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With a career as a journalist and foreign correspondent, James Longman is used to reporting on tragedies. But while working at the BBC researching a programme about his family history, he found himself unexpectedly reporting on a tragedy closer to home. Longman was nine when his father died. Then, aged 26, he discovered newspaper clippings revealing facts about his own father’s death that he never knew. “Seeing my own family’s life sensationalised was surreal.” Longman had learnt as a teenager that his artist father, John, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia during a row with his mother, Ann. But it was only when he was working at the BBC the journalist learnt John had dramatically taken his own life aged 51, just as John’s own father (Longman’s paternal grandfather) had ended his own life 20 years earlier. When Longman discovered a history of schizophrenia and suicide in his family, he set out to discover if he was destined for the same fate ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ghbKZnk7

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✈️ A new net-zero “#flight tax” on airlines risks adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of family holidays, the Government’s own analysis shows. New rules which came into effect last week force airlines to fill their planes using at least 2 per cent green fuel, rising to 10 per cent and then 22 per cent by 2040. It is part of the Government’s #netzero drive and will mean using fuel derived from cooking oil and animal waste alongside traditional jet #fuel in a push to lower emissions. But the so-called Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate is forecast to add more than 20 per cent to the cost of flying. The Government’s own impact assessment of the new mandate, seen by The Telegraph, shows that for a family of four, the policy could add £302.40 to the price of plane tickets to and from their #holiday destination by 2040. It adds that as much as 80 per cent of the #cost of the new levy on airlines risks being passed onto consumers. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/etzUgBqs

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Scientists behind the Oxford #Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague #vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the #UK for the plague, which has killed around 200 million people worldwide throughout history. But the team behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus jab has now reported progress in its work on an inoculation. Three of the world’s seven known pandemics have been caused by the plague, a bacterial infection triggered by the Yersinia pestis microbe. It can be treated with antibiotics but none of the several vaccines in development are approved for use. Scientists have called for the UK to add a Black Death jab to its stockpile as the risk of a superbug strain rises. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHRnyFPN