DJ and broadcaster Mike Read talks recalls his travel adventures

Checking in… Mike Read: The DJ and broadcaster talks about playing with The Jolly Boys in Jamaica and a frightening flight to Brussels By Richard Webber For The Daily Mail Published: 09:54 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 10:19 BST, 23 May 2020 DJ and broadcaster Mike Read This week DJ and broadcaster Mike Read … Read more

Reese Witherspoon’s son, Tennessee, seven, buries his head when she tries to read him a book

Reese Witherspoon’s son Tennessee, seven, buries his head when she tries to read him a book: ‘Story time is going very well today’ By Annita Katee For Dailymail.com Published: 19:45 BST, 4 May 2020 | Updated: 20:35 BST, 4 May 2020 She has been enjoying extra bonding time with her youngest son Tennessee, aged seven, … Read more

Viewers moved to tears as Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan read out healthcare workers killed by Covid

More than 90 frontline NHS workers are confirmed to have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Although Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that 78 NHS workers had died, this is only a partial picture. Tributes from local NHS trusts and loved ones have confirmed the deaths of 94 people … Read more

College student is shocked that her professor can read her ‘private’ conversations on Zoom

An American college student was horrified to learn — too late — that her professor can read all of the ‘private’ messages she sends on Zoom. The young woman, Faith, has been trading casual messages — with some profanity — with other students, thinking that that the words were kept between them. But when she … Read more

Detective Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read who put the Kray twins behind bars died from coronavirus, say family

The detective Len ‘Nipper’ Read who put the infamous Kray twins away has died of coronavirus at the age of 95, his family say. The Met legend died yesterday, ten days after catching the virus while he was in hospital with a foot infection, according to a family member. Read, who left school at the … Read more

Therapist, 24, has to relearn how to walk, talk, read and write again after car crash

A therapist has had to relearn how to walk, talk, read and write after a horror car crash left her with a host of brain injuries that doctors failed to spot. Kaitlyn McInerney from Albany, New York, smashed into a telephone pole after skidding on ice on her way to work in January 2017. When … Read more

Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read who put the Kray twins behind bars has died

Scotland Yard detective Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read who famously put the notorious Kray twins behind bars dies aged 95 Read who was a Detective Superintendent in the Met Police died this morning A statement by the Met police released after Read’s death called him a legend  East end mobsters the Krays were arrested in May 1968 … Read more

Keep laughing and read on!  our pick of the most riotously funny stories ever written 

What we all need in unsettling times like this is a good laugh. And in this cracking collection of comic novels you’ll find the dry, ironic wit of Jane Austen and her meddling heroine Emma; the knife-sharp comedy of Kingsley Amis and his hapless hero Jim Dixon; the eccentric absurdity of the Starkadders in Cold … Read more

Fran Drescher set to reunite with the cast of The Nanny for digital table read of the show’s pilot

Fran Drescher set to reunite with the cast of The Nanny for digital table read of the show’s pilot episode By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 00:34 BST, 1 April 2020 | Updated: 00:35 BST, 1 April 2020 The cast of The Nanny are reuniting for a virtual version of their beloved 90s sitcom. Star … Read more

The greatest Beatles album you have ever READ! CRAIG BROWN’s fresh take on the Fab Four

Hard to believe, but next month sees the 50th anniversary of the day The Beatles broke up.  The four of them had been together for under eight years, Ringo having joined John, Paul and George in the summer of 1962.  Yet as President Obama noted when presenting Sir Paul McCartney with an award at the … Read more