Wood burning stoves produce THREE TIMES more small particle air pollution than road traffic

Fashionable wood burning stoves are the UK’s single biggest source of particulate air pollution and produce three times more of the toxins than road traffic, Government data shows. DEFRA figures reveal domestic combustion created more than 47,000 tonnes of PM2.5 pollution in 2019 — 43 per cent of all PM2.5 particles produced. The vast majority … Read more

Eden Project boss gets driving ban quashed after being caught speeding SIX times in under four years

Eden Project boss gets driving ban quashed after being caught speeding SIX times in less than four years Sir Tim Smit, 66, received a six-month ban under the totting up rule  He successfully appealed on the grounds of ‘exceptional hardship’ Smit is a diabetic who is shielding and said he is also responsible for driving … Read more

Detached home prices grow three times faster than flats as Covid makes housing ladder hard to climb

The price of a detached house shot up three times faster than that of a flat in 2020, as lockdown drove buyers to seek out bigger homes with gardens. Detached homes saw their value increase by 10 per cent or £43,364 last year, with the average cost reaching £486,595 by December. This was according to … Read more

Almost half of New York Times employees don’t feel they can express their views freely, survey finds

Almost half of all New York Times employees say they don’t believe they can express their views freely at the newspaper, according to a company survey.    A poll conducted among staff in December revealed negative responses to questions regarding company culture, the New York Post reported.  According to the report, only 51 per cent of … Read more

Spurs winger Erik Lamela caught speeding three times in a fortnight

Spurs’ £80,000-a-week winger Erik Lamela is fined £40 after he was caught speeding in his Range Rover for a THIRD time in two weeks near the club’s north London training ground Erik Lamela was caught three times within 12 days speeding in his Range Rover The Argentine international was caught on May 8, May 13 … Read more

Boy, 3, was born with a tongue FOUR times too big for his mouth

A three-year-old boy who was born with a tongue that is four times too big for his mouth is now facing a dangerous surgery as doctors fight to stop the ever-growing organ.       Owen Thomas, from Pennsylvania, suffers from an extremely rare disease called Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS), a condition that causes overgrowth in different areas of … Read more

Corrie’s Alex Bain reveals he’s ‘been through some dark times’ after being bullied at school

Coronation Street star Alex Bain, 19, reveals he’s ‘been through some dark times’ after being bullied at school and credits his daughter Lydia-Rose, 2, for helping him get through it By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 13:39 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 13:39 GMT, 9 February 2021 Alex Bain has revealed he suffered ‘through … Read more

Gemma Collins admits she turns to food ‘in times of crisis’ on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories

Gemma Collins details her ongoing weight struggles as she appears on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories.  In the ITV episode – set to air on Thursday – the former TOWIE star, 40, admits she ‘turns to food in times of crisis’ as she compares emotional eating to ‘self-harm’. The self-proclaimed diva – who lost three stone last … Read more

Megyn Kelly criticizes LA Times columnist comparing Trump-supporting neighbors to Nazi sympathizers

Megyn Kelly is leading criticism of a Los Angeles Times columnist who compared her neighbors to Nazi sympathizers and Hezbollah because they backed Donald Trump. The Brooklyn-based author, Virginia Heffernan, wrote in Friday’s paper that the ‘Trumpites’ next door to their ‘pandemic getaway’ in upstate New York had plowed her drive after a snow storm. … Read more

COVID patients treated with hepatitis drug FOUR times more likely to have cleared infection quickly

Coronavirus patients treated with a experimental hepatitis drug were FOUR times more likely to have cleared the infection within seven days, study finds Peginterferon-lambda is a man-made form of a naturally occurring protein that calls for immune cells to attack a virus and is mainly used to treat hepatitis Receptors for the drug are found … Read more