HEART OF THE NEWS

When I was at boarding school in Lancashire many years ago, my friend Mandy and I ran away

For two hours… Up a hill about a mile from school.

Well in our news today, from the same area, Lancashire, two school boys also from a boarding school, ran away too. But not up a hill around the corner, but to the Caribbean. Haha!

Also in our news, criminals are offering to hot wire electricity wires so your bills are cheaper for the cost of £10.

Today was the first one this winter, when from our bedroom window, I could hear the sounds of someone scraping their car removing the ice. 2 °C 0 °C, is the forecast for today around here.

Further afield, in Japan, a man from a food factory has been charged with poisoning ten people in China, by injecting poison into frozen dumplings. The worker was reported to be cross with his employers over his wages. “OK, so why not poison his bosses?

For some UK health stories, a third of people in the UK, have no one to turn to in a crisis say the Red Cross. “This is so sad.

Other statistics say that loneliness affects half of adults. “Where on earth are we going wrong?

Do you know, your heart is a pump, the size of a fist, which sends oxygen blood around the body? Heart disease is the UK’s biggest killer. Your blood travels to your organs through the body through blood vessels known as arteries and returns to your heart through veins.

Heart problems occur when the blood supplies muscles and tissues become obstructed by the build up of fatty materials inside the walls of the coronary arteries

CHD, causes deaths of around 200 people in the UK each day, this is rather scary?

About 1 in 6 men and 1 in 9 women, die of the disease.

Death rates are higher in Northern England and Scotland. I have my own theory on why this is and I think it is because there are less foreign nationalities living there and us Brits don’t perhaps eat as healthy as our foreign friends do. Bear in mind, this is my theory others say because the wages are less in those parts of the UK, so people can’t afford good food or visits to the gym.

There is good news though, in the past ten years, deaths caused by CHD, have halved due to good treatments and I’m sure awareness.

Wherever you are in the world, I hope you receive good news today? X