Big banks refusing to disclose how they are helping firms in Covid-19 pandemic By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 22 April 2020 A poll found that Lloyds (run by Antonio Horta-Osorio) and Barclays were the least helpful banks Some of Britain’s biggest banks are … Read more
‘They’re feeling a bit under pressure’: Nick Knowles reveals he is helping Captain Tom Moore and his family with home security after war veteran raised £27 million for the NHS By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 12:18 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 12:19 BST, 22 April 2020 Nick Knowles is putting his practical skills … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
British tech start-up helping to train front-line staff at NHS’s new emergency hospital in London to detect coronavirus By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 A British tech start-up is helping to train front-line staff at the NHS’s new emergency hospital in … Read more
Maps of fever readings from across the country seem to indicate that strict social distancing measures may be helping reduce cases of the novel coronavirus. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has uploaded data from hundreds of thousands of smart thermometers connected to the Internet. The firm can’t track the spread of … Read more
Prostate cancer is the growth of tumours in the prostate gland. Only men have a prostate, which is a walnut-sized gland between the rectum and the penis which creates a fluid to be mixed with sperm to create semen. How many people does it kill? More than 11,800 men a year – or one every … Read more
Retired general who ‘helped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro smuggle 250 TONS of cocaine into the US every year’ is arrested Retired Venezuelan army general Cliver Alcalá was charged with conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and associated firearms He allegedly helped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ship 250 tons of cocaine a year into the … Read more
Notorious drugs lord Pablo Escobar could be inadvertently helping save hippos from extinction, from beyond the grave. When the cocaine kingpin was shot dead in late 1993, four hippos he brought to his private estate in Colombia were left to roam. Since then, their numbers have grown to an estimated 80 to 100 and the … Read more
Woman designs postcard aimed at helping people to look after their neighbours if they are self-isolating over coronavirus Becky Wass, from Falmouth, Cornwall, came up with idea to ‘spread kindness’ Postcard designed to help those self-isolating and unable to go out to the shops Also offers help of picking up urgent supplies or simply ‘a … Read more
Marie Farmer (pictured) started a nutrition app after challenges with weaning her autistic son, August With only a handful pledges two weeks into her online crowdfunding appeal, Marie Farmer knew she had to resort to desperate measures to meet her £5,000 fundraising target. Even though she was on holiday, she knew she had to start … Read more