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A BOOTS optician convicted of manslaughter after she failed to spot a fatal fluid build up in a schoolboys brain during a routine eye test has had the conviction overturned.Honey Rose, 35, has won an appeal against her conviction for gross negligence manslaughter, which had seen her slapped with a two-year suspended jail sentence.3 Vincent Barker died from fluid on the brain five months after visiting the opticianCredit: PA:Press Association3 Symptoms that could have revealed Vincents condition were not picked u
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FORMER Countryfile presenter Kate Humble says more children should be encouraged to play outside and do something a bit edgy .She s right, of course. Getting into minor scrapes without a helicopter parent hovering over your every little move is character-forming in that it teaches you to take the initiative and solve your own problems.8 The adventures enjoyed by Enid Blytons Secret Seven could be a thing of the pastCredit: AlamyIndeed, Ms Humble, a charming and self-motivated adventurer, had quite the go-getting childhood herself, with her and her brother always getting bashed and scraped .So much so, she reveals, that social services came and checked up on them 鈥?something her mother still finds hilarious.But therein lies the problem, because that was in the comparatively laid-back, late 1960s.Fast forward nearly four dec
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