2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:09 GMT, 14 November 2019 | Updated: 22:47 GMT, 14 November 2019 John Galliano for Dior Photographs by Robert Fairer (Thames & Hudson, £98) John Galliano for Dior Photographs by Robert Fairer (Thames & Hudson, £98) Galliano spent nearly 15 years at Dior before his … Read more
Beetroot hummus By Aaron Bertelsen Published: 00:02 GMT, 2 February 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 2 February 2020 SERVES 4 PREP TIME 10 minutes, plus cooling COOK TIME 45-60 minutes Hummus made entirely from chickpeas is one of the great loves of my life, but even I recognise the need to change things up a … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has conceded that the UK ‘might have to’ cancel the London Marathon next month to prevent coronavirus spreading like wildfire. The 26.2mile race is the largest mass-participation sporting event in the world involving 45,000 runners from around the globe and up to 1million spectators lining the capital’s streets. But the April 26 event … Read more
First look at the life-like creatures that will feature in Universal Orlando’s new Harry Potter roller coaster – including a never-before-seen Blast-Ended Skrewt The new roller coaster, called Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, is set to open on June 13 The attraction will see guests fly deep into the Forbidden Forest and Hogwarts on Hagrid’s magical … Read more
Set up by parliament and funded by the financial services industry, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme is independent and completely free to use. FSCS can step in to pay compensation if an authorised financial firm fails and its customers have lost money as a result. For more information about the Financial Services Compensation Scheme visit … Read more
The Milky Way has a ‘kink’ or warp in its disc that ‘wobbles like a spinning top’ and it could have been created by an ongoing collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy. Observations from the European Space Agency Gaia mission helped scientists from the Turin Astrophysical Observatory track the warp as it orbits the galactic … Read more
She has transformed into Queen Elizabeth II’s sister for the critically acclaimed Netflix drama. And Helena Bonham Carter put an interesting twist on Princess Margaret’s wardrobe as she stepped out in trainers to film series four of The Crown in London on Tuesday. The Oscar nominee, 53, was the spitting image of the Countess of … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:10 GMT, 14 November 2019 | Updated: 22:52 GMT, 14 November 2019 Secret Service by Tom Bradby (Corgi £7.99, 368 pp) Secret Service by Tom Bradby (Corgi £7.99, 368 pp) Tom Bradby’s day job as presenter of ITV’s News At Ten must have provided him … Read more
The night terrors came often but Harry Olmer remembers only one of his dreams. ‘I was standing facing my mother. We did not talk to each other, we just looked. There was a brick wall being built between us and it got higher and higher until… until I could no longer see her.’ The image … Read more