A Dutch cruise ship has recently seen a breakout of hantavirus. The WHO has said that the virus might have been transmitted from person to person, which would be unusual for the disease, which usually only spreads from rodents.

Three deaths have been connected to the outbreak, and two cases of hantavirus have been confirmed so far.

Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s director for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, said that “WHO assesses that the overall risk to the public is low.”

We spoke to Dr Dominic Greenyer, GP and director at The Health Suite in Leicester, about how the disease spreads, its symptoms, and how it may affect us.

“Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that are mostly spread by rodents. Infection in humans is rare, but it can cause serious illness and death,” the doctor explained.

UKHSA explained that they can cause everything from “mild, flu-like” illness to full-blown, severe respiratory disease.

“There are two types of syndromes associated with hantaviruses. They are hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS),” Dr Grant said.

Hantaviruses are found all over the world, including parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

However, the UKHSA shared, “Only Seoul hantavirus – which does not transmit person to person – has ever been identified in the UK.”

“Hantaviruses are usually spread by infected rodents through their urine, droppings or saliva,” Dr Grant said.

That’s why Van Kerkhove called suspected person-to-person transmission on board the cruise ship “uncommon”.

Symptoms usually occur one to four weeks after exposure, though they can appear as late as eight weeks later.

The UKHSA said that in general, symptoms include fever, extreme fatigue, muscle aches, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, or shortness of breath.

Dr Grant broke that down further.

“Symptoms of HPS [hantavirus pulmonary syndrome] can include a fever, headaches, dizziness and gastrointestinal issues such as vomiting, pain and diarrhoea. Some days after the initial illness, there can be a sudden onset of respiratory symptoms, including shortness of breath,” said Dr Grant.

“HFRS [haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome] is clinically similar, with symptoms including headaches, fever and chills. In later stages, symptoms can include low blood pressure and kidney failure.”

Dr Greenyer added, “The World Health Organisation currently classes the risk to the global population as ‘low’”.

Fans of The Bear eagerly awaiting the fifth and final season have been treated to an unexpected gift to tide them over.

On Tuesday, Disney+ dropped the surprise new flashback episode, titled Gary, on its streaming platform.

The stand-alone episode focusses on a road trip Richie and Mikey once took to the city of Gary, Indiana, and is not listed among the rest of the series (meaning fans have to search “Gary” on Disney+ if they want to see it).

Ebon Moss-Bachrach – who won two Emmys for his portrayal of Richie in The Bear – announced on Tuesday that he and co-star Jon Bernthal had written the episode together, with The Bear’s creator Christopher Storer on directing duties.

“We are so excited to finally share this little adventure with Richie and Mikey,” he beamed, adding: “Making this was a dream come true. Thank you to the beautiful people of Gary, Indiana and as always Chicago, Illinois.”

An official press release for Gary teased: “This episode follows Richard ‘Richie’ Jerimovich and Michael ‘Mikey’ Berzatto on a work trip to Gary, Indiana.

“Intimate and revealing, it illuminates the two friends’ complicated relationship, uncovering new layers of Mikey’s mental state while offering crucial insight into the man Richie is when audiences first meet him in season one — adding emotional context that reframes their story from the very beginning.”

Season five of The Bear is expected to return to our screens in the summer, though an official release date has not been confirmed, with production getting underway in January.

Last year’s run ended with leading man Jeremy Allen White’s character, Carmy, leaving the show’s central restaurant and signing over his stake in it.

Despite this feeling to many like a goodbye to The Bear, the series was soon renewed for its fifth season, which was later revealed to be its last.

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I first got my hands on the reMarkable Paper Pro last year and it’s safe to say that I haven’t shut up about it since. Swapping to an e-ink tablet ended my years of lugging notebooks and half-finished diaries everywhere, and having my notes, calendars and to-do lists all in one place (without the risk of losing a sheet) turned out to be the answer to so many of my organisational issues. So naturally, when the Swedish tech firm invited me to roadtest their latest offering, I couldn’t have said yes faster.

Enter the reMarkable’s new entry-level tablet, the Paper Pure.

As with all of reMarkable’s products, the Paper Pure is essentially a digital writing tablet for reading documents and textbooks, sketching and note-taking that attempts to fully replicate paper writing. Unlike the slick, slippery glass of typical tablets, the display on the Paper Pure has a special surface that mimics paper, so every pen stroke has just the right amount of resistance, making writing, doodling, or annotating documents feel totally natural.

