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Debbie Schipp
Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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In this March 4, 2017, photo, tourists enjoy the popular Maya bay on Phi Phi island, Krabi province. Authorities have ordered the temporary closing of the beach made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach" to halt environmental damage caused by too many tourists. (AP Photo/Rajavi Omanee)

World famous beach to close

TOURIST demand has seen gorgeous Thailand’s Phi Phi area loved to within an inch of its life. But now the beach made famous by Hollywood will be closed.

Health
BRISTOL, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 30:  Mitchell Baker who works at the Vapour Place a vaping shop in Bedminster, exhales vapour produced by an e-cigarette on December 30, 2016 in Bristol, England. Recent figures released by the e-cigarette industry has claimed that there as many as 1700 vaping shops across the country, with two new ones opening each day catering for the estimated three million vapers in the UK. The popularity of e-cigarettes has boomed in the last ten years, as it is seen by many as a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, however some critics say the devices can carry the same risks as smoking especially as the long term affects are yet to be known.  (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Rebel MP’s concise call on vaping

THE government report into e-cigarettes took almost a year, ran to 168 pages and recommended changing nothing. Andrew Laming’s dissenting report took just two sentences.

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