Robber is jailed after stealing elderly woman’s purse containing £200

Robber steals elderly woman’s purse containing £200 from under police officer’s nose after battering her to the ground and pretending to be Good Samaritan Jay Makwana, 40, knocked an 81-year-old victim over after she left a bank He went on to steal her purse containing around £200 in front of police officers Makwana was jailed … Read more

Elderly Britons are REFUSING Pfizer’s vaccine because they’d rather ‘wait for the English one’

Elderly Britons are REFUSING to take Pfizer’s Covid vaccine because they’d rather ‘wait for the English one’ with the POLICE getting leftover doses so they don’t go to waste Dr Paul Williams said patients were refusing the Pfizer vaccine in Stockton And 10 police officers got vaccinated yesterday due to missed appointments Boris Johnson has … Read more

It would be so callous to make the elderly wait for Covid-19 jab, argues Dr MARTIN SCURR 

It would be so callous to make the elderly who are most at risk from coronavirus  wait for vaccination, argues Dr MARTIN SCURR By Dr Martin Scurr For The Daily Mail Published: 23:06 GMT, 6 January 2021 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 7 January 2021 Dr Martin Scurr (pictured) said: ‘The vaccine debate cannot be reduced … Read more

New agony for 400,000 elderly in care homes as family visits are axed yet again

New agony for 400,000 elderly in care homes as family visits are axed yet again amid new Covid-19 lockdown Close contact with family members is once again an impossibility for those in care homes after new restrictions were announced on Monday  Visits can still go ahead through screens, pods and windows, guidance advised Campaigners warn … Read more

Care home resident charged with murdering elderly woman after she was attacked in residential home

Care home resident, 62, is charged with murdering elderly woman, in her 90s, after she was attacked in the residential home they both lived in Alexander Rawson, 62, was arrested after allegedly assaulting another resident Woman injured yesterday morning and rushed to hospital where she later died Rawson was arrested on suspicion of murder and … Read more

Peter Andre reveals he begged the Australian embassy to let him visit his elderly parents

‘I miss them too much’: Peter Andre reveals he begged the Australian embassy to let him visit his elderly parents during the pandemic By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 15:51 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 15:51 GMT, 5 January 2021 Peter Andre has revealed he begged the Australian embassy to let him visit his … Read more

Elderly couple, 75 and 72, were found dead by their son ‘after killing themselves in suicide pact’

Elderly couple, 75 and 72, were found dead by their son ‘after killing themselves in suicide pact’, inquest hears David, 75, and his wife Suzanne Marshall, 72, died in a suspected ‘suicide pact’ They were found dead at their home in Llanddoged, north Wales, December 28  Gas bottle appeared to have been set up ‘with a … Read more

Elderly Kenyan farmer is disembowelled and then trampled to death by an elephant 

Elderly Kenyan farmer is disembowelled and then trampled to death by an elephant Charles Mutisya was working on his farm when the animal impaled him its tusks  The 73-year-old was discovered with his intestines hanging out of his stomach  It is believed animal wandered to his land from nearby Tsavo East National Park  By Ross … Read more

Elderly man found murdered in house near Colchester, Essex

Police are hunting for a killer believed to have murdered a retired farm worker in ‘a targeted incident’ at his Essex bungalow before making off with the victim’s Volvo. Donald Ralph, 83, is thought to have been murdered at his bungalow in Aldham, near Colchester – his body was discovered by a neighbour on Tuesday … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Elderly residents could count for as little as 0.3% of 613,000 to receive Pfizer jab

Seven care homes in England have so far been given the coronavirus vaccine, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. Figures suggest people in care, despite being identified as the most urgently in need, only account for 0.3 per cent of the 613,000 people who received the jab. Last week Matt Hancock said … Read more