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She was once dubbed the ‘richest woman in the world’ and spent years globe-trotting between society hotspots, but Sixties society queen Olga Deterding might have been exaggerating the size of her vast fortune, an author has claimed. Party-goer Olga, who died eating a sandwich at a New Year’s Eve party in 1979, was the daughter … Read more
Wormwood grub: Inmates boast about ‘village shop’ prison cells with extraordinary collection of stockpiled food and toiletries stacked to the ceiling Photos posted on Facebook shows stockpiles of food and electronics in cells Prisoners believed to be jailed in separate prisons posted photos from mobile phones It is not illegal for prisoners to be sent … Read more
‘I never wanted to be different’: Roger Daltrey admits his extraordinary fame with The Who distanced him from old friends and made him feel isolated By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 10:45 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 10:45 BST, 4 June 2020 As lead singer with mod-rockers The Who he won adulation from millions … Read more
Her blonde hair is waved; she wears carmine lipstick and a chunky hand-knitted sweater as she poses smiling, in elegant profile, at the wheel of a tractor. What image could more strikingly sum up the potent mix of grit and glamour of World War II’s Land Girls? The photo on the cover of Picture Post magazine … Read more
An ‘extraordinary’ GP, who was still working at the age of 84, has become the ninth family doctor to die from coronavirus. Dr Karamat Mirza, who was raised in Pakistan by a family of doctors before moving to England in 1966, was still treating patients up until two weeks ago at the Old Road Medical … Read more
Extraordinary moment small plane makes an emergency landing on a packed Canadian highway A pilot managed to safely land on a busy road outside Quebec City, Canada The plane found a clear spot on Highway 40 and narrowly avoided moving cars Traffic came to a halt behind the plane as it crawled along the road … Read more
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko today made the incredible claim that no-one has died – or will die – from coronavirus in his repressive ex-Soviet state. The dictator ignored his own country’s official figures showing 29 deaths from Covid-19 and brushed aside complaints by doctors and human rights activists that he risks ‘genocide’ by not taking … Read more
A furious row broke out among Government scientists tonight over whether they raised the alarm early enough over just how deadly coronavirus could be. A devastating Reuters investigation published today suggested that the scientific committees that advised Boris Johnson didn’t study, until mid-March, the option of a stringent lockdown. However, the chief scientific adviser Sir … Read more
Climate change is forcing birds to find new and ‘extraordinary’ ways to survive including using bread to bait fish and dropping mussels on rocks to break the shell. Researchers from McGill University, Montreal studied data on more than 8,600 bird species to look at changes in their feeding and hunting techniques over time. They found … Read more
‘Grandfather of Allergy’ William Frankland dies, aged 108, after an extraordinary career as a pioneering immunologist whose ‘lasting regret’ was to tell Saddam Hussein to quit smoking William Frankland, a pioneering immunologist and allergist, has died aged 108 One of his greatest achievements was his work on desensitisation to allergens Born in Battle, Sussex, Dr … Read more