Star Wars behind-the-scenes: Candid photos of Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford sell for over £4,000

Personal photographs taken by a British woman who worked on the original Star Wars movies during breaks in filming include Han Solo actor Harrison Ford holding a sizeable fish he had just caught during a fishing trip and a group photo signed by the late Carrie Fisher.  Pamela Mann, now aged in her 90s, was the continuity supervisor on … Read more

Why the coronavirus crisis is your best chance to bag a business-class flight with BA and Virgin

Why the coronavirus crisis is your best chance to bag a business-class flight: BA and Virgin offering up to 60% off lie-flat seat deals from London to the U.S (and throwing in a hotel for free) Travel expert Gilbert Ott says that these business return tickets are often £3k The frequent flier says some deals … Read more

Will Bernie Sanders spook markets with a strong Super Tuesday? 

As investors wrestle with how to react to a crisis nobody saw coming a couple of months ago, they also have something else to think about which has long been inked into the calendar. Just as the novel coronavirus outbreak causes havoc in financial markets – to the extent that it led to a 0.5 … Read more

Parrots are capable of understanding and acting on the balance of probabilities

Parrots are capable of understanding and acting on the balance of probabilities to predict future events ‘just like humans’, a new study claims.  Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand worked with a kea parrot and found she could combine data and predict uncertain future events. The grasp of statistics was thought to be … Read more

Justin Bieber cuddles up with his ‘goo goo’ Hailey Bieber in a sweet set of Instagram snaps

He shared some romantic PDA with his wife on his birthday. And on Monday, Justin Bieber was still feeling all loved up with model Hailey. The 26-year-old pop singer shared a series a photos of the two spending an evening in, calling his 23-year-old bride by her pet name ‘goo goo.’  Getting cozy: Justin Bieber, … Read more

Two-minute nerve-burning blast can ease pain in creaky knees and help improve mobility 

Two-minute nerve-burning blast can ease pain in creaky knees and help improve mobility By Roger Dobson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:30 GMT, 2 March 2020 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 2 March 2020 A two-minute nerve-blocking procedure could help improve mobility and pain in those with osteoarthritis of the knee. The procedure involves destroying a … Read more

Western doctors not as good as China at keeping coronavirus patients alive, WHO expert says

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 3,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and almost 90,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of … Read more

Artist Celia Paul loved Lucian Freud so passionately that it made her ill

BOOK OF THE WEEK Self-Portrait by Celia Paul (Cape £20, 216 pp) Just be glad you weren’t a young, innocent, impressionable female art student at the Slade in the 1970s. It was all too likely that you’d be spotted by Lucian Freud, who was a visiting tutor and used to prowl the corridors and refectory. … Read more

What a legend, Ms Jones! Liz looks back on some of her most memorable columns

What a legend, Ms Jones! Liz Jones reminisces about the last 20 years By Liz Jones for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:02 GMT, 2 February 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 2 February 2020 The things some people do for a story… My first column for YOU.  Incredibly, I was still happily married March 2006 … Read more