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BBC News
12 hours ago
- Business
- BBC News
New bus service to be introduced in Hinckley and Coalville
A new bus service linking Hinckley and Coalville will be introduced in County Council said it was running a one-year trial of the new LC6 route which will connect Coalville Memorial Square, Ibstock, Market Bosworth, Newbold Verdon and Hinckley Crescent bus service will be launched on 26 August and comes as part of the council's review of supported bus council said during the one-year trial of the new service, demand and use will be "carefully monitored". Charles Whitford, cabinet member for highways, transport and waste, said: "The LC6 is another great addition to our local bus network. We know residents want this service between Hinckley and Coalville, as more than 200 people requested it during our travel roadshows held this year."Linking up these two areas of the county will help people to get to school, the shops and to work."Even if you wouldn't usually use the bus, I would encourage as many residents as possible to try out the new service and help cut congestion on our roads."
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I was overeating and depressed about my 25 stone weight until one small change turned my life around - now I'm 10 stone lighter and becoming a personal trainer
A man who was overeating to deal with being bullied and depressed has revealed how he dropped a more than 10 stone with one unlikely lifestyle change. David Smith, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, tipped the scales at 25 stone at his heaviest and made many attempts to lose weight but nothing proved effective. Before 2012, the 49-year-old was maintaining a regular gym routine, on fat-loss pills, using slimming shakes and going on extreme diets but the weight was not shifting. David was feeling hopeless until a friend gave him some unexpected advice - that he should eat more to fuel his body. He admitted he was 'cynical' when he started upping his calorie intake, recording what he ate in a food diary as well as hitting the gym and walking 10,000 steps a day. Much to his surprise, he managed to lose almost 10lbs in the space of a month - a win that motivated David to keep eating right and continue exercising. David stuck to his new diet and exercise regimen and over two years got down to a slender 14 stone 7lbs - which he has managed to maintain until today. He is even starting his own personal training business and hopes to help people like him. 'Being overweight is not a problem that can be fixed overnight or be solved with quick fixes. The process is long and slow but trust in that process,' he told Femail. David's weight woes started when he was in school when he said he 'stopped eating properly' for over 20 years. He said was being relentlessly bullied at school and his home town before his mother had to leave her job as a dinner lady because of a rumour started by the family of one of his harassers. 'As a result, I started comfort eating and my weight ballooned to 25 stone. 'Many of the bullies, as well as numerous doctors, nurses, managers, kept parroting the same old mantra that I needed to move more and eat less,' David recalled. 'When I was 25-stone, complete strangers would come up to me in the street and bully and abuse and harass me simply for being fat. 'I would hide away because I was ashamed of myself. 'I tried many different methods to lose weight including Slimfast, keeping a food diary on paper and Orlistat - a fat-blocking pill from the doctor. None of these worked.' In 2005, David started hitting the gym and managed to maintain a fitness routine for seven years but his weight never shifted. 'By the end of November 2012, I was seriously depressed and contemplating suicide as I was still massively overweight,' he said. 'One night I was chatting to a friend on Facebook. This friend was going to the gym and Zumba classes and the weight was falling off her. 'I asked her what it was that she was doing right that I was doing wrong. She asked if I was eating enough. I replied that I was trying to lose weight and eating less.' The friend suggested to David that he might be eating too little and recommended adding more calories to his diet as well as keeping a food diary. 'I started the diary on the 1st of December 2012 in a very cynical frame of mind. I thought that Slimfast, the previous food diary and Orlistat hadn't worked and keeping a food diary on the internet was not going to work either,' he said. Reluctantly, David started inputting everything he was eating into MyFitnessPal which suggested he had not been eating enough. The information gave David the wake-up call he needed, so he set a new, higher calorie limit that allowed him to eat more with the goal of losing one pound per week. 'I also learned to properly calibrate the exercise equipment at the gym I was using so it showed the correct amount of calories I was burning - I hadn't done this before so was burning more calories than I thought,' he added. Even throughout the festive season, David stuck to his new routine until January 2013 when he first weighed himself. 'I was still convinced that the internet food diary was not working. However, when I weighed myself the scales told me that I had lost 10lbs since I'd started the food diary,' he said. 'It was an amazing moment because I'd finally found a method that worked.' David said he initially found it challenging to up his intake because he had been conditioned into thinking eating as little as possible would result in weighing less. 'Once I broke that cycle and started eating a proper diet and stopped listening to bullies who knew nothing about diet and nutrition, that was when I lost weight because my body was no longer in starvation mode - it was using the food as fuel,' he said. Looking back, David said he noticed he would drop a few kilos after special occasions when he would allow himself to indulge. 'When I wasn't eating enough, I would lose weight on holiday such as Christmas or Easter or around my birthday because I would think 'go on treat yourself' so I would eat more,' he said. 'Not necessarily healthy food but food nonetheless and my body would start burning the calories rather than storing them. 'Once the holiday was over, I would go back to not eating enough because I was guilt-tripping about the food I had eaten and was thinking that I had put weight on when I hadn't.' After two years of learning to fuel his body with food combined with a varied exercise routine, David dropped down to 14 stone 7lbs and has been able to maintain his figure and healthy habits ever since. He hits the gym five times a week and spends half an hour on the treadmill and 30 minutes on the cross trainer on top of weight training. Outside the gym, he makes sure to get in 10,000 steps a day. On an average day, David would have porridge with protein powder for breakfast and a lunch of cheese on toast. For dinner, he has chicken or fish with potatoes and salad or mixed vegetables and has no qualms about snacking on cake, biscuits and chocolate occasionally. The gym junkie also enjoys treating himself to a meal at the pub and doesn't let the extra calories worry him. 