A study of 81 unwell children in intensive care with conditions such as asthmas and pneumonia has found telling them stories can ease their pain, according to researchers in Brazil.
A study of 81 unwell children in intensive care with conditions such as asthmas and pneumonia has found telling them stories can ease their pain, according to researchers in Brazil.
For decades, Sharon Stone has had a reputation for being difficult.
Juicy tales of the world’s smelliest fruit! Poet whose husband begged her to throw away a durian, examines the most challenging produce to grow and cook U.S. poet Kate Lebo is the author of two cookery books about fruit pies Reveals the most difficult to grow and challenging fruits to cook in a new book … Read more
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are to be relabelled in the British Library to explain how it once came to be owned by a slave-trading family. The relabelling of the collection is part of the institution’s ‘anti-racism action plan’ which was put in place after the Black Lives Matter protests last year, internal documents seen by The … Read more
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are to be relabelled in the British Library to explain how it once came to be owned by a slave-trading family. The relabelling of the collection is part of the institution’s ‘anti-racism action plan’ which was put in place after the Black Lives Matter protests last year, internal documents seen by The … Read more
At just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg while travelling on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Within three hours, the ‘unsinkable’ ship had slipped beneath the waves of the freezing Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people. At its launch, the luxurious Titanic was the largest … Read more
At just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg while travelling on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Within three hours, the ‘unsinkable’ ship had slipped beneath the waves of the freezing Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people. At its launch, the luxurious Titanic was the largest … Read more
FAIRY TALES By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 19 November 2020 GENDER SWAPPED FAIRY TALES by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett (Faber £20, 208pp) GENDER SWAPPED FAIRY TALES by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett (Faber £20, 208pp) Once upon a time, Jonathan Plackett developed … Read more
My first glimpse of Jean Shrimpton was when I poked my head round the door of my mate Brian Duffy’s photographic studio. She’d been sent by a model agency and was posing for a Kellogg’s ad. Duffy was using a sky-blue background, and you could see the sky behind her eyes, as if you could … Read more