Author: News Desk

Scientists have made a pill to replace exercise – but don’t hang up the trainers yet The Metro says Two mice lived in a research facility in San Diego. One was called Couch Potato Mouse, the other Lance Armstrong Mouse. Both ate high-fat diets and had little exercise, yet while Couch Potato Mouse looked as the name might suggest – overweight and unhealthy – Lance Armstrong Mouse was a shining beacon of health. Lance Armstrong Mouse had a secret. A drug. This drug, named GW501516, or 516 for short, mimicked the effect of exercise on the body without the body…

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PMQs review: Sir Keir Starmer mocks Tories at PMQs over by-election losses PMQs this week saw Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer mocking PM Rishi Sunak over the Tories’ two by-election defeats last week.  Sir Keir also pressured him on the cost of living crisis.  Labour took both Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire from the Conservatives – overturning huge Tory majorities in a double blow for the government.  “So will he just call a general election and give the British Public a chance to respond? Sir Keir Starmer At today’s PMQs, Sir Keir demanded a general election saying the prime minister was “oblivious”…

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