A mother-of-three has told how she though she was ‘going to die’ giving birth on the NHS.
Divina Johnson, of Birmingham, had a normal first pregnancy and assumed when her waters broke at 41 weeks her second labour would be the same.
Instead, it was the ‘most terrifying experience’ of her life.
During her traumatic childbirth, a nurse wrongly administered an epidural that left her shaking in pain. Ms Johnson was also berated by medics and subject to racism with
That really awful hacking cough that’s now doing the rounds? It’s pertussis — whooping cough, or the 100-day cough as it’s become known — and cases are surging in the UK.
While it’s a very nasty infection if you get it as child or an adult — as I know from my own experience after ending up in A&E — for very small babies, it can be lethal.
Earlier this week, I wrote in the Mail that some paediatric colleagues
Novelist Stephen King, the so-called ‘King of Horror’, was asleep on a transatlantic flight to London when he had a nightmare about an insane woman who held captive and mutilated her favourite writer. The result was the bestselling book Misery and later a film that won an Oscar for Kathy Bates for her chilling performance as the mad woman.
The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece with the unforgettably scary Jack Nicholson in the lead role, was similarly inspired. King and
Waking in terror, Sarah Elizabeth Cox could just make out that the door to her apartment was wide open and a huge, hooded figure was walking towards her.
She figured he was seven or eight feet tall, and though she couldn’t see his face, she had the sense that he looked like one of the Gentlemen, a ghoulish character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bald head, sunken eyes, and wide, malicious grin.
The figure stopped at the side
Australia’s east coast is set to be battered by new downpours which could last for weeks – as medical experts warn the deluge could trigger deadly outbreaks of weather-related diseases.
Victorians are being told to batten down the hatches, with summer thunderstorms threatening to dump mammoth rainfall totals and cause widespread flooding on Sunday and Monday.
But weather forecasters are warning Queensland’s non-stop rain could carry on for weeks, as meteorologists dismiss the ‘misconception’ an El Nino summer means a
This is the terrifying moment a builder came close to being engulfed in flames, before a modest crane driver saved him from the roof of a burning £750million Reading development today.
The man, who has not been named, was close to dying before Glen Edwards managed to carry out a Hollywood-style rescue and move a cage through smoke and flame to save his unnamed colleague.
Before Mr Edwards, 65, had an opportunity to showcase his operator skills, footage shows the
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When Peet Montzingo, 33, moved into his new downtown LA apartment, he had no idea one of the world’s most haunted places would be looming over him and his neighbours could be ghosts.
Hotel Cecil, often called ‘Hotel Death,’ is notorious for it’s dark history of murders, serial killers and unexplained deaths – the most talked about being the disappearance of Elisa Lam, who’s naked dead body was later found in the hotel’s water tank in 2013.
There have been
Along the border wall separating Israel and the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of soldiers are making the final preparations for a full-scale ground invasion.
But soon, the sight of massed troops might seem as much a relic of the past as knights on horseback appear to us now.
That’s because the wars of the future will not only be fought by humans, but also by machines.
Already, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has developed and deployed a staggering arsenal
These frightening heat maps reveal the countries that could soon become too hot to live in if global temperatures increase by as little as 1.5°C (2.7°F).
Some 2.2 billion people in Pakistan and India’s Indus River Valley, 1 billion in eastern China and 800 million in sub-Saharan Africa would be among those facing heat that is beyond human tolerance, researchers say.
That could extend to eastern and central parts of the US if temperatures on Earth were to rise by
