UK