London, Sept 25: UK’s National Health Services scientists have revealed that available influenza jabs have not done enough to prevent flu among the elderly.

In an article published in the October issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, they describe how sources of bias in other, non-randomized studies have exaggerated the flu vaccine’s value in preventing flu deaths among those over 70.

The authors also say that a less-than-ideal flu vaccine is beneficial than no vaccine at all.

London: A recent report has showed that a new case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed on a cattle farm in the Egham area of Surrey in Britain. This is the sixth case in Britain since early August.

Examinations were followed out after the animals indicated the disease signs.

London, Sept 23 : Moon’s gentle surface could be the best place to find earliest evidence of life on Earth, according to a new study by a University of London researcher.

Ian Crawford of Birkbeck has said that conditions on the moon are much more gentle than those on Earth, so meteorites that blasted off our planet billions of years ago could well still be lying around on the moon.

London, Sep 23 : A teacher devised an unusual way to keep her kids from drug peddlers – she herself supplied them with cannabis.

The teacher, who is in her 40s, admitted supplying cannabis to her own children, to stop them buying it from street dealers.

The woman, a regular drug user, told police she wanted to prevent her two teens being exposed to criminals who might lure them into harder drugs and crime.

Officers found 116g of cannabis resin, worth around 200 pounds, at her home near Bury St Edmunds.

London, Sep 23 : Britain’s dumbest drink-driver was banned after he turned up at a police station in an inebriated state to answer his bail.

Philip Cavalier was being charged for an earlier offence of driving into a tree while drunk when cops whiffed alcohol on him.

The 56-year-old was ordered to undergo tests, which showed that Cavalier, who drove his van to the station, had 152mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, i.e. five times over the limit

Magistrates in Eastbourne, Sussex, said the case was “beyond belief,” reports The Sun.