‘I s*** myself’: Phillip Schofield is left in hysterics and Holly Willoughby apologises when Line Of Duty star Stephen Graham SWEARS live on air By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 12:01 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 13:15 BST, 29 April 2020 Actor Stephen Graham caused quite a scene on This Morning on Wednesday, when … Read more
Brits drink their way through lockdown: Sales of wine, beer and spirits up 31 per cent (and hair clippers have sold out too) Boom means an additional £200million has been spent on alcohol in March Grocery sales also accelerated to £10.8billion partially due to panic buying Wine was the most popular lockdown drink, followed by … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more
Angela Rippon was responsible for one of the most memorable moments in British television history. It came in the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special in 1976, when 20 million gawped as she emerged from behind her Nine O’Clock News desk to high-kick round the studio like an autocue Ginger Rogers. Four decades on, give or … Read more
An Ohio teenager fell ill with flu on Christmas Eve. She died on New Year’s Eve. In the last several weeks, nearly 40 children have died of the flu as the virus spreads across the US early. Kaylee Roberts is among the latest children to succumb to the virus. The 16-year-old had been otherwise healthy … Read more
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:33 BST, 17 January 2020 MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) Back in 1970s Sheffield, teenage pop obsessives Dan and Alison were madly in love. But then Alison … Read more
Are YOU anxious about going back to work? Doctor warns feeling sick and having the shakes could actually be alcohol withdrawal symptoms from drinking too much over Christmas and New Year Returning to work after the festive period fills millions of people with dread But suffering from the shakes and feeling sick may not be … Read more
Revealed: NHS hospitals treat 300 patients a week in A&E who are injured in DIY accidents (with at least one person a day hurt mowing the lawn) NHS figures show 6,867 people treated after falling from a ladder in 12 months Another 466 were injured while mowing lawns from last April to March this year … Read more
Children’s eyes twinkle as they impatiently wait their turn to climb onto Santa’s lap and tell him a precious secret: what they’d like for Christmas. But, for more than a decade, all one Utah Santa Claus was keeping a secret of his own. ‘Every kid wanted the same thing, and that was a mumble,’ Mark … Read more
A heartwarming video of a chemotherapy patient and his nurse singing a Christmas carol has gone viral. Penn Pennington, 67, a veteran musician, is currently battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells, for the second time. Earlier this month, he was admitted to the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial in … Read more