Eamonn Holmes has said his biggest achievement is ‘surviving’ the TV industry for the past 41 years. The TV veteran, 61, who started his career as a farming reporter on Ulster Television in 1979, said getting on the industry’s ‘conveyor belt’ was hard, but staying on it is much harder. He said on Eamonn Mallie: … Read more
Oldest surviving inhabitant from remote Scottish island that was abandoned in 1962 after once thriving community dwindled to just 12 celebrates turning 100 Jean Robertson, who now lives in Thurso, was born on island of Stroma in 1921 Said secret to longevity included ‘watching quiz shows and doing crosswords’ The abandoned island of Stroma is located … Read more
The last surviving male member of an indigenous Amazonian tribe in Brazil has died from coronavirus, leaving just four female members behind and ending his lineage. Aruká Juma, of the Juma tribe, died due to complications caused by Covid-19 on February 17 in a Brazilian hospital in Pôrto Velho, the capital of state of Rondônia. Juma … Read more
Netflix commissions new Australian drama series Surviving Summer about teenage surfers – as filming begins this month By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:00 GMT, 18 February 2021 | Updated: 00:55 GMT, 18 February 2021 Netflix’s new drama Surviving Summer is set to begin production in Australia later this month. The 10-episode series … Read more
One of the last remaining women code-breakers at the heart of the D-Day secrets campaign at Bletchley Park has died aged 94. Margaret Kelly was only 18 when in 1944 she was posted to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War. She joined a top secret Nazi code-breaking … Read more
108-year-old woman is given Covid-19 vaccine in Italy, months after surviving coronavirus infection Fatima Negrini, 108, is one of the oldest people in world to get Covid-19 vaccine Fatima, who turns 109 in June, received the jab at her care home in Milan, Italy She survived coronavirus last year and at the time said: ‘God … Read more
Britain’s last surviving female World War Two pilot has dies aged 103 decades after she flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Hellcats. Eleanor Wadsworth died at her home in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk last month, reported The Sun. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) trainee pilot scheme after war broke out in 1939. Born in … Read more
Daily yoga sessions via Zoom, spare time spent spring cleaning and cracking open an expensive bottle of wine – Sami Lukis shares her tips for surviving Brisbane’s latest lockdown By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 14:45 GMT, 8 January 2021 | Updated: 14:49 GMT, 8 January 2021 Brisbane residents are set to enter … Read more
BARRY GIBB & FRIENDS: Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. I (EMI) Rating: Verdict: Classics with a country twist Elvis Costello once said a great song should be robust enough to be sung in different styles, whether that’s on an acoustic guitar or with all the bells and whistles of an orchestra. It’s a theory … Read more
Viewers were left ‘heartbroken’ as a nurse talked to a man 62-year-old man who died from coronavirus after beating cancer ‘out of respect’ as he cleaned his body. Last night’s episode of Channel 4’s Surviving Covid followed the stories of four patients at London’s King’s College Hospital who had been struck down by Covid-19 – … Read more