The much lamented tradition of torching cars to mark the arrival of the new year claimed more than 10 per cent fewer vehicles this year A car on fire in Paris Photo: Getty Images By David Chazan, Paris 8:41PM GMT 01… Read More ›
New Year
Crisis: thousand more Greeks unregister their cars
– they could no longer afford the tax amounting to several hundred euros for smaller cars, to over 1,000 euros for luxury vehicles – only 55,000 new registrations logged in the first nine months of 2013, marking the steepest decline… Read More ›
Probe into use of ‘death pathway’ by NHS ” patients have been denied food and drink and placed on the pathway when they were not dying”
Probe into use of ‘death pathway’ by NHS The NHS is coordinating a probe into the Liverpool Care Pathway after concerns were raised over its misuse. Families have come forward saying they were not consulted when their loved ones were… Read More ›
Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards (U.K.)
Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. There were 558 cases last year where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 