£38,000-a-year The Oratory Catholic School appoints first female captain for 162 years to be the ‘voice’ of pupils – after allowing girls to join last year By Antony Thrower For Mailonline Published: 18:22 BST, 7 June 2021 | Updated: 18:22 BST, 7 June 2021 A school believed to have been set up as the Roman … Read more
Step away from the latte! Drinking four coffees a day may QUADRUPLE your risk of developing sight-threatening glaucoma, study warns In glaucoma, the optic nerve or retina is damaged, often by raised eye pressure Experts from Mount Sinai Hospital studied the diet and health of 120,000 adults This data and corresponding DNA samples were gathered via … Read more
A 500-year-old wooden box, first discovered in 2019, contains the remains of a beeswax candle used to help Vikings find their farms, archaeologists have announced. Archaeologists removed the tight lid of the pine box with the leather straps, uncovered in Norway’s Lendbreen ice patch, discovering the candle that was essential to Vikings hundreds of years … Read more
A two-year-old boy who died after being found unresponsive in a lake was a ‘character’ who ‘filled all our hearts with joy and happiness’, his family has said. The body of 2-year-old Greyson Birch, from Southampton, was pulled from the lake of a Hampshire beauty spot just over a week ago, with his police today … Read more
A two-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare form of dwarfism weighs just 7lbs and has to wear new born sized clothes. Abigail Lee, from Louisiana, has a rare condition called Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II meaning that she’ll only grow to around 24 inches tall. The tot can only just fit into new born … Read more