GPs at Yeovil Health Centre are reminding people to think twice before they head off to a busy district hospital Accident & Emergency (A&E) department with only minor ailments or injury over the August Bank Holiday.

People claiming benefits because of mental health issues could be identified by GPs three years before they stop working research suggests.

The devastating tsunami which killed nearly 200 people in Samoa and Tonga last September was the result of a rare double earthquake and not one as previously believed scientists said Wednesday.

The �600million database is designed to give all GPs, hospital consultants, nurses and other staff electronic access to information about patients, rather than relying on paper records.

GPs are failing to spot dementia early enough, leaving patients without access to treatments which could help them, experts have warned. People diagnosed with dementia by their family doctors also live fewer years than those actively screened for the disease in research studies.