The nation’s half-million care home residents face becoming the ‘abandoned victims’ of the coronavirus crisis, campaigners warned last night. The disease has already torn through dozens of care homes, leaving them looking like ‘war zones’ and cases are expected to explode in the next few days unless urgent action is taken. Now bosses are pleading … Read more
Terrifying moment that huge ‘gas’ explosion destroys house and leaves man, 55, injured, as witnesses describe ‘whole street shaking’ Huge ‘gas’ explosion destroyed a house and left a 55-year-old man injured today Police and firefighters were called to the home in Ravensthorpe, near Dewsbury Man was reportedly rushed to hospital with serious injuries from flying … Read more
Gas explosion in Lagos leaves at least 15 people dead and around 50 buildings destroyed, Nigerian authorities said 15 bodies have been recovered. Houses and lorries were torched in the blast The blast happened at around 8:00 am (0700 GMT) in the district of Abule Ado It was caused by a truck that ‘hit gas … Read more
The ‘biggest explosion since the Big Bang’ has been detected by astronomers and it comes from a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 390 million light years away. Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia used the new Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to study the blast in the distance galactic core. The extremely powerful eruption … Read more
Photographs of the day-to-day lives of allied airmen during the Second World War have been remastered and brought to life in stunning colour. Striking 80-year-old images show an American mechanic balancing himself on shells while loading a 500lb bomb mid air; tense RAF paratroopers bracing themselves in the body of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and … Read more