'On a day like that I will do 50 minutes on the treadmill and 50 minutes on cross trainer and weight training,' he said adding: 'Enjoy your food and don't feel guilty about eating it.' For others trying to adopt healthier habits, David recommends putting a good playlist together to make gym sessions more enjoyable. 'Make sure you calibrate the cardio machines at the gym with your correct weight, that way they'll correctly show the number of calories you are burning,' he suggested. He is now setting himself up as a freelance personal trainer in Nuneaton under the name David Smith Fitness Training. David hopes he can help people like him who struggle to lose weight and stay healthy.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Plans for Hinckley and District Hospital centre approved despite concerns
Construction of a new £10.5m medical facility at a hospital in Leicestershire can go ahead after receiving planning NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) will build the day case unit on the existing Hinckley and District Hospital, in Mount comes despite calls from Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council's leader to preserve the historic Victorian frontage of the hospital, which will be demolished as part of the authority's planning committee granted planning permission on Tuesday - subject to a review of the hospital's listed building status, which was upheld on Thursday, meaning the development can go ahead. The review of the listed status was carried out by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.A spokesperson said: "Following a request to review the decision not to list the Victorian cottage hospital in Hinckley, it was decided that it did not meet the criteria for listing and the decision was upheld."The new facility is designed to deliver services including gynaecology, urology and plastic surgery and will be linked to the new community diagnostic centre at the site. 'Greatly benefit patients' In a letter, council leader Stuart Bray said he "warmly" welcomed improved NHS facilities in the town following decades of campaigning, but urged the board to "look at the plans again".A council motion urged the applicant to "look for ways to work with local heritage groups and others to seek to preserve as many heritage features as possible".Dr Luke Evans, Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth, said: "In just a few short weeks, we have seen what a difference the £24m community diagnostic centre has made to people across our area, who can now get their tests, scans and checks right here in Hinckley."I know how important access to local healthcare is for people and families across our community, and look forward to seeing this exciting investment take shape now it has the green light."Toby Sanders, interim chief executive of the LLR ICB, said he was "absolutely delighted" the plans could now move forward."The development of the day case unit is the second phase of our development for Hinckley and will cater for a wide range of clinical specialities in modern facilities," he said.A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care added: "As part of the 10-year health plan, we want to shift healthcare out of hospitals into the community, to ensure patients and their families receive personalised care in the right place, at the right time."We are pleased to be providing more than £7m for a day case unit in Hinckley which will greatly benefit patients and the community."
New York Times
04-07-2025
- New York Times
Joseph Giordano, Surgeon Who Helped Save Reagan's Life, Dies at 84
Joseph Giordano, who as the lead trauma surgeon at George Washington University Hospital helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan after he was shot outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, died on June 24. He was 84. His son Christopher said the death, at MedStar Georgetown hospital in Washington, was from complications of an infection. A little after 3 p.m. on March 30, 1981, Dr. Giordano was examining a patient on his hospital's sixth floor when an announcement came over the loudspeaker calling him to the emergency room. It was only when he got down there, and through a scrum of Secret Service officers, that he realized the purpose of the call. And it was only after he and his team cut open the president's suit, revealing a hole below his left armpit, that they realized that Mr. Reagan had been shot. Just minutes earlier, and not far from the hospital, the president had been exiting the Hilton hotel after giving a speech to union representatives when John Hinckley Jr. approached him on the sidewalk and fired six shots from his .22-caliber revolver. The last shot ricocheted off the presidential limousine and hit Mr. Reagan. Two more shots hit Timothy McCarthy, a Secret Service officer, and James S. Brady, the White House spokesman, both of whom were also taken to George Washington. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBS News
03-07-2025
- CBS News
1 dead, 4 hurt in crash between pick-up trucks near Hinckley, state patrol says
A 63-year-old man is dead and four others are hurt following a crash involving two pick-up trucks on Wednesday evening near Hinckley, Minnesota. The Minnesota State Patrol says the deadly collision happened just after 6 p.m. on Highway 48 at Wildlife Road in Pine County's Barry Township. The victim was heading east on the highway when he was struck by the truck travelling south on Wildlife Road. The 40-year-old driver in the southbound truck and two of his passengers — a male and female of unidentified age — suffered non-life threatening injuries. The third passenger, a male also of unidentified age, has life-threatening injuries. The state patrol notes the driver of the southbound truck, from Cambridge, wasn't under the influence of alcohol, and it's unclear if he and his passengers were wearing their seat belts. The driver who was killed was belted, but it's unknown if he had been drinking. The state patrol is still investigating. According to the MnCrash dashboard, there have been nearly 160 fatal crashes so far this year on Minnesota roads, resulting in nearly 170 deaths. That's a slight decrease from the death toll last year at this time. Barry Township is about 80 miles northeast of Minneapolis.
