Legal & General is now the fifth highest-yielding stock in the FTSE 100, having dutifully paid dividends for more than two decades and cut payouts just once in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. The insurance giant is among the best income stocks in London, with a return that has averaged 4.9 percentage points … Read more
A “highly regarded” vet is believed to have died instantly when he lost control of his BMW while two-and-a-half times over the drink-drive limit, an inquest has heard. Two teenagers in the vehicle also died at the scene after the horror crash near Liskeard last year. Ben Mason, aged 30, from Liskeard, died when his … Read more
As the bones locked in the rocks rotted away, water-based silica seeped into the crevices, solidified into opal and preserved precious details for 100 million years. The resulting fossils now provide evidence that there may really have been an age of monotremes, before other mammals took over. “It’s like discovering a whole new civilisation,” says … Read more
A man almost dropped a stone by cutting out just one type of food – a decision he made after being “outraged” by what he saw in the mirror. Steffan Rhys, editor of WalesOnline, ECHO’s sister title, said he had changed his eating habits earlier this year by making “simple changes”. He said they were … Read more
Enlarge / The echidna, an egg-laying mammal, does not develop teeth. Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of producing live young. Only two species of monotremes still exist, the platypus and the echidna, but about 100 million years ago there were more monotreme species. Some of them may be even stranger than their descendants. … Read more
Scientists have discovered that a river comparable in size to the Rio Grande once dominated West Antarctica, offering a rare glimpse of the continent’s land covered in ice today. It is believed that the 900-mile-long waterway flowed about 44 to 34 million years ago, shortly before the continent’s immensely thick ice sheets began to build … Read more
The discovery of Gliese 12 b, a planet similar to Venus and only 40 light-years away, offers new perspectives for understanding life-supporting conditions in the universe. This ‘evil twin’ receives significantly more radiation from its star than Earth, raising intriguing questions for future research with advanced telescopes. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Recent findings from a Venus-like planet, … Read more
Enlarge / Hubble Space Telescope above Earth, photographed during STS-125, servicing mission 4, May 2009. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and if there are none left, the instrument will cease to perform meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been in space for nearly three and a half decades, … Read more
Is Activision doing enough to stop hackers? (Activision) A reader highlights the problems with hacking and cheating in Call Of Duty and what Activision has and hasn’t done to prevent it. I would like to submit an article about Activision and the hacking problems it has been having lately, as I was one of the … Read more
A woman who had a ‘glow up’ after a break-up and lost 12 stone says she feels ‘liberated’ and is now being flooded with DMs from men. Laura Gunn, 30, from Fife in Scotland, says she felt comfortable in her ten-year relationship and didn’t feel like she had anyone to ‘impress’. At her heaviest, she … Read more