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Fly into New York nowadays and you can’t miss it — unless its loftiest floors are wreathed in cloud. Like a giant stake driven into the heart of Manhattan, 432 Park Avenue is intended to stand out and is perhaps the Big Apple’s most ostentatious skyscraper. When it was completed in 2015, at nearly 1,400 … Read more
Patients suffering the same genetic illness that blighted the life of Sir Keir Starmer’s mother now have hope of a cure, thanks to new breakthrough drugs. The Labour Party leader spoke movingly on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs last week of the illness she suffered, Still’s disease. As a young teenager, he was once … Read more
The launch of Boris Johnson’s bike scheme designed to get the nation moving has sparked fresh discussion over the physical benefits of cycling. But the reality is time in the saddle can also leave riders with painful injuries ‘down there’. One study found 91 per cent of cyclists experience urogenital problems. This is partly due … Read more
Barnageddon! Couple hits out after their rural home is blighted by huge farm building put up by neighbour Couple horrified by corrugated steel building yards from living room window Dave and Di Jesinger have lived in house in West Willow, Hampshire for 50 years The barn-like building was built by neighbour using loophole in planning rules … Read more
Problem gambling is causing about one suicide every day, a shocking report concluded last night. The House of Lords review found that betting blights the lives of two million Britons, with 50,000 children now hooked. Around 300,000 people are addicted – each harming six loved ones through crime, domestic violence, family breakup and lost jobs. … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK A HISTORY OF SEX by Kate Lister (Unbound £25, 384pp) What a miracle it is that the human race manages to keep reproducing itself, generation upon generation, since attempts to stamp out sexual activity down the ages have been relentless. As Kate Lister, author of this colourful study, makes plain, people … Read more