Airlines including BA and Easyjet are selling tickets for flights in April and May despite lockdown

Airlines including British Airways and EasyJet are selling tickets for flights in May despite health officials warning a global lockdown could last for months. BA, which is suspending 30,000 cabin crew on 80 percent pay, is selling a range of tickets from May 1, including £32 flights between Gatwick and Bergamo, Italy.   EasyJet is also … Read more

Banks will make £600m in extra interest from Covid mortgage holidays 

Banks are set to make more than £600 million in extra interest paid by cash-strapped homeowners taking mortgage holidays, Money Mail can reveal. Campaigners say the vast profit lenders will make from the crisis is ‘disgraceful’ and are demanding they scrap additional interest charges. The breaks are seen as a lifeline for borrowers facing financial … Read more

‘Sunday driver’ effect causes more fatal accidents per head in rural areas

‘Sunday driver’ effect is part of the reason MORE fatal car crashes occur in rural areas than in urban cities Peak for fatal car crashes is in rural areas and on a Sunday, UCL study shows  Weekdays have two spikes in collisions for morning and evening rush hour  More total collisions are seen in urban areas … Read more

Chris Martin braves the open air sans mask while enjoying a solo bike ride around his neighborhood

Chris Martin enjoys a solo bike ride around his Malibu neighborhood By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 02:29 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 02:32 BST, 15 April 2020 Los Angeles city Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged citizens to don face masks while venturing outside of their homes in wake of COVID-19. But Chris Martin … Read more

Why is it so hard to make a reliable coronavirus antibody test?

Antibody tests for coronavirus that might indicate who has had the virus and is now immune to it are cropping up across the US and government officials have pointed to these blood tests as the key to reopening the nation.  But there’s little clarity to be had on how reliable or accurate these tests – … Read more

Arizona supreme court upholds death sentence of man who locked up girl, 10, in plastic box

Murder conviction and death sentence of man who locked a 10-year-old girl in a plastic box as punishment for stealing an ice pop is upheld by Arizona Supreme Court Ame Deal was killed in 2011 after John Michael Allen forced her into a plastic box  The 10-year-old suffocated after being left in the storage box … Read more

For Mother’s Day, Olly Smith recommends looking for taste not price when buying your bubbles

It’s Mother’s Day and my motto is: let taste triumph over price tag! Try these options for fun and affordable fizz By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 21 March 2020 Mother’s Day is here and what better way to show her you … Read more

Meet the woman who scrubbed her pain away and became the Queen of Clean

After a truly shattering discovery ripped Lynsey Crombie’s world apart, she found her therapy in housework. Now that passion for cleaning has transformed her into TV and social media star the Queen of Clean. She tells Julia Llewellyn Smith how elbow grease saved her  Lynsey wears jumper and shoes, Next. Skirt, Ghost   It’s impossible … Read more

Sir Paul McCartney brands Chinese wet markets ‘medieval’ and calls for them to be banned

Former Beatles frontman Sir Paul McCartney has branded Chinese wet markets ‘medieval’ in light of the coronavirus pandemic and called for them to be banned. Sir Paul slammed the Chinese government for allowing the food markets to continue, saying, ‘they might as well be letting off atomic bombs’. The animal rights activist was speaking to American … Read more