After becoming the youngest person ever to win Race Across the World at the age of just 20, Alfie Watts is getting ready to embark on his next adventure.
Alfie will be driving a tuk tuk from London to The North Cape in Norway in just 31 days to raise money for a mental health charity.
A young person has died and two other are being treated after an outbreak of Meningitis in Reading. It follows a major outbreak in Kent that killed two people and left more than a dozen needing hospital treatment in March, but the cases aren't related.
The UK Health Security Agency says risk to the public remains low, but understand people will likely be worried about a rise in cases.
Dr Hilary Jones shares the signs and symptoms of meningitis that people should look out for.
Britain's last surviving mosquito bomber pilot, Colin Bell, has recently returned to the skies in the cockpit of a Second World War aircraft. He told Good Morning Britain his secret to a long and happy life.
El Nino is a naturally occurring warm phase in the tropical pacific.
This year is projected to be very strong and it will impact weather all around the world 'super charing' extreme weather events, even here in the UK.
After becoming a fan favourite on The Traitors earlier this year, Jessie Stride is continuing to campaign for more awareness of those living with stammers.
She is supporting a campaign called ‘Don’t Hang Up, Hang On’, which aims to get companies to put systems in place to allow customers to say that they have a speech difference at the start of phone calls, to ease the challenge of making calls those with stammers currently face, as research shows that 97% of those with stammers find them hard to do. See less
MPs are calling for tobacco-style warnings on sunbeds as part of a major crackdown on the UK’s tanning obsession. They want a total ban on sunbed ads and an end to the "sunscreen tax".
Karrieann McDonnell used sunbeds three times a week for 12 years and has since had twenty skin lesions removed. She is supporting the inquiry chaired by Carolyn Harris.
Naomi Rees-Issitt’s 18-year-old son, Jamie, died four years ago after suffering a cardiac arrest on New Year’s Day. Police arrived within 12 minutes, but had no defibrillator in their car. Naomi says if they'd had one, it could have been the difference between life and death for Jamie.
She has since channeled the tragedy of losing her teenage son into a life-saving mission and has been awarded the British Empire Medal for her tireless campaigning.
Another Brit has been diagnosed with suspected hantavirus linked to the cruise ship outbreak.
Ruhi Cenet, who was a passenger onboard MV Hondius, explains what it was like on the ship before he disembarked at St Helena on April 24th.
After losing his brother, Sam aged just 15-years-old to suicide, Ben West has since made it his life’s mission to ensure other people never have to endure that same, devastating silence. He turned his pain into purpose by creating ‘Reasons to Stay’ - a website where strangers write letters of hope to people they’ve never met.
Emma Benson read one of the online letters and it gave her strength to ask for help.
Meeting for the first time in person, Emma tells Kate and Ranvir about the impact the letter had on her.
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove from the World Health Organisation says that the hantavirus outbreak is not Covid.
This comes as two British people are currently self-isolating here in the UK after alerting authorities to the fact they may have been exposed to Hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius.
