News about Brian Grant

A schoolboy showed off his prize-winning cardboard crown in front of a stunned King (pictured) as the monarch visited a flower show. The King laughed as Oliver Keith (pictured) tried on the homemade creation of silver cardboard, purple tissue paper and golden tinsel at the Royal Horticultural Society of Aberdeen's 200th anniversary show in the city's Duthie Park. He questioned the eight-year-old on the fit and how long it took him to make the third-prize winning entry before asking him if he would like to try it on. The King became patron of the society earlier this year and it is marking its 200th anniversary, with the late Queen and King George previous patrons.

According to a report, a common chemical used to dry clean clothes may be fueling the rise of the world's fastest-growing brain disorder - Parkinson's disease. Trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes for the past 100 years. Since the 1970s, food and pharmaceutical industries have been outlawed, but it is still used in several states in household cleaners, aerosol cleaning chemicals, paint removers, spray adhesives, carpet cleaners, and spot removers. On the back of years of growing evidence, a review of existing studies has connected the drug to Parkinson's. While its use has been slowly phased out, TCE can still be found in products for spot dry cleaning