COVID-19 infections are still rising in 117 places and this interactive map reveals if your local area is on the list. Data from Public Health England (PHE) states that while 37 per cent of local authorities have seen a rise in cases, 59 per cent have seen a fall. 🔵 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest updates Figures show that […]

Betty’s boot sale! Baroness Boothroyd is selling ornamental box given to her by Boris Yeltsin among 40 gifts from her eight years as speaker after downsizing to smaller country cottage Baroness Betty Boothroyd selling items given to her as Speaker of the Commons  Include ornamental gift box given to her by Boris Yeltsin which could fetch £50 Also Lawrence of Arabia […]

Some of the most profound childhood memories involve the scent of freshly mown grass on the cricket field and feeling the soft, lush turf under my footy boots. But as William Wordsworth wrote in a poem about children’s relationship with nature and how adults need to try to recapture that feeling, even through simple things like walking across an open […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, has died. He was 93. Mondale’s family says he died Monday in Minneapolis.  Mondale served Minnesota as attorney general and U.S. senator. He followed the trail blazed by his political […]

Heartwarming moment strangers jump out of their cars to clear the road of traffic cones so ambulance can get to 999 call Paramedics film the moment strangers come together to clear a road of cones Ambulance had been struggling to get past traffic whilst on the way to a 999 call Quick-thinking drivers jumped out of cars to clear road […]

George Clooney didn’t have the easiest time making The Midnight Sky, his adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight. For one, he gave himself the task of both directing and starring in the film as terminally ill scientist Augustine Lofthouse, who remains on a dying Earth (as the rest of humanity evacuates) to warn any returning spacecrafts of […]

A MASSIVE landslide has crumbled onto a beach today, just 24 hours after beachgoers had flocked to the seaside. Large parts of clifftop gardens – and even a wooden bench – were carried onto the beach as huge rocks fell at Nefyn, near Pwllheli in North Wales this morning. Cops urged people to stay away from beach in case of […]

TWO men and a woman have been killed in a horror car crash, while a fourth victim was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries. Cops were called to the smash in Lydd, Kent at 6.20pm yesterday after a black Dacia Duster Ambiance collided with a white BMW. The driver of the Dacia – a woman in her 50s – and […]

Heart-stopping moment father saves life of his four-year-old son as out of control car hurtles towards them on busy street in St Petersburg Father and son were nearly hit on a St. Petersburg street in Russia on Wednesday The father’s reflexes kick in as he sees the black SUV careening towards them  He scoops up his four-year-old son and runs […]

Minneapolis boards up and battens down as it braces for serious unrest as Derek Chauvin’s trial enters its final phase amid rising tensions following drive-by shooting of two National Guard in the city On Monday closing arguments will be heard in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin Swathes of the city have been boarded up in anticipation […]