Britons appear to be heading out less despite the coronavirus lockdown rules being eased, with traffic congestion down during rush hour and fewer people going out to do shopping. Data from TomTom revealed congestion levels in the capital were at 20 per cent at 7am yesterday, down from 21 per cent at the same time … Read more
Feline ungrateful! Stranded cat gives lifeboat crewman the runaround as he tries to rescue it from rising river tide A black cat was stranded at the bottom of a 20ft wall with the Thames rising up A team from Chiswick RNLI tried to rescue the distressed animal from the bank The cat hissed and snarled … Read more
Quarantine can’t stop the Governator from getting in his fitness. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was spotted out enjoying a bike ride with two of his children – Patrick, 26, and Christina, 28, – on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, his eldest child, 30-year-old Katherine is set to welcome her first child with husband Chris … Read more
EastEnders EastEnders are reportedly set to go off air on June 16, having aired all their episodes before production shut down. An insider said talks about when the cast and crew will return are still ‘ongoing’. Charlotte Moore, the broadcaster’s director of content, said last month that EastEnders would be up and running again within … Read more
A well-off sea captain and his equestrian ex are locked in a divorce fight in court over a £10m fleet of ships. While they were together Captain Paul Anthony Crowther, 54, and his horse-loving wife Caroline lived a life of luxury in a sprawling multimillion-pound manor house in the East Sussex countryside with an illustrious … Read more
Gatwick Airport will reopen its north terminal and extend its operating hours from Monday. The West Sussex airport announced the measures as airlines scale up their flying programmes. EasyJet, Wizz Air and Ryanair are among the carriers whose passengers will use the north terminal from Monday. Since April 1, Gatwick has only opened its south … Read more
John Legend has opened up about how lockdown has made him and his wife Chrissy Teigen ‘stronger and brought us together’. During a quarantine Zoom concert, in which he played songs from his upcoming album Bigger Love, John, 41, spoke candidly about the effects of lockdown. The singer said: ‘We have spent long stretches of … Read more
Why are the kidneys of so many NYC coronavirus patients failing? Renal damage is twice as common among covid-sufferers in the city as elsewhere in the US, study finds Researchers looked at the first 1,000 coronavirus patients treated at a medical center in New York City from March 1 to April 5 Almost 34% of hospitalized … Read more
Vanderpump Rules stars Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni have been axed by Bravo after their past racist comments resurfaced. Stassi, 31, and Kristen, 37, have starred on the reality show since its inception in 2013 while Max and Brett were newcomers on the most recent season eight. Arguably one the most … Read more
The EU on Tuesday formally accused China and Russia of mounting targeted coronavirus disinformation campaigns to undermine European democracy, in documents seen by AFP. In a paper on what it called the ‘flood’ of misleading and inaccurate information proliferating around the pandemic, Brussels says Beijing and Moscow had set out to polarise debate and burnish … Read more
Met Police guarded the Winston Churchill statue from crowds of Black Lives Matters protesters who gathered this afternoon for George Floyd’s funeral – as police officers in Henley-on-Thames ‘take a knee’ during a demonstration. Around 200 protesters had gathered by the statue to Nelson Mandela on Parliament Square as Mr Floyd, an African-American who died after … Read more
Black Lives Matter activists are calling for the removal of 60 statues of slave owners and racists across Britain. Top of their target list is the statue of Cecil Rhodes and petitions also exist to remove the statue of slave-trading West India Docks founder Robert Milligan, and the statue of former Home Secretary Henry Dundas … Read more
She welcomed her first child last month with professional footballer ex-boyfriend, Danny Simpson. And now Ex On The Beach and The Challenge star Melissa Reeves has shared the first photos of her daughter’s face. The 26-year-old took to social media over the weekend to properly introduce her little one named Vienna Simpson Reeves. Baby girl: … Read more