HEALTH NOTES: Gene tests identify risks associated with ‘silent’ strokes 

HEALTH NOTES: Gene tests identify risks associated with ‘silent’ strokes By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 3 April 2021 Gene tests could one day be used to spot patients at risk of ‘silent’ strokes that cause dementia, scientists believe. Researchers studied genetic samples of thousands of people … Read more

From Claire Fuller to Jeet Thayil, Chris Power and Erin Kelly: This week’s best new fiction 

From Claire Fuller’s atmospheric novel to Names Of The Women by Jeet Thayil, a classy page-turner by Chris Power and Erin Kelly’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 Unsettled Ground … Read more

‘Out-dated’ social distancing measures will not protect you from Covid-19

Floor tiles, signs and posters urge us to ‘KEEP A SOCIAL DISTANCE’, while arcane one-way systems stop us from passing one another. Sinks have been taped up, just in case we get too close while carrying out all-important hand-washing, as have some of the urinals in the men’s loo, presumably to mitigate the Covid risk of … Read more

Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Meet Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag as you sail the Danube

Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Meet Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag as you dance along the Danube By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 The news last month that Anton Du Beke is on the list of professional dancers for this autumn’s … Read more

Relief as firms pay back £450m in furlough cash

Thousands of businesses repay nearly £450m in taxpayer money claimed for staff wages during pandemic By Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 3 April 2021 Thousand of businesses have repaid nearly £450million in taxpayer money claimed for staff wages during the pandemic, The Mail on … Read more

Kenneth Branagh transforms into Boris Johnson for TV drama series on UK’s Covid response

Sir Ken’s certainly growing into his new role as Boris! Kenneth Branagh transforms into the PM for TV drama series on UK’s Covid response called This Sceptred Isle Our exclusive picture show, Sir Ken, 60, has completely transformed to become PM Boris Johnson for the Sky Atlantic drama on the UK’s coronavirus response The series … Read more

Meghan Markle coffee firm bought oat milk from company in China’s ‘police state’ Xinjiang province

A trendy coffee company financially backed by the Duchess of Sussex has imported tons of a key ingredient from a Chinese supplier based in a brutal police state where an alleged genocide is taking place. Human rights groups have urged Western companies to cut all business ties with China’s Xinjiang region because of appalling abuses, … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: It all ends in tears… but what an Unforgettable finale!  

Unforgotten ITV, Monday (be warned, spoilers) Rating: Britain’s Tiger King: On The Trail With Ross Kemp ITV, Tuesday Rating: Prior to the finale of the fourth series of Unforgotten I had all sorts of theories as to how it might end, and who murdered Matthew Walsh all those years ago. At one point I even … Read more

The best festivals and outdoor events for fans of film, fireworks, music and more

UK summer festivals are back in vogue: Amazing outdoor events for fans of film, fireworks, music and vintage fashion Bath will be among the first places to welcome visitors with live events planned In August, Plymouth harbour will light up for the British Firework Championship  The Vintage Nostalgia Festival comes to Stockton Park, Wiltshire, in … Read more