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In the UK we have now got an aim to end smoking for an entire generation. People born after 2007 will no longer be able to purchase tobacco products.

With Mounjaro and similar drugs being made more available, have we cured obesity and, in the same breath, we are stopping smoking... Have we found the key to public health in the UK?

Think about it... No obesity and no smoking... I wish I could be around long enough to see the fruits of this in the future...

Xennials such as myself are often fascinated with how the modern world has grown. We transitioned analogue and digital, and now here we are, able to inject ourselves and in essence cure obesity.

When the drug becomes more widely available, it will be dosed out as commonplace as paracetamol.

What do you guys think, have we found the cure for public health (bar cancer, but those rates will drop dramatically too!)?

Hi. My property is a Housing Association bungalow (Orbit). I moved in in February and have been getting little sharp pains, prickly feelings, like needles whenever I touched my kitchen sink with my forearms.

I didn't think anything of it for many weeks, thought it was the scratches on the sink or static. Yesterday my housekeeper let out a loud yelp, she was washing up and got shooting pains down her arms. I said I had been experiencing tingles as well, and when I went to check, I put my hand on the sink and had a sharp electric shock go up my arm.

I called Orbit and they sent an electrician out at around 8pm. He checked the sink and confirmed an intermittent voltage reading around 1v. Nothing huge, and spent the next hour searching for the source. He wasn't able to access the fuse board as Orbit had put a kitchen cupboard INFRONT of the panel so it can't be accessed properly.

Eventually he found the source of the issue, the grounding wire outside was snapped off and not connected to the rod. However, he said it needed fixing properly and would need a day job. As such ,I had to evacuate.

He was going to turf me out of my own home at around 10pm, but he had a brainwave and connected a piece of metal to the wire and rod, as a temporary fix.

I am in a wheelchair and completely isolated. I had 13% battery on my phone and live in the middle of nowhere. Yet Orbit wanted me to evacuate before the sparky had his brainwave. I won't go into the arguments and worry at the time. That's a seperate matter. But I am now thinking on what he said, had one of the plugs not been wired properly, instead of shorting out, the item would have just remained live.

My question is this - what are or were the inherent risks, should this have been picked up in a standard inspection for electrical safety?

Was it not much of a risk, just keep cool or is it a case of reporting to the local authority Health and Safety dept, and even going to the ombudsman?

I should add, in the past, Orbit went as far as awarding me compensation for not being able to use my shower for 4 weeks when I first moved in.

However, that was only 1 aspect.

- The whole house is covered in asbestos adhesive tiles which are coming up (they are deemed safe if undisturbed, but tiles keep getting lifted when sweeping, gave up trying to hoover as the suction lifted tiles all over the place)

- They have already had to perform major works on removing some of the tiles, left me with a hallway of open concrete, eventually putting down screed after several weeks of me moaning to level the floors in the hallway so I could get to the kitchen (wheelchair was impossible as there was a 2 inch lip to every room which I couldn't get over)

- on Friday they finally finished completely overhauling the toilet drainage due to incompetence in installation (the drainage was insufficient and regularly backed up)

- remodel the kitchen as the cooker gap was 450mm wide instead of the standard 600mm, so couldn't fit a cooker for several weeks

- I am still unable to use my walker as the hallway radiator is too wide, preventing it going past, making it impossible to use my sitting room. A move that they promised they would do.

- cover up open concrete that is crumbling away at my rear door inside.

There is a whole plethora of other minor issues which they are still addressing. I have lived here since February, and I have had more issues than I have EVER had in a rented property.

I am at my wits end. My nerves are frayed.

Orbit ARE eventually moving me to a more suitable property, but it can't come quickly enough. The electrical issue has left me feeling utterly distraught and I don't know where to turn.