Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent.

I'm Michelle Hussein. In this edition,

A new leader takes over but all is not as it might appear

at the home of cricket.

We go in search of the song of the Nightingale and we ask if a uniquely

British utopia can be sustained more than a century after its foundation. We begin with health and in particular the 4

million people in the UK estimated to have diabetes. Numbers have doubled in the last 20 years, making the condition one of our most

urgent health challenges and an increasing pressure on the NHS. One person well placed

to understand this is John Ashton an eminent public health specialist who has himself been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

But as he's been reflecting for all the problems the condition causes, people like him

are much more fortunate today than in previous generations.

As a baby boomer and a doctor, I'm one of the swelling number of people living with diabetes.

Our pancreas glands are giving up the struggle to produce enough insulin as our waistlines enlarge. Without

insulin blood sugar builds up. The body copes with that through increasing thirst

and urination. But if the conditions not treated, long-term

possibilities include blindness and impotence, heart and kidney failure, dementia, limb amputation and premature death. and transformed the way diabetes is managed.

Patients with the much rarer form, in which the pancreas fails to produce any insulin,

still need to replace it by injection.

But with modern medicines and prudent changes in lifestyle, many patients

with diabetes like mine can live a normal life and aspire to longevity. Walking away from diabetes isn't just a slogan but an effective course of action.

I've taken myself in hand and try to be a good patient working in partnership with my GP and the diabetic

nurse. I've modified my diet and alcohol intake, aim to achieve 10,000 steps a day. Take my tablets

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