Big business sounds alarm over virus: Diageo takes £200m profits hit

Big business sounds alarm over virus: Diageo takes a £200m hit to profits, Rio warns on China demand as Chevron UK HQ is evacuated By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:54 GMT, 26 February 2020 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 26 February 2020 The threat posed by coronavirus to businesses of all types was … Read more

Will there be a Joker in the Oscar pack? Event’s film critic tips tonight’s big winners

Whisper this softly, but we might just be falling out of love with film awards. The television ratings for last weekend’s Bafta awards were the lowest for 12 years, which, given that the coverage was recorded and you could have discovered the winners online some time before they were ‘revealed’ on TV, is perhaps not … Read more

OLLY SMITH: Try a bit of Pinot Gris for big springtime flavours

Pinot Gris has bigger flavours and a fuller texture than Pinot Grigio making it perfect for a springtime sup By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 01:17 GMT, 23 February 2020 Pinot Grigio was the darling of the white wine world. Yet some wine fans … Read more

TR EUROPEAN GROWTH TRUST: The fund that has big ideas in world of small firms 

TR EUROPEAN GROWTH TRUST: The fund that has big ideas in world of small firms By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 It is not just in the UK where smaller companies are expected to outperform the rest of the stock … Read more

Boris’s big gamble on Heathrow backfires: Airport could sue for £500m if runway is axed 

Boris Johnson’s refusal to back Heathrow’s third runway threatens to leave the taxpayer on the hook in a £500million court case, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In a move that dismayed businesses last week, the Prime Minister decided not to appeal when the Government’s official policy of expanding Heathrow was rejected on environmental grounds … Read more

Stalking big cat wakes a sleeping leopardess and leads her on a chase in South Africa

Wakey wakey! Amusing moment a stalking big cat wakes a sleeping leopardess and is led on a chase Footage was captured by Pieter van Wyk, 34, in Mala Mala Game Reserve, Africa The leopardess was given a ‘fright’ as she was woken by a prowling big cat He purposefully placed his paws as he quietly stalked … Read more

Biggest explosion in the Universe since the Big Bang is detected

The ‘biggest explosion since the Big Bang’ has been detected by astronomers and it comes from a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 390 million light years away. Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia used the new Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to study the blast in the distance galactic core. The extremely powerful eruption … Read more

Rare photos of British army officer in India, playing polo and big game hunting, go up for sale

Two rare photo albums depicting the life and work of an unnamed British army officer in India during the first half of the 20th century have emerged for sale. The officer belonged to the Indian Army’s 28th Light Cavalry and there are more than 400 black and white photographs showing military operations, big game hunting, … Read more

Student, 24, sheds eight stone after becoming too BIG to fit on an amusement park ride

An obese takeaway addict who ate McDonald’s twice a day – and was even too big to fit on an amusement park ride – has since turned her life around to drop 8st.  Talicia Lees, 24, from Sydney, New South Wales, who once tipped scales at 137kg while wearing size 22 clothes, revealed her self-esteem hit … Read more