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Icebergs in the Antarctic gradually melting further and further from the frozen continent could be the trigger that plunges Earth into a new ice age, study finds. Researchers from Cardiff University reconstructed past climate conditions and identified tiny fragments of Antarctic rock dropped in the open ocean as part of a study designed to understand … Read more
Football must change its rules to allow referees to dish out yellow or red cards to any player who hugs or cuddles a team mate, in order to stem the spread of mutant Covid in the game, according to a leading virologist. The lack of social distancing in matches has become a huge issue for … Read more
Keir Starmer blocks bid to make leading Sikh independence supporter a peer in ‘extremism row’ Senior public official Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu is denied peerage by Labour leader Mr Singh is a long-standing campaigner for a sovereign Sikh state in the Punjab On the day of the announcement he was told Sir Keir withdrew his nomination By … Read more
As Britain is plunged into its third national lockdown, many are wondering whether the Covid nightmare will ever end. Here, we ask some of the country’s foremost scientific experts to consult their crystal balls, and give you their views on how and when we might return to normality… PULL TOGETHER AND GET A JAB SO … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-lockdown brother Piers is fined AGAIN after leading New Year’s Eve protest in London – claiming that more than 1,000 ‘defied all threats’ to turn out Corbyn posted a video of what was dubbed the ‘NYE Party of Parties’ on Twitter In the clip he confronts a line of police officers along the … Read more
A reformed neo-Nazi has revealed how he lived a double life for over 20 years while part of the extreme far-right movement. Nigel Bromage, 54, from Birmingham, was groomed into extremism after being approached at 15 by an anti-IRA organisation which turned out to be an arm of the National Front. He quickly became the West Midlands … Read more
A rare first edition of one of the earliest accounts of 18th-century slavery, written by the first known Black Briton to have voted in England, will go under the hammer in the New Year. Charles Ignatius Sancho’s 1782 two-volume book The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African is one of the earliest accounts of … Read more
Chi-WOW-ah! Hidden camera reveals clever dog leading his pet pals in breakout from their pen Hidden camera captured chihuahua Rupert breaking out of his enclosure He helped two other dogs to escape by moving the gate blocking their way Viewers joked Rupert wanted to delete the video as he went straight to camera A mobile … Read more
The family of the late Nobby Stiles have been told the England World Cup winner’s dementia was caused by heading footballs. In a brave move aimed at assisting research and finding answers, the 1966 legend’s wife Kay and three sons donated his brain to Dr Willie Stewart’s FIELD study, which is examining links between the … Read more
Coronavirus has become the leading cause of death in the United States, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the seven-day rolling average of deaths due to COVID-19 is currently 2,430 deaths per day, three-fold higher than the figure one month ago. The respiratory disease is claiming 1.4 times as many lives per day as … Read more