HSBC caves in to pressure to improve its climate change commitments and stop financing fossil fuels By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 March 2021 HSBC has caved into calls to improve its climate change commitments ahead of its annual shareholder meeting in May. … Read more
Rio Tinto’s ousted boss given 20% pay rise last year – and could get millions more, despite losing job after miner destroyed sacred Aboriginal caves By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 22 February 2021 | Updated: 22:19 GMT, 22 February 2021 Bumper pay: Jean-Sebastien Jacques made £7.2m in 2020 Rio Tinto’s … Read more
A daring scuba diver plunged into a Mexican river to take breathtaking photographs of a labyrinth of underwater caves worshiped by the Mayans. Martin Broen, 50, braved the depths below the Riviera Maya in Mexico to capture the ‘magical’ cave system formed during the ice age millions of years ago. His exploration through the world’s longest network … Read more
There are unusual properties and then there is this. These five caves in the Welsh countryside are for sale with the woodland they sit in for £150,000. The caves are in the stunning Brecon Becons within a plot that extends across 2.5 acres of woodland – and as an episode of Grand Designs has previously proven … Read more
Harry Potter star Jessie Cave’s three-month-old son Abraham is being treated in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus. The British actress, 33, took to Instagram on Tuesday morning to share a snap of her baby in a hospital cot in an isolated room, with an iPad playing Boris Johnson’s national address announcing lockdown in the … Read more
A lingering odour haunts the streets of this sleepy village in southern France. It’s neither unpleasant nor overwhelming – wafts of air carry hints of the salty, full-bodied aroma of roquefort cheese, made in the place whose name it shares. The ribbon of a village snuggled at the base of a limestone plateau in the … Read more
Donald Trump took a massive step towards admitting defeat in the election Monday night by saying he was allowing the transition to Joe Biden to begin – but immediately claimed he can still overturn his defeat at the hands of voters. General Services Administration Chief Emily Murphy told President-elect Biden in a letter that he … Read more
Tatler has cut huge swathes from its online profile of the Duchess of Cambridge after the society bible was accused of publishing a ‘string of lies’. The magazine has caved in and removed almost a quarter of the piece – in particular ‘cruel’ and ‘snobby’ barbs aimed at Kate’s mother Carole Middleton and sister Pippa. … Read more
Rio Tinto urged to hire Australian chief exec after after destruction of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal cave site By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 14 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 14 September 2020 Australian politicians are putting pressure on Rio Tinto to appoint someone from the country as its next chief executive, … Read more
From Alan Carr on Out With Suzi Ruffell to Hometown and podcasts from David Tennant and Jessie and Bebe Cave, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 12 September 2020 Out With Suzi Ruffell Comedian Suzi Ruffell had an inkling she might be gay at … Read more