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Two children from the same family have died after getting E.coli in Leicestershire, Public Health England (PHE) has said. The ages of the children, or where they are from, has not been confirmed.PHE says its East Midlands branch has been working closely with environmental health colleagues from Charnwood Borough Council, which includes the city of Loughborough.The two siblings had contracted haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS) – a condition where the abnormal construction of red blood cells can lead to life-threatening kidney failure.Dr Lauren Ahyow, consultant in communicable disease control at PHE East Midlands, said: “E.coli is an infection that causes a spectrum…

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever has cancelled plans to move its main headquarters from London to Rotterdam. The Marmite-maker presently has two parent holding companies: Unilever plc, whose shares are listed in London and New York; and Unilever NV, which is based in Rotterdam and whose shares are listed in Amsterdam and New York.Under the proposals, shares of Unilever plc would have been replaced with one new share in Unilever NV, while the two parent holding companies would be replaced simply by Netherlands-based Unilever NV.After resistance from shareholders, however, the company will instead retain both its headquarters in the UK…

More than 58,000 pregnancy tests that were sold in the UK have been recalled after some returned inaccurate results. People who bought Clear & Simple digital pregnancy tests in the UK have been urged to check the lot number after a small number returned false positives.More follows… From – SkyNews

Cristiano Ronaldo has been left out of Portugal’s squad for two upcoming matches as he fights a rape allegation. The star footballer will not play for his national team in its second game of the UEFA Nations League in Poland on 11 October.He will also miss a friendly match in Glasgow against Scotland three days later.The decision comes days after teacher Kathryn Mayorga, 34, claimed the Juventus forward raped her in June 2009 in a Las Vegas hotel room.Ronaldo, 33, tweeted on Wednesday that he “firmly” denies the accusation – his first direct denial of the allegations. Image: Ronaldo and…

London faces the threat of flooding due to the impact of rising sea levels, a report warns. Other major coastal cities such as Houston, Manila, Jakarta, Lagos and Dhaka could all face similar risks, according to Christian Aid’s Sinking Cities, Rising Seas.Climate change could act as a “threat multiplier” to existing factors such as sinking ground and subsidence, water extraction and bad planning, increasing the risk of flooding.London’s sinking problem is largely a vestige of the last ice age when glaciers that weighed Scotland down and lifted up the south like a see-saw melted and reversed the effect, according to…

Two pest controllers have been found dead at a Norfolk poultry factory following a suspected chemical spill. Emergency services were called to Banham Poultry in Attleborough at about 1.10am on Thursday after the sub contractors’ bodies were discovered.The men, one in his 30s and another in his 40s, were found close to the building and nobody else was injured, police said.Three hazardous area response teams were sent to the factory, as well as an air ambulance.”Despite the best efforts of all involved, two men died at the scene,” a spokesman for the Eastern Ambulance Service said.Trains going towards Cambridge were…

UK car sales fell by a fifth last month, according to industry figures – with the decline blamed on a squeeze in the supply chain caused by the introduction of new European emissions standards. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 338,834 vehicles were registered, down by 20.5% compared to the same period last year.New car sales had already been falling in 2018 and are now down by 7.5% for the nine months to date – blamed on a fall in business and consumer confidence as well as drivers shunning diesel vehicles and changes to car tax.The SMMT…

About 1,000 people are still missing in three areas of Indonesia following last week’s earthquake and tsunami, Sky News has learned. The number of those still unaccounted for is an estimate by the national disaster agency and is made up of those believed to be missing from the areas of Petobo, Balaroa and Sigi – neighbourhoods on the outskirts of the hard-hit city of Palu.A spokesman said that most victims in Petobo are in flattened homes buried under at least three metres of mud that has now solidified.Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said: “The liquefaction damage is unprecedented in Indonesia, despite high…

Nissan has warned there will be “serious implications” for Britain’s manufacturing industry if the UK fails to secure a trade deal with the European Union. The warning from the carmaker, which operates the country’s largest car factory, in Sunderland, is the latest alarm signal from the auto sector in the run-up to Brexit.Businesses are increasingly anxious for clarity as they try to plan for how Britain’s departure from the EU will affect supply chains and tariffs in the months ahead.Nissan said in a statement: “Today we are among those companies with major investments in the UK who are still waiting…

A man being extradited from Pakistan to the UK will be charged with the murders of eight people who died in a 2002 house fire. Shahid Mohammed will be formally charged with the murders of five children and three adults from the Chishti family when he appears at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.The family died in a house fire in Birkby, Huddersfield in May 2002.Mohammed, 36, was on the run until he was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in January 2015. Image: Mourners watch hearses carrying the Chishti family in 2002 He was detained following a joint operation between West Yorkshire…