Ricky Gervais has been criticised by disability groups for repeated use of the word "mong" on his Twitter feed. The comedian's recent tweets have included phrases like "Good monging everyone", "Night night monglets" and "Two mongs don't make a right".
Following a campaign by Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon, the legal ban on guide dogs travelling on the escalators on the London Underground is being lifted on Wednesday.
BLIND and visually-impaired residents are calling on parents to control their scooter-riding children. Armed with her 5ft reflective cane, Lesley "Fred" Power, 40, of Stockton Road, South Park, told the Mirror she was growing increasingly frustrated by the lack of thought from the younger generation.
Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference today called for long-overdue reforms to adult social care, in line with the Dilnot Commission's and the Law Commission's recommendations, as well as the creation of a Older People's Commissioner for England to champion the rights of older people.
The full text of the version of the motion passed by conference, making it officially Liberal Democrat policy, is as follows:
University of Cambridge researchers involved in the study, which was reported in the journal Science, found that the removal of the HCN2 gene stopped chronic pain, but not acute pain. Acute pain is short-term pain lasting less than 12 weeks, while chronic pain is long-term pain lasting more than 12 weeks. The researchers say their findings could lead to new drugs being developed which block the protein produced by the HCN2 gene thus, hopefully, regulating neuropathic (nerve related) chronic pain.
