Warning pet owners overpaying for medicine
Image source, Getty ImagesBy Lora Jones & Jim ConnollyBBC NewsPet owners may not be given basic information like price lists online and are not always informed of the cost of treatment at a vets before agreeing to it, a watchdog has warned.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) checked thousands of practice websites and found more…
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West Brom report £11m loss for 2022-23 season
West Brom’s accounts relate to the 2022-23, their second consecutive campaign in the ChampionshipWest Bromwich Albion have recorded an £11m loss for the 2022-23 campaign – the final full season under the ownership of Guochuan Lai.Having made a £5.4m profit in 2021-22 – Albion’s first campaign after relegation from the top flight – these latest…
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What is at stake for the four Irish Cup semi-finalists?
Linfield’s Kirk Millar in action against Fuad Sule of GlentoranVenues: The Oval and Windsor Park Dates: Friday 29 March & Saturday 30 March Kick-offs:19:45 GMT & 17:30 GMTCoverage: Watch both matches live on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and appTop four in the Irish Premiership. The last four standing in the Irish Cup.Upsets may…
Allen out of World Open in China in first round
World number three Mark Allen exited the World Open in China at the first-round stage after losing 5-3 to Daniel Wells in Yushan.Wells won the opening two scrappy frames before a break of 72 helped Northern Ireland’s Allen draw level at 2-2.Breaks of 63 and 78 put Wells 4-2 up but Allen cut the margin…
The tree-planting mayor of Freetown
By Tamasin FordBBC Africa EyeYvonne Aki-Sawyerr has made a name for herself as a tree-planting mayor of a West African city on the brink of a climate emergency.The 56-year-old is also the first directly elected female mayor of Freetown – and the first person to be re-elected since it became a position voted for by…
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Coronavirus COVID, flu and RSV steadfast in Ottawa to start March
OttawaAs another region leaves high-risk respiratory season, Ottawa remains.The Kingston area has dropped out of high-risk respiratory territoryAndrew Foote · CBC News · Posted: Mar 07, 2024 10:20 AM EST | Last Updated: March 7A couple walks along a path in Major’s Hill Park in downtown Ottawa in April 2022. (Trevor Pritchard/CBC)Recent developments: Ottawa’s COVID-19…
Coronavirus No new COVID-19 deaths as N.B. marks 4 years of pandemic
New BrunswickNew Brunswick reported no new COVID-19 deaths Tuesday, the four-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of the virus in the province and in Atlantic Canada.No flu deaths Feb. 25-March 2 either, but increase in activity, Respiratory Watch report saysCOVID-19 has hospitalized 1,354 New Brunswickers and sent 89 of them to intensive care since Aug. 27, 2023,…
O’Sullivan & Trump progress at World Open in China
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump both progressed at the World Open in China by winning their second round matches.O’Sullivan, 48, knocked in breaks of 129, 106 on the way to going 3-1 up in Yushan before Michael White levelled at 3-3.An 87 put world number one O’Sullivan back in front and he took the eighth…
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Coronavirus Flu continues to grip Ottawa as COVID, RSV levels settle
OttawaCOVID-19 and RSV are seen as low or moderate. Flu wastewater readings and hospitalizations, though dropping, remain very high.Flu wastewater readings, hospitalization remain very highAndrew Foote · CBC News · Posted: Mar 28, 2024 10:34 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 28Pedestrians walk along Wellington Street in Ottawa on April 16, 2022, during the sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Coronavirus COVID-19 levels low in Ottawa as flu sticks around
OttawaThe weekly respiratory update from Ottawa Public Health has lower COVID-19 levels than its two other closely tracked viruses. The flu season, meanwhile, has stretched much longer than the last one.The Kingston area again has a high respiratory riskAndrew Foote · CBC News · Posted: Mar 21, 2024 11:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 21As the ice melts,…
Coronavirus Outbreaks lower, but other key respiratory signs hardly budge
OttawaThe weekly respiratory update from Ottawa Public Health marches on a largely stable path.Smallest number of new respiratory outbreaks since summer, OPH saysAndrew Foote · CBC News · Posted: Mar 13, 2024 3:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 13Window washers improve the view from the Shaw Centre in downtown Ottawa on Friday. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)Recent developments:…
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Coronavirus Inuit leaders, MPs urge action on eliminating tuberculosis as federal budget nears
IndigenousInuit leaders and New Democrat MPs are urging the Trudeau government to tackle tuberculosis in Indigenous communities this budget. Inuit specifically face a TB rate reportedly 676 times higher than non-Indigenous, Canadian-born people.TB rate among Inuit 676 times higher than among non-Indigenous, Canadian-born peopleBrett Forester · CBC News · Posted: Mar 18, 2024 4:00 AM…
Coronavirus B.C. Conservatives drop candidate amid COVID-19 misinformation claims
British ColumbiaThe B.C. Conservative Party has dropped a controversial Denman Island doctor as a candidate for Ladysmith-Oceanside after his views on COVID-19 and vaccines circulated online on Wednesday.Dr. Stephen Malthouse was suspended from practising 2 years agoMeera Bains · CBC News · Posted: Mar 28, 2024 9:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 29The B.C.…
Coronavirus 4 years after N.L.’s first case of COVID-19, this couple recalls being part of an early outbreak
NLAs Newfoundland and Labrador marks the fourth anniversary of its first announced presumptive case of coronavirus, two people at the heart of an early outbreak reflect on the pandemic’s early days.Laurie McLean and Cheryl Brown-McLean attended a wake at Caul’s Funeral Home — and soon fell illCBC News · Posted: Mar 14, 2024 5:30 PM EDT…
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Coronavirus Biden takes aim at Trump following his embrace of Hungary’s Orbán
Late last week, President Joe Biden briefly chatted with reporters before boarding Air Force One, and one journalist asked whether he was concerned about Donald Trump meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “If I’m not,” the Democrat said, “you should be.”The incumbent president went further during a campaign event in Pennsylvania a day later.…
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