A ready meal solution! Trays and other supermarket packaging will use plastic saved from the sea Waitrose becomes first British supermarket to use Prevent Ocean Plastic scheme that could save more than 100 tons of plastic from ending up in the ocean Chain to recycle its waste in 71 of its products that could have … Read more
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
A heartbroken son has been prevented from visiting his dying dementia-hit mother in a Welsh care home because she has weeks left to live rather than days, he claims. Ryan Mee said he was told he can only see his mother Gillian Mee, 68, in her ‘last days’ rather than in her final weeks under … Read more
‘My ex-husband left me £58,000 in debt’: Lloyds Bank launches new tool to help prevent economic abuse and support victims In total, victims of economic abuse are forced into millions of pounds of debt Nearly half are left with priority debts – meaning they could lose their home A victim says she racked up £58k … Read more
Shutting Britain’s borders at the start of the coronavirus crisis may have lessened the country’s catastrophic outbreak, another study has suggested. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) modelled the impact of international travel restrictions on the spread of Covid-19. They looked at 162 countries and estimated the number of imported cases, … Read more
An Indian politician who filmed himself sitting in mud puddle and blowing a conch, claiming that it prevented coronavirus, has tested positive for the disease. Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria, an MP from the northern state of Rajasthan, was among 24 MPs who tested positive for the virus on September 14, local media reported. A month before … Read more
Four overnight summer camps in Maine put interventions in place that helped prevent coronavirus transmission and outbreaks, a new report finds. Children who tested positive had to delay arriving, campers quarantined for two weeks and they were frequently tested and screened, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Wednesday. Among more than … Read more
Coronavirus lockdowns may have prevented 3million deaths in Europe — including half a million the UK alone, a study has suggested. Imperial College London researchers tracked outbreaks in 11 European countries to estimate how effective strict social distancing measures have been. Up to four per cent of people across the nations had caught the disease … Read more
Half a billion infections of the novel coronavirus were prevented worldwide from lockdowns, a new study finds. Researchers found that stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns and school closures prevented up to 60 million infections in the US alone. Additionally, the guidelines helped avert 470 million more cases from cropping up across Asia and Europe. Several American politicians … Read more
Tens of thousands of coronavirus deaths in Britain may have been avoided if officials imposed the lockdown a fortnight earlier, a study has claimed. University of Edinburgh researchers said at least 2,000 lives would have been saved in Scotland, if the measures were brought in on March 9 instead of March 23. The official COVID-19 … Read more