New heads for old tales: Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologues are coming back with A-list stars

Net curtains. They’re respectable enough when they hang straight, especially when made from lace, not nylon. But if they’re drawn to the side with a loop hitching them up at the middle, they’re common — like a blousy woman emerging from the lavatory who doesn’t realise she’s got the hem of her underskirt tucked into … Read more

TOWIE’s Demi Sims details the ‘dark days’ of feeling ‘trapped’ in her body before coming out

Demi Sims has candidly discussed how she came out as bisexual at 19 after three years of dealing with ‘very dark days’.   Speaking to TOWIE co-star and close friend Vas J Morgan for his I AM ENOUGH podcast on Monday, Demi revealed how she initially struggled with understanding her feelings as a teenager and why … Read more

Man, 74, is left with a bulging white mass coming out of his EYE after undergoing cataract surgery

It looks like something straight out of a sci-film. But this ‘gelatinous’ mass protruding from a man’s eye is not a special effect in the latest zombie movie. The unnamed 74-year-old was referred to a cancer clinic when a 10x10mm white lump formed where his right pupil should be. The mass appeared two years after … Read more

Wearing a Fitbit could spot when you’re coming down with flu… before you even have any symptoms

A Fitbit could spot when you’re coming down with flu – before symptoms have even developed. Researchers analysed 60 days of data from 47,248 Fitbit users living in the US to try and predict when they would get sick.  Tell-tale signs someone was about to get ill were higher heart rates than normal or excessive … Read more

Health bosses confront Matt Hancock over claims NHS workers aren’t coming forward for tests

Health chiefs today confronted Matt Hancock over his claims NHS staff are not coming forward for coronavirus tests as they told him sick nurses were driving two hours to testing centres only be told to come back another day.  Dame Donna Kinnair, the chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said … Read more