TV comedian Eddie Large left just £44,100 in his will when he died from coronavirus earlier this year Eddie Large died in April at the Southmead Hospital in Bristol from coronavirus According to the Sun, he left the entirety of his estate – £44,100 to his wife Patsy Large, who performed alongside Syd Little in … Read more
Pessimists die two years earlier than the average person – but being an optimist does not lead to a longer life, study finds Researchers compared more than 3,000 people and their scores on optimism-pessimism scales People with higher pessimistic scores were more likely to die two years earlier from issues such as cardiovascular disease Higher … Read more
Netflix announce The Witcher is set to get a prequel called Blood Origin set 1200 years earlier By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 19:37 BST, 27 July 2020 | Updated: 19:39 BST, 27 July 2020 Netflix announced on Monday their plans to release The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel series to their acclaimed TV drama. … Read more
Enforcing an earlier lockdown across the UK would ‘likely have saved’ the lives of London’s bus drivers who died from Covid-19, an independent study has found. The study, carried out by University College London (UCL), found the mortality rate for the capital’s male bus drivers aged between 20-64 was 3.5 times higher than men of … Read more
Archaeologists have rewritten the history books for when humans first arrived in the Americas, shifting the date of the initial migration 15,000 years back in time. Excavations in a cave in Mexico called Chiquihuite revealed evidence of human occupation dating back up to 27,000 years. As a result, the scientists suggest that people from North-East Asia … Read more
Earlier lockdown restrictions have been proven to slash the number of Covid-19 cases in a study of 149 countries. Researchers measured how numbers of Covid-19 cases changed over the course of the pandemic and whether they dropped in the days following strict rules. They looked at five physical distancing measures; closure of schools, workplaces and … Read more
Aboriginal Australians settled in the continent’s Riverland region 22,000 years earlier than previously thought, radiocarbon dating of ancient seafood remains reveals. The dated shell middens – remnants of ‘meals eaten long ago’ – capture a record of Aboriginal occupation that goes back 29,000 years in the Katarapko Riverland Floodplains, South Australia. They had to deal … Read more
The Queen and Prince Philip are expected to spend the summer at Balmoral after it was feared that guidelines on moving between England and Scotland might scupper the annual stay. The monarch, 94, and her husband, 99, are reportedly set to fly to the castle, in the Scottish highlands, where they may stay for up … Read more
A stunned eyewitness to the Reading terror attack was assaulted by suspect Khairi Saadallah in a bottle attack a year earlier. Sainsbury’s security guard Sydney McDonald, 65, was the victim in the court case that put Saadallah behind bars until just 16 days ago. Mr McDonald was on the scene in Forbury Gardens on Saturday when … Read more
Kobe Bryant made the life or death decision to move his fatal helicopter flight 45 minutes earlier – just hours before take off, bombshell crash investigation documents reveal. The NBA legend asked his personal assistant to reschedule the flight from 9.45am to 9am the night before the January 26 crash so he could watch an … Read more