Knock-off versions of a weight loss drug are being sold illegally on social media and in beauty salons across Britain in a ‘black market’ taking advantage of vulnerable people, an undercover investigation has found.
Unofficial versions of Semaglutide, dubbed the ‘skinny jab’ and used in drugs to treat type 2 diabetes and help manage obesity, are often being sold with ‘no questions asked,’ no branding and no instructions, BBC Three’s investigation revealed.
Reporter Pria Rai booked appointments in beauty salons in Manchester and Liverpool using a fake name after receiving a tip-off that Semaglutide, the active ingredient in prescription drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, was being sold. Read More...
By Phil MawsonBBC News
Edwin Remsberg / Alamy Stock PhotoIt is 250 years since America's Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the two British men who created it?
"It was the equivalent of the moon landings today," according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler. Read More...
It took nearly a decade longer than he probably expected, but country-soul singer Sundance Head finally won a reality singing competition series.
Head, who made it to the finals on the sixth season of “American Idol” in 2007, was named the winner of NBC’s “The Voice” on Tuesday night. He beat out some tough competition, including runner-up Billy Gilman, child country star-turned-aspiring pop artist; second runner-up Wé McDonald, the teen singing sensation; and third runner-up Josh Gallagher, the contemporary country crooner. Read More...
