Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher was on a mission to investigate a Taliban compound near Sangin in Afghanistan in 2008 when he accidentally triggered a booby-trapped grenade. He and his men were heading back to base under cover of darkness when he stumbled into a four-metre tripwire linked to the explosive. Instead of running for cover, the … Read more
A farming boss says his company had spent £40,000 to fly 150 experienced Romanian farm workers to the UK to teach unskilled British fruit and vegetable pickers how to harvest. Anthony Gardiner, boss at G’s Growers, says the situation was getting desperate because their regular land army of foreign workers are locked down in their … Read more
A farming boss says his company had spent £40,000 to fly 150 experienced Romanian farm workers to the UK to teach unskilled British fruit and vegetable pickers how to harvest. Anthony Gardiner, boss at G’s Growers, says the situation was getting desperate because their regular land army of foreign workers are locked down in their … Read more
Businesses are fighting for survival amid the pandemic. Some have chosen to exploit customers to save their own skin and Money Mail has been quick to call out these misdeeds. But our inbox has also been flooded with emails from readers praising firms that have gone above and beyond for their customers. Here we highlight … Read more
Every day we hear remarkable stories of courage and tragedy as the coronavirus stretches the health service to the limit. But up and down the country, ordinary people are making unsung sacrifices — big and small — to help do their bit to pull the nation, and the NHS in particular, through the crisis. Here, … Read more
Every day we hear remarkable stories of courage and tragedy as the coronavirus stretches the health service to the limit. But up and down the country, ordinary people are making unsung sacrifices — big and small — to help do their bit to pull the nation, and the NHS in particular, through the crisis. Here, … Read more
Some veterans of the Australian Defence Force have criticized a new study testing the effectiveness of antimalarial medication as a COVID-19 prophylaxis, which uses soldiers as test subjects. A small selection of soldiers from the ADF will be given a range of doses of the antimalarial drug chloroquine to see whether it can really stop, … Read more
Tesco’s annual results may have been overshadowed by the steps it is taking to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, but the nitty-gritty of today’s numbers deserve a closer look. The supermarket’s latest preliminary results cover the year to 29 February and do not cover the spell of mass panic buying in the last few weeks. … Read more
For centuries, the United Kingdom was the leader of the world in the freedom of its citizens. We were permitted to do what we wanted to, unless the law explicitly prohibited it. Unless the sign said ‘Do not walk on the grass’, we could stroll across the lawn. Not for us some irksome, officious policemen … Read more
A 91-year-old Army veteran has made a remarkable recovery from coronavirus in hospital after medics told his family he had just hours to live. James Burton Wood, of Edenfield, Lancashire, was admitted to hospital a fortnight ago when his health started to deteriorate after a week of suffering symptoms. The grandfather-of-two tested positive for the … Read more