Pippa Boardman said she lost her dignity through data breach at Royal Cornwall hospital by man she barely knew
A woman was told she had cancer by a hospital employee she barely knew who had accessed her medical records days before she was due to receive test results from her consultant.
Pippa Boardman said she lost her dignity and privacy through the data breach at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro.
Continue reading...The Jackdaw field will start supplying gas to homes and businesses from the end of the month, the government said
Here is an explainer by Jill Ambrose about the Jackdaw decision.
But environmental groups have condemned the decision. Ami McCarthy, head of politics for Greenpeace UK, said:
Approving Jackdaw shows the toxic grip fossil fuel lobbyists still hold over our energy policy. Andy Burnham promised pragmatism [see 8.40am], but there is nothing pragmatic about rubber-stamping a project that won’t lower energy bills, won’t boost energy security and will create just 27 full-time jobs …
True pragmatism means severing our reliance on expensive oil and gas that leaves British households broke, supercharges extreme weather, and leaves our energy security at the mercy of petrostates.
Is the prime minister living in a parallel universe? One where we haven’t just endured our hottest summer on record, with droughts, wildfires and, in all likelihood, the most heat-related deaths on record? And where the UN hasn’t warned that we’re on the brink of breaching the all-important 1.5 degree warming limit?
Shell will be cheering this decision but it won’t knock a penny off our energy bills, which is what’s keeping people up at night, or make a meaningful difference to our gas supply.
Jackdaw will provide around just 2% of our gas demand for roughly ten years. It has been oversold and won’t stop the decline in North Sea jobs, as it will be largely unmanned and operated remotely.
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9th over: Australia 22-2 (Head 14, Labuschagne 6) This is some spell from Rabada. Operating at serious pace, even if there’s a little sauce on those readings. Making Head hop around by bowling at the pads, where Head has had a lot of trouble recently, getting out to leading edges a number of times, when he’s not dragging balls onto the stumps. Eventually he’s able to jump up and stab down a ball to leg, to get off strike. Labuschagne gets about a quarter of his bat on another quick delivery to edge it through square leg for two.
8th over: Australia 19-2 (Head 13, Labuschagne 4) Positive for Labuschagne, but risky, hurling the bat at Jansen’s angle across him and lifting a ball over backward point. There to hit, as they say.
Continue reading...Fondation Cartier, Paris
Ibrahim Mahama put an entire factory in this exhibition exploring Ghana before and after it was ripped to shreds by colonialism. And it’s just one dazzling installation in a show full of hope
Ibrahim Mahama has dug through the ruins of post-colonial Ghana, sorted through the ashes of its ancient history, picked through the industrial detritus, the corporate waste, the piles of rubbish, and found something pretty unique: hope.
Sit on one of the Asante stools in his circular Parliament of Ghosts and you can almost feel a new future being worked out right in front of you. It’s the first installation in this huge exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, and it sums Mahama up pretty neatly. He’s looking at the collapse of the Ghanaian government in 1966, the way the hope of the post-colonial project was crushed in a military coup, and he’s looking at ancient Ghanaian history, at the empires that fell centuries ago and the way colonialism tore them to shreds. But he’s not lamenting any of them. He’s not mourning. Instead, he’s reclaiming them, asking how things can be rebuilt, how we can move forwards by learning from the past.
Continue reading...US was not required to give anything in return for Stephen Hubbard’s release ‘out of respect for President Trump’, he claims
It’s also worth noting, as we bring you more from Steve Witkoff’s meeting in St Petersburg with Russian officials, that it takes place after a day of talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Alexander Stubb, Finland’s president, in Oslo.
Trump’s special envoy will relay the proposals discussed in Oslo, including calls for a trilateral summit between Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to hammer out a lasting deal.
Continue reading...The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
Continue reading...He presented several arguments after Portugal walkout
Inquiry chose to halve, then halve again his punishment
Cristiano Ronaldo successfully fought to reduce his punishment for walking out on a Portugal training camp, after publicly saying his sanction should be imposed “without mitigating circumstances”.
Ronaldo said in a lengthy statement on social media after he left the camp in Denmark last month that he should be punished as the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) saw fit and that his role as captain constituted “an aggravating factor”.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Officials say Miatta Fahnbulleh minded not to give approval in victory for climate campaigners
Miatta Fahnbulleh is leaning towards rejecting the giant Rosebank oilfield, the Guardian understands, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry and a major victory for climate campaigners.
Officials say the energy secretary is minded to refuse approval for the field, which would be one of the biggest in the North Sea. Fahnbulleh approved the smaller Jackdaw gasfield on Wednesday, prompting protests from some in the green movement.
