Pills to lower blood pressure can prevent heart attacks even in HEALTHY people

Pills to lower blood pressure can prevent heart attacks even in HEALTHY people and millions more should take the drugs, study claims Oxford University researchers looked at data from more than 350,000 patients Found lowering levels from a healthy starting point slashed risk of heart disease Currently, treatment is only given to people with extremely … Read more

Number of heart attacks detected and treated fell by 40 per cent during Covid-19 pandemic

Heart attacks diagnosis rates fell by 40 per cent during the Covid-19 pandemic, a study claims. Figures also show the number of patients attending two NHS cardiology units for serious heart problems halved during lockdown.  People were still suffering heart attacks during lockdown but they were not going to hospital because they feared catching Covid-19 … Read more

Horrifying moment man attacks woman, 46, on her way to work in Brooklyn

Horrifying moment man attacks woman, 46, on her way to work in Brooklyn, slams her to the ground, tries to pull off her pants and beats her into coma NYPD is looking for a man seen in video punching a woman laying on the sidewalk in Williamsburg on Tuesday  Unnamed suspect is accused of ambushing … Read more

Labour leader Keir Starmer attacks ‘confusion and incompetence’ from government over exams fiasco

Keir Starmer today warned plans for children to return to classrooms in September could be at ‘serious risk’ due to the government’s chaotic handling of exam results.  The Labour leader said Downing Street had wasted two weeks which could have been spent preparing for the new school year ‘clearing up a mess of the government’s … Read more

The Special Relationship freezes: Trump’s secretary of state attacks UK over Iran sanctions block

One of Donald Trump’s most senior officials has launched a furious attack on Britain accusing it of ‘siding with ayatollahs’ after it helped block tough new sanctions against Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attacked the UK along with Germany and France after they all refused to back an indefinite extension of an arms embargo … Read more

Night of bloodshed in London as two men are stabbed to death in separate attacks within 12 hours

Night of bloodshed in London as two men are stabbed to death in separate attacks over 12 hours – as murder toll in capital rises to 80 so far this year Officers at the scene in Plumstead after a man was found with fatal stab injuries A police cordon is currently in place and enquiries … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn attacks LABOUR MPs for showing him ‘a great deal of hostility’ as party leader

Jeremy Corbyn attacks LABOUR MPs for showing him ‘a great deal of hostility’ when he was party leader as he complains he only has about 15 ‘close political friends’ in the Commons Mr Corbyn made the remark in an interview with a left-wing politics podcast He was replaced by Keir Starmer in April after humiliation … Read more

George Michael’s ex Fadi Fawaz ‘is arrested over string of hammer attacks on cars in east London’

George Michael’s ex Fadi Fawaz ‘is arrested over string of hammer attacks on parked cars in east London’ Fadi Fawaz, 47, arrested in Bethnal Green, London, according to reports today The Sun reports that arrest was made amid a police probe into criminal damage Mercedes, BMW and a Toyota were all struck with a hammer … Read more

Knifeman attacks three police officers leaving them all in hospital

Knifeman attacks three police officers leaving them all in hospital after ‘smashing up cars with a metal pole’ outside tower block Incident happened around 4.25am on Saturday in Harpurhey, Manchester It is understood a policewoman first attempted to tackle the man and tase him Her male colleague then tried to step in and help but … Read more

What aircraft gunner Paul Newman said after nuclear attacks on Japan ended the war 75 years ago

The most terrible conflict in human history ended 75 years ago today with the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. In a radio address to his nation, Emperor Hirohito announced his decision to accept the Potsdam Declaration bringing World War II to a close — at an estimated cost of up to 60 million … Read more