Doctors who dress scruffily can be perceived as having a lack of personal hygiene, according to an article in a leading medical journal.
Informal dress among doctors “erodes the image of doctors as responsible and competent”, according to an editorial published on bmj.com.
Writing in the journal, consultant microbiologist Stephanie Dancer said the 2007 decision to rule out ties in the interest of hospital hygiene had led to many junior doctors abandoning formal wear. Dr Dancer, who works at Hairmyres Hospital in Lanarkshire, wrote that scruffiness was “synonymous with being untidy, dishevelled and unkempt”. (PA)
Events to mark Great War centenary
Britain is to mark the centenary of the Great War with cultural events, candlelit vigils and a service of commemoration attended by a number of Commonwealth leaders.
Streets could be renamed as part of commemorative events starting next year, which include a programme allowing pupils and teachers from state-funded secondary schools in England to visit battlefields of the Western Front.
The centenary of Britain’s entry into the war will be marked on August 4 next year. A candlelit vigil will be held at Westminster Abbey with the last candle extinguished at 11pm – the moment war was declared. The event marks a century from the moment when Sir Edward Grey, Britain’s Foreign Secretary at the time, said, “the lamps are going out all over Europe”. (AP)
Woman turns into stiletto killer
A 44-year-old US woman has been charged with murdering her boyfriend after an argument by beating him with her stiletto high-heel shoe.
Prosecutors say the row between Ana Trujillo and Alf Stefan Andersson, 59, who were drinking wine and tequila, began after another man offered her a drink in a Houston bar. She is being held on bail.
Trujillo told police she had acted in self-defence after they returned to her apartment and Andersson grabbed her. (PA)
Lego for London Underground
Five maps made from Lego bricks will be in London Underground stations this summer as LU celebrates its 150th anniversary. Each map is made up of more than 1,000 Lego bricks and took four days to build. They show how the network has evolved over the years, starting from 1927. They will be displayed in ticket halls at South Kensington (1927 map), Piccadilly Circus (1933, Harry Beck’s original), Green Park (1968) and Stratford (2013). A fifth at King’s Cross St Pancras will show a map for 2020 including Crossrail, the proposed Croxley Rail Link, and the proposed Northern Line extension. (PA)William ‘has maternal Indian ancestry’
William ‘has maternal Indian ancestry’
The Duke of Cambridge has proven Indian ancestry, according to new DNA analysis.
Scientists testing saliva samples from Prince William’s relatives discovered a direct link between the future king and a woman who was part-Indian.
The connection goes back eight generations. Eliza Kewark was the Duke’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother. She was housekeeper to his fifth great-grandfather Theodore Forbes, a Scottish merchant for the East India Company in Surat, a port north of Bombay. (AP)
Makeover for Nazi retreat
Hitler’s mountain retreat in Bavaria is getting a makeover, in a £14.4 million (€17 million) project that will enlarge the historical information centre now there.
It includes details on Obersalzberg – the mountain ridge where Hitler had his Eagle’s Nest retreat and Berghof home and headquarters – as well as on the Nazi regime in general.
The Alpine village was a second centre of power after Berlin for the Nazis, with high-ranking officials like Herman Goering, Albert Speer and Martin Bormann also keeping homes there. (PA)