ASK TONY: Thames Water’s £272 lockdown bill was a blind guess

We received a bill from Thames Water for £272.33 for the six months to July 2020. This was more than double our highest previous bill. I called Thames Water on August 4 and explained I couldn’t see the meter as it was 3 ft below pavement level and covered by an ants’ nest! The call … Read more

ASK TONY: Thames Water’s £272 lockdown bill was a blind guess

We received a bill from Thames Water for £272.33 for the six months to July 2020. This was more than double our highest previous bill. I called Thames Water on August 4 and explained I couldn’t see the meter as it was 3 ft below pavement level and covered by an ants’ nest! The call … Read more

Cadbury’s new Mini Egg Easter Egg named 2021’s must-have treat in Good Housekeeping blind taste test

Cadbury’s new Mini Egg Easter Egg is named 2021’s must-have chocolate treat in Good Housekeeping’s blind taste test – while Aldi pips M&S to win best supermarket hot cross buns The Good Housekeeping Institute has revealed the results of its blind taste test  Cadbury Mini Eggs Easter Egg, £12 for 507g was chosen as the … Read more

Dognapper tries to steal guide dog from blind student, 23, while she walks with white stick in park

Dognapper tries to steal guide dog from blind student, 23, while she walks with white stick in park Maisy McAdam was walking in a Hampshire park with her guide dog Willow A man approached and tried to put the dog on his lead thinking she wouldn’t see Maisy, who is partially sighted, heard him and … Read more

Gwen Stefani’s bad cell connection leads to awkward blind date with Blake Shelton in Super Bowl ad

Gwen Stefani said yes back in October, when The Voice costar Blake Shelton popped the question. And the three-time Grammy winner recently gave a glimpse at their love story, while planning their upcoming nuptials. She didn’t appear to be in love at first sight with her country crooner fiancé, as their fellow Voice coach Adam Levine … Read more

Ministers ‘flying blind’ on migrant statistics because monitoring has ‘fallen apart’ during pandemic

Ministers are ‘flying blind’ on migrant statistics because monitoring how many foreigners are travelling to and from Britain has ‘fallen apart’ during Covid-19 pandemic Academics say there is no reliable data on how many migrants arrived last year  They also noted that an extra 1.25million people had ‘appeared’ in one survey Director of the Migration … Read more

I Love A Mama’s Boy! Scheming mother ambushes son with blind date in front of ‘shaking’ girlfriend

A scheming mother ambushes her son with a blind date in front of his ‘shaking’ girlfriend on I Love A Mama’s Boy!   After a disastrous attempt to get his Korean-born girlfriend Emily and mother Laila to spend time together, tonight’s episode of the show focuses on 30-year-old Shekeb’s attempts to reconcile with his mother after storming … Read more

Heartbreaking moment Clarence the blind rescue koala sniffs out leaves in Port Stephens, NSW

Heartbreaking moment Clarence the blind rescue koala sniffs out leaves to eat after having his eyes removed Clarence the koala uses his heightened sense of smell to source out food He reportedly fell and it soon became apparent that he was sight impaired Clarence is cared for at a koala sanctuary in Port Stephens, north of … Read more

Legally blind man regains sight following the first successful artificial cornea treatment

Jamal Furani, 78, lost his sight 10 years ago due to corneal disease, but thanks for modern science, the Israeli man is able to see once again. Furani received an artificial cornea implant that integrated directly into the eyewall and following the one-hour surgery, he was able to recognize family members and read numbers on … Read more

Liverpool v Man United was unwatchable for colour blind viewers because the kits clashed

The most-watched Premier League game in British history between Liverpool and Manchester United was actually un-watchable for hundreds of thousands of viewers, who are colour blind. Almost five million football fans tuned in, but an estimated 300,000 of them struggled to tell one team from the other. Supporters who experience ‘colour vision deficiency’ were horrified … Read more