Author: Eleanor Price

More than four in five dogs show signs of fear or anxiety in everyday situations, according to the largest study of its kind — raising significant concerns about the mental wellbeing of millions of family pets and prompting experts to urge owners to seek veterinary help before mild anxiety escalates into aggression. Researchers from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences analysed behavioural data from 43,517 dogs enrolled by their owners in the Dog Aging Project, asking owners nine questions designed to assess the levels of anxiety and fearfulness in their pets. The results, published in the journal…

Some of the passengers and crew who were quarantined at a Merseyside hospital following a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship are set to be discharged on Wednesday, after completing 72 hours of isolation — though they will be required to remain at home for a further 42 days. Those held at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral include 20 British nationals, a German national resident in the UK, and a Japanese passenger, all of whom were aboard the Dutch expedition vessel MV Hondius when the outbreak was confirmed. Not everyone eligible to leave will do so, however. It is understood…

Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews has been caught out in a fresh embarrassment after video footage posted to his own Instagram account revealed he was filming from Dubai airport — not Muscat in Oman, as he had told his wife and the Good Morning Britain hosts when explaining why he had missed their first joint television interview. Andrews, 43, was due to join Price, 47, on the ITV daytime programme on Tuesday for what was billed as their first TV appearance together since the couple married in January. Instead, Price appeared alone, telling hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls that…

Hannah Waddingham has revealed she is in her first relationship in eight years, telling Women’s Health UK that her new man is “very good looking” and “really lovely” — ending a period in which the Ted Lasso actress dedicated herself entirely to life as a single mother. The 51-year-old, who plays Rebecca in the award-winning Apple TV+ series, became a single mother after her decade-long relationship with Gianluca Cugnetto broke down when their daughter Kitty was two years old. Since then she has raised Kitty, now 11, alone — and has spoken candidly about the demands of being a sole…

Danny Dyer’s youngest daughter Sunnie has gone public with her new boyfriend, sharing a loved-up photograph on Instagram with record label founder Will Wood. The 19-year-old, who is the lesser-known sibling of Love Island star Dani Dyer, posted a sweet snap on Monday showing her cradling her boyfriend’s face while pulling a pout, accompanied simply by a heart emoji. Will, who is the founder of STRINGZ and Journey records, replied with “love ya” beneath the post. While Will appears to have struck up a following relationship with Dani on Instagram, their father Danny neither follows nor is followed by the…

Scientists in China have created a new type of plastic embedded with dormant bacteria that can be triggered to completely destroy itself in less than a week, leaving no trace of microplastics — a development that researchers believe could fundamentally change how the world manages plastic waste. The breakthrough, published in the journal ACS Applied Polymer Materials, was carried out by researchers at the Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology and represents a significant advance on previous attempts to engineer biodegradable plastics. Rather than relying on a single enzyme — the approach taken in most earlier work — the team embedded…

NHS England has granted staff from Palantir and other external contractors unlimited access to identifiable patient data within its flagship £330 million data platform — a disclosure that has drawn immediate condemnation from MPs, privacy campaigners and medical groups and reignited a fierce debate about the role of a controversial American technology firm at the heart of British healthcare. The change was first reported by the Financial Times, which cited an internal briefing note written by a senior NHS data official in April 2026. NHS England has agreed to create a new “admin” role that grants non-NHS staff “unlimited access”…

Deep in a remote valley at the foothills of the Himalayas, straddling China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, lives a tribe of 40,000 people who have built a society in which men play almost no role in raising children — and women hold complete control over family life, finances and inheritance. The Mosuo people, long dubbed the “Kingdom of Women,” are one of the few remaining matrilineal societies on earth. Women head every household, control all assets and decide how resources are distributed. Men, by contrast, hold no formal role in the family structure and bear no responsibility for the children…

Lea Michele has called out of Broadway’s Chess, sparking rumours that she was left devastated after being overlooked for a Tony Award nomination — though insiders are pushing back on the diva narrative, insisting the former Glee star is genuinely unwell. Michele missed Friday’s performance of the Broadway revival, in which she plays Florence Vassy, and has since been absent again, fuelling speculation that the snub had taken a heavier toll than the production is letting on. “She gave another excuse,” one source told Page Six. “Everyone knows she was upset. She was hysterical.” But a Broadway insider offered a…

Tens of thousands of commuters across southern England faced a day of significant rail disruption after a fault with the radio communications system used by train drivers and signallers caused widespread cancellations and delays across six major networks — with passengers urged to avoid Waterloo station entirely at the height of the chaos. South Western Railway, Southern, Thameslink, CrossCountry, Gatwick Express and London Overground services were all affected after the fault emerged on Thursday morning, with Waterloo — one of the busiest stations in Europe — particularly hard hit. The disruption was then compounded by a separate and unrelated signalling…