Super-fit cycling fanatic, 40, battles COVID-19 as wife tells young people ‘you are not invincible’

A super-fit cycling fanatic is fighting for his life in hospital as his wife begs younger people to ‘understand you are not invincible’ from the deadly Coronavirus.  Daniel Schuchman, 40, an IT executive and father-of-four from North London, came down with Covid-19 symptoms last week and was hospitalised three days later. He has now spent … Read more

Younger Star Debi Mazar, 55, says ‘my lungs are heavy’ as she battles coronavirus

‘The sky is falling. I’m not afraid to say it,’ wrote Cornelia Griggs in an open letter to the New York Times. The opinion piece published this morning paints a grim picture for medical personnel that are fighting tirelessly to combat Covid-19.   ‘Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before,’ … Read more

World battles to stave off another Great Depression

World battles to stave off another Great Depression as United States faces 24% slump in output By Hugo Duncan and James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:57 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 20 March 2020 Financial markets swung wildly yesterday as governments and central banks stepped up their unprecedented fight to … Read more

HSBC battles an increase in telephone fraud attempts

Fraudsters made over 1,000 attempts a month at phone banking scams, HSBC reveals.. and it keeps a scammer voice library in case they try again The bank identified 17,000 fraudulent phone calls in 2019 This was more than double the number in 2018, with one month seeing 1,800 It said it had prevented access to … Read more

Europe battles to contain coronavirus as Germany warns of ‘start of an epidemic’

Germany has warned of the ‘start of an epidemic’ as Europe scrambles to contain a coronavirus outbreak spreading from Italy across the continent.   Denmark, Switzerland, Romania, North Macedonia and the city of Athens have all confirmed their first virus cases in the last two days – all of them linked to Italy.  Supermarket shelves were … Read more