Sir David has warning over famous zoos
3RD PLACE Simpsons ‘TV’S greatest family’ Kevin the ‘fastest barrow boy in world’ with 36mph jaunt
David Attenborough
SIR David Attenborough says the conservation charity that runs London and Whipsnade zoos is on the brink of “extinction”.
He warns in a video appealing for donations: “The Zoological Society of London has made an outstanding contribution to conservation and to our understanding of wildlife.
“Put bluntly, the national institution is now itself at risk of extinction.”
The zoos lost all income when they were forced to close in March and only recently reopened.
Dominic Jermey, ZSL’S director general, said: “We’re at the forefront of research to understand how diseases such as coronaviruses transfer from wildlife to humans. The world cannot afford for our work to be stopped.”
DON’T have a cow, man, but the Simpsons have been voted viewers’ favourite television family.
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie secured 34% of votes in a poll to find the favourite screen family.
They were closely followed by Only Fools and Horses chancers Del Boy (David Jason) and Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst).
There was a close-fought battle for third place, with the Royle Family, the Flintstones and the Addams Family all tying for the bronze medal.
Real-life families also featured, with the Moffatts (Scarlett, mum Betty, dad Mark and little sister Ava) and the
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Malones (mum Julie, dad Tom Senior and sons Tom Jr and Shaun) from Gogglebox in the top 10.
They were more popular than glitzy showbiz clan the Kardashians and the Osbournes, who were also in the top 20.
The survey of 2,000 people by Freeview
THRILL-SEEKER Kevin Nicks reckons he may have set a record for the fastest wheelbarrow after he hurtled along at 36mph in it.
The 55-year-old bolted an old Honda moped to the back of the machine to power it. He said: “No also found families are watching more telly together, racking up an average of 18 hours a week – four more than before lockdown kept us all inside longer.
Almost six in 10 said they had bonded better over television shows, with comedies the number one choice, followed by documentaries and adventure programmes or films.
Almost half of those quizzed felt TV had helped them connect to the outside world during lockdown, and a quarter said it was the perfect way to escape real-life woes.
Almost four in 10 families selected what to watch collectively, a third let the mum or dad decide, and kids took charge of the remote control in a quarter of households. wheelbarrow has flown at this speed. It’s thrilling and bonkers to drive it, but it felt amazing.
“It was a bit breezy with the wind trying to kill me. But that’s all part of the fun.” Kevin, of Chipping Norton, Oxon, has contacted One in 10 took a vote to avoid rows over what to watch but a similar number fell out over TV choices.
Jo Hemmings, a relationship and behavioural psychologist, said: “Families can bond over their feelings towards fictional characters, situations and plots, and chat about them in the same way that they might talk about real-life events and friends.
“We get emotionally attached to characters in TV series and we want to see them continue or, conversely, gotten rid of – one of the reasons why voting apps, which create an interactive voting process for many reality TV series, have become so popular.
“It makes us feel as if we have some influence over what happens.”
Guinness World Records and hopes to have it confirmed he is the fastest in a wheelbarrow.
The dad of one built his machine, called “Barrow of Speed”, during the lockdown and raced it at an event called Straightliners at
Elvington Airfield, North Yorks. Organisers invited 20 “speedheads” to try to smash records in an array of weird and wonderful machines.
Kevin already holds the record for driving the world’s fastest shed – at 101.581mph – in 2017.