Was the drug-fuelled ‘swinging 60s’ a lie? More than half of revellers claim to be high on psychedelics after taking fake pills, scientists find Researchers gave 33 participants a placebo that they said was a psychedelic They then monitored them in a simulated drug party setting for four hours At the end, 61 per cent … Read more
Two High Street chains with 4,500 staff collapse as they become latest victims of coronavirus crisis By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 30 March 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 30 March 2020 Two High Street chains with 4,500 staff collapsed yesterday as they became the latest victims of the coronavirus crisis. … Read more
Horror on the high street as Marks & Spencer faces 60% slump By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 22:55 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:55 BST, 28 March 2020 The devastating blow to retailers from mass store closures has been laid bare in a report by Goldman Sachs predicting a huge sales slump … Read more
Prostate deaths hit record high of 12,000 after soaring by more than a quarter in less than 20 years – while the breast cancer toll dropped by 1,600 in the same period Ageing population is main reason older men are more likely to develop disease Delays in diagnosing prostate cancer mean it’s spotted when it’s … Read more
Scores of Britain’s best-known high street food and drink chains will go bust by the end of April unless banks provide immediate finance By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:56 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:56 BST, 28 March 2020 Scores of Britain’s best-known high street food and drink chains will go … Read more
France was experiencing an ‘extremely high surge’ in Coronavirus cases this weekend – as the Channel Tunnel remained open and high-speed trains continued to travel between Paris and London. French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Friday night said the ‘epidemic wave’ was still sweeping his country with ‘remarkable strength’ and that the crisis would deepen.’ Mr … Read more
Japan Airlines ditches compulsory high heels and skirts for its 6,000 female cabin crew after equality campaign by feminists Feminist campaigners gathered 32,000 signatures to change the uniform rules From next month, female cabin crew can wear trousers and flat shoes at work The airline said the new rules will promote a ‘diverse working environment’ … Read more
Extra vitamin D may slow the growth of colorectal cancer, a new study suggests. On average, cancer stopped in its tracks for 13 months for patients on the highest dose of the vitamin supplement (4,000 IU), and for 11 months for those on the over-the-counter dose. Rates of colorectal cancer have been soaring in recent … Read more
Some coronavirus tests could return false-positive results for 47 percent of samples, a study abstract from China suggests. ‘In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the ‘asymptomatic infected individuals’ reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives, wrote the authors from Jiaotong University in Xi’an, … Read more
Rishi Sunak last night hinted that future taxes will have to rise to pay for the unprecedented economic bailouts for business, workers and the self-employed. Unveiling a huge rescue package for Britain’s army of self-employed workers, the Chancellor said he had set aside economic orthodoxy to deal with the national emergency, but warned that would … Read more