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Queen’s dresser Angela Kelly’s nickname inspired by ‘temper’

The cruel nickname AK47 has been revealed as the name given to the late Queen’s dresser Angela Kelly inspired by her initials and “hair-trigger temper”. The 71-year-old Liverpool dock worker’s daughter rose to become one of the most trusted confidantes of Queen Elizabeth II after starting work for her in 2002. Ms Kelly has been […]

British expat locked out of £350,000 in UK bank account

Welsh Secretary champions Brexit Britain’s access to viagra A British expat living in Spain was left facing a financial crisis when they couldn’t access hundreds of thousands of pounds of savings from their UK Barclays account, due to new rules introduced post-Brexit. Last year, expats were informed by several UK banks they could only keep […]

Lawsuit filed demanding release of Prince Harry’s US visa records

Bob Seely: Meghan and Harry ‘can’t trade and trash’ Prince Harry’s US visa is facing further scrutiny after the Washington-based thinktank, the Heritage Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security. The organisation has called for the immediate publication of the royal’s visa records after he admitted to drug use in […]

BBC producer ‘astonished’ by Queen staff’s Andrew interview decision

Sarah Ferguson calls Prince Andrew a ‘good, kind man’ Sam McAlister, who spent months getting the interview together, recalled that the moment a member of the Queen’s staff popped in was significant, as it meant Her Majesty was aware of what was taking place. But the former Newsnight producer has told how she was “astonished” […]

Plague of 300 million super-rats invade Britain

The UK is facing a plague of 300 million monstrous super-rats capable of gnawing on steel and chewing through concrete. The fearsome army of rodents have been bolstering their ranks since lockdown, when they started invading homes, gardens and basements to find places to nest. Pest controllers have recorded rats getting larger and members of […]

New MRI tool can 'read minds' by translating brain activity into speech

The ability to read minds may have just moved a step closer. Researchers have developed a non-invasive speech decoder that can translate brain activity into words – something that could one day help those who have lost the ability to speak. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a team from the University of Texas has […]

One killed after plane crashes into Los Angeles neighborhood

One person was killed after a small plane crashed into a hillside in a California residential neighborhood. A small Cessna C172 slammed into a hillside in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles around 8.45pm on Saturday night. The pilot, the plane’s sole occupant, was found dead at the scene of the crash, the Los […]

MP's laptop and iPad stolen from car at service station in 'worrisome' theft

An MP’s parliamentary-supplied laptop and iPad were stolen from a car at a service station, a newly released document shows.   The theft is the latest in a series of disclosed hardware losses at Westminster that have led to concern among cyber-security experts. The MP and his office called police and the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS), who supplied […]

Just a pair of flip flops left behind after man 'killed in crocodile attack'

A pair of flip flops belonging to a man thought to have died in a crocodile attack were all that remained after screams were heard. Kevin Darmody, 65, had been fishing on the banks of Kennedy River in far north Queensland in Australia on Saturday when campers heard screaming and splashing. When a friend ran […]

New AI tool can spot lung cancer better than any existing method, says study

Researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can spot lung cancer better than any other existing method – a breakthrough that could speed up diagnosis. The AI tool, designed by experts at the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Imperial College London, can identify whether abnormal growths found on […]