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Lydia Bright has revealed she feared her ‘poorly’ daughter Loretta would have to be taken to hospital after she refused to feed and suffered a high temperature. The TOWIE star, 30, admitted she had ‘horrible’ day worrying about her little girl but claims she received a sign that everything would be okay from her late … Read more
The mother of a missing 16-year-old boy whose girlfriend feared he was walking 280 miles to see her during lockdown has revealed her heartache at the thought of telling his five-year-old sister ‘he’s never coming back’. Owen Harding vanished four weeks and a day ago, around 6pm on March 26. He was last seen on … Read more
More than 7,500 care home residents are now feared to have died from coronavirus, according to new data. Care England, the country’s largest representative body for care homes, said the number of residents dying from the illness far surpassed government estimates. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) earlier this week showed only 237 … Read more
About 5,300 care home residents have died from coronavirus – but the true toll could be even higher as doctors are told they do not have to declare Covid-19 on death certificates, it has been claimed. Shocking figures tonight suggested the number of elderly who have succumbed to the virus in care homes was even … Read more
4,000 feared dead in care homes: Coronavirus death toll is being shockingly underreported amid ‘unfolding horror’ that could end up with tens of thousands of forgotten victims, experts warn GPs are sometimes reluctant to write Covid-19 on death certificates and figures The latest report from the ONS says that the virus killed 217 care home … Read more
A mother of ‘miracle quadruplets’ who died of coronavirus feared she was infected at Heathrow Airport while working for British Airways, her heartbroken husband has told The Mail on Sunday. Shabnum Sadiq, 39, was employed as a customer care relations manager for BA at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Before falling ill she had told her husband … Read more
Police have issued an anniversary appeal 20 years on from the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl – saying ‘It’s now time to tell’. Sarah Benford was last seen in the Kettering area of Northamptonshire on April 6 2000, before a murder probe was launched three years later. Speaking on the anniversary of her disappearance, Detective … Read more
The second person to be cured of HIV has revealed how he was more fearful of dying from cancer than Aids and considered ending his life at Dignitas. Adam Castillejo, 40, was known only as the ‘London Patient’ when doctors revealed his success story last March after a stem cell transplant to treat his cancer. … Read more
Could UK coronavirus deaths be lower than feared? If Britain follows China’s trajectory, only 5,700 not 20,000 are expected to die and the peak will be a week on Sunday, experts say The new paper compares the death rates for confirmed Covid-19 cases in China with eight other countries The estimates for the UK – … Read more
NHS surgeon, 43, is ‘flung out’ of his rented room by landlady who feared he would give her coronavirus Joseph Alsousou, 43, said he was asked to leave house in Headington, Oxford NHS surgeon was ‘nearly in tears’ as he drove back to family home in Merseyside He said landlady wanted him to leave as soon … Read more