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For the first time ever sentencing guidelines have been published for those who have been convicted of dangerous dog offences in England and Wales.
It has been estimated that it costs the NHS more than £3 million a year to treat injuries caused by dogs.
The Dangerous Dogs Act came into force 20 years ago and in 2010 more than 1700 people were prosecuted over dangerous dogs. Furthermore the...
A woman who fell over a plastic icicle at Santa’s grotto has been successful in her compensation claim for an injury to her leg. She had visited the grotto in a London department store with five members of her family. The elderly woman at the time was in the grotto, in which there were eight people in the small space and it was also dimly lit. The elf had asked the woman whether she could move sideways and backwards so that she was out of the range of the...
Actons’ Personal Injury Team is celebrating the launch of their new series of online videos - designed specifically to speak directly to viewers in a friendly, personal and straightforward way. There is no clutter, no distraction - just the simplicity of a solicitor explaining a quality service as if the viewer were meeting them face-to-face.
Each short video is lead by a member of the Personal...
There are growing concerns recently for the safety of farm workers the industry accounting for only 2% of the working population but it reports the highest proportion of work related injuries.
The data for 2010-11 showed that the agricultural sector accounted for 34 fatal injuries out of the 171 reported for all the sectors. This means that the agricultural sector accounts for 1 in 5 workplace deaths. The rate of fatal...
A new five part series looks at the issue of the lack of regulations in the beauty industry.
It is presented by Jessica Jane Clements of “I’m A Celebrity Get Me out of Here” who has suffered her own injury from beauty treatments when a treatment on her lips went wrong. She had her lips plumped with fillers. However, the filler that was injected into her lips was supposed to be used to de-wrinkle faces. Her lips swelled up and she had two pea size lumps at the end of her lips.
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A teenager has died after a severe reaction to hair dye. After only 20 minutes of the hair dye being applied the girl started to frantically pull the foil from her hair. She then started vomiting and then collapsed and had a violent fit.
The paramedics were called and she was taken to hospital but she later died. An investigation into her death has been conducted but her death is currently unexplained.
...Some people who have been suffering from back pain for years may not have been suffering with pain from their back at all but from their nerves instead.
It is estimated that a third of Britons that have been suffering with back pain are actually suffering with neuropathic pain.
Neuropathic pain is caused by damage or changes to the nerves. This leads them to become oversensitive and irritated...
Eyebrow threading seems to be the new method for styling your eyebrows over plucking and waxing.
There is a new nationwide chain that is changing the image of brow bars with no need for appointments and can walk in for an eyebrow threading. It already has branches in over 20 Debenhams and House of Fraser.
Eyebrow threading originates from the Indian art of hair removal and uses a length of...
Health experts have warned that this new popular treatment could spread diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C.
This new treatment is known as fish foot spa pedicures who’s popularity is on the rise. It involves putting your feet into a large tank of warm water which is filled with garra rufa fish. When the feet are placed in the tank of water the fish nibble the dead skin from the customer’s feet. It also aims to leave the...
Permanent hair removal treatment has become popular over the past few years with laser hair removal being the most popular method.
Laser hair removal procedure requires a number of treatments as the hair could only be treated at the growth stage and not all hairs are at the growth stage at the same time. Patients are usually hair free within eight to ten treatments and these are carried out at four to six week intervals.
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