A woman who was almost killed in an attack but whose 999 call helped save her life has seen her former partner sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder.

After months in a coercive relationship, Caz Goddard said she finally asked James Stock to leave her home near Weston-super-Mare, UK in July last year.

The next thing she remembered was Stock knocking her to the floor and strangling her.

Caz was on the phone to the police when she was assaulted, and managed to hide her phone in some plants so the entire call was recorded.

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On the first full day of his premiership Prime Minister Andy Burnham has laid out plans for scrapping VAT on household electricity …

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Vaping has become increasingly popular, particularly among young people, but there are still many questions about its effects on health.

Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes examines some of the most common questions people are searching for online, including whether vaping is safer than smoking, what nicotine does to the body, whether vapes contain calories, and what scientists know about the long-term health risks.

00:00 – Intro
00:33 – What is vaping and how is it different to smoking?
01:37 – What’s inside a vape?
01:46 – Is vaping bad for you?
02:21 – What are the main risks or side effects?
03:37 – How does it compare to smoking?
04:03 – What does it do to your body?
04:44 – Is vaping without nicotine harmless?
05:12 – What are ‘vape calories’?
06:12 – Who’s most at risk?
06:55 – What about vaping while pregnant?
07:32 – How do I stop vaping?
08:07 – How old do you have to be to vape in the UK?
08:21 – Where can you legally vape?
08:44 – What about things like planes or public places?
08:58 – What should we cover next?

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US President Donald Trump has delivered a primetime address in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and alleged “shocking vulnerabilities” in American voting systems.

Trump, who spoke from the White House on Thursday, has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and foreign meddling in the 2020 election which he lost to Joe Biden.

In the half-hour speech, delivered three months before the midterm elections, he said he had declassified hundreds of intelligence files which supported his claims that Beijing had tried to sway the election in Biden’s favour.

The US intelligence community has previously concluded China did not interfere in the 2020 election.

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