquarters, addressed to the chief constable.  It was from the chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital, which had seen an unexplained surge in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies in its neonatal unit. Doctors were baffled – the deaths defied ...