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Health · East Midlands

Volunteers save Peak District photo archive from landfill fate

Volunteers including Sheila McHale rescued old photographs, reports and papers documenting the Peak District National Park from a barn clear-out and have been cataloguing them. The collection now has a home at the park's head office in Bakewell and the team plans to create an online archive.

BBC Derbyshire 7 Nov 2026

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Health · Wales

'Fi oedd y guinea pig': Y babi o Gymru gafodd driniaeth arloesol

Rhys Evans from Wales became the first person in the UK to receive a new gene therapy in 2001, as a baby who had spent his first year in a medical bubble. Now 26, he is living a full life and works as a sound technician in Minehead, and the treatment has since helped many other children. Doctors say it has now been given to 136 people with a range of illnesses since 2001.

BBC News Wales 7 Nov 2026

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