Diabetes 'out of control' in some parts of England

Imam's 'sham marriage' trial collapses
London: The trial of Mohammed Mattar, who is accused of conducting 580 sham marriages  between Muslim men and European brides collapsed after the Home Office failed to finish paperwork in time. He was said to have presided over the bogus weddings at his Islamic bookshop in west London between 2008 and 2012 to help men win the right to stay in Britain. The charges were dropped after government investigators missed deadlines to hand over vital information.
8 Shias shot dead in Pakistan's Balochistan province
Peshawar: Eight Shia Muslims were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying them in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province. The victims were travelling in a bus when two gunmen attacked them in Hazar Ganji area in provincial capital Quetta. The attackers escaped after the firing and police were searching for them.  
Promiscuous men face less prostate cancer risk
Montreal: Researchers from the University of Montreal found that men who had experienced sex with a large number of women were 28 per cent less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than men who had slept with only one woman. “It is possible that having many female sexual partners results in a higher frequency of ejaculations, whose protective effect against prostate cancer has been previously observed,” said Marie-Élise Parent, one of the study’s authors. The protection is thought to work by reducing the concentration of cancer-causing substances in fluid in the prostate, as well as the number of crystal-like structures in the prostate associated with cancer.
Surgeons turn amputee’s foot into knee
London: Jordon Moody, 22, a young actress with bone cancer, has had her thigh amputated and replaced by her lower leg, with a new knee joint created from her backward-facing foot. The procedure known as a “rotationplasty”made it possible for her to wear a prosthetic leg without pain. Moody said it was a real shock at first after the surgery, but now it seems totally normal. Lee Jeys, the surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham who carried out the procedure, said after the surgery the patients could walk and in clothes they look completely normal.
Glaring errors of NHS doctors
London: The Health Service Ombudsman has revealed a number of blunders committed by NHS doctors involving members of every generation. The ombudsman tells how a woman in her 80s died after being left unattended by doctors for six hours, afer suffering a fall, while a baby just one day old was left with permanent brain damage because of glaring errors by hospital staff.  
Embarrassing cash machine gaffe
London: A blunder by a cash machine in Aberystwyth offers shoppers “free erections.” The blunder occurred after a sign was wrongly translated into Welsh. The sign on a cash machine should read "arian am ddim" which means free money. But the supermarket blunder says "codiad am ddim" which instead means free erections.
MP Eric Joyce arrested over London shop incident
London: Falkirk MP Eric Joyce has been arrested after "clashing" with a teenager in a London shop.
The Metropolitan police said a 54-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of bodily harm following the incident at a convenience store in Camden. Joyce released a statement confirming that he had spoken to police at the store on Friday, 17 October. The police said a 14-year-old boy was also arrested at the scene for possession of cannabis, and was taken to a police station for questioning along with the 54-year-old. In a statement posted on his website, Joyce claimed he had asked for police to be called after he had "detained a youth." He said officers who questioned him said the CPS and Met Police press office would be informed "because of my identity."