HOWEVER, while the new 10.3-inch black-and-white paper tablet still offers reMarkable’s renowned paper-like writing feel and workflow-focused features, it instead comes with a much lower price tag – and a whole whack of new upgrades.

What affords it a lower price tag you ask? Well, unlike the Pro, the Paper Pure is strictly black and white only (so no more colourful highlighter options) and there is no backlight. The pay off? reMarkable Paper Pro starts at £559, while the Paper Pure starts at £359. For many, that £200 saving is going to be the deciding factor.

“With reMarkable Paper Pure, we challenged ourselves to make the signature reMarkable writing experience more accessible to even more people,” said Mats Herding Solberg, Chief Design Officer at reMarkable. “Together with reMarkable Paper Pro and reMarkable Paper Pro Move, it completes our transition from reMarkable 2 to a family of third-generation paper tablets. Whether you want a colour display, frontlight, and all the other latest technology, or just an excellent digital notebook, there’s a reMarkable Paper tablet for you.

It’s a solid idea – I’ve recommended my Paper Pro to everyone, but the price tag does mean it’s not as simple as just casually popping out and buying one willy nilly. And after a month of road testing the Paper Pure myself, I can safely say that you’re not missing out by opting for this new, more bank account-friendly model.

Like its predecessors, the Paper Pure has 100s of templates you can use for each of your individual projects, as well as standard lined paper options and blank pages for scribbling. Everything can be tagged and organised into folders, making it easy to find everything (instead of wondering where the hell you left that post-it note in your kitchen).

You can cut, copy, and resize content effortlessly and even convert your handwritten notes to typed text. If I don’t manage to get something done on my to-do list, I can simply circle it, cut it and paste it onto the next day within seconds. Instead of scrambling through my bag looking for my paper diary, I can switch between my to-do list, my diary and whatever notebook I’m working on seamlessly.

However, for me, the upgrades are where the Paper Pure really sings.

With the new model, you can link your reMarkable to your Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook, and your tablet can create meeting notes prefilled with information with a tap, reducing time spent preparing for meetings. As someone who needs to scribble notes, I love being able to import documents from my Google Drive and having them automatically turned into paper tablet-native text documents – which I can then easily reupload back to my Drive when I’m done (tell you what, it’s a blessing for when you need to sign documents!).

With the Paper Pure you can also convert webpages saved through Remarkable’s Chrome extension or mobile apps into editable notebooks and you can now link your tablet to Slack for an even smoother workflow.

The reMarkable Paper Pure is 100% distraction free – there are no notifications, pop-ups or apps. I have an attention span that is utterly non-existent and I often struggle on my laptop (especially when I’m meant to be focusing on just writing) as I have too much temptation to go and check emails. Yes you can connect your tablet to the internet, but there’s no chance of you getting distracted by apps.

Less distraction, more focus, and £200 left over? That’s the kind of tech upgrade we can actually get behind.

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Buying a car is expensive. Between finance, dealership fees, road tax, maintenance, and insurance, choosing a new vehicle can be a costly decision.

With the price of new cars on the rise, it makes sense that more people are opting to buy used cars each year. Over 7.8 million used cars were bought in the UK in 2025, up 2.15% from the previous year and this is only projected to rise.

And while investing in a second hand car can save you thousands of pounds, it can also come with stratospheric hidden costs if you don’t properly investigate its past.

With the cost of new cars constantly fluctuating, and electronic vehicles being introduced into the market, it can be difficult to know whether you’re getting a fair deal on a used car.

As well as figuring out the fair price of a car, there is also its safety to consider.

Dishonest dealers can disguise themselves as private sellers to avoid having to be responsible for faulty cars, or those that have been written off by insurance.

If we learnt anything from Roald Dahl’s Mr Wormwood, it’s that there is also a risk that the mileage displayed on a car isn’t genuine.

In fact, one in 11 cars checked by HPI Check has a discrepancy with its mileage. This can not only reduce a car’s safety, but can lead to costly repairs further down the road.

And, we know what you’re thinking: it’s unlikely you’ll fall for a scam. But one in three cars run through HPI check has something to hide.

So to avoid being hit with unwanted bills and legal disputes down the line, using a car history check service can give you peace of mind.

To make sure you’re not gambling on whether the seller has been truthful about the history of your car, HPI check investigates everything you need to be aware of when buying a used car.

