A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more
The two British scientists at the forefront of the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine have clashed over a controversial plan to deliberately infect people with the virus. Professor Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, is in the advanced stages of setting up a human trial for one of the most promising … Read more
Professor Sarah Gilbert said it would not be safe for them to do a so-called ‘challenge trial’ of Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate An Oxford academic today dismissed the idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test the university’s experimental vaccine because no treatment currently exists to keep patients safe. Hopes of ending the Covid-19 … Read more
Healthy people should be purposely infected with the coronavirus to speed up the development of a vaccine, according to a group of 100 leading experts that includes Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Controversial ‘challenge trials’ could rapidly accelerate studies on experimental jabs which are struggling to recruit volunteers because of falling Covid-19 infection rates, the group says. … Read more
Sophie the shop girl! Countess of Wessex helps out at a children’s hospice charity shop as she continues her volunteering efforts amid the COVID-19 crisis Sophie Wessex, 55, has spent time with volunteers at Weybridge charity shop The Countess of Wessex is the patron of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices She gave a helping hand at … Read more
A group of volunteers including four Army cadets cleaned up a memorial to Winston Churchill in London this morning after it was defaced by activists during yesterday’s violent Black Lives Matter protests. The men scrubbed graffiti off the statue one day after the phrase ‘was racist’ was added in spray paint by protesters below the … Read more
The Duke of Sussex has praised young volunteers working with a charity who are delivering food packages to vulnerable people in London. Prince Harry, 35, who is currently living in Tyler Perry’s $18 million mansion in LA, spoke with three youngsters working with StreetGames, who are volunteering for the Sport at the Heart (SATH) charity. In … Read more
Thousands of volunteers are being recruited for the next two phases in clinical trials that could lead to a coronavirus vaccine this year. Scientists are looking for 10,260 people from across Britain to take the experimental jab, developed at the University of Oxford. Experts began working on the jab in January. It is now considered … Read more
Adorable humpback dolphin named Mystique presents gifts from the bottom of the ocean to humans in exchange for a delicious meal A dolphin named Mystique loves to bring guests presents from the ocean floor The 29-year-old male dolphin offers up antique bottles, coral and shells The humpback dolphin is rewarded with fish for the presents … Read more
Glowing Kate Middleton sported a chic updo and a lockdown tan as she and Prince William video-called volunteers from the mental health text service Shout. The Duke, 37, and Duchess of Cambridge, 38, joined the call to mark the first anniversary of Shout, the UK’s first 24/7 crisis text line, which they launched last year … Read more