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Jodie Turner-Smith will take a starring role in forthcoming Netflix series The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel to the streaming service’s fantasy drama The Witcher. The British actress will play Éile, an elite warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess who leaves her position as Queen’s guardian to become a nomadic musician. However a … Read more
Theresa May is not the first Conservative leader to feel keenly the pain of being ousted from power, an agony made all the more bitter when the ousting is done not by the voters but by fellow Tories. After he was ignominiously toppled by Margaret Thatcher in 1975, a truculent Sir Edward Heath was nicknamed … Read more
News of HBO’s True Blood reboot came as a surprise to Anna Paquin but it appears that the star of the supernatural series is open to the revival. The 38-year-old actress hasn’t yet been asked to reprise her role as Sookie Stackhouse but in an interview with The New York Post, Anna said that if … Read more
A 28-year-old woman who contracted coronavirus three months ago is urging long Covid sufferers not to ignore ongoing symptoms, after doctors found blood clots on both of her lungs. Sharing her battle with the virus on Instagram, Rachel Gunn, 28, who lives in Ireland, explained that she was in bed for nearly two weeks in October … Read more
People with high blood pressure are better off having a stretch at home rather than going out for a walk if they want to lower their blood pressure, study finds. University of Saskatchewan researchers had a group of 40 high blood pressure sufferers split into two groups – one did stretching and one did walking. … Read more
White bread rolls made with flour from CHICKPEAS slashes blood sugar levels by 40% and could stave off type 2 diabetes and obesity, study finds Scientists made a new ingredient called PulseON from chickpeas This features starch which is much harder for the human body to digest 30 or 60 per cent of wheat flour was … Read more
Convalescent plasma infusions can help reduce the number of coronavirus deaths, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at people ill with COVID-19 who received blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients. When given early enough, patients who received antibody-rich plasma had a one-quarter lower risk of death than those given plasma with low concentrations of COVID-19 … Read more
Jewish neighbourhood watch group say crosses have been smeared in BLOOD on homes in Stamford Hill in east London in ‘antisemitic hate crime’ The homes were left with the mark of a cross smeared in blood on the doorway Properties are in Stamford Hill – home to around 15,000 ultra orthodox Jews Metropolitain Police confirmed … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new rapid, handheld blood test that could detect whether or not patients have mild concussions. The test, known as iSTAT and manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, looks for specific proteins present in the blood after head trauma. What’s more, results are returned within 15 minutes. Researchers … Read more
This is the moment Reading murderer Khairi Saadallah is caught on CCTV grinning triumphantly as he washes blood from his hands after stabbing three men to death. James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, were all killed in Forbury Gardens in the Berkshire town on June 20 last year. Three others were injured … Read more