Asylum seekers housed in a ‘squalid and unsafe’ Kent barracks where 200 caught Covid and seven attempted suicide face an ‘exceptionally high risk to life’ should they remain there, the High Court has heard. The Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent has been used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers since last September, despite the Home … Read more
Two dolphins have been filmed swimming in Venice’s Grand Canal in an ‘exceptionally rare’ sighting. The pair were spotted near the Punta della Dogana customs house where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and just a few hundred yards from St Mark’s Square, on Monday. Footage shows the bottlenose dolphins, thought to be a … Read more
Two dolphins have astonished crowds by swimming in Venice’s Grand Canal in an ‘exceptionally rare’ sighting. The pair were filmed near the Punta della Dogana customs house where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal on Monday. Footage showed the bottlenose dolphins, thought to be a mother and juvenile, hunting cuttlefish. Police were forced to put … Read more
Boris Johnson hints at U-turn on 1% NHS pay rise saying nurses could be treated ‘exceptionally’ as Keir Starmer berates him at PMQs swiping that Dominic Cummings got 40% Boris Johnson berated by Keir Starmer over NHS pay at a bruising PMQs session Labour leader complained at ‘real terms cut’ after the coronavirus pandemic Mr … Read more
Exceptionally preserved fossil of a 100-MILLION-year-old praying mantis is discovered in Canada that shows the prehistoric creature’s vein network and wings Fossils of wings belonging to Labradormantis guilbaulti were found in Labrador The exceptionally preserved specimens allowed scientists to analyze veins laying on the wings A single vein on a folding line exists in just … Read more
Scientists say intelligent life on other planets is ‘exceptionally rare’, and that human-like civilisations are unlikely to exist away from Earth. In a new paper, Oxford researchers theorise that, for life to have evolved the same way elsewhere in the universe, it would have taken longer than the whole of Earth’s projected lifespan. Evolution on … Read more
Scientists say intelligent life on other planets is ‘exceptionally rare’ and that human-like civilisations are unlikely to exist away from Earth. In a new paper, Oxford researchers theorise that, for life to have evolved the same way somewhere else, it would have taken longer than the whole of Earth’s projected lifespan. Evolution on Earth from … Read more
Healthy children do not die of coronavirus and only those who were seriously ill before they caught the disease are at risk, a major government-funded study has confirmed. No healthy child has died of the virus yet in the UK, researchers said. Six children have died but all had other serious health problems such as cancer … Read more