UFO sightings this month - Shropshire, UK

June 25th, 2008 flowercarole

The Ministry Of Defence is facing calls to launch an official investigation after a series of UFO sightings this month.

One sighting was filmed by a soldier on night patrol in Shropshire on June 7 and another made two hours prior by the crew of a police helicopter in Cardiff.

On June 20, a dog walker in Bromsgrove also spotted objects in the sky she said “weren’t from this planet.”

The MoD confirmed today it had been handed footage captured on a mobile phone by a corporal on guard duty at Tern Hill barracks, near Market Drayton, Shropshire.

Corporal Mark Proctor told a newspaper he witnessed a “fleet” of objects objects zig-zagging across the sky at about 11pm.

The 38-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Battalion Irish Regiment, said: “I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began shouting.

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Money Getting Tight These Days? - Thought So

June 19th, 2008 flowercarole

With so much happening around the globe at the present time, it is no wonder we are watching our pennies very closely these days. Do we invest and trust the banks with what little money we have? or do we keep it close to our chest?

In the UK fuel prices have reached an all time high. Commuters are feeling the pinch now if they drive to work. Fuel prices have a knock on effect, for example food deliveries will be more expensive, therefore the price of basic provisions like bread and milk are again rising in price. Household bills, electric and gas are predicted to go up 40%. It seems that it’s a constant battle at the moment for the general public to keep their heads above water. More and more people are losing their homes as they can no longer afford to run them.

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Skin cancer patient ‘cured’ using his own blood cells

June 19th, 2008 flowercarole

A 52-year-old man with advanced melanoma, the lethal form of skin cancer, has been successfully treated using just his own blood.

The development has been hailed by British experts as an “exciting advance” in the use of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s immune system to fight the disease.

Researchers in the US who were treating the patient extracted white blood cells, the key component of the immune system, and grew one type – the infection-fighting CD4+ T cells – in the laboratory. The cloned T cells, which had been vastly expanded, were then reinfused to the patient to fight the cancer.

The man was diagnosed with stage four melanoma, when death normally occurs within months. The cancer, triggered by sunburn, started in a mole on the skin and had spread to a lymph node in his groin and to his lungs. But, two months after the T-cell treatment, scans revealed no tumour. Two years later, when he was last checked, the man remained free of the disease. He had previously had surgery and drug treatment without any response.

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, causing 1,800 deaths a year in the UK. It is the fastest rising cancer, with cases up 40 per cent in the past decade. The cancer is caused by intermittent, intense exposure to the sun. The typical victim is the office worker who spends two weeks broiling on a beach each summer. Adults with fair skin who suffered severe sunburn before the age of 15 are at highest risk.

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