Idris Elba has praised the UK government’s crackdown on zombie knives, but said that it doesn’t go far enough.
The actor, 51, has been a fierce proponent against knife crime in Britain, which has surged in recent years with many of the victims being teenage boys.
He has launched a new campaign called Don’t Stop Your Future, and is demanding an immediate ban on machetes and so-called ‘zombie knives’.
It was announced on Wednesday, that fresh legislation is set to
Israeli troops claim to have captured holiday homes belonging to numerous Hamas leaders, including a property that the terror group’s chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, vacations in.
Dubbed ‘Gaza’s Bin Laden’, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017, and is considered to be one of the masterminds behind the bloody October 7 attacks.
He was raised in Khan Younis and is believed to have had multiple properties in the southern city, which Israel’s forces have been increasingly
Tony Blackburn has announced that he is stepping down from his popular BBC Radio London show after ‘many happy years’.
The radio DJ, 80, took to Twitter on Thursday to share the news that he will be leaving the BBC Radio London show because it is ‘time to move on’.
He confirmed that his last episode on Soul On Sunday will air on Sunday as he prepares to bid farewell to the show in a matter of days.
Tony clarified
Doctors must stop prescribing antidepressants to patients with mild mental health problems to curb the country’s overreliance on pills, experts said today.
Antidepressant prescriptions have almost doubled in England over the last decade with 85.6million dished out in the last year alone.
Experts blame ‘overmedicalising’ issues like loneliness for the steep rise, with unnecessary drugs putting patients at risk of harm while failing to tackle the root causes of problems.
Instead, lifestyle changes alongside greater use of social prescribing, such
Plans by New Zealand’s new government to ditch its world-first smoking ban were today attacked by health experts.
The move, to stop children from taking up the habit, was initially introduced by ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2022. Once implemented next year, anyone born after 2008 would have been banned from ever buying cigarettes.
New Zealand’s new prime minister, Christopher Luxon, said the U-turn would fund tax cuts.
But public health experts said the reversal was ‘extremely concerning’, warning the
Cardiologists have hailed a ‘landmark’ and ‘reassuring’ study showing no spike in sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes.
Debunking a major claim peddled by anti-vaxxers in the wake of Covid, scientists discovered such cases have actually fallen after examining 20 years of US college sports.
Deaths remained stable even during the pandemic, they claimed, with rates having plunged by about 29 per cent every five years.
Academics credited the drop to more effective and frequent screening systems for heart conditions
Like your holidays crowd-free? Consider this list your ultimate travel guide.
It names the top 10 least-visited countries around the world, as revealed by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation 2023 report.
The report notes that these destinations welcome few holidaymakers for a variety of reasons, from lying in hard-to-reach corners of the globe to being ‘too small to host vast numbers of tourists’.
But they’re all worth the effort. Offering golden beaches, crystal clear waters and blissful isolation…
It has been more than 80 years since the British destroyer HMS Keith sank during an operation described by Winston Churchill as a ‘miracle of deliverance’.
The 330ft-long vessel was among some 1,000 military, merchant, fishing and civilian ‘little ships’ that helped rescue 338,226 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
It had just returned to the French coast having evacuated 992 soldiers to Dover when it was bombed by a German aircraft and sank to the bottom
One in six GPs have failed to provide patients with face-to-face appointments as many medics claim they are unable to meet demand, a new poll has found.
Doctors implemented a virtual appointment protocol during the first covid lockdown, meaning that less than half of patients were examined in-person. Before the pandemic, about 80 per cent of appointments were face-to-face.
NHS England reversed its ‘total triage’ policy, which encouraged doctors to deal with more cases remotely, in 2021 after all patients
If you haven’t owned a Ford Fiesta, you can almost guarantee one of your family or closest friends have.
That’s because it’s Britain’s most bought car of all time, amassing 4.8million sales in the UK. Globally, Ford has shifted an incredible 22million of them.
But it’s now officially the end of the road for Fiesta. The final examples will emerge from the brand’s factory in Germany as Ford officially lowers the curtain on a 47-year production run of one of