Continue reading...A Washington referendum has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teens
For Kelsey Gellner, a Seattle-based pediatric nurse, a statewide proposal to bar trans girls from sports participation feels like a violation of her duty as a medical professional. The ballot initiative includes a requirement she calls “invasive and extreme”: all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams would have to undergo genital exams.
“I tell my kids and patients that my No 1 job is to keep them safe,” said Gellner, who is also a board member of the Washington State Nurses Association. “I can say with confidence that girls do not want to have an unnecessary exam that creates an unsafe barrier.”
Continue reading...WASSENAAR (ANP) - De ontdekte kwetsbaarheden in programmeertaal PHP hebben ook gevolgen in de pretparkenbranche. Duinrell laat weten uit voorzorg zijn normale website en reserveringssysteem tijdelijk offline te hebben gehaald.
Tickets kunnen nog wel worden gekocht via een uitgeklede versie van duinrell.nl.
ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Het Havenbedrijf Rotterdam heeft zijn website tijdelijk offline gehaald om de kwetsbaarheden in programmeertaal PHP. Er zijn echter geen signalen dat de situatie tot concrete veiligheidsproblemen leidt. "Er is geen operationele impact op onze dienstverlening of havenprocessen", laat een woordvoerder van de beheerder van de Rotterdamse haven weten.
De zegsman benadrukt dat het havenbedrijf de ontwikkelingen van woensdag nauwgezet volgt. "Uit voorzorg is onze website tijdelijk offline gehaald. De situatie heeft onze volle aandacht", zegt hij.
"We brengen in kaart waar deze technologie binnen onze systemen wordt gebruikt en nemen waar nodig maatregelen", voegt hij daaraan toe. "Via Ferm-zeehavens, de organisatie voor cybersecurity in de Nederlandse zeehavens, schakelen we daarnaast direct met deelnemende bedrijven en organisaties in de havens over de mogelijke gevolgen en te nemen maatregelen."
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Websites van meerdere politieke partijen zijn woensdag offline. In de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag werd gewaarschuwd voor kwetsbaarheden in de veelgebruikte programmeertaal PHP.
VVD, CDA, PRO, BBB en PvdD melden dat hun sites tijdelijk preventief offline zijn gehaald vanwege het risico. De site van Volt ligt er even uit vanwege "onderhoud". Ook de sites van D66, SGP, ChristenUnie, DENK en JA21 zijn offline. Daarbij staat geen reden vermeld, maar het is aannemelijk dat het door de problemen met PHP komt.
De sites van PVV, FVD, Groep Markuszower (DNA), SP en 50PLUS zijn nog in de lucht.
Ook onder meer de website van de Tweede Kamer en MijnOverheid zijn woensdag uit voorzorg offline gehaald.
This was undoubtedly a scam. Genuine book clubs don't ask for money from authors. But who was behind it? Had these individuals actually read my work, they would have wanted to stay away from me. I have spent the last 10 years reporting on transnational fraud.–The Lucrative World of Literary Scams by Snigdha Poonam. The story also links to I Got Scammed by a Fake Book Club ON PURPOSE! by Marsh Rose. Poonam interviewed M. L. Stark, who wrote her own account of being scammed.
Trump zit ineens weer zijn zogeheten vredespresidentiële fase want de midterms komen eraan en dan is vrede tussen Rusland en Oekraïne toch een welkome campagnestunt. Daarom heeft Trump zijn hoogste gezant Steve Witkoff naar Rusland gestuurd om diesel om Poetins mond te smeren het weer eens te hebben over een nieuwe vredesdeal en om hem te vragen of weer te komen onderhandelen met Oekraïne en de VS (en wie weet schuift Xi ook nog eens aan). Gisteren nog kwam Witkofff eerst zelensky troosten met een komt-wel-goed-hug nadat Trump over Rusland zei: "Russia, frankly, has been fine with Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much." En nu zegt Witkoff rechtstreeks in Poetins gezicht: "You talk so much about President Trump being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that. I commend you." Dit omdat Rusland de Amerikaanse gevangene Stephen Hubbard heeft vrijgelaten, en daar is Trump dolblij mee, vooral omdat er 'uit respect voor of president Trump' niks voor is teruggevraagd door de Russen, volgens president Trump. Tja, en ondertussen staan de poorten van het Slavische Slachthuis nog altijd wagenwijd open en is Zelensky al een tijdje de gebeten hond. Misschien moet Zelensky zich ook maar eens wat humanitairderderrrr op gaan stellen of zo.
