Love Island’s Ovie Soko unveils new shaved head while in lockdown leaving Amber Gill worried, fans in meltdown and Ian Wright claiming him as his nephew By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 15:25 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 15:42 BST, 14 April 2020 The nation fell in love with him when he made a … Read more
Britain suffered another grim day in its coronavirus crisis today as officials recorded another 980 deaths in the home nations, taking the UK’s spiralling victim count to 8,958. A further 5,706 people have been diagnosed with the disease in the past 24 hours, meaning a total of 70,783 have now tested positive. Officials managed a … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Annalena McAfee take to a desert island? Novelist Annalena McAfee would take Palgrave’s Golden Treasury on an island She is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul The novelist said that comics and joke books first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, … Read more
Ludicrously good value wines to kick off British Summer Time By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 British Summer Time kicks off today and there are plenty of wines to cool and crack. Even better, I’ve found bunches of them … Read more
Sweden has equaled its record for the number of coronavirus deaths in a day with 114 new deaths bringing the total to over 1,000, as a group of experts attacked the authorities’ approach to the crisis. The country has also recorded a spike of 497 new cases in 24 hours. Sweden’s Public Health Agency said on … Read more
For your next period of isolation, try a cut-price paradise: The private island resort in Fiji that costs from just £20 a night and offers lessons on how to crack coconuts Barefoot Manta Island, which is just under a mile long, has dormitory rooms start from just F$60 (£20) The sandy outcrop, accessible only by … Read more
Women’s fashion chains Oasis and Warehouse were today preparing to slide into administration with 2,300 jobs now at risk during the coronavirus pandemic. The chains are expected to appoint auditor Deloitte by tomorrow at the latest to run their administration after the lockdown forced them to shut their 90 UK stores. The company, which is … Read more
A bad time to be alive’: More than half of all Earth’s ocean life died off 444 million years ago because it ran out of oxygen, study shows Researchers studied samples of black shale from the Murzuq Basin in Libya They used this and existing data to build a model of ancient ocean oxygen levels It suggested … Read more
Emily Atack has shared further thoughts about being single in lockdown in a column for Grazia magazine. The comedienne and actress, 30, lamented not being able to indulge in her usual wine and cheese-filled Sunday routine with pals and that those conveying ‘Instagram-perfect isolation’ are not being truthful to their followers. Insisting that she can’t … Read more
Doctors at a Brooklyn hospitals are removing coronavirus patients’ blood from their bodies, rejunvenating it with oxygen, and returning it to the patients in an experimental bid to help those on ventilators. The procedure is known as ‘ECMO’ – extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. As critically ill coronavirus patients flood into their hospitals, doctors have noticed a … Read more