Firm fined £100k over crushed man

Construction: A company has been fined £100,000 for safety failings after a worker suffered shocking injuries when he was run over by a nine-ton dumper truck.

David Windsor, 62, of Bristol, suffered a severe brain injury, facial fractures, serious injuries to his right arm, fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis, leg fractures and foot injuries in the incident at a building site at Devonport, on October 7, 2010.

Wife of Isis hostage pleads for his release

Iraq: The wife of British hostage Alan Henning called on “the people of the Islamic State to see it in their hearts to release my husband” yesterday, describing him as a “peaceful, selfless man.”

Mr Henning, a former taxi driver from Manchester, was kidnapped last December in Syria by Islamic State militants.

The 47-year-old aid worker was shown at the end of a video last week after the beheading of fellow British captive David Haines.

Many cancers being found late

Health: Almost half of cancers diagnosed in England are detected at a late stage when treatment is less likely to be successful, Cancer Research UK reported yesterday.

The group says catching cancer early could improve the prospects of more than 52,000 patients a year in England, saving nearly £210 million.

Experts estimate that if the best early diagnosis rates were delivered an extra 5,000 patients would survive five years or more.

7.4 million losing sleep over money

Finance: Millions of Britons lie awake in bed at night worrying about money, debt charity StepChange said yesterday.

Those whose sleep patterns are being disrupted typically lose 11 nights’ worth of sleep a year, the group reported.

Fifteen per cent of more than 2,000 adults surveyed said that being plagued by late-night thoughts of their financial difficulties is preventing them from sleeping properly. This equates to 7.4 million people across the country.