3-year-old child considered England's youngest alcoholic... ever

A hard-drinking 3-year-old has been diagnosed as Britain's youngest ever alcoholic.

Doctors treated the unnamed child for withdrawal systems after the toddler suffered the shakes and wild mood swings.

Experts suspect the youngster would have to have been given booze repeatedly over at least a six-month period to develop such a dependency.

"To be diagnosed an alcoholic ... they would have had to ingest enough to cause withdrawal symptoms," Nicolay Sorenson of advocacy group Alcohol Concern told The Telegraph.

"Whatever the circumstances, it is a truly horrifying case and raises very serious child protection issues."

The youngster was one of 13 people under the age of 12 who were diagnosed as alcoholics by Britain's National Health Service between 2008 and 2010.

"We treat alcohol abuse very seriously, and have specialist teams and experts on hand who are there to treat young patients with alcohol-related problems," said an NHS spokeswoman.

Health officials declined to give details of the 3-year-old's condition or disclose the toddler's identity due to patient confidentiality rules.

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First casualty in PH’s tallest bridge

By Ruevivar “Wowie” Reyes, Southern Leyte Times
For Yahoo! Southeast Asia

SOGOD, SOUTHERN LEYTE – What was to be joyride amongst friends to visit the country’s tallest bridge quickly turned tragic as 20-year-old Lowela Aguero jumped off the Agas-agas bridge and plunged to her death.

According to initial reports from her relatives Lowela Aguero who is a native of Maasin City invited her friends to go to Sogod town to visit the bridge since it was reportedly one of her favorite places to visit. Little did her friends know that Aguero had something else in mind as she suddenly started to distance herself from them while at the bridge.

Alarmed, her friends started to lead her away from the edge of the bridge, and then she pushed them away and suddenly jumped.

The 90-meter tall (30 stories down) Agas-Agas Bridge, the tallest in the country was opened to the public on August 8, 2009 as an essential link in connecting the Visayas and Mindanao road network.

Many Southern Leytenos who attended Aguero’s wake said that such a waste of life could have been prevented if proper safety precautions were built on the bridge.

Before the incident the provincial government of Southern Leyte and the Southern Leyte Chamber of Commerce have revealed proposed plans to make the bridge and its surroundings to a extreme sports venue wherein bungee jumping and zipline rapelling would be offered to the public to help generate tourism revenue for the local government.

Many sectors now in Southern Leyte have expressed their concerns after the death of Aguero on the bridge’s inadequate safety measures for the public and also the bridge’s lack of security from any terrorist attack.

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Charice is back on GLEE!

And I was starting to worry!!! as to whether or not Charice was coming back! Guess it's official! Their taping at the moment.

Charice (Sunshine Corazon) and Lea Michele (Rachel Berry). Screencap from Michele's Twitter.

International singing sensation Charice has started taping again for the hit musical series Glee, reports ABS-CBN News.

Glee mainstay Lea Michele Tweeted a photo of them y

esterday and said, "Look who's back!! @officialcharice!!! So happy!!!" Shortly after, Charice retweeted Michele's post and said, "You're so sweet. <3">

Charice, who plays Filipino exchange stude

nt Sunshine Corazon on the show, told HollywoodLif

e.com last month, "I'm on for four more episodes, which is exciting." In January, Glee creator Ryan Murphy told ABS-CBN News that Charice is "coming back in a big way. We're finishing the year with her. She's coming back for five episodes at the end of the year. She's going to be great. Lots of big, big ballads for Charice."