How to give your pension a post-coronavirus check up

You’ve almost certainly had more pressing things on your mind than your pension over the last five-and-a-half months. But as summer turns to September and the government prepares to turn off the furlough taps and withdraw its other coronavirus support schemes – and mortgage and credit card payment holidays come to an end – it’s … Read more

Victoria Beckham brushes off speculation she and husband David ‘caught coronavirus in March’

Victoria Beckham appeared to brush off speculation she and her husband David secretly had coronavirus in March with her latest Instagram snap on Tuesday. The fashion designer, 46, took to Instagram to show her followers how to wear her latest VB collection just a day after it was claimed the couple had caught coronavirus in … Read more

Tennyson’s Lincolnshire is a glorious mix of vast countryside, open beaches and quaint little towns 

An hour’s drive north, past the painted storefronts of Norfolk’s boutique towns, lie the undulating wheat fields of Lincolnshire. The county, butted by the North Sea, has long been overshadowed by its cooler neighbour. While it may not have as much allure as Wells-next-the-Sea or the regal attraction of Holkham, this quiet corner of England … Read more

US Army spent millions developing Star Wars-like walking robots

An insect-like machine with six individually powered legs that was intended for the battlefield received millions in US government funding during the 1980s. The project to create a fleet of real-life AT-AT walkers from Star Wars started in 1981 at Ohio State University, as the military searched for ways to traverse rough terrain that wheeled … Read more

Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson flashes her abs in a black crop top and jeans

They recently released their video for their music video, Holiday. And following the launch of their latest hit, Little Mix headed to Global Radio in central London to promote their new track on Tuesday morning. Jesy Nelson, 29, and her band mates, Perrie Edwards, 27, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 28, and Jade Thirlwall, 27, made a typically stylish … Read more

Moment missing 80-year-old hiker feared dead turns up at press conference

Incredible moment missing 80-year-old hiker turns up at press conference where family who feared he was dead were making desperate appeal to find him Harry Harvey, 80, went missing while hiking through Yorkshire Dales on Sunday Pensioner, described as a ‘competent hiker’ was found alive by photographer  Huge search and rescue operation was underway in … Read more

Environment: Three-quarters of Gen Z ‘are disgusted by lab-grown meat’ and say they would NOT eat it

Almost three-in-four members of Australia’s Gen Z are ‘disgusted’ by the idea of lab-grown meat and said they would not eat it instead of animal products, a study found. Synthetic, lab-grown — or ‘cultured’ — meat is grown in dishes from samples of real animal cells, instead of being sourced from the slaughter of livestock. … Read more

Former Buckingham Palace butler, 63, lands two job interviews by handing out CVs at railway station

A former butler at Buckingham Palace has landed two job interviews after donning his best suit to hand out CVs at a railway station. Trevor Walford, 63, lost his job as a restaurant manager in Keighley, West Yorkshire, during lockdown.  After spending months at home being knocked-back for jobs, the former hotel worker took his … Read more

Astronomers find NO technological signs of alien life in study of more than 10 MILLION star systems 

Australian astronomers say they’ve found no technological signs of alien life in a study of more than 10 million star systems.  Perth-based researchers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in the Western Australian outback, in a project dubbed ‘looking for ET’.  The MWA searches for powerful radio emissions at low frequencies, similar to FM … Read more