Jackass star Bam Margera was briefly hospitalized over the weekend to treat a staph infection. The 41-year-old took to Instagram to share his ailment with fans – which he said ‘f**king hurts’ – and to thank a friend for taking him to the emergency room in a post early Monday morning. Bam’s infection comes after … Read more
Top scientists have warned there is a ‘troubling lack of evidence’ that face masks prevent Covid-19 infection, after a major study in Denmark found they don’t protect people who wear them. Governments around the world — including the UK — have made it mandatory to wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, despite a … Read more
R. Kelly’s attorneys say security video shows prison guards failed to stop the singer from being beaten by a fellow inmate inside Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. According to a motion filed Friday, Kelly, 53, is suffering ‘significant physical and psychological injuries’ stemming from the August attack, which his lawyers claim could have been ‘encouraged’ by … Read more
Libby Watt was enjoying a lazy Saturday morning in front of the TV when a buzz on her phone alerted her to a message. Not giving the unfamiliar number a second thought, she opened it. But the content was more than surprising, given she is happily living with her long-term partner. It went something like … Read more
La’Darius Marshall, who stared in the Netflix docu-series Cheer, is ‘safe at home’ with family after sharing a troubling Instagram post. The 22-year-old intimated that he may harm himself, writing that he was a ‘broken kid who has lost his fight’ and had ‘given up,’ in the now-deleted social media message shared on Thursday. After … Read more
‘A woman from a big household who tested POSITIVE for coronavirus told me to hurry up as she needed to go to work’: Frontline test and trace worker reveals one mother’s troubling approach to self-isolation An NHS caseworker describes how the system continues to face problems In the third week they have rarely experienced such … Read more
The package landed on Courtney Barnes’s mat on May 1. Inside, were two packets of pills, a strip of the painkiller codeine, a pregnancy test and an instruction leaflet — the basic kit for a so-called ‘DIY’ abortion. Under emergency legislation quietly passed in March in response to the pandemic, women are no longer required … Read more
Don’t be fooled by the mild-mannered delivery and shambling, cuddly teddy-bear appearance of the Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore. Whether he’s skewering George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror’, the cynicism of America’s gun lobby or railing against the evils of capitalism in general, he’s a Left-wing rabblerouser who knows better than anyone in the film … Read more
Noughts + Crosses Rating: Villages By The Sea Rating: Every generation remakes Romeo And Juliet in its own image. In the Fifties there was West Side Story, with its fabulous music and whirling petticoats, set against a backdrop of gang violence in New York. The Nineties gave us Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic, … Read more