Blood, guts and junk food! Fascinating new book delves into the lives of fishermen on trawler boats Lamorna Ash recounts the months she spent living with Cornish fishermen A playwright in London, she lodged with a couple in the village of Newlyn Almost everyone she met in the fishing village has lost someone to the … Read more
On The Road James Naughtie Simon & Schuster £20 Rating: As a young student with journalistic ambitions, the broadcaster and former Radio … Read more
Author Maggie Brookes knew her father had been taken prisoner in the Second World War. But it wasn’t until after his death and the discovery of a gut-wrenchingly detailed diary that she understood the extent of the cruelties he endured at the hands of the Nazis Maggie with her father As a child growing up … Read more
A huge wildcat ‘the size of a Labrador’ with ‘big claws’ has been pictured roaming around a back garden in Cambridge. The mysterious cat was seen by a Cambridge University worker who was watching from his kitchen window and took a photograph. The man, who asked not to be named, said it wasn’t the first … Read more
The rapid spread of coronavirus has brought the world to an emergency stop. Airlines and airports are close to shutdown, travel plans are in disarray and many of us are out of pocket due to flights and holidays being cancelled or abandoned. With the Government now advising British nationals to avoid all non-essential journeys ‘for … Read more
Alphabet’s Wing drones are delivering toilet paper and cookies to residents in a Virginia town under lockdown amid to the coronavirus pandemic Alphabet’s Wing has been testing drone delivery in a Virginia town since Oct Now that residents are under lockdown, the service is soaring in demand It has made over1,000 deliveries with items including … Read more
The majority of patients admitted to intensive care suffer long-term physical and mental health problems, scientists claim. Seven in ten ICU survivors end up with post intensive care syndrome, which can include fatigue, frailty, anxiety or difficulty holding a conversation. The findings, based on 1,300 people, are the first from an ongoing five-year study across … Read more
Dramatic aerial pictures have captured the ferocity of the fires ripping through Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. Firefighters on their tenth day battling the blaze are desperately trying to extinguish it before it wreaks a path to the site of the exploded nuclear reactor. Radiation levels in the area have already spiked since the outbreak on April … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more
BBC iPLAYER & ALL 4 Killing Eve International hitwoman Villanelle and MI6 operative Eve did not exactly part on the best of terms at the end of last series, and things are not going particularly well for either of them at the start of Series Three. Villanelle (Jodie Comer, above with Stefan Iancu) and Eve … Read more