A uncommon trait noticed on Madeleine McCann on posters and TV after her disappearance only effects one in every 10,000 births. Her misshaped pupil is due to a condition called coloboma. But what does it mean and what are the effects? What is coloboma? Coloboma is a gap in part of the eye's structure, normally […]

Silicosis is the oldest occupational lung disease in the world but there is now a surge in cases. Why? And how big is the problem? In 2012, Ryan Hoy renovated his house and installed an artificial stone benchtop in the middle of his kitchen. Like many Australians, he was sold on its affordability and sleek […]

NOBODY will ever know with "absolute certainty" what happened to Nicola Bulley, an ex-Met Police commander claims. Former Met Police commander John O’Connor was speaking after a body was found yesterday, just a mile from where the missing mum vanished. Nicola, 45, was last seen in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, at around 9.15am on January 27. Yesterday, police […]

FEARS are growing for beachgoers after what looked like a huge “shark fin” was seen off the UK coast. The fin, possibly from a shark, was spotted at around 11am on Sunday off the south Cornish coast by a woman in Gunwalloe, near Porthleven. The woman was able to get a snap of the fin […]

DAVID COOMBS was jailed in 2017 for conning thousands of pounds out of often vulnerable women. Here, we take a look at his life and crimes. Who is David Coombs? David Coombs is a career criminal, who first gained notoriety in the 90s as the "Casanova conman". He was deported from Norway a number of times after […]

Online trolls ‘hack into Pinterest account of missing Nicola Bulley’s partner Paul Ansell and post sexually explicit images of women’ Hackers posted sexually explicit images on Paul Ansell’s Pinterest yesterday Read more: Body is found by police in hunt for missing Nicola Bulley today Online trolls have reportedly hacked into the social media accounts of […]

A TEENAGER has been arrested after a “dangerous and out of control” dog savaged a man in a terrifying attack on playing fields. The middle-aged man suffered life-changing injuries to his leg. Police said today that officers had arrested a 19-year-old suspect and seized the dog which has been placed in secure kennels. The incident […]

Prince Harry is in a ‘predicament’ over whether he and Meghan will attend King’s Coronation because they fear being accused of ‘snubbing’ royal family if they stay away, or being booed by public if they attend, friends say Harry is reportedly in a ‘complicated predicament’ over Coronation attendance Friends say he and Meghan are weighing the […]

Senior Tory Damian Green is rejected as party’s candidate for newly created Weald of Kent constituency at the next election Damian Green was effectively deputy prime minister under Theresa May The MP for Ashford since 1997 said he was ‘disappointed’ not to be chosen Senior Tory Damian Green has been rejected as the party’s candidate […]

Washington: US intelligence suggests China is considering providing arms and ammunition to Russia, an involvement in the Kremlin’s war effort that would be a “serious problem,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Blinken said the United States long has been concerned that China would provide weapons to Russia. He pointed to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s […]