Best energy tariffs: Ofgem price cap limit predicted to drop £85

Experts predict Ofgem will drop the price cap limit by £85 when it reveals the new level tomorrow. Currently, the price cap limit is £1,127 for those on standard variable tariffs and £1,164 for customers with prepayment meters. The new cost for both meters will be revealed tomorrow with expectations it will reduce to around … Read more

Coastal flooding predicted to rise by up to 50 per cent by 2100

Coastal flooding globally is set to rise by around 50 per cent due to climate change in the next 80 years, a new study predicts. UK and Australian researchers conducted climate change scenarios where carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere continue to rise rapidly.  They found the associated flooding, due to the melting of polar ice, … Read more

GCSE and A-Level results will be decided by statistical modelling NOT teacher’s predicted grades

GCSE and A-Level results will be decided by statistical modelling – NOT teacher’s predicted grades – in major government U-turn on exams Exam regulator Ofqual said statistical modelling will be used to calculate grades  Model will factor previous grades of pupils and former students at same school Ofqual said teachers’ predicted grades submitted in March … Read more

The spy next door: Sergei Skripal’s neighbour reveals how the double agent predicted his own death

The burgers were sizzling, and drinks and conversation flowing freely, at Ross and Mo Cassidy’s summer barbecue in the garden of their redbrick semi in Salisbury. Then, in a baritone Russian accent, their next-door neighbour made a pronouncement that sliced through the frivolity like a Cossack sabre. ‘You know, one day Putin is going to … Read more

Little House On The Prairie fans claim the show ‘PREDICTED’ the COVID-19 crisis

Little House On The Prairie fans claim the show ‘PREDICTED’ the COVID-19 crisis with their episodes called ‘Plague’ and ‘Quarantine’ By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 16:37 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 16:37 BST, 30 April 2020 Little House On The Prairie fans have claimed that the show ‘predicted’ the COVID-19 pandemic with its … Read more

Prostate cancer death rates predicted to fall this year by 9.5% on the 2015 figure, research shows

Prostate cancer death rates are predicted to fall this year by 9.5% on the 2015 figure because of better diagnosis and treatment, research shows Scientists predict prostate cancer deaths to be 9.5 per cent lower than in 2015 Researchers say improved diagnosis and interventions are behind the shift Around one in eight men in the UK … Read more

Einstein was right: Star orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole behaves as he predicted

A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more

Daily ‘smart thermometer’ data shows spike in fevers predicted first COVID-19 deaths in 41 states

Spikes in fevers across the US predicted deaths from the novel coronavirus in most states just days beforehand.   Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. Of the 47 states that have experienced deaths from COVID-19, the disease … Read more

Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus accused of having ‘patchy record’

Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus and prompted Boris Johnson to order lockdown accused of having ‘patchy record of modelling pandemics’ Professor Neil Ferguson, director at Imperial College, London, authored report He said even plans to slow the virus would result in around 250,000 deaths Rival academic Professor Michael Thrusfield accused his … Read more

Coronavirus is predicted to spread faster in New York than a bullet train, writes TOM LEONARD 

The streets are so dead now you can hear the ambulance sirens from a long way off. And you hear them more and more. Yesterday, one came for an old lady at the end of my block, a squad of masked medics milling around the stretcher as she was wheeled into an ambulance and away … Read more