New wave of tactical voting to ‘stop Reform’ and hamper Farage in local elections | Local elections 2025

New wave of tactical voting to ‘stop Reform’ and hamper Farage in local elections | Local elections 2025

A new wave of tactical voting could hamper progress for Reform UK in Thursday’s local elections, campaigners believe, with even some Conservative voters now saying they will vote Labour or Liberal Democrat. This could particularly affect the Runcorn and Helsby byelection, where Nigel Farage’s party is still the favourite to overturn a Labour majority of…

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WCM-Q forum puts spotlight on lifestyle medicine

WCM-Q forum puts spotlight on lifestyle medicine

Healthcare practitioners from across the region met to promote the use of lifestyle medicine at a forum organised by the Institute for Population Health (IPH) of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). The event, titled ‘Lifestyle Medicine: Pathway to Optimal Health,’ provided insights into how evidence-based lifestyle medicine interventions can prevent, manage, and even reverse the overwhelming…

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Pandas and Bun Festival among Hong Kong’s ‘golden week’ trends for mainland tourists

Pandas and Bun Festival among Hong Kong’s ‘golden week’ trends for mainland tourists

Hong Kong businesses have made extensive efforts to entice mainland Chinese visitors during the five-day Labour Day “golden week” holiday, but many tourists will opt to take recommendations from social media platform RedNote. The government anticipates around 840,000 mainland visitors between Thursday and Monday, about 10 per cent more than last year during the same…

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Healthy ready meal company enters liquidation

Healthy ready meal company enters liquidation

John Campbell BBC News NI economics editor Karri Kitchen Peter Coulter & John Campbell BBC News NI Products from the healthy ready meal company Karri Kitchen have disappeared from shelves across Northern Ireland as the business has entered liquidation. The firm, which was based in Craigavon, County Armagh, had expanded rapidly over the past few…

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