How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle blocked a request to name a new Australian firebombing air tanker after their son Archie NSW RFS launched 737 large air tanker called Marie Bashir unveiled last August Originally proposed to be called Archie in honour of firstborn of Prince Harry Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle ‘politely declined’ … Read more
FTSE CLOSE: Premier Inn owner Whitbread’s bookings decline; Higher sales boost Primark parent ABF; Kids bikes lift Halfords By This Is Money Published: 08:21 GMT, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 17:17 GMT, 16 January 2020 Regional sales fell 2 per cent at Premier Inn’s parent company Whitbread The FTSE 100 closed down 32.99 points at … Read more
Regular exercise protects the brain from damage and keeps it healthy in old age, fresh evidence suggests. German scientists found cycling halted the decline of grey matter in hundreds of volunteers with an average age of 52. But the researchers claimed ‘just about any physical activity that gets your heart pumping’ would have the same effect. Grey … Read more
MEMOIR Mapperton Moments by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more