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The plain wooden coffins are lowered, one by one, from the back of a morgue truck into the hands of waiting inmates, men standing in a pre-dug trench already filled with other bodies on a small, narrow strip of land off the coast of the Bronx. The only other people on the island – beside the inmates and the dead – are armed Department of Correction officers, overseeing this New York City burial as the rest of the nation’s largest metropolis – almost wholly unaware this place exists – get ready for work. This is just a regular Thursday on Hart Island, essentially the city’s potter’s field – though not all who end up here, it turns out, are destitute or unknown. The bodies are collected from the city morgues several times a week, ferried to a dock at the end of a residential street by a truck driver who alternately naps and drinks Dunkin Donut’s coffee as he awaits the arrival of inmates from Rikers Island. Then the morgue truck and … [Read more...] about New York’s Island of Lost Souls: The largest mass burial site in America where more than 1 MILLION nameless adults and babies are laid to rest in trenches dug by inmates

As a schoolgirl, Katie Uzzell could not understand how her classmates were able to shrug off period pain while she was crippled by it.  And it was only a decade later the then-pregnant woman learned the jaw-dropping reason for her agony - an ultrasound showed she had two wombs and two cervixes.  This meant the service adviser, of Lincoln, was having two periods at the same time, making her double over in excruciating pain.  Since she was 12, doctors put the unbearable cramp down to 'normal period pain', even though the teenager was often unable to walk.     Ms Uzzell said: 'I suffered debilitating pain since starting my periods when I was 12, constantly being told by my GP that it was "just period pain" and I would have to get used to it. Katie Uzzell, 23, from Lincoln, only discovered that her excruciating period pain stemmed from having two cervixes and two wombs during an ultrasound when she was pregnant with Sienna (pictured)  The … [Read more...] about Pregnant woman, 23, only found out she had TWO wombs and cervixes when doctors spotted her unusual anatomy on an ultrasound

If this election should be about anything it should be about our children’s future. At the moment we are failing a generation by starving schools of funds and not doing enough to tackle the climate crisis. After 10 years of Tory rule, headteachers have to beg for funds and more than four million children live in poverty. No child should turn up to school hungry. And no child should be getting a second-class education because of a lack of funding. Only Labour gets this. That is why they are promising to provide free breakfasts for up to four million children. Labour is also pledging to cap class sizes at 30, plough money into refurbishing school buildings and recruit 20,000 more teachers. This is on top of their plans to reverse the cuts to sure start and scrap the Tories’ punitive welfare reforms that have driven so many families into poverty. If you want your child to have best start in life, you must vote Labour. We must act This is the year that the world has fully woken … [Read more...] about Voice of the Mirror: Disgrace as 4 million kids in poverty after 10 Tory years

INVESTIGATORS probing the deaths of six people who contracted vaping-related lung diseases have warned that NO e-cigarette is safe. US health bosses say they aren't ruling out any products on the market - despite vaping industry officials trying to blame illegal cannabis products. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the cause of at least six deaths and 450 reported cases of lung illnesses linked to the devices. Dr Dana Meaney-Delman, who is leading the investigation, said people should stop using any electronic cigarette or vaping device until there is more conclusive evidence of a cause. She said: “We’re trying to prevent any additional cases and deaths." Dr Meaney-Delman said 80 per cent of those patients reported the use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of cannabis.Ditch bootleg vapes The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week warned consumers against using vaping devices bought “on the … [Read more...] about Vaping death investigators warn NO e-cigarettes are safe – as industry blames illegal vapes