内容摘要：Councillor Richard Wilkins, Somerset Council’s lead member for transport said: "We're really pleased to be able to make this announcement today, after long and detailed negotiations.

Councillor Richard Wilkins, Somerset Council’s lead member for transport said: "We're really pleased to be able to make this announcement today, after long and detailed negotiations.

The former civil servant, who sprang to fame with her 2022 report into the Partygate scandal, is expected to be among a raft of new Labour peerages to be announced on Thursday.It comes only two months after she left her role as the prime minister's chief of staff in October, amid internal rows over her influence.

She was then appointed to a newly-created nations and regions role in No 10, but it was confirmed last month she would not be taking up that position.A number of Conservatives will also be appointed to the upper chamber as part of the announcements on Thursday.Labour said in 2022 that it

the 805-member Lords, replacing it with a "new, reformed upper chamber".But this was watered down before July's election, with Labour committing to consult on plans for an alternative second chamber, whilst immediately axing the 92 places for hereditary peers and introducing a

The party also vowed to introduce new rules on participation, and a new process to make it easier to remove "disgraced" peers.

newspaper, Ms Gray is set to be among 30 new Labour peers nominated by the prime minister this week.Untreated depression has also been shown to raise our risk of dementia. Professor Leanne Williams of Stanford University has identified a method of “visualising” some forms of depression on the brain using an MRI scan, and thus seeing if treatment has worked.

This may be able to help scientists understand more about the root causes of mental health conditions such as depression, as well as providing a way to quantify how treatment is going for a patient.Few have put more faith in science to achieve longevity than Bryan Johnson - the tech entrepreneur spending millions in an effort to reverse his biological age.

Dozens of supplements, 19 hours a day of fasting, workouts that make him look as though he’s going to burst and an array of (sometimes controversial) treatments are what he hopes will turn back the clock.But as 103-year-old Mildred, who I visited in Loma Linda said forcefully, “You absolutely need to be very careful with your diet, it’s true, but I’m not down for, ‘You've got to do this, and this, and this, and