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Up to 12,000 Liverpudlians were screened for coronavirus on the first day of the city’s mass testing programme, its public health director has said, insisting the initial progress was ‘very encouraging’ despite hour-long queues where people mixed with others who were potentially infected with the virus. Liverpool’s Matt Ashton said they were ‘still working on … Read more
Wallis’s lucky charm: US silver dollar coin that the Duchess of Windsor carried in her handbag to bring her good fortune set to fetch £1,000 when it is sold at auction next week A silver dollar coin carried by Wallis Simpson as a good luck charm is to be sold The 1.5in piece is expected … Read more
30 years after The Things They Carried was published, the Vietnam War novel is heading to the big screen, with an all-star ensemble cast. The Things They Carried is one of several projects coming out of the virtual American Film Market, with Tom Hardy and Pete Davidson to lead the cast, according to a report … Read more
An SAS commander has unleashed on the small proportion of soldiers in the Australian Army’s elite unit accused of carrying out war crimes during the war in Afghanistan. Australian Special Operations Commander Major-General Adam Findlay hit out at those he claimed had let the SAS down in an hour-long speech to the regiment in April, … Read more
Killer who stabbed ex-Wasps rugby star to death in spitting row ‘had knife to look cool and feel dangerous’ Alan Isichei was stabbed to death on his way home from the pub in August 2019 Accused Gurjeet Lall, 36, said he was carrying a knife on the day to look cool The court heard Mr … Read more
Lily Allen wears jumper and ripped jeans and carried a Dior tote bag as she goes shopping in London’s Soho By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 08:57 BST, 21 October 2020 | Updated: 08:57 BST, 21 October 2020 Lily Allen cut an effortlessly stylish figure when she was pictured shopping in London’s Soho with a … Read more
The wife of a British pilot carried her motionless one-year-old daughter from the lift into the foyer of a five star hotel sobbing that her husband had ‘killed my child – he hit her’, a court was told. Airbus 330 captain Mohamed Barakat, 41, faces up to 20 years in a Kazakh jail if convicted … Read more
A limo which John F. Kennedy rode on the morning of his assassination has sold for $375,000 at auction. The 1963 Lincoln Continental was used to chauffeur the President, Jackie Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally on the morning of the fateful day of November 22, 1963. They travelled in it through Forth Worth before … Read more
The smart specs that offer ‘surgeon’s eye’ view to experts around the world: Heart operations have been carried out in UK using ‘camera glasses’ so specialists can watch remotely and offer support The glasses were used during the fitting of a pacemaker to heart failure patient John Constable, 65, was treated at the Royal Papworth … Read more
The number of abortions carried out in England and Wales has increased by 4.1 per cent since the start of the coronavirus pandemic when compared with the same period last year. New figures have shown that between January and June this year there were 109,836 abortions carried out, compared with 105,540 over the first six months … Read more