The doctor looked at me solemnly, having listened to my chest and peered at the back of my throat. ‘You really shouldn’t have come here today,’ he said. ‘Sorry, what?’ I replied. ‘With everything that’s going on, it wasn’t sensible to come here. Haven’t you thought that you might have this new virus?’ The doctor … Read more
The small but persistent cough I had after flying from Miami via Montreal back to London wasn’t anything serious: just a typical post-flight, low level bug. Wasn’t it? This was at the time when the official health advice was if you have a cough AND a temperature, then you COULD have the Covid-19 virus. But … Read more
An 108-year-old great-grandmother is believed to be the oldest person to die from the coronavirus in the UK. Hilda Churchill survived two world wars and the Spanish flu but tragically passed away on Saturday – less than a day after she tested positive for the virus. She had been in isolation at her care home in … Read more
A mother who survived a horrific car crash is now pregnant with twins – despite being told her injuries had left her infertile. Danielle Bartley-Mould, from Yorkshire, broke her neck and spine after the accident in 2014, and was in a coma for 16 days. Doctors tried to save the 38-year-old’s arm, but when she … Read more
The night terrors came often but Harry Olmer remembers only one of his dreams. ‘I was standing facing my mother. We did not talk to each other, we just looked. There was a brick wall being built between us and it got higher and higher until… until I could no longer see her.’ The image … Read more
Human populations in India SURVIVED the Toba ‘super-eruption’ 74,000 years ago that plunged the Earth into a decade-long ‘volcanic winter’ and led to the near-extinction of our species Experts thought humans outside Africa may not have survived Toba event Humans are known to have migrated out of Africa into Eurasia before this time Researchers have … Read more