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The 77-year-old Scottish actor, known for playing Logan Roy in the hit TV drama Succession, said he is “too old” to be a contestant on the dancing competition. Appearing on BBC One programme Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, the Emmy award-winning actor spoke about the show and said: “I’ve actually been asked to be on it.” Asked if he said yes to an appearance, he responded: “No, I declined. Well… I mean, I like dancing, don’t get me wrong… I don’t know why but I just, I always see that there’s a sort of joke element in it. “You know, there’s…

Alginate is a biocompatible and biodegradable substance found in seaweed. Now, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have used alginate from seaweed washed ashore, CaCO3, and carbonated water to develop a hydrogel which exhibits lower skin adhesion and swelling. These properties, though exactly opposite of conventional wound dressings, can help prevent the expansion of the wound site during recovery and the obtained hydrogel has high wound healing efficacy. Credit: Ryota Teshima from Tokyo University of Science Acting as the main interface between the internal and the external world, the skin is the largest and most important organ of the human…

Some 285 patients waited between 30 minutes and an hour in the back of an ambulance when they arrived at the hospital in the week to December 3. It means 15 per cent of the 1,860 patients who visited the department that week experienced delays. This is, however, an improvement from 17 per cent during the same period in 2022. Meanwhile, 96 other people were forced to wait for more than an hour and 468 handovers took between 15 and 30 minutes. Ambulance services across England have improved in the first week of the month this year compared to the same period last…

Location : The M1 southbound between junctions J12 and J11A . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 07:45 and 08:00 on 18 December 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 15 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Image Credit: TLC Kody Brown doesn’t hesitate to go off about Christine Brown in the latest edition of the Sister Wives: One on One special. In the December 17 episode, host Sukanya “Suki” Krishnan asks for Kody’s reaction to Christine’s claim that Robyn Brown doesn’t ultimately want to live a plural lifestyle. He doesn’t mince words about his ex. “I don’t think Christine knows Robyn at all,” Kody says. “She’s never tried. She’s never been there. She was a sh*t sister wife. She’ll probably — and I hope — be a very good wife for David. It wasn’t a fit.…

In the three months ending Oct. 31, defunct crypto exchange FTX has been burning through approximately $53,000 every hour on bankruptcy lawyers and advisers, the latest round of compensation filings show. Court filings from Dec. 5 to Dec. 16 show that the bankruptcy lawyers have charged at least $118.1 million between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31. Over the 92 days, this amounts to $1.3 million per day or $53,300 per hour.  The largest bill came from the management consulting firm Alvarez and Marshall, which charged $35.8 million for its services for the three months.Alvarez and Marshall charged a total of $35.8 million in…

Does thinking about faith make religious people more likely to take leaps? A new study lead by York University’s Faculty of Health says yes, finding that participants were more likely to take risks when thinking about God as a benevolent protector. “While the theoretical link between a belief in God and risk taking has been around for a while, the methods previous studies employed to test this weren’t the strongest, based on current best practices,” says lead author Cindel White, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. “Our carefully designed study confirmed that those who believe God will protect…

Nominations for the Cancer Research UK for Children and Young People Star Awards are now open and families are being called on to nominate young cancer patients and survivors for the honour in the run up to the festive season. The awards are open to all children under 18 who live in the UK and have been treated for the disease within the past five years. There is no judging panel and every nominee receives a trophy, a £50 TK Maxx gift card, T-shirt and a certificate signed by a host of famous faces, including celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli and TV personality…

Location : The M25 anticlockwise between junctions J28 and J27 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 06:30 and 06:45 on 18 December 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 30 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Image Credit: Scott Kirkland/Shutterstock Christine Brown introduces David Woolley in the December 17 episode of the Sister Wives: One on One special. Christine is thrilled to show off her man and talk about their love story. “It’s nice to feel confident in a relationship where I can just be me,” she says. During the episode, Kody Brown accuses Christine of being a “mean girl” and “trash-talking” him to their kids. David refuses to stand for that. “He’s definitely wrong about her being backstabbing and stuff like [that]…” David says. “She’s not that at all. I don’t see that, and I’m…