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Alicia can have thousands of seizures every day and the condition means she needs constant supervision.

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The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live.

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For this friendly, the gentle hum of a few thousand conversations sounded more like the first morning of a Test match at Lord's.

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England got a send-off all right, resounding boos greeting the final whistle before the players went around applauding thousands of empty red seats and the few fans who had bothered to stay.

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In tests on tens of thousands of people, the jabs - alongside existing heart medicines - were linked to a 20% reduced risk of heart attacks and strokes.

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