Price of homes soars by £14k in six months but experts fear it could fade as stamp duty holiday ends

Price of a home soars by £14k in just six months… but experts fear boom could fade away once stamp duty holiday ends Average price of a home in the UK jumped to record £252,211 at the end of 2020 Market was ‘turbocharged’ by Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday  Biggest regional annual rise was … Read more

Hopes for Tory pledge of every UK home getting super-fast broadband by 2025 fade

Doubts over the Government’s ambitious pledge on gigabit-capable broadband deepened on Tuesday after the minister responsible for its roll-out failed to say how confident he felt about making the 2025 target. Full-fibre and gigabit-capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025 was a key Conservative manifesto pledge in the 2019 general … Read more

COVID-19: antibodies in the blood of patients fade rapidly after symptoms subside, study finds

COVID-19 antibodies in the blood of patients fade rapidly after symptoms subside, study finds — leaving around a two-week window of opportunity for plasma transfusions By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 11:00 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 11:00 BST, 16 October 2020 Antibodies made by the body to fight COVID-19 — the transfusion of … Read more

Coronavirus antibodies from blood plasma donations start to fade three months after symptoms start

Coronavirus antibodies in blood plasma donations fade rapidly after symptoms first appear, a new study suggests. Researchers followed a small group of recovered COVID-19 patients who donated their blood and found all of them showed decreases in antibodies after three months. What’s more, just three weeks later, levels for half of the detectable antibodies fell … Read more

PC Harper’s widow Lissie won’t ‘fade away quietly’ as she fights for tough sentences for 999 killers

The widow of hero PC Andrew Harper says she ‘won’t fade away quietly into the background’ as she fights for tougher sentences for 999 killers under ‘Andrew’s Law’. Lissie Harper, 29, had been married to Andrew, 28, for four weeks before he was killed on duty by thieves.  She said that on the day her … Read more

Chris Sebastian admits The Voice has a ‘track record’ of producing singers who fade into obscurity

The Voice winner Chris Sebastian admits the show has a ‘track record’ of producing singers who fade into obscurity as he vows to ‘keep a level head’ and ‘release a lot of music’ By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 09:03 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 09:06 BST, 20 July 2020 Chris Sebastian … Read more

China set for V-shaped recovery but hopes for the same in Britain fade

China on track for ‘V-shaped’ recovery, but hopes Britain’s economy will come ‘roaring back’ fade By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 July 2020 China’s economy is on track for a ‘V-shaped’ recovery as hopes for a rapid rebound in Britain fade. Official figures … Read more

Moisture is causing colours of The Scream to fade, study claims

Moisture in the air is triggering the degradation of the 20th century masterpiece The Scream by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, scientists say. An international team used the world’s biggest X-ray to analyse paint micro-flakes from The Scream, which is kept in the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. Cadmium sulphide, used as a pigment in the … Read more