A severe milk allergy left a baby screaming in agony as eczema covered 98 per cent of his body, his mother has revealed. Charlotte Smallwood, 25, from Romford in Essex, claimed doctors refused to diagnose a cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA) and instead offered her son Arthur treatments for colic and acid reflux. It took … Read more
Sasha Baron-Cohen moved Down Under with his Australian wife Isla Fisher last year. The pair have settled into their new home, blending in with the locals as they enjoyed a day out with their children in Sydney on Sunday. The Borat star, 49, and his Wedding Crashers actress wife, 45, headed out to Milk Beach in the … Read more
Allergies to cow’s milk are the most common cause of fatal reactions in children and is ‘increasingly’ affecting adults, a new study has found. While the numbers are small, cow’s milk was responsible for 26% of food allergy deaths in school-aged children, experts said. It comes as research found that admissions to hospital for severe … Read more
‘Superwoman’ mother-of-three who pushed dairy lorry up snowy hill gets a year’s free supply of milk as reward Charlene Leslie, 33, was filmed pushing the massive Grahams milk lorry up a hill Supermarket worker was heading to the shops when she saw the Grahams lorry Graham’s has gifted Charlene, from Cowdenbeath, a year of free … Read more
A brazen thief was caught on camera swiping freshly-delivered groceries from outside a family’s front door. The doorbell-cam footage was recorded at 4.25am on a residential street in Crawley, West Sussex. Mother-of-two Josie Huggins, 32, first wondered if it had been some kind of misguided prank. After knocking on neighbour’s doors and collecting CCTV from … Read more
A supermum-of-16 has offered a glimpse into what it’s really like to quickly ‘pop to the shops for bread and milk’ for her growing family. Jeni Bonell and her husband Ray, from Queensland, have a super-sized family consisting of nine sons and seven daughters, aged between six and 31. The 51-year-old mother usually does on … Read more
Chinese noblemen were using cosmetics made from animal fat and cave ‘milk’ on their faces some 2,700 years ago, a study has reported. Experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences excavated a nobleman’s tomb — filled with assorted grave goods — at the Liujiawa site in northern China. During the so-called ‘Spring and Autumn’ period (771–476 … Read more
Cadbury is moving production of Dairy Milk chocolate bars out of Europe and back to the UK following a multi-million pound deal. The iconic British brand was bought by the American company Mondelēz International – previously Kraft Foods – in 2010, which also produces Philadelphia cheese, Terry’s Chocolate Orange and Toblerone. Shortly after the controversial … Read more
These stunning photos show the harsh reality of life for Mongolian nomads who live on the country’s vast steppe. Hundreds of nomads live in the 340,000 square miles of open grassland, where temperatures regularly drop to -40C (-40F), and subsist off their herds of animals, eating a diet of only milk and meat. Vegetables are … Read more
Welsh police threatened to fine customers who went to a farm shop to buy their milk, telling them they should get it from a supermarket instead. Officers turned people away from a milk vending machine set up in Berthengam, near Holywell in Flintshire, Wales, after a dairy farm noticed supermarkets struggled to meet the demand for … Read more