TV personality Gail Porter, it must be said, has been through more than her fair share of setbacks. At the height of her fame she famously lost all her hair, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and briefly sectioned only a few years later. In 2009 she lost her mum to cancer. One night last … Read more
Now gyms could be turned into field hospitals: David Lloyd health club chain in talks with government to convert its largest centres into emergency medical facilities The chain is in talks with Government about converting ‘handful’ of its big gyms They will be emergency medical facilities to stop the NHS getting overwhelmed The clubs are … Read more
Lonely English countess reveals how her dream 10-year marriage to Russian Oligarch nicknamed ‘Putin’s Banker’ turned into a nightmare Cameras followed Alexandra Tolstoy, 45, and Sergei Pugachev, 57, for five years The marriage fell apart when Sergei got in trouble with the Russian government Sergei accuses Alexandra of stealing their children – which she strongly … Read more
A mother-of-two had half of her tongue and a chunk of her neck removed after a persistent mouth ulcer turned out to be cancer. Karen Liesching-Schroder, from Rochford, Essex, initially thought ‘it was nothing to worry about’ when she developed the sore on the right side of her tongue in 2014. But when the ulcer … Read more
Terrified British tourists and expats face ‘living on the streets’ as they remain stranded in India after their flights home were cancelled. A junior doctor turned current Miss England is one of thousands of Brits stranded in India has pleaded for help from the British government to get her home – so she can help … Read more
Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a ‘what if’ browse in an estate agent’s window and came home having bought a cottage. What she had fallen love with was part-cottage, part-cave, dug into the stone of an Italian cliff. Janet Ellis on Blue Peter in … Read more
New York City has been turned into a virtual ghost town as the coronavirus takes hold with the city’s residents listening to government’s advice to practice social distancing. Public spaces that are usually packed with people including thousands of tourists have been left deserted. With Broadway shows shuttered, Times Square appeared eerily quiet, while Grand Central Terminal … Read more
Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner £14.99 Rating: Way back in 1983, Graham Swift wrote the novel – Waterland – that made him famous, or at least almost famous, as he is the Invisible Man of English Letters, rarely signing books at literary festivals or holding forth on Newsnight. Waterland was about the way human … Read more
WHAT BOOK first turned comedian and writer Arthur Smith to reading? Arthur Smith is currently reading Sloot by the Irish writer Ian Macpherson He would take the Complete Works of Shakespeare to a desert island The Man Who Didn’t Wash His Dishes by Phyllis Krasilovsky first got him reading By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 GMT, … Read more
Homeless woman, 23, who turned her life around after starring in BBC documentary Love And Drugs On The Street is found hanged at home Paige Greenaway was found hanged at her flat in Brighton earlier this month Her mother Edell, 47, said the death had come as ‘a shock’ to the whole family Since TV … Read more