Builder causes £425,000 of damage using a digger ‘because developer owed him £4.2m’ 

Builder causes £425,000 of damage by tearing down German apartments’ balconies with a digger ‘because developer owed him £4.2million’ Family recorded the man from a building opposite in Blumberg, south Germany The destructive outburst happened at around 7.30pm on Wednesday evening  Man driving the digger first fled the scene in his car but later handed … Read more

Builder causes £425,000 of damage using a digger ‘because developer owed him £4.2m’ 

Builder causes £425,000 of damage by tearing down German apartments’ balconies with a digger ‘because developer owed him £4.2million’ Family recorded the man from a building opposite in Blumberg, south Germany The destructive outburst happened at around 7.30pm on Wednesday evening  Man driving the digger first fled the scene in his car but later handed … Read more

Police charge man, 57, with criminal damage and dangerous driving over car flip video

Police charge man, 57, with criminal damage and dangerous driving after video showed a parked car being flipped over by a digger at a farm 57-year-old man arrested in connection with the incident at a farm in Teesdale  Police said a 20-year-old arrested on suspicion of assault has now been released Video showed man using … Read more

Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage at protests to get jury trials

Extinction Rebellion fanatics are deliberately causing at least £5,000 of criminal damage at protests to get jury trials as they believe they’ll stand a better chance of acquittal Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage to get a jury trial Anyone who causes at least £5,000 of damage can be brought before a jury Protestors believe … Read more

French wine shortage: Farmers suffer worst frost damage since 1990 and smallest harvest for 40 years

French winemakers have suffered the worst frost damage to their crops since the 1990s as fears grow that grape vines could yield the smallest harvest for 40 years.  The damage done by several nights’ of frost this week threatens to destroy grape harvests in some of the country’s best-known and prestigious wine-producing regions. Farmers across the country lit … Read more

Royal Navy vessel suffers £100,000 of damage after docking accident in Bahrain

‘Royal Navy captain ‘smashes £100,000 hole in warship as he tries to dock it in the dark for the first time’ HMS Chiddingfold was being docked in Bahrain when it struck HMS Penzance  The 685 tonne Hunt-class mine hunter suffered two holes in her plastic hull The vessel, which was launched in 1983, is in … Read more

Royal Navy vessel suffers £100,000 of damage after docking accident in Bahrain

‘Royal Navy captain ‘smashes £100,000 hole in warship as he tries to dock it in the dark for the first time’ HMS Chiddingfold was being docked in Bahrain when it struck HMS Penzance  The 685 tonne Hunt-class mine hunter suffered two holes in her plastic hull The vessel, which was launched in 1983, is in … Read more

British charity kept Meghan Markle’s £10,000 donation secret over fears she could damage reputation

A British charity said it kept a £10,000 donation from Meghan Markle a secret because she’s ‘like Marmite’  – but were prompted to speak out following her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.   In August, the Duchess of Sussex, 39, now based in the US, gifted funds from The Royal Foundation to Nottingham charity Himmah – a community … Read more

British charity kept Meghan Markle’s £10,000 donation secret over fears she could damage reputation

A British charity said it kept a £10,000 donation from Meghan Markle a secret because she’s ‘like Marmite’  – but were prompted to speak out following her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.   In August, the Duchess of Sussex, 39, now based in the US, gifted funds from The Royal Foundation to Nottingham charity Himmah – a community … Read more

The average driver wouldn’t claim for any damage under £667

The average British driver wouldn’t make a claim on their insurance for any damage unless the repair bill exceeds £667, research has revealed. The most common reason for not claiming is because drivers believe the cost of the excess would be higher than the repairs themselves, closely followed by fears that it would bump up … Read more