Amazing drone footage shows China’s ‘spider-man cleaner’ picking litter on a vertical cliff face nearly 4,600 feet above the ground Sanitation workers in Tianmen Mountain have returned to work after a shutdown Footage shows one of them moving along a rock face to collect rubbish on May 1 These litter pickers abseil down dangerous cliffs … Read more
Improved air quality recorded over a month-long period of coronavirus lockdown has seen 11,000 fewer deaths across Europe from pollution and more than 1,700 fewer in the UK, a study found. A drastic reduction in air travel and road traffic across Europe during the lockdown has contributed to thousands of lives being spared by harmful … Read more
The man who died ingesting fish tank cleaner thinking it was the drug championed by Donald Trump to beat COVID-19 has been remembered as a ‘level-headed’ engineer. Gary Lenius and his wife Wanda, both in their 60s, took chloroquine phosphate, confusing it with hydroxychloroquine, last month. Gary died and Wanda was left in critical condition after drinking the … Read more
Thousands of flamingos converge on Indian lake after coronavirus lockdown caused cleaner air and water ‘and encouraged unusually high number of the birds to gather there’ The flamingos migrate from far and wide to this creek in Navi Mumbai every year But residents have said they have not seen this many flamingos in years Environmentalists … Read more
There is much speculation about the long-term ramifications of Covid-19: will it end globalisation, increase state surveillance, cause isolationist policies? But all I can think about at this moment, frankly, is: how do I get the shower screen smear-free, how tiny can I cut up my recycling to fit it in the box — and … Read more
Should a little green man — green, that is, in outlook as well as hue — visit Earth now, he might conclude that we have finally got our act together. He would see that the air is cleaner, waters clearer, streets and flight paths quieter and wildlife happier than at any time in living memory, … Read more
Hollyoaks star Jennifer Metcalfe reveals she quit her job as a cleaner because she wasn’t allowed to work in her PANTS By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 08:51 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 09:02 BST, 4 April 2020 She delighted fans with a snap of her peachy derriere in the midst of doing housework. … Read more
Man who tried to treat himself with hydroxychloroquine DIES: Couple ate fish tank cleaner thinking it was the malaria drug that Trump is touting as a miracle coronavirus remedy The couple, both in their 60s, were hospitalized after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, an additive often used at aquariums to clean fish tanks The man died and … Read more
A shopper who used buy now, pay later service Klarna for a £199 vacuum cleaner in three ‘interest-free’ instalments was left confused after he was charged an extra 4.5 per cent for paying with a credit card. John Hitchin, 61, from Cambridgeshire, bought a cordless vacuum cleaner from Vax on 28 January and chose to … Read more
A Romanian cleaner has denied involvement in a £50 million jewellery and cash raid on heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s home. Maria Mester, 47, and her 29-year-old son Emil-Bogdan Savastru are charged with conspiracy to commit burglary over the heist at Miss Ecclestone’s £70million mansion on ‘Billionaires’ Row’ in Kensington, west London, before Christmas. Miss Ecclestone, the … Read more