• If the car is reported as stolen
• If the car is an insurance write-off
• Whether there’s an outstanding loan or finance agreement on the car
• The number of its previous owners
• If the DVLA has marked the car as scrapped
• If the logbook is legitimate
• Mileage discrepancies
• How many number plate changes the car has had.

This will reveal whether or not you’ll be the rightful owner of your new car, and uncover if it has a dangerous past you need to be aware of.

The HPI check will also help you investigate if the car you want to buy is roadworthy, which will help you learn the true market value of the car and negotiate a fair deal with the seller.

According to one HPI check reviewer, the service saved him money and a long journey. “I saw the car I wanted, checked it through the HPI check website, and how relieved I was that I did check its history,” he said.

“It was an insurance write-off and the mileage was incorrect. It saved me from a very bad situation and having a conman making my life a misery. Money well spent.”

But it’s not just money you could save: using HPI check could also give you the confidence to navigate buying a used car in future, and save you the stress of dealing with a faulty one.

Another reviewer said: “We used HPI check because we trusted their information on a used car that we wanted to purchase. In the world of used cars this proved to be invaluable advice, we would recommend anyone thinking of buying a quality used car to use this service.”

I’ve been learning more about the urinary habits of celebs recently than I ever thought I would. First, it turned out that loads of singers use a pee bucket backstage if they’ve gotta go mid-concert (yes, really).

And now, it seems some on-screen talent have their own secret code to ask to go to the loo ― at least, that’s according to makeup mogul, singer, motel owner, and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Trixie Mattel.

In a recent video, the drag star shared the behind-the-scenes secrets of reality TV. “I had to learn on my feet what exactly a TV set was,” the star said in the video ― and that included working out how to nip to the loo.

“Did you know on television when you have to pee… you say, ‘I have to ten-one’, ’I’m taking her to ten-one,’‘she’s going to ten-one,’” Trixie shared.

“It’s a more elegant way of saying ‘go pee,’” the drag star added. “And on a TV set when I was 24 years old, my instinct was to go, ‘will someone take me to pee?’ And they’d be like, ‘you mean ten one?’”

Studio Binder confirms that 10-1 is walkie-talkie lingo for needing to pee ― and it turns out that 10-2 refers to needing to, well, go number two, as well.

They add that if you find you need more time in the bathroom than you’d expected as a TV cast member ― maybe that dodgy food from last night caught up with you out of nowhere ― you can ask to “upgrade your 10-1″ on the walkie-talkie too.

This will buy you more precious alone time.

“I have no idea where that came from,” Trixie shared, referring to the initial 10-1 code. Well, we think we might have answers ― the ten does seem to apply to the ten code, which refers to abbreviated speech you can use across telecoms, and one is, well, going number one.

But why you couldn’t just ask to pee instead is frankly a little beyond me. Perhaps I’m just inelegant…

This is less specific to TV shows in general and more applicable to drag ― but Trixie brought up the topic of urine again towards the end of her tell-all video.

“This one I’m going to be vague about, but we’re in drag for long days, and drag is very taxing on the body, and sometimes people don’t get to pee,” she said. “And sometimes pee happens… that’s all I’m going to say,” she added.

“I’ve never peed myself on Drag Race,” she pointed out, “but I know it’s happened. Whether or not people have said it happened, I think people have peed their pants and it hasn’t shown on camera so no-one knew.”

Basically, I’m learning that if you haven’t faced a pretty Medieval peeing system at least once in your showbiz career, you haven’t made it big. I knew fame wasn’t for me…

As fans eagerly await the upcoming fourth iteration of The White Lotus, more information has been teased about the characters we’ll be meeting when we check in this time around.

On Tuesday, Variety published a piece making some intriguing claims about who some members of the star-studded cast will be playing in the next run of episodes.

According to the outlet, Black Swan star Vincent Cassel will be occupying a space previously held by Murray Bartlett, Sabrina Impacciatore and Christian Friedel by portraying the White Lotus manager in the South of France.

It was also reported that White Lotus creator Mike White had envisaged that Helena Bonham Carter would play a “washed-out star who is chasing a comeback”.

Citing undisclosed “sources”, Variety went on to say that the British star left The White Lotus due to “creative differences”, notably Mike White wanting her to play the character in a more “boisterous” way.

Shortly after the Harry Potter actor parted ways with the project, it was announced that Oscar winner Laura Dern would be joining the cast, playing a new character who occupies a similar space in the ensemble to what the team had in mind for Helena’s.

