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HOLLY Turner was devastated when her sister was diagnosed with an incurable disease that stole her mum just years earlier – but she never imagined she was next.”It’s a death sentence,” says her mother-in-law, Linda McQueen. 3Doctors initially dismissed Holly’s muscle spasms as benign fasciculation syndrome, a condition causing frequent muscle twitches.Credit: SWNS3But in 2022, a nerve conduction test showed hyper-excitable neurons, an early sign of motor neuron diseaseCredit: SWNS”She’s trying to act normal around Koby [her son], saying things like ‘Well, Koby, I might be here when you grow up.’”Holly, 45, from Hastings, East Sussex, lost her mum to…

A CLEVER iPhone trick lets you change the shape of the beam of light from its built-in torch.Gadget fans have spotted the handy feature, which has only been out for a few months.4You can use this pop-up to control not just the brightness of the torch – but its shape tooCredit: AppleBut it’s available on millions of iPhone models, and you might have the right one.Apple has been letting you change the brightness of your iPhone’s torch for years.But it’s now also possible to have a very wide light, or a focused beam that can shine on a specific point.First,…

A TOOTH filling on the NHS will cost more than £75 after a dentists’ price hike at the end of this month.Ministers are putting charges up by 2.4 per cent for the next financial year.1The price of NHS dental treatment increases every yearIt will increase the cost of a basic check-up from £26.80 to £27.40.A filling, root canal or extraction appointment will cost £75.30, up from £73.50, with more intensive ‘Band 3’ work charged at £326.70, up from £319.10.Shiv Pabary, of the British Dental Association, said: “This hike is reheated austerity.“It won’t put a penny into a struggling service. “Our patients…

MEGALODON may have grown to a staggering 80 feet in length – and weighted 94 tons.The staggering size of the prehistoric killing machine has been revealed in a study that reveals what the ocean predator really looked like.6Scientists now think the megalodon would’ve looked much more like a modern lemon sharkCredit: Albert Kok 6The shape and size of the megalodon has been revised – and it was terrifyingly giantCredit: (DePaul University/Kenshu Shimada). It’s often thought that the megalodon would’ve looked a lot like a great white shark, but bigger.But scientists now think the enormous creature looked “closer in shape to…

DOCTORS are warning parents that ‘chickenpox parties’ are never a good idea. The gatherings – which aim to expose children to the virus to ‘get it over with’ – put kids at risk of “serious complications”, such as bacterial skin infections, pneumonia and life-threatening brain swelling. 2Chickenpox parties could put children and adults at risk of nasty complications, GPs warnedCredit: GettyThe caution comes after the owner of a children’s daycare centre discovered that some parents were secretly planning to hold at ‘party’ at the venue, putting healthy kids in contact with a child with chickenpox.The plan was branded as “dangerous”…

A LUNAR eclipse will turn the Moon a striking red in days – and it won’t happen again for months.The Blood Moon will appear to hundreds of millions of people around the world.4A Blood Moon sees our space neighbour turning a deep redCredit: AFPIt’s an incredible event that sees the Moon bathed in Earth’s shadow – hidden from the Sun’s light.WHY IS THE MOON TURNING RED?If you’ve ever looked up at the Moon (and surely you have), you’ll have noticed that it shines a brilliant white.But it’s not producing any light of its own. You’re just seeing sunlight reflected.Sometimes the…

A BALDING man has quit his job over a “botched hair transplant” because he is too embarrassed to be seen.Mark Sweeney says his life has been “destroyed” following the procedure at the Merchant City Medical centre in Glasgow.4Mark Sweeney, 57, has quit his job over a ‘botched hair transplant’Credit: Media Scotland4He says his life has been ‘destroyed’ following the procedureCredit: Media ScotlandThe 57-year-old decided to have the surgery done in the UK after hearing horror stories of bodge jobs abroad.But he claims the hair transplant left him with a large scarred area of skin across the top of his forehead.Mark…

A TOP airline reveals it has fitted a plane with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet – with dozens more to follow.The Starlink Wi-Fi – which is beamed down to Earth from satellites – will make in-flight internet 50 times faster than normal.7Starlink is being fitted to the United Airlines fleetCredit: United.com7United Airlines plans to add Starlink to dozens of airplanes each monthCredit: Getty7Starlink is the creation of Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceXCredit: GettyUnited Airlines says it has kitted out one of its regional aircraft.And it’s promised to fit Starlink tech to more than 40 aircraft each month starting in May –…

WHEN Loose Women star Andrea McLean announced last month she’d been hospitalised with sepsis, she became one of 245,000 cases in the UK every year.The 55-year-old joined fellow celebrities including Lily Allen, Carol Vorderman and Amy Dowden who have also had the blood poisoning condition which kills more than 48,000 people annually in Britain. 12Loose Women star Andrea McLean was rushed to hospital with sepsis in February 2025Credit: RexAndrea revealed she collapsed in the bathroom, laying there for an hour before her husband Nick Feeney found her and called an ambulance.“My blood pressure was so low I couldn’t stand, and…

GOOGLE users are being warned over a “sneaky” attack that lets criminals steal your passwords – and potentially your money too.It affects Google Chrome users, and uses clever tricks to keep you from spotting the problem.4The scam could see dangerous malware posing as your password managerCredit: SquareX LabsGoogle has been warned about the attack by SquareX Labs, the security company that found it.The attack reportedly works using Google Chrome extensions, which are a popular way to upgrade your web browser.Criminals will submit their “malicious” extension into the official Chrome Web Store.The extension could be anything and – importantly – will…