The news comes on World Diabetes Day and coincides with the launch of NHS guidelines

The news comes on World Diabetes Day and coincides with the launch of NHS guidelines on how to educate the public and sufferers about the condition. More than 1.4 million people in Britain have diabetes and the BDA estimates there may be another million undiagnosed.. Treating diabetes costs the National Health Service more than pounds 4,000 a minute, according to figures released today. But the bill could be reduced with better education about the condition and early diagnosis, the British Diabetic Association (BDA) said. Treatment for the condition accounts for pounds 2.1bn of the annual NHS budget and diabetes is the single biggest cause of blindness in people of working age in the UK. Yesterday, Brook launched a teaching pack entitled Infection Protection for schools.l `Infection Protection’: pounds 24.95 from Brook Publications, 165 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8UD- Glenda Cooper. Brook warns that although most people know about the dangers of HIV/Aids, few are aware of more common infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and genital warts.

Most STIs can easily be diagnosed and treated with antibiotics, but, left untreated, some infections can result in infertility, ectopic pregnancy and cervical cancer.
“The message we’re hearing from young people is that they don’t receive enough relevant information about infections,” said Margaret Brook, the charity’s chief executive. Costing the NHS an estimated pounds 874m a year, STIs are most prevalent amongst the under-25s. One in ten sexually active young people could be carrying a sexually transmitted infection, according to new research from Brook Advisory Centres. This very vulnerable group are still not given priority for housing by many local authorities and all too often miss out on the safety and support they desperately need.” The charity is calling for improved central and local government policies which reflect the diverse housing needs of women.- Glenda Cooper, Social Affairs Correspondent. “Instead, they paint a disturbing picture of women whose lives are blighted by housing problems.”Some of the most tragic cases we deal with are those involving women who flee a violent partner only to face the trauma of homelessness.

The organisation said that more than 36,000 women – around a third of all clients – approached its network of advice centres during 1996-97. While the majority (21,414) were homeless, a further 10,000 had problems such as mortgage and rent arrears, and 5 per cent needed advice about accommodation problems such as domestic violence and landlord harassment.
“These figures explode the myth that homelessness is just a male problem,” said Louise Casey, Shelter’s deputy director. Record numbers of women are seeking help because of homelessness and poor housing, according to the charity Shelter. Cook was on a stakeout yesterday, but his agent said: “Roger has really taken a battering over the last 10 years.”
Steve Clark, Carlton Television controller of programmes, said: “He has been doing this job for 25 years now. In that time there is not one part of his body that hasn’t been injured.”- Paul McCann. The investigative journalist, whose confrontational style meant him getting attacked by many of his targets, has decided to pull out because ITV’s half-hour shows are not long enough to fit in a full story and because he is fed up with being bashed around. She smiled and shook my hand,” Ms Potts added.The medal is the 17th award she has received in recognition of her bravery in protecting the children from Campbell..

Roger Cook, that doyen of foot-in-the-door reporters, has decided to pull the plug on The Cook Report after 12 years on ITV. “I said `thank you very much, your Majesty, but it was purely instinctive’. Ms Potts said some of the children still had scars as a result of the attack last year at St Luke’s Infant School, Wolverhampton.”[The Queen] asked me how I was and how I was feeling She said, `Yours was absolutely bravery’. Lisa Potts, the nursery nurse who saved children at a picnic from a man wielding a machete by shielding them with her own body, met the Queen yesterday – to be told: “Yours was absolute bravery.”

The Queen praised the former nursery teacher’s courage when she presented her with the George Medal, second only to the George Cross as the highest award a civilian can win for bravery, in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Ms Potts, 22, said after the ceremony: “This award is totally gobsmacking, it leaves me speechless.”I thought I was going to cry at one point before I went on, because of the music, the atmosphere, everything.”The Queen had asked her how the children she saved had fared – some were left badly scarred by the attack by Horrett Campbell, 33, who is being held in a secure mental hospital for an unlimited period. Instead he found only a plaque commemorating the location of the Globe Theatre and vowed one day to remedy the lack of a memorial.Thirty years later he set up a trust and began to raise funds By 1995 more than pounds 12m had been raised.

This was matched by the same amount from the National Lottery and the Globe was secure.Collecting the award on behalf of Wanamaker, artistic director Mark Rylance said: “Taking London as his family’s adoptive home during the Fifties, Sam always loved London, and, with education at the heart of the Globe, Sam’s vision encompassed young people and visitors of all ages, as well as the recreation of the theatre itself.”We are all very thrilled that you have honoured Sam with a fitting title – Ambassador for London – and hope this will encourage the assistance we still need to fulfil all Sam’s dreams for the project.”The theatre attracts thousands of visitors a week and the accompanying Globe Exhibition was last year named best attraction in Europe.-. The film director, who fought to rebuild the theatre for many frustrating years but who died in 1993 before his dream was fulfilled, was named the 1997 Ambassador for London.
Lord Renwick, chairman of the judging panel, said: “Sam Wanamaker receives our recognition for his extraordinary vision, leadership, energy and determination in realising his dream of recreating Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for the benefit of all Londoners and for countless visitors, artists and scholars in the future.”Sam Wanamaker visited London in the Forties, expecting to find a monument to the world’s greatest playwright. “We are waiting to see what reaction we get,” said a company source.Which might lead cynics to think that this whole affair is not unrelated to the recent publication of a new Christmas book, The Legend of Desperate Dan, which chronicles 60 years of the cowpoke’s adventures.Maybe this time the kids are not to blame after all. As a public relations company yesterday spread the news that Dan had gone, it seemed that even Cactusville, Texas, where Dan used to live with his Auntie Aggie, had succumbed to the world of hype.- Ian Burrell. Sam Wanamaker, the man who brought us Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, was awarded a posthumous recognition of his vision last night. A similar fate has befallen Lord Snooty, once a regular of the sister comic Beano, which has also driven Big Eggo, the cartoon ostrich which once graced its cover, into extinction.