Lost diary reveals extraordinary story of Bletchley Park codebreaker’s broken romance with German divorcee whose three Nazi sons fought for Hitler Becky Edmunds found John Richard Perceval’s diaries covering 1925 to 1976 Perceval was on a team that cracked Germany’s Enigma code at Bletchley Park He was in love with a German woman whose sons fought … Read more
Are you daunted by the prospect of three more weeks in lockdown? Read this week’s searing diary of a doctor working on the coronavirus front line – and then count your blessings… MONDAY One mother’s unbearable call to her boys We have been asked to re-use disposable surgical gowns – they’ll be laundered but I … Read more
Today’s theme in our series of the best non-fiction reads in which to immerse yourself as the lockdown continues is diaries — from glimpses into the private thoughts of society gossip Kenneth Rose to eyewitness accounts of historical events from Samuel Pepys. Gasp at the political and sexual shenanigans of Alan Clark MP, and shiver … Read more
It is nearly a month since the Government turned the key on a nationwide lockdown — changing the world, almost overnight, for businesses across the UK. Despite being promised support packages, many small businesses fear they will not survive. Figures this week revealed that banks have given vital loans to only 5,000 British firms — … Read more
Her vivid accounts from a hospital battling to cope with coronavirus have been terrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure. Here, in the doctor’s latest diary, read how the sheer weight of patient numbers means normal procedures to save lives have been all but abandoned… MONDAY: A man is dying but these days it’s no emergency … Read more
Panayiotis Elia, 66, didn’t show typical Covid-19 symptoms. Pictured in Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham A fish and chip shop owner who fought for his life against coronavirus has shared his candid hospital diary detailing how medics did their best to help him survive. Panayiotis Elia, 66, didn’t show typical Covid-19 symptoms – initially he just … Read more
Madonna posts bizarre ‘quarantine diary’ video in which she claims to have lost three friends ‘in the last 24 hours’: ‘I’m over it’ By David Lawrance For Dailymail.com Published: 17:37 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: 17:41 BST, 9 April 2020 Madonna has taken to Instagram to post a strange video in which she claims … Read more
An intensive care doctor has revealed the stark reality of life at the NHS frontline against coronavirus as she admitted in a daily diary, ‘I can’t remember ever losing this many patients in a week’. Dr Jenny Abthorpe, who works as a registrar at a large London teaching hospital, said her unit was ‘incredibly busy’ … Read more
An intensive care doctor has revealed the stark reality of life at the NHS frontline against coronavirus as she admitted in a daily diary, ‘I can’t remember ever losing this many patients in a week’. Dr Jenny Abthorpe, who works as a registrar at a large London teaching hospital, said her unit was ‘incredibly busy’ … Read more
Men rumple everything and sweat and want to wrestle with you after a long day I’ve just realised that I should be loving being single. I am growing a beard. When you are with a man, you have to worry about going out for lunch with him in daylight (unless you live in Norway and … Read more