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Laura Ashley saved from collapse by £20m lifeline from US bank Wells Fargo By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 19 February 2020 | Updated: 22:18 GMT, 19 February 2020 Laura Ashley has been granted a lifeline to stave off collapse. The retailer, famous for its floral dresses and homeware, said US … Read more
A lavish ‘Princely tomb’ belonging to an Iron Age man was found in Italy full of treasures including a bronze helmet, weapons and a whole chariot. The tomb of a pre-Roman prince has been saved from ‘imminent’ destruction after aerial photos revealed the ancient treasure trove before it could be built over. The body of … Read more
A 12-year-old girl’s life has been saved by a heart transplant after she almost died from a rare disease. Kayleigh Llewellyn, from Seaham, County Durham, fell ill around three months ago when she woke up one morning for school struggling to breathe. Doctors diagnosed her with cardiomyopathy and, to the shock of Kayleigh’s parents, warned a … Read more
Broke, lonely and overwhelmed by a crushing feeling of failure, Catherine Gray hit rock bottom emotionally. But, as she reveals here, it took a surprisingly simple rethink to bring her back from the brink. An edited extract from The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary by Catherine Gray When I was 33 I was suicidal. I … Read more
Qantas reveals the huge amount of rubbish it saved on the world’s first ‘zero-waste’ flight Qantas flew world’s first ‘zero-waste’ flight from Sydney to Adelaide last month Airline posted a snap of the waste from the flight compared to a normal amount Qantas is aiming to eliminate 75 per cent of its current waste by … Read more
We’re walking through a park in London where a Soviet spy once carried out a secret drop – just before he saved the world. ‘Most people have no idea how close we were to nuclear war at that time,’ says Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy And The Traitor, which tells the extraordinary true story … Read more
Major Depressive Episode. That was what the doctor wrote on my medical record. It was August 10, 2014. The day before, some friends had pulled me up off the pavement outside the office block where I worked and manhandled me to the nearest hospital crisis centre. They’d come because I’d put a message on Facebook saying: … Read more
A mother has today told how a car crash allowed doctors to discover she had a potentially deadly brain tumour. Elaine Lee-Tubby was taken to hospital amid fears she sustained a brain injury because of her severe headaches following her accident in 2017. Doctors referred the 47-year-old marketing executive for an MRI scan, which spotted … Read more
A mother-of-two has revealed how a hug with her son ended up saving her life after it revealed a cancerous lump on her breast. Emily Makin, from Wigan, lifted her arms to cuddle Harrison, now three, when she spotted a mass at the top of her right breast last summer. Initially thinking it was just … Read more