Dakota Johnson reveals her grandmother Tippi Hedren lives with ’13 or 14 lions and tigers’

Dakota Johnson opened up about her family’s extreme love for cats Friday on an at-home edition of The Graham Norton Show. The 30-year-old Suspiria star revealed that her grandmother Tippi Hedren currently keeps ’13 or 14 lions and tigers’ at her home, though she once had dozens of the big cats wandering free around her … Read more

Patients who can’t eat solid foods fear for their lives amid national shortage of intravenous fluids

Patients who can’t eat solid foods have told how they are fearing for their lives amid the national shortage of intravenous fluids. ‘Concerning’ bacteria was found at the manufacturing site of a large-scale company, and as a result, it had to immediately change the way it makes the feeding bags. Production has slowed causing delays or … Read more

Thousands of lives could have been saved ‘if Britain imposed lockdown a WEEK earlier’

Sir Ian Boyd, a member of Number 10’s SAGE panel, admitted ‘it would have made quite a big difference’ if ministers acted sooner to fight the outbreak Thousands of lives could have been saved from Covid-19 if Britain’s lockdown was imposed just one week earlier, a government scientific adviser has claimed. Sir Ian Boyd, a … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Earlier lockdown could have saved 11k lives

Triggering lockdown a week earlier could have saved the lives of more than 30,000 people in the UK, according to a shock study. The staggering claim was made by a mathematical sciences expert who predicted how different scenarios could have affected the progress of the outbreak in Britain. He suggests that starting the lockdown, which … Read more

Blood-thinning drugs can help save the lives of coronavirus patients

Blood-thinning drugs can help save the lives of coronavirus patients by stopping dangerous clots forming on the lungs, British scientists discover NHS England will give hospitals new guidance on blood thinning as a treatment Doctors at Royal Brompton Hospital identified link between Covid-19 and clots They used hi-tech dual energy CAT scans to take images … Read more

Commuters slam Sadiq Khan’s ‘terrible’ Tube service for ‘putting lives at risk’

‘Profligate’ London Mayor Sadiq Khan was slammed by passengers who crammed on to the packed Tube again today after he agreed to ramp up services in return for a £1.6billion taxpayer-funded bailout. Mr Khan had said Transport for London was hours from going bust and blamed Boris Johnson for no social distancing on trains by … Read more

Coronavirus Russia: Medics get £8 bonus for risking their lives

Russian medics are given bonus of just £8 for risking their lives on the coronavirus front line Doctors were promised a monthly bonus of up to £900 for treating virus patients Many posted photos of pay cheques where the extra money amounted to £8  Russia now has the world’s second-highest number of coronavirus infections Here’s … Read more

Should we really risk our privacy to protect lives?

Julie Burchill (pictured) says it’s ludicrous pleading privacy while broadcasting our lives online YES  by Julie Burchill, writer and broadcaster  People who go into attention-seeking professions often bleat that they are ‘very private people’. I’m not like that. I’ve been what is crudely known as an ‘attention whore’ ever since I became a teenage journalist, … Read more

People admit the words and phrases they’ve been saying wrong their entire lives in a Reddit thread

From ‘ultra-violent lights’ to ‘Farmer John cheese’: Embarrassed adults admit the words and phrases they’ve been saying WRONG their entire lives People revealed words they’ve misunderstood all their lives in a thread on Reddit One man believed ‘touché’ was just another way of saying ‘hello’ An Australian woman pronounced ‘lingerie’ as ‘linger-y’ until she turned … Read more

Boris Johnson calls Captain Tom a ‘point of light in all our lives’

The Prime Minister has today called Colonel Tom Moore a ‘point of light in our lives’ as he wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for helping to pull the nation together through the coronavirus pandemic.  This comes as Captain Tom has been promoted to Honorary Colonel by the Queen to mark his 100th … Read more