Daredevils and adventurers reveal how they cope with danger – and lockdown

Some humans seem almost super-human. Daredevils and adventurers have summited Everest, crossed the Antarctic and base-jumped off cliffs. How do they do it? To find out read on. We asked the likes of former SAS captain Neil Laughton, extreme explorer Vanessa O’Brien and American base-jumper and skydiver Jeb Corliss to reveal their mental tricks for conquering … Read more

What do the tier three and four coronavirus rules mean in England?

Millions more Britons were plunged into the toughest tier four lockdown restrictions today, while the rest of the country was moved up into tier three. Among the areas of England moving to tier four from midnight tonight are the Midlands, parts of the North East and North West and parts of the South West. An … Read more

Daredevils and adventurers reveal how they cope with danger – and lockdown

Some humans seem almost super-human. Daredevils and adventurers have summited Everest, crossed the Antarctic and base-jumped off cliffs. And how do they do it? Read on for an insight into how they cope with danger. We asked the likes of former SAS captain Neil Laughton, extreme explorer Vanessa O’Brien and American base-jumper and skydiver Jeb Corliss … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn accused of breaking Tier 4 Covid lockdown at Christmas

Did Jeremy Corbyn break Tier 4 lockdown rules? Former Labour leader meets more than one person when he shakes hands with his Covid-denying brother and friend on Christmas Day A video shared online shows group of three attend former Labour leader’s home Group includes Corbyn’s Covid-denying brother Piers who boasts about arrests Without masks, all … Read more

Over 1,500 chickens bought during lockdown abandoned, says RSPCA

Cockerels and hens that were bought during the lockdown are being dumped in large numbers as owners try to tackle a return of bird flu. The RSPCA has dealt with 1,562 abandoned birds in the UK this year as new owners struggle to comply with the Government’s new biosecurity advice following the outbreak of the H5N8 … Read more

UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020 and peaked on Boxing Day

UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020, largely due to home working in lockdown, live-streamed sport and updates to video games such as Call of Duty, a new report reveals.  50,000 petabytes (PB) of data were consumed across the country in 2020, compared to around 22,000PB in 2019, says BT subsidiary Openreach. One petabyte … Read more

English hikers travel more than 75 miles together in minibus to Wales’s Pen-Y-Fan mountain

Hikers from different households in England travelled more than 75 miles in a minibus together to climb a Welsh mountain in defiance of coronavirus restrictions.   Police said the walkers were from mixed households and had travelled from Cheltenham to South Wales for a hike, even though ‘Level 4’ restrictions – Wales’s equivalent of England’s Tier … Read more

UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020 and peaked on Boxing Day

UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020, largely due to home working in lockdown, live-streamed sport and updates to video games such as Call of Duty, a new report reveals.  50,000 petabytes (PB) of data were consumed across the country in 2020, compared to around 22,000PB in 2019, says BT subsidiary Openreach. One petabyte … Read more

Kirstie Allsopp SLAMS celebs she ‘knows’ take cocaine for ‘banging on about Covidiots’

Kirstie Allsopp has slammed drug-using celebrities for ‘banging on about Covidiots’, claiming they’re just as reckless for taking cocaine. The Location, Location, Location presenter – who was herself accused of potentially spreading COVID-19 by journeying to one of her homes in Devon to isolate when partner Ben Andersen already had symptoms earlier this year – … Read more

How a QUARTER of hospitals are operating at Covid ‘danger zone’

A quarter of England’s hospitals were treating a ‘dangerous’ number of Covid patients in the run up to Christmas, official figures show amid the looming threat of a third national lockdown.  MailOnline’s analysis of NHS England data reveals at least a fifth of general beds at 37 trusts were filled by Covid patients in the … Read more