French Champagne house to build huge winery that produces 400,000 bottles of bubbly a year in Kent

A famous French Champagne house has given the UK a boozy boost after it received the green light to build a huge winery in the UK, which will produce 400,000 bottles of bubbly a year. Champagne Taittinger has been given the go ahead by Ashford Borough Council to construct the state-of-the-art facility in Chilham, Kent. … Read more

Riot police fend off barrage of bricks and bottles in battle to shut down illegal rave in London

Riot police fended off a barrage of bricks and bottles thrown by revellers as they shut down an illegal rave attended by hundreds in London last night. Video from the scene shows officers in riot gear forming a line as they walk down a street near the Woodberry Down Estate in Finsbury Park to disperse crowds. … Read more

Police slam ‘disgusting inhuman thugs’ who pelted officers with bottles and threatened with a knife

Police have branded a group of people attending an illegal block party in west London as ‘disgusting inhuman thugs’ after officers had bottles thrown at them and were threatened with a knife.    Officers came under attack with bottles after they tried to clear a ‘block party’ in Havelock Close, White City.  Taking to Twitter, the Southall … Read more

Police showered with bottles as they try to break up an illegal block party in west London

Police are showered with bottles and chased away by crowds as they try to break up an illegal block party in west London By Darren Boyle for MailOnline Published: 23:43 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 23:45 BST, 3 July 2020 Police came under attack with bottles after they tried to clear a ‘block party’ … Read more

6 hot bottles   | Daily Mail Online

Olly Smith’s 6 hot bottles By Olly Smith Published: 00:02 BST, 21 June 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 21 June 2020 The Mail on Sunday wine expert’s supermarket picks work wonderfully with our salmon recipes – cheers!  Thai Curry Salmon Bake and Gravadlax roast  Morrisons Pinot Gris 2018 (13%), £8.50. Fruity and fulsome, this scrumptious, … Read more

Discarded plastic bottles make up a QUARTER of the UK’s litter

Plastic bottles are the UK’s most commonly littered item, accounting for a quarter of all rubbish discarded on streets, parks and beaches by volume, a new study reveals. Small plastic bottles commonly used to contain non-alcoholic fizzy drinks accounted for just under 25 per cent of discarded waste by volume in 2019, environmental charity Keep … Read more

No more corked wine! Secret method ‘guarantees all bottles’ will NOT spoil

The end of corked wine? Secret method being developed by world’s biggest cork-maker eliminates the chemical compound that causes wine to spoil and stink of wet dog Chemical compound TCA destroys wine’s taste and makes it smell of wet dog   Made when fungi in cork react with chemicals from winery cleaning products World’s biggest cork maker … Read more