President Donald Trump compared some U.S. cities to Afghanistan as he blasted protesters attempting to pull down statues as ‘troublemakers’ and ‘anarchists’. Speaking in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, the president claimed that living in cites like Chicago, Detroit, Oakland and Baltimore was ‘like living in hell’ as he called … Read more
A teenager accused of murdering PC Andrew Harper told officers ‘I don’t give a f*** about any of this’ when he was charged with the alleged killing, a jury today heard. In a prepared statement, murder accused Henry Long, 19, initially told officers he was not involved in the officer’s death, had not been at … Read more
Go to bed! Napping and weekend lie-ins are typically not enough to compensate for getting less than six hours’ sleep a night during the week, study shows Researchers from France studied the sleep patterns of more than 12,000 adults They found that around a third suffered from insufficient sleep during the week Yet only a … Read more
As if the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t enough, unprecedented numbers of people are suffering emotional fallout from isolation, money worries and fear of coronavirus infection, leaving Britain facing a tidal wave of anxiety and depression. That’s the stark warning from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, with the organisation’s president, Professor Wendy Burn, declaring: ‘Our fear is … Read more
Fashion: Why don’t YOU try… By Joanne Toolan For You Magazine Published: 00:01 BST, 21 June 2020 | Updated: 01:07 BST, 21 June 2020 …Joanne Toolan’s smart way to style the summer jumpsuit Share or comment on this article:
Around 8.30 on Monday morning, I was confronted by an unfamiliar sight: my teenage daughter, up and dressed, preparing to leave the house. Fair to say it’s been some weeks since she last saw the right side of lunchtime, so I was a little surprised. And then I remembered: the shops were reopening. After weeks … Read more
Honeybee queens don’t just buzz but also ‘quack’ when they are ready to hatch from the hive and ‘toot’ when they want workers to imprison other queens, study shows Tooting sound means workers trap other yet-to-emerge queens inside their cells Scientists made the find after monitoring 25 hives in France and England Study upends previous … Read more
By her own account, Andrea Good has a ‘very feisty’ temper, is a ‘very strict’ mother to her three children, is ‘upfront and straight up’ and appears to keep her IT contractor husband Rob on his toes at all times. So it goes without saying that when she saw two men in hi-viz jackets hurling … Read more
Back in April, I started wearing a face mask – or rather, a cloth face covering – when out and about. And I suggested, in these pages, that if everyone did the same we’d get out of lockdown sooner, and possibly see off this virus for good. Earlier on in the pandemic I’d written an article … Read more
An episode of Fawlty Towers which featured racist language has been put back on UKTV after the streaming site took it down yesterday. The episode titled The Germans – fondly remembered for the line ‘don’t mention the War’ – will return to the platform with warnings highlighting ‘potentially offensive content and language’, a statement from … Read more