The production team will film at the real Cannes Film Festival when it gets up and running later this month, before flying to Paris later in the summer to shoot certain sequences to avoid the French riviera’s busy season.

Besides the aforementioned Vincent and Laura, other cast members will include Steve Coogan, Kumail Nanjiani, Max Greenfield, Chris Messina, Sandra Bernhard, Rosie Perez and Heather Graham, in addition to some burgeoning new faces to the acting world.

Mike White previously claimed the new season would ponder “fame”, “who has the world’s attention”, “who is the plus-one” and “how that can organise a relationship”.

HuffPost UK has contacted the US broadcaster HBO for comment.

If you’ve ever sat through an episode of Peaky Blinders, you might find yourself wondering how the heck Cillian Murphy didn’t destroy his lungs playing the infamous Thomas Shelby.

Yup, there’s rarely a scene where the titular character isn’t puffing on a cigarette – so, what’s actually going on? Are they just destroying packets of cigarettes a la Dot Cotton actress June Brown?

Well, one TikToker has shared what our fave celebs are actually smoking – and it turns out things are far more herbal. (No, not that type of herb, before you get excited.)

Director David Ma (@davidwma) often shares the truth behind Hollywood trickery and in a video which has amassed a whopping 2.2 million likes, the film expert has revealed what stars are smoking.

David explained: “Most of the time, when you see actors smoking on screen we use something called prop cigarettes. They’re herbal cigarettes that are tobacco and nicotine and additive-free.”

Well, that explains why we’ve not got hundreds of actors out there with hacking coughs.

“They also look quite real in an actor’s fingers,” David added, sharing that Jon Hamm went through packs of these while filming Mad Men.

“When you cut one open you’ll notice there isn’t tobacco inside, it looks more like herb – not that ’erb – but you know, rose petal, clover and tea leaves.”

What about smoke? According to David this tends to be added in post-production, usually with CGI.

And as for Cillian? Turns out he went through a whopping 3,000 of the fake herbal cigarettes while portraying Tommy Shelby.

Caffeinated drinks like tea and coffee seem to have a lot more health benefits than you might realise. They’ve been linked to a longer life, less stress, and even improved heart health.

But, per a paper recently published in the journal Nutrients, one may be slightly better than the other for maintaining women’s bone health by reducing osteoporosis as they age.

The 10-year study, which followed nearly 10,000 women over 65, saw “modest” benefits for tea drinkers.

This research asked participants to share their drinking habits throughout the trial period. Researchers also measured their bone density over time using imaging techniques.

At the end of the study, the paper authors noticed that women who drank tea over coffee had slightly higher bone mineral density in their hips. That’s important, because this is a joint especially prone to fracture when osteoporosis kicks in, as it does for a third of women over 50.

The advantage was only small. But, study author and adjunct associate professor Enwu Liu told Flinders University, that “even small improvements in bone density can translate into fewer fractures across large groups”.

That doesn’t mean drinking coffee was catastrophic, either. Drinking two to three cups a day didn’t seem to harm bone health at all; issues only arose among those who drank more than five cups daily.

Coffee affected some participants more than it did others, too. Those who consumed more alcohol over the course of their lifetime tended to see worse results from coffee consumption.

And women with obesity tended to see more benefits from tea.

Study co-author Ryan Liu said that compounds in tea called catechins, which may help to boost bone formation and slow the rate at which they’re broken down, might explain the “modest” gap.

“Coffee’s caffeine content, by contrast, has been shown in laboratory studies to interfere with calcium absorption and bone metabolism,” Liu added.

The experts don’t seem to think so.

Negative effects kicked in at about coffee cup number five, and Ryan Liu said there’s a simple way to make your morning cuppa better for your bones – “these effects are small and can be offset by adding milk,” he said.

Enwu Liu added: “While moderate coffee drinking appears safe, very high consumption may not be ideal, especially for women who drink alcohol.

“Our results don’t mean you need to give up coffee or start drinking tea by the gallon. But they do suggest that moderate tea consumption could be one simple way to support bone health, and that very high coffee intake might not be ideal, especially for women who drink alcohol.”

He ended: “While calcium and vitamin D remain cornerstones of bone health, what’s in your cup could play a role too. For older women, enjoying a daily cup of tea may be more than a comforting ritual, it could be a small step toward stronger bones.”