Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall surprised to learn of need for food bank near her Lewes childhood home

The Duchess of Cornwall expressed her surprise that an affluent town needed a food bank service while visiting a church in Lewes, East Sussex, today, just miles away from her £2.3million childhood home. Camilla, 73, who is back in the UK after a whirlwind trip to Greece last week, visited Lewes Open Door charity and Fitzjohn’s Food … Read more

Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis learn to ride ponies

Just like Gan-Gan! Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis follow in the Queen’s footsteps as they ‘learn to ride their first ponies ahead of summer with their great-grandmother’ Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have been riding ponies Cambridge children have been perfecting their skills at their home in Norfolk  Queen, 94, was … Read more

Let your children learn to love the great outdoors on one of these thrilling survival courses

Have you exhausted the list of outdoor family activities during the pandemic? Then why not get the gang on board for a survival course when restrictions lift? With spring almost upon us, outdoor centres are offering bushcraft adventures suitable for everyone from timid tykes to go-getting grandparents. Should you be a fan of his TV … Read more

Virtual Bluetooth virus spreads between SMARTPHONES to learn more about disease spread

A virtual Bluetooth virus spread between SMARTPHONES ‘could help us track Covid-19 more accurately’, study claims The technology — called ‘Safe Blues’ — provides an accurate model of Covid-19 It allows for real-time monitoring of an epidemic unlike epidemiological data   Android users run the app in the background of their phone and it works anonymously using … Read more

Why you need to learn the ‘mother’s kiss’: How mum’s quick-thinking move prevented a hospital visit

Why you need to learn the ‘mother’s kiss’: How mum’s quick-thinking move saved the day when her toddler stuck a pea up his nose The simple trick every parent needs to know has been revealed in a video Mum Nikki showed what to do when a toddler puts something up their nose  Nikki said you … Read more

Scientists develop AI that can learn which faces you find attractive directly from your brain waves 

An artificial intelligence system has been developed that can delve into your mind and learn which faces and types of visage you find most attractive.  Finnish researchers wanted to find out whether a computer could identify facial features we find attractive without any verbal or written input guiding it. The team strapped 30 volunteers to … Read more

Biology: Scientists play MC Hammer to baby zebrafish to learn how they develop hearing underwater 

Stop, Science time! Scientists are playing MC Hammer to baby zebrafish in order to understand how they develop their hearing underwater. After developing a special speaker system to play music to the fish, Australian neuroscientists imaged the brains of the larval zebrafish to see which cells reacted. They found that young zebrafish have considerably better … Read more

Apple launches free virtual sessions to learn the basics of using devices

The company’s journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley. Wozniak is pictured left   1976: Founders Steve Jobs, … Read more

Friends who bonded over being adopted learn they are SISTERS

Two women who met at work and bonded over being adopted have learned they are biological sisters years into their friendship after taking 23andMe DNA tests.  Cassandra Madison, 32, and Julia Tinetti, 31, became fast friends when they met as employees at the Russian Lady Bar in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2013. They soon learned that … Read more

Free Aldi wine course: Can you learn sommelier tricks at home?

Last weekend, I treated my wife to a rose for Valentine’s Day. Nope, not the flower, but a bottle of rosé wine as part of a free course we decided to partake in. While this lockdown has been extremely tough through a long, cold winter, and many parents are at the nadir of homeschooling, we … Read more