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NHS makes undisclosed settlement to Richard Branson's Virgin Care after legal dispute | The Independent

NHS makes undisclosed settlement to Richard Branson's Virgin Care after legal dispute | The Independent

NHS makes undisclosed settlement to Richard Branson's Virgin Care after legal dispute

Labour is calling on the Department of Health to disclose the cost to the NHS of the legal challenge 

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Virgin Care is part of Richard Branson's business empire and provides hundreds of NHS contracts PA

The NHS has settled a legal dispute with private healthcare group Virgin Care for an undisclosed amount. 

The Labour Party said it was “scandalous” that the NHS had to defend a legal battle with the company, which is part of Richard Branson’s business empire. It also called on the Department of Health to disclose details of the settlement.

Virgin Care sued the NHS last year after it lost out on an £82m contract to provide children’s health services across Surrey, citing concerns over “serious flaws” in the way the contract was awarded.

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Media Lens - Survival? Symptoms Of Breakdown

Media Lens - Survival? Symptoms Of Breakdown

Survival? Symptoms Of Breakdown

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If the human species survives long enough, future historians might well marvel at what passed for 'mainstream' media and politics in the early 21st century.

They will see that a UK Defence Secretary had to resign because of serious allegations of sexual misconduct; or, as he put it euphemistically, because he had 'fallen short'. But he did not have to resign because of the immense misery he had helped to inflict upon Yemen. Nor was he made to resign when he told MPs to stop criticising Saudi Arabia because that would be 'unhelpful' while the UK government was trying to sell the human rights-abusing extremist regime in Riyadh more fighter jets and weapons. After all, the amount sold in the first half of 2017 was a mere £1.1 billion. (See our recent media alert for more on this.) Right now, the UK is complicit in a Saudi blockade of Yemen's ports and airspace, preventing the delivery of vital medicine and food aid. 7.3 million Yemenis are already on the brink of famine, and the World Food Programme has warned of the deaths of 150,000 malnourished children in the next few months.

Brainchild Festival – Bringing together emerging artists & progressive ideas.

Brainchild Festival – Bringing together emerging artists & progressive ideas.

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Welcome to Brainchild Festival. We are a DIY powered and volunteer-led festival celebrating the talents and ideas of the people around us.

For three days in July, we stitch together incredible creative projects into a program of live music, jam sessions, spoken word, DJ sets, talks, workshops, film, theatre and installation art.

The festival is a meeting of minds; it is very intimate, with artists, crew and festival-goers all camping together and no VIP areas on site. We push important conversations and interdisciplinary art to the forefront and welcome everybody to get involved. Built up by friends of friends over the years, the atmosphere is warm, open and relaxed. Brainchild is the perfect place to let your guard down, try things out and discover amazing artists. We hope that you will find something you love this year.

Winners of the AIM Award for Best Independent Festival 2015 & 2016!

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Over the years Brainchild has become more of a big creative network than a 3 day festival. Every year, over 300 artists contribute their work and ideas across 

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A 27-second​ film is a stark reminder that the refugee crisis is far from over [VIDEO] | The Canary

A 27-second​ film is a stark reminder that the refugee crisis is far from over [VIDEO] | The Canary

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Artists Min-Hyung Choi and Valentin Guiod have linked the physical and mental endurance of refugees and migrants with Olympic athletes. They worked with French organisation La Cimade – who support refugees and migrants – to produce three short films. And the first highlights the danger of swimming to ‘safety’. But these films are also a poignant reminder that the refugee crisis is far from over.

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Figures from the UN show that, since 2014, over 1.7m refugees and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe by sea (Mediterranean). But it also estimates that over 15,400 people are dead or missing.

The International Organisation for Migration (IMO) Missing Migrants Project “tracks incidents involving migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, who have died or gone missing in the process of migration”. According to the IMO:

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The BBC is teaching kids how to spot propaganda in UK schools. Will they start with themselves? [TWEETS] | The Canary

The BBC is teaching kids how to spot propaganda in UK schools. Will they start with themselves? [TWEETS] | The Canary

The BBC is teaching kids how to spot propaganda in UK schools. Will they start with themselves? [TWEETS]

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The BBC will teach kids how to spot propaganda in schools across the UK. High-profile BBC journalists will enter classrooms in up to 1,000 secondary schools and sixth forms and train children in identifying ‘fake news’. But many have asked whether they will start with themselves.

Major inaccuracies 

On the same day the BBC announced the initiative, the outlet was caught broadcasting major inaccuracies. BBC News at Ten broadcast footage of two Indian actors, while reporting on the death of Bollywood star Shashi Kapoor. Neither of them were actually the deceased actor.

BBC star Adil Ray of the show Citizen Khan said:

Someone at the BBC thought the brown person in this VT is the same person. Worse still neither of them are the deceased actor [anchor] Huw [Edwards] refers to. It’s poor when it would have taken them seconds to verify. Not enough care.

“Do they refer to websites such as the BBC?”

But the BBC‘s scheme seems to be teaching schoolchildren that, if information comes from the BBC or experts, it will probably be true. One question asks students: