By Adrian Monti for the Daily Mail. A new implant for arthritic thumb joints is available on the NHS. After 35 years as a school teacher, I decided to fulfil my long-held ambition of setting up my own pottery and ceramics studio. But soon after starting my new venture seven years ago, I began suffering shooting pains in my thumbs. I took painkillers and used ibuprofen gels, but nothing really worked.
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This article describes the types of punishment sentences imposed on convicts at London's central criminal court from the late 17th century to the early 20th century, as detailed in the Proceedings. Judges could choose from a wide range of punishment sentences in this period, though their options were often limited by choices made at an earlier stage in the judicial process. Felonies defined by common law were originally punishable by hanging. Increasingly from the middle of the eighteenth century, statute law curtailed the use of the death penalty. Misdemeanours were punishable by a range of non-capital punishments. Normally, offences defined by statute could only be punished as prescribed by the relevant legislation.
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Photographs appearing to show a blindfolded man having his fingers severed by the mechanical amputation device have been published by an official Iranian press agency. According to the INSA news service, the prisoner used to demonstrate the brutal contraption had been convicted of theft and adultery by a court in Shiraz last Wednesday. A series of pictures show three masked officials, clad entirely in black, holding the man's right hand in a vice while one turns a wheel operating the guillotine in the manner of a rotary saw. Iranian Student' News Agency. In none of the four closely cropped images does the bearded prisoner's expression register pain, suggesting that he may have been drugged.