AS the summer festival season gets under way, nursing leaders have warned that music fans are putting themselves in serious danger of gas poisoning when camping.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said festival-goers are at high risk of carbon monoxide poisoning if they do not use campfires, barbecues and gas stoves properly.

Exposure to the gas can cause seizures, loss of consciousness, long-term neurological damage such as memory impairment, and even death – but the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are often just dismissed as a hangover.

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THIS week’s passage of the EU Withdrawal Bill has set the conditions for a future Conservative government to deliver a “clean Brexit”, even if Theresa May does not achieve that in negotiations with Brussels over the coming months, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.

The arch-eurosceptic said the danger of a Brexit in Name Only – in which the UK leaves the EU but remains subject to the rules of the single market or customs union – has been “significantly reduced” by the successful delivery of the bill.

Parliament’s approval of the bill, after more than 270 hours of debate, came just days ahead of the second anniversary of the 2016 EU referendum on Saturday.

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A RADICAL cleric has been sentenced to death by an Indonesian court for ordering Islamic State group-affiliated militants to carry out attacks including the January 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Jakarta.

Aman Abdurrahman, who police and prosecutors say is a key ideologue for IS militants in the world’s largest Muslim nation, kneeled and kissed the floor as the panel of five judges announced the sentence.

Several hundred paramilitary and counterterrorism police secured the Jakarta court where the trial took place.

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ABOUT 500 of the more than 2,300 children separated from their families at the US border have been reunited since May, a senior Trump administration official has said.

Confusion has mounted along the US-Mexico border over the “zero-tolerance” policy that called for the prosecution of anyone caught entering the country illegally.

It was unclear how many of the roughly 500 children were still being detained with their families.

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Federal agencies were working to set up a centralised reunification process for the remaining separated children and their families at the Port Isabel Detention Centre just north of border in Texas, said the official.