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Shipping containers have been converted into overflow morgues for the dead in South Africa, where a mutant variant of coronavirus has driven a second spike. As mortuaries reached capacity, the country’s largest undertakers, AVBOB, distributed 22 refrigerated shipping containers to its funeral homes. Coffins marked ‘highly contagious’ line the inside of the containers, where AVBOB … Read more
An emotional Nile Rodgers has revealed that he’s been unable to bury his mother a month after she died because her body is in a refrigerator truck filled with covid victims. The 68-year-old Chic guitarist announced his mother Beverly Goodman, 82, had died on December 27 at a New York hospital following a battle with Alzheimer’s … Read more
It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for protecting the world to be allowed into the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the pandemic. The belated arrival last week of a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) follows persistent stonewalling from Beijing … Read more
The remains of a two-year-old Neanderthal who died some 41,000 years ago had been lain carefully in a grave that was covered with fresh soil, a study has concluded. The poor child’s skeleton was unearthed in 1973 from a rock shelter at the La Ferrassie dig site in Savignac-de-Miremont, Dordogne, southwest France. Researchers from France re-examined the … Read more
Alec Baldwin says ‘bury Trump in a Nazi graveyard and put a swastika on his grave’ before calling the president a ‘maniac’ in scathing Twitter rant The actor, 62, who plays the president on Saturday Night Live, tweeted Sunday ‘The majority of Americans made the right choice’, he said of Biden’s win Baldwin has previously … Read more
A Czech migrant who terrified dog walkers by shooting at birds with an air rifle while he crouched in bushes at a public park has avoided jail after saying its a harmless hobby in his home country. Armed police swooped on Springwater Park in Radcliffe, near Bury, after a dogwalker spotted Pavel Jakes shooting at … Read more
Dolly Parton reduced Stephen Colbert to tears this Tuesday by singing the old bluegrass ballad Bury Me Beneath The Willow. The 74-year-old appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and spontaneously broke into the song which is about a woman whose fiance left her. As she crooned a couple of verses Stephen took off his … Read more
Dave Hughes and Grant Hackett finally bury the hatchet during a live radio segment… after the comedian poked fun at the Olympic swimmer’s mental health in infamous 2017 Logies speech By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:31 BST, 2 October 2020 | Updated: 04:31 BST, 2 October 2020 Dave Hughes made headlines when … Read more
A father was left stunned after seeing hundreds of people standing in a ‘five hour’ queue waiting for Covid tests at a walk-in centre in Manchester. Tony Kirvin, 43, needed to get his son Michael tested after the 14-year-old started showing mild symptoms and was sent home from school. The nearest testing centre was a 120-mile … Read more
Teenage boxer, 18, dies after being gunned down on street in locked-down Bury – as police launch murder probe Boxing prodigy ‘King Cole Kershaw’, 18, was shot in the street in Bury last night The teenager was rushed to hospital but doctors were unable to save his life A murder probe has been launched, with … Read more