The symptoms crept up on me. I’d had chest pain for a week — when I lifted heavy pots or sacks of soil from the garden centre or climbed the stairs to the children’s rooms. Ironically perhaps, given our hypersensitivity to such things right now, it felt like a bronchial infection — a sharp pain … Read more
Coronavirus cases that set off Washington’s epidemic did not arrive until three weeks after the first case was confirmed on January 21, study finds A Washington man was identified as the first US coronavirus case on January 21 The US restricted any non-US citizen from traveling into the US from China on February 2 But … Read more
NASA has said the SpaceX launch that was scheduled for last night in Florida could have triggered a dangerous lightning strike had it gone ahead. Looming rain and thunderstorms meant that the first launch of astronauts from US soil in nine years had to be aborted less than 17 minutes before lift-off. NASA astronauts Robert … Read more
Heavy rainfall caused the massive eruption of the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii two years ago by softening the rock plugging its crater, according to a new study. US researchers say the dramatic eruption in 2018, which destroyed hundreds of homes, was due to wet volcanic rock, which cracks easily under pressure. Local rainfall patterns contributed … Read more
Gregg Wallace has revealed his fears for his Italian family amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The MasterChef judge, 55, appeared on Loose Women on Monday alongside co-star John Torode, 54, in order to discuss the new series of the show, but the conversation naturally turned toward the worrying spread of the COVID-19 virus. Gregg, whose 33-year-old wife … Read more
A mother has revealed how her baby girl nearly died twice after a pollen allergy triggered life-threatening asthma attacks. Lottie Provis was found blue, lifeless and choking on her own vomit in her cot by her parents Kate, 26, and Steve, 31, when she was 18 months old in May 2015. She was given hours … Read more