Proud to be British Read more from journalists who champion our culture, history and values |  | Emily Craig Senior Health Writer | If you’ve not been struck by a bug in recent weeks, chances are that you will be soon. Four winter viruses – flu, Covid, RSV (a common cause of colds) and norovirus (also known as the winter vomiting bug) – are now spreading.
Flu, in particular, has raised alarm in the top ranks of the NHS and UK Health Security Agency, which is responsible for monitoring disease outbreaks.
The bug is the most lethal of the four and has begun spreading five weeks earlier than usual, meaning cases are now unexpectedly high. It’s led to fears that the UK could be about to see its worst flu season on record, which would mean even more deaths than the 8,000 deaths it caused last year. The health service has issued a “flu jab SOS” encouraging those eligible for the free vaccine to come forward.
| Symptoms for each virus according to the NHS. A green tick indicates common symptoms; and a red cross is for symptoms that don’t usually occur because of the virus | Source: NHS | While Covid, RSV and norovirus are comparatively less prevalent, they are still spreading and, in the case of the former two viruses, leading to hospital admissions.
However, as tests are not routinely dished out for these bugs, it can be tricky to tell if you’ve got one of them. Here, virus experts unpick the symptoms of each illness so you can tell which one you have and, vitally, share how you can treat them.
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| | Joshua Levine Author and historian | A walk along the lanes and through the fields of North Norfolk is a truly English experience. Elgar can almost be heard on the breeze. But as you walk you might notice a series of sturdy round concrete huts surprisingly well blended into the landscape. At the sides of roads, they might be weathered toll booths.
In fact, they were built so that part-time soldiers could stand and crouch inside, trying to kill an advancing army. But these weren’t built in the 1930s in anticipation of the Nazi threat. They were built during the First World War, along waterways several miles inland, to stop the Kaiser’s troops from breaking out of their beachhead and marching straight to London.
Last month, I found myself in the area of North Walsham, moving from one of these pillboxes to the next, acutely aware of this forgotten invasion threat. Not only was it taken deeply seriously at the time, but it set the scene for the far better-known threat of 1940 and 41. These concrete buildings - newly given listed-building status, and rare because of their age – are an elegy of what might have been.
I defy anybody to stand inside one and stare through a loophole at an imaginary foe, and fail to be moved by what might have happened all those years ago.
Continue reading ➤ | | Zoe Strimpel However bad Sadiq Khan may be, London beats the Big Apple and its newly elected mayor in every imaginable way Continue reading ➤ Janet Daley The noble tradition of liberalism has morphed into a corrupt totalitarian pastiche Continue reading ➤ Maurice Saatchi The People v UK Government: British citizens are now slaves of the state Continue reading ➤ | Join the debate Share your thoughts with our journalists and your fellow readers | | The era of mass migration is seemingly coming to an end across Europe. All over the continent, voters have flirted with anti-immigrant politics, and propelled populists into power. Spain, however, has bucked that trend. The country has opened its doors to more than two million people in just the past four years, and this influx of workers has led to the Spanish economy becoming the envy of northern Europe. Why then, could it all be about to turn so sour? Continue reading ➤ | | | Filming her new drama, Anita Dobson had to play a vivacious septuagenarian and wannabe rock chick. It won’t have required too much imagination. The 76-year-old EastEnders legend and wife of Queen guitarist Brian May has lost none of her old-school sparkle. She talks to Anita Singh about dancing on Strictly, being a fan favourite on Doctor Who and the transformation of her old East End neighbourhood. Continue reading ➤ | | | Instrument of torture or necessary scaffolding? The power of the bra may have been celebrated by the likes of television fashion experts Trinny and Susannah in the early 2000s, but younger generations aren’t having it. Swathes of Gen Z women are saying goodbye to bras – and paying no mind to the offence the “Free the Nipple” approach may cause to those around them. Continue reading ➤ | | | Dion Dublin might be known to many as the man who presents Homes Under the Hammer, and by plenty more who remember his prowess as the former Manchester United and Aston Villa striker. But nobody will know him as Jason Statham’s ex-roommate when the pair lived together in Great Yarmouth in a flat above a pub called Boobs. And yet, that’s exactly what he did, as he shares in hilarious detail here. Continue reading ➤ | | | Bronsen Taylor is the fourth generation of his family to run his arcade business – but he feels ‘dread’ for the future | | Trying your luck with a handful of 2p coins in a shoreside arcade is an integral part of the British seaside experience – but Labour’s gambling tax plans are putting its future under threat. Senior Money Writer Rob White discovered what it would mean for businesses when he visited a long-standing family-run arcade in Cleethorpes. Continue reading ➤ | | | As he returns to our screens with James May’s Shed Load of Ideas, the former Top Gear presenter talks life after The Grand Tour, his tongue-in-cheek pub rivalry with Jeremy Clarkson, and the everyday annoyances – from unnecessary cars to online shopping and dog poo – that he’s determined to resolve. Continue reading ➤ | | | Every Sunday, Sarah Knapton, our Science Editor, and Joe Pinkstone, our Science Correspondent, demystify your supernatural experiences. From ghoulish encounters to bizarre coincidences, there’s always a scientific explanation and nothing is as strange as it seems...
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“I hear a conversation, or words spoken before they actually happen.
“Watching TV, I can sometimes say the words or words before they are actually spoken.
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Everyone has heard of double-vision, often brought on by tiredness, intoxication or nerve problems which stop the eyes from working properly together.
But did you know there is also a condition called “double-hearing” or diplacusis, which can bring similar problems?
For most people, our ears work in tandem, merging sounds from both ears into a single stereo signal, which also gives us information about where the noise is coming from.
It is similar to how the eyes work, interpreting two visual fields as a single image.
But for people with diplacusis, a single sound is perceived as two noises, one in each ear.
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Plus, send in your questions for Sarah and Joe here ➤ | | Former Traitors finalist Francesca Rowan-Plowden has revamped the interiors of many a stately home – including Goodnestone Park | Francesca Rowan-Plowden, known for redesigning some of Britain’s grandest homes and for her turn on last year’s Traitors, shares her insider tips for creating stately-home style (even if you don’t own a castle). From using heritage colours and layering fabrics to mixing eclectic patterns, she shows how to bring timeless elegance to any space – without breaking the bank. Continue reading ➤ Below are two more articles that I hope will improve your weekend: | | Henry Todd at a wedding in 2006 | Friends joked that “the Toddfather” went from getting people high in the Seventies to getting them high in the Nineties, writes Chris Maume, deputy obituaries editor.
Henry Todd had become involved in the LSD business as a friend of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, and at his peak was said to have helped control 90 per cent of the LSD trade in Britain.
But it all came to an end in 1977 during Operation Julie, and as the police smashed down his door, he is said to have remarked: “I suppose you’ve come about the TV licence.” Sentenced to 13 years in jail, he served seven.
An avid mountaineer, on his release he pursued his passion and began organising commercial ascents of Everest – one of his early clients was a young SAS reservist named Bear Grylls.
He repurposed old Soviet fighter-pilot masks and worked out how to refill oxygen bottles, which brought the cost down and added an incentive to return used bottles, reducing litter on the mountain.
His presence loomed large at Base Camp. “If he liked you, you’d have the biggest champion and mentor you could ever wish for,” said one guide. “But if not, you would have the biggest enemy.”
Perhaps he never quite left his old life behind. A friend said he liked to sit with his back to the wall in restaurants: “It wasn’t the police he feared.”
Read his full obituary here ➤ | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
The solution to yesterday’s clue was IMMIGRATE. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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