Kate Middleton and Prince William video call volunteers from mental health text service Shout 

Glowing Kate Middleton sported a chic updo and a lockdown tan as she and Prince William video-called volunteers from the mental health text service Shout. The Duke, 37, and Duchess of Cambridge, 38, joined the call to mark the first anniversary of Shout, the UK’s first 24/7 crisis text line, which they launched last year … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in video call with UK teachers

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex surprised staff by joining a discussion with Association of Teachers and Lecturers via video call amid the coronavirus pandemic. Taking to Twitter, a man known only as Ricky, shared a screenshot of Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 38, during the meeting and penned: ‘…still shocked that Meghan and Harry took over … Read more

Hedge funds bet on £500m cash call at Hammerson

Hedge funds bet on £500m cash call at shopping centre landlord Hammerson due to coronavirus crisis Hammerson may tap investors for up to £500m to cope with coronavirus crisis A major deal to offload seven retail parks fell through as buyer Orion pulled out Hammerson will get to keep the £21m deposit paid by the bidder  … Read more

Trade bodies call for six-month MOT exemption to be AXED over road safety fears

Major UK motor bodies have today called on the Government to axe the six-month MOT exemption for vehicles put in place due to Covid-19 over fears of a rapid rise in the number of dangerous cars on the road now that the lockdown has been eased. New measures announced by the Prime Minister this week … Read more

Heartbreak and hope in a bank’s Covid hotline call centre

Normally, Mark spends his working hours sat among hundreds of colleagues in Santander’s busy Glasgow office.  But, since lockdown started, he has instead been fielding calls from the bank’s customers at his home, in a makeshift, one-man call centre. The banking giant is receiving an unprecedented number of calls from customers worried about their finances. … Read more

Stoke boy, six, saves his pregnant mother and unborn sister’s life by using iPad to call for help

Boy, six, saves his pregnant mother and unborn sister’s life by using iPad to call for help and pushing keys through letterbox for paramedics after she collapsed at home with sepsis Max Lewis, six, called his aunt Sonia to tell her his mother was ‘breathing funny’ Nicky Lewis, 31, had developed sepsis while she was … Read more

MasterChef Australia fans call for YouTube comedian Nat’s What I Reckon to join the cast

Fans call for YouTube comedian Nat’s What I Reckon to join MasterChef Australia after his expletive-laden cooking videos go viral By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:32 BST, 6 May 2020 | Updated: 03:35 BST, 6 May 2020 Fans are begging Channel 10 to cast a very unlikely contestant on the next season … Read more

Doctors call for oxygen monitors to be prescribed to most vulnerable

Doctors have launched a campaign calling for home devices that measure blood oxygen levels to be available on prescription. They act as an early warning system for people at increased risk of a ‘silent pneumonia’ death due to coronavirus. They want the matchbox-sized gadgets, known as pulse oximeters, to be given to those in most … Read more

Former US President George W. Bush issues a rousing call to unite against the ‘invisible enemy’

Former US President George W. Bush has issued a rousing call to Americans to unite during the coronavirus pandemic, while current President Donald Trump continues to lock horns with Democrats over the nation’s response.  Bush, whose own White House tenure saw the US ravaged by the September 11 terrorist attacks, sent a message to the American people … Read more