Global warming could see number of days too hot to work outside nearly DOUBLE to 39, by 2050 – posing a dire threat to agriculture industry Researchers from Stanford and University of Washington studied the effects climate change is expected to have on worker safety in the agriculture industry By 2050, the number of days … Read more
Twitter sales plunge 27% but users grow amid ‘global conversation’ about coronavirus pandemic By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:25 BST, 30 April 2020 Twitter revealed record numbers of new accounts but swung into a loss as the coronavirus crisis hit spending by advertisers. The US … Read more
Fears grow for teenagers, 15 and 17, who vanished from their Merseyside home weeks ago as officers say they could be hundreds of miles away in Scotland Police are growing increasingly concerned for the teenagers’ whereabouts Obakeng Sitole, 15, and Jordan Goode, 17, have not been since early April A spokesperson from Merseyside police confirmed … Read more
STOCK WATCH: Fears grow that BP’s Alaska sale may prove half-baked By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:21 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:21 BST, 25 April 2020 With oil prices tumbling, investors will be glued to the first-quarter results due out from BP and Shell on Tuesday and Thursday … Read more
Children who live near busy roads are at a higher risk of having developmental delays, a new study finds. Researchers say that kids who live less than one-third of a mile away from high-traffic roads such as interstates and highways were twice as likely to score lower on tests of communication skills in infancy and … Read more
RHOBH’s Denise Richards says she fears daughters could grow up with ‘daddy issues’ like the women their troubled father Charlie Sheen ‘entertained’ By George Stark For Dailymail.com Published: 18:59 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 19:02 BST, 23 April 2020 Denise Richards is sharing her concerns over co-parenting with her troubled ex, actor Charlie Sheen. … Read more
Sweden is piling up coronavirus cases more slowly than Britain – without the need for an economically crippling lockdown. Over the last three days, Sweden added an average of 50 cases per million people, whereas Britain’s figure was 73 despite a shutdown which has now been in place for a month. Britain’s three-day average has … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK DIARY OF A MODERN COUNTRY GARDENER by Tamsin Westhorpe (Orphans £20, 248 pp) When it comes to gardens, no one does it better than us Brits. From Sissinghurst and Kew in the South to Harlow Carr and Chatsworth in the North, we have some of the world’s most dazzling gardens. A … Read more