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STEVE NIMMO: I’m pretty sure I just survived two weeks of hell with the coronavirus

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The small but persistent cough I had after flying from Miami via Montreal back to London wasn’t anything serious: just a typical post-flight, low level bug. Wasn’t it? This was at the time when the official health advice was if you have a cough AND a temperature, then you COULD have the Covid-19 virus. But … Read more

UK’s oldest Covid-19 victim: Great-grandmother, 108, who survived two world wars and Spanish flu

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An 108-year-old great-grandmother is believed to be the oldest person to die from the coronavirus in the UK. Hilda Churchill survived two world wars and the Spanish flu but tragically passed away on Saturday – less than a day after she tested positive for the virus. She had been in isolation at her care home in … Read more

Gold prospector rescues a kangaroo that survived after falling 11 metres down an abandoned mineshaft

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A kindly gold prospector has saved a kangaroo and her joey after she fell down an abandoned mine. The prospector spotted the kangaroo when he heard a sound coming from the 11metre deep mine shaft outside Vaughn, Victoria, 120km north-west of Melbourne on Sunday. When he looked down the hole, he spotted the kangaroo at the … Read more

Christine Hanslip reveals her ‘heartbreak’ after she survived cancer but her daughter didn’t

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A mother has told of her heartbreak after she survived cancer, but had to watch her daughter die from the cruel disease, aged 46.  Christine Hanslip, 72, from Bradford, was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2013, and tragically, exactly a year on, in May 2014, Charlotte was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer, a rare condition that affects … Read more

Human populations in India SURVIVED the Toba ‘super-eruption’ 74,000 years ago

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Human populations in India SURVIVED the Toba ‘super-eruption’ 74,000 years ago that plunged the Earth into a decade-long ‘volcanic winter’ and led to the near-extinction of our species Experts thought humans outside Africa may not have survived Toba event  Humans are known to have migrated out of Africa into Eurasia before this time  Researchers have … Read more

The orphans who survived the Holocaust and rebuilt their lives in the Lake District

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The night terrors came often but Harry Olmer remembers only one of his dreams. ‘I was standing facing my mother. We did not talk to each other, we just looked. There was a brick wall being built between us and it got higher and higher until… until I could no longer see her.’ The image … Read more

Mother who survived car crash is now pregnant despite being left ‘infertile’ from her injuries

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A mother who survived a horrific car crash is now pregnant with twins – despite being told her injuries had left her infertile. Danielle Bartley-Mould, from Yorkshire, broke her neck and spine after the accident in 2014, and was in a coma for 16 days. Doctors tried to save the 38-year-old’s arm, but when she … Read more