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Slow Autism Diagnosis and Lack of Support

According to the charity Ambitious About Autism, 1 in 100 children in the UK have Autism but a poll conducted on almost 4,000 parents of children with Autism by the charity reveals that almost half of parents have had to wait 18 months or longer to get a diagnosis which in the meantime wastes valuable […]

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Mystery

The Paranormal Alphabet – M – The Mokele Mbembe

In this edition of the Paranormal Alphabet we head on over to Africa to the Congo Basin Region where a monster known as the Mokele Mbembe is said to inhabit within the swampy waters that are hidden away in the dense and mostly untouched rainforests within the basin. Mokele Mbembe is interpreted from the Lingala […]

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Politics

Jess Phillips Out

Jess Phillips has dropped out of the Labour Leadership Race, declaring she is not the one to unite the party at this current time. Starting off as an underdog, Phillips got an unexpected boost of support from MPs and MEPs in the first requirement round to qualify for the full election. But it appears she […]

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Lifestyle

Consider Getting a Stress Toy

There is nothing wrong with giving something a go for the first time and a stress toy is one of those. They can simply be something that sits near within arm’s reach for those times you need something to fiddle around with to keep yourself calm or just to relax or even to help you concentrate and […]

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Mystery

Iliamna Lake Monster – Obscure Encounters

Also called Jig-ik-nak or Gonakadet by locals or otherwise simply called Illie is a water cryptid that many of the locals believe dwell in the deep depths of the Iliamna lake in the US state of Alaska. It has often been a cause of great concern to the residents who live in nearby fishing villages to the lake, even prompting […]

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Politics

Keir Starmer Is In

Keir Starmer has become the first candidate to fully qualify for the Labour Leadership Election after getting three unions/affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership after he was backed by The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw). The other candidates still have yet to reach this qualification. It is widely expected Long-Bailey will […]

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The Government System of Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country located in the east of Europe and is bordered by Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The country has been a part of numerous nations before it saw a form of independence, it has been part of the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and […]

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Mystery

The Paranormal Alphabet – N – The Night Marchers of Hawaii

The Night Marchers are a popular ancestral Hawaiian legend. Said to be groups of evil ferocious warrior spirits who would kill any mortal in their path that they deem to have shown them or their chiefs, kings or gods disrespect, unless they were an ancestor of someone within the Night Marcher’s ranks then they would […]

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Politics

Labour Leadership Supporters

During a brief window from 14th – 16th January, people were able to sign up as registered supporters by paying a fee of £25, while this does not make them a full Labour member it does allow them to vote in the Labour leadership and Labour Deputy Leadership elections. The Labour Party announced that it […]

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Mystery

Duende – Obscure Encounters

Welcome to my new ongoing series known as Obscure Encounters. Here I highlight alleged encounters with creatures of myth and beings of extra-terrestrial or the paranormal. Each short post will highlight a single encounter I have researched into or discovered and that is not as well-known or known at all as much as the iconic […]