Abandoned Cold War nuclear missile launch site in New Jersey is up for sale for $1.8m

If you’re in the market for a fixer-upper with a difference – how about an abandoned Cold War-era nuclear missile site? There’s one going in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, for just $1.8million (£1.45million), complete with a swimming pool used by the troops and radar towers. The installation – Nike Battery PH-58 – was operational between … Read more

U.S Navy sends four warships to Russia’s Barents Sea for the first time since the Cold War

U.S Navy sends four warships to Russia’s Barents Sea for the first time since the Cold War to ‘conduct maritime security operations’ The US Navy confirmed Monday that three destroyers and one support ship had been joined by the Royal Navy’s HMS Kent in the mission U.S. Navy surface ships have not operated in the … Read more

Liam Hemsworth wears VERY snug wetsuit as he emerges from the cold surf

Liam Hemsworth wears VERY snug wetsuit as he emerges from the cold surf on Phillip Island and shows off his new scruffy beard By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:20 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 07:34 BST, 29 April 2020 He’s been hunkering down inside his luxury Phillip Island beach pad for … Read more

The magic numbers to end cold call hell: Free call-blocking codes

Nuisance calls come in all manner of guises.  There are unscrupulous salesmen, automated voices claiming you are owed compensation and plausible fraudsters hoping to con you out of your savings. According to the latest figures from the Information Commissioner’s Office, there was a 20 per cent increase in complaints about nuisance calls last year. Phone … Read more

America drew up secret plans codenamed Operation Sandstone to invade Britain during the Cold War

America drew up secret plans to invade Britain during the Cold War because US generals feared the UK could be taken over by the Soviet Union America drew up plans to invade Britain in case England became a part of the Soviet Union during the Cold War US generals began preparing a counter-offensive if such … Read more

New York City’s coronavirus dead could be temporarily buried on old Cold War missile island

Coronavirus dead across New York could be temporarily buried on Hart Island as morgues across the city start to overflow. America’s coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead as the disease has brought the city to its knees.  Undertakers are so overcrowded that a city official raised the … Read more

Cold War bomb tests show shark’s age at time of death

Cold War atomic bomb testing from more than 50 years ago has helped scientists correctly determine the age of whale sharks for the first time. An international team of scientists measured levels of a carbon isotope in shark bone that permeated the oceans during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s.   The presence of the … Read more

The new ‘Cold War’: Ex-minister Green says we should be treating modern China like Soviet Russia

Britain must toughen up its attitude to China and treat it more like the former Soviet Union in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, a former Cabinet minister warned today. Damian Green said that the contagion, which started in the Asian nation, plus the row over Beijing tech giant Huawei and its access to 5G … Read more

NHS plans two-tier GP service using ‘hot and cold’ hubs

NHS plans two-tier GP service amid crisis: How ‘hot hubs’ will be used for patients with coronavirus symptoms while ‘cold hubs’ will treat the rest Clinical Commissioning Group in Sussex among those setting out precautions  It has ordered each local primary care network to set up both ‘hot and cold hubs’ This will allow patients both … Read more

Cold Feet star Fay Ripley looks stylish in a khaki trench coat and flares

Cold Feet star Fay Ripley looks stylish in a khaki trench coat and flares as she heads out shopping to pick up cleaning products By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:53 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 11:06 GMT, 21 March 2020 Fay Ripley dashed to a petrol station on Friday to stock up on … Read more