Sensor fitted mouth piece lets user control a joystick with their TONGUE to play video games

Sensor fitted mouth piece lets user control a joystick with their TONGUE to move objects on a computer screen  [In] Brace is a plastic mouth piece fitted with sensors and a joystick Users place a transmitter behind their ear and can control  objects on a screen The device could be used to help those with … Read more

One in five of us get so drunk they feel out of control at least once a month, study suggests

One in five of us get so drunk they feel out of control at least once a month, study suggests Adults consume at least twice the daily guidelines of alcohol, a study suggests Research found one in five adults get so drunk they feel out of control monthly The Global Drug Survey analysed responses from … Read more

‘I had no control over myself’: Amanda Holden emotionally discusses her son’s stillbirth

Amanda Holden has recalled the devastating moment she was told there was no heartbeat when she was pregnant with her son Theo.  The TV presenter, 49, had a stillbirth in 2011 and discussed the outstanding care she was given by medical staff in the BBC’s Dear NHS Superstars special. Speaking on a video link, Amanda … Read more

Coronavirus UK: ‘SAGE and COBRA no longer control decisions’

Matt Hancock today confirmed Number 10’s scientific advisory panel SAGE has been downgraded and the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is going to take over the UK’s coronavirus response.  The independent body has taken a backseat now that Covid-19 is a ‘semi-permanent’ problem and not an emergency like it was during the darkest days of the … Read more

Matt Hancock says SAGE and COBRA meetings no longer control government decisions

Matt Hancock announces further plans to downgrade SAGE by confirming the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is taking over Britain’s coronavirus response – as he dismisses plans to reform Public Health England before winter The Health Secretary would not put a date on when the last time COBRA met MPs looked concerned that the emergency committee … Read more

Julian Lewis accuses PM of ‘improper’ bid to seize control of security watchdog

The new chair of Parliament’s intelligence watchdog today accused Boris Johnson of an ‘improper’ bid to seize control after the PM’s favoured candidate was outflanked in a vote. Julian Lewis hit out after No10 kicked him out of the Tory party in revenge for his dramatic ambush of Chris Grayling last night, which saw him … Read more

Two elderly men stabbed in NYC subway attack as NY sheriff says ‘We’re starting to lose control’

Two elderly men were stabbed with scissors on the New York City subway last week, as crime surges in the city and a Long Island sheriff warned the city authorities were ‘starting to lose control’.  Shootings last month in New York City were up 130 per cent year on year – from 89 shootings last … Read more

PM says coronavirus is ‘increasingly under control’ ahead of new ‘one-metre plus’ rule

Boris Johnson insisted coronavirus is ‘increasingly under control’ today as he prepares to unveil a new ‘one metre plus’ rule within days and give Britons the green light for holidays and haircuts. The PM said there is ‘not much more to wait now’ for movement on lockdown as he looks certain to halve the social … Read more

Paddy McGuinness cheats death after losing control of supercar while filming Top Gear

Paddy McGuiness cheated death after surviving a crash when he lost control of his supercar while filming Top Gear on Tuesday. The presenter, 46, was driving a £250k 1990 Lamborghini Diablo for the BBC show in North Yorkshire when he skidded on oil at a slight curve in the road before crashing. Paramedics and police crew … Read more

Part of China’s Great Wall was built to control nomadic people, study says

‘Genghis Khan’s Wall’ in Mongolia was built to control the movements of nomadic populations, contrary to common belief, a new study claims.  Archaeologists have conducted the first systematic survey of ‘The Northern Line’ – part of The Great Wall that’s located outside China. It has long been believed that this particular section of the Great … Read more