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  Britain's biggest killers: UK's leading causes of death Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death for men in the UK. (Getty Images) Up until a decade ago, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease did not feature on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) leading causes of death list. Now it's the UK’s biggest killers. Until 2011, heart disease had been the top cause of death in the UK, and it’s still the predominant killer for British men. Dementia, heart disease, lower respiratory diseases , strokes and lung cancer accounted for 212,000 deaths in England and Wales in 2022, or 37% of all recorded deaths. Influenza and pneumonia is also among the top killers, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) says breast, colon and rectum, prostate and lymphoma cancers make up the rest of the top 10 causes of death in Britain. Dementia is the leading cause of death for women in the UK. (Getty Images) Leading causes of death in the UK1. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease Dementia and...

  Skirvin later shared the full list in a follow-up video.  Ian Brady, Joel Rifkin and Harold Shipman were all born under the Capricorn star sign, as were the notorious Vasili ‘Wolf of Moscow’ Komaroff and German serial killer, Niels Högel. According to Astrology Zodiac Signs, Capricorns make for ‘good managers’, being ‘responsible, disciplined’ and in possession of good ‘self-control’. “It is the sign of decisions made to be protected from monsters in our minds, lives, and immediate physical surrounding,” the website says. “Always ready to transform into something that scares those scary things off, Capricorn speaks of each natural chain reaction of fear, where one scary thing leads to many others, rising up as defensive mechanisms that only make things worse.