Police searching for missing British hiker Esther Dingley find bones near site of last contact

Police searching for missing hiker Esther Dingley have found bones near the site where she last made contact with her boyfriend in November.  French police confirmed remains had been found at Port de la Glere but said it would take ‘several days or even weeks’ before they were properly analysed and any results obtained.  A … Read more

Married At First Sight’s Melissa denies wearing blue contact lenses for Bryce

Married At First Sight’s Melissa Rawson has responded to recent claims that she’s started wearing blue contact lenses to please boyfriend Bryce Ruthven. The sheepish bride memorably broke down in tears on the recent season of MAFS after Bryce told her that he’d prefer a bride with blue eyes instead of the emerald green peepers … Read more

Schapelle Corby reveals how Dancing With The Stars triggered her fear of ‘body contact’

‘I don’t like people touching me’: Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby reveals how Dancing With The Stars triggered her fear of ‘body contact’ By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:22 BST, 12 April 2021 | Updated: 23:22 BST, 12 April 2021 Schapelle Corby impressed the judges and viewers alike on Sunday night, when … Read more

‘Every day is a nightmare’: Mother of missing Richard Okorogheye, 19, urges him to make contact

The mother of missing 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye has said her life is a ‘complete nightmare’ in the wake of her son’s disappearance two weeks ago. Mr Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen by his family when he left home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London at 8.30pm on Monday March … Read more

Pupil attendance drops as more self-isolate due to possible contact with Covid-19 case

The proportion of pupils attending schools in England last week dropped as more had to self-isolate, government data suggests. The Department for Education estimates 3.3 per cent of all pupils on roll, up to 264,000, did not attend school for Covid-19-related reasons on March 25, up from 2.5 per cent on March 18. The data … Read more

Gold dust in your contact lenses could help colour blindness, research shows 

Contact lenses made with millions of gold nanoparticles, no bigger than a speck of dust, could combat a common type of colour blindness. These ‘gold dust’ particles filter out certain wavelengths of light, so the brain can distinguish between different colours, particularly reds and greens, more easily. Around one in 12 men and one in … Read more

Wearing contact lenses in the shower raises risk of cornea infection up to SEVEN-fold

Wearing contact lenses in the shower can increase your risk of developing a painful sight-threatening infection up to SEVEN-fold, study warns The habits of 78 contact lens wearers were analysed by researchers from the UK Of these, 37 had previously developed contact lens-related microbial keratitis The risk of infection increased with the frequency of showering, the … Read more

Up to 8,000 contact tracers are to be axed by Test and Trace

Up to 8,000 contact tracers are to be axed by Test and Trace because there are too few coronavirus cases being transferred to the system. The cut was revealed in a leaked internal email sent to the 22,000-strong workforce, which said the service needed to de-escalate from its winter high. Emma Moore, a senior T&T … Read more

Health: Colour blindness-correcting CONTACT LENSES use gold nanoparticles to filter light

Forget rose tinted glasses! Scientists have developed colour blindness-correcting CONTACT LENSES that use gold nanoparticles to filter light Certain forms of colour-blindness can make reds and greens hard to distinguish Red-tinted glasses can help with this, but they can’t correct other vision issues Experts have been experimenting with special dyed contact lenses instead But prototypes have … Read more

CDC did not contact trace flights with first cases of UK and Brazil variant

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted it did not perform contact tracing on flights that some of the earliest patients with the UK and Brazil coronavirus variants were on. In one weekly report, the federal health agency discussed a patient who traveled to the UK and came back infected with the … Read more