A PATIENT was left without a doctors appointment after trying to call his local practice more than 100 times.
Peter Hignett, 32, claims he finally gave up phoning his GP after failing to connect on the 146th attempt.
Once he realised he was unable to book his appointment, Peter, of Essex, took to Twitter to express his anger over the Sutherland Lodge Surgery in Great Baddow.
He wrote: "This morning, after 146 attempts and being on hold for 15 minutes (and then cut off), I was unable to make an appointment at all. Read More...
A MAN has been found dead in a house - the third body to be discovered there in five days.
The bodies of musicians Maximum Martin and Joshua Lambert-Price had been found on Tuesday night - with it since revealed a third man's body was found on the Thursday before, named now as James Truscott.
Police are now investigating after the three bodies were found in the Canterbury property on Tudor Road just days apart. Read More...
AN awkward smirk spread across Brandon Lee’s face when his headmaster praised him for being an exemplary pupil who “acts like he’s been here from the very beginning”.
What Norman MacLeod, head teacher of Bearsden Academy, didn’t realise was that his words weren’t far off the mark — as the supposed 16-year-old had been a pupil at his school nearly two decades earlier.
Brandon was the fake name adopted by Brian MacKinnon, who — at the age of 30 — covertly returned to take his exams again in a bid to go back to medical school after apparently being booted out. Read More...
