Cruise ships from Britain and the United States are being scrapped at a Turkish dock after the multi-billion pound industry was smashed by the coronavirus crisis. The coronavirus cruise liner graveyard at the port in Aliaga, a town 30 miles north of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast, bustled with work again on Friday as scrapyard workers … Read more
First cruise ship to sail to Greek islands since coronavirus lockdown is forced to dock after 12 crew members test positive for Covid-19 The German-operated Mein Schiff 6 has docked with 1,588 passengers and crew Nobody can leave the ship in Piraeus as testers board the ship for screening 12 crew members tested positive although … Read more
Property heir ex husband of footballer Cesc Fabregas’s wife collapses and wails in dock as he is jailed for seven months for ignoring court orders in divorce battle Elie Taktouk, 45, ‘wailed for ’25 minutes’ during sentencing, reports The Sun Appearing at Southwark Crown Court, London, he was jailed for seven months Taktouk, of Chelsea, … Read more
Almost 200 migrants rescued by a humanitarian aid boat in the Mediterranean Sea began to leave the vessel in Sicily late on Monday after nine days stuck on the ship which saw some attempt suicide and others threaten the crew. A journalist aboard the Ocean Viking watched as the migrants, in single file and carrying … Read more
Post Office bosses should face criminal prosecutions over an IT scandal branded the ‘biggest miscarriage of justice in our history’, MPs demanded yesterday. Up to 960 postmasters were wrongfully convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting after cash appeared to vanish from their tills. But it later emerged that shortfalls in the accounts of local … Read more
A British cruise ship that has been stranded for more than a week in the Caribbean after several cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed onboard is set to dock in Cuba today to allow weary passengers to disembark and fly home. The mostly British passengers stranded on the COVID 19-stricken MS Braemar will then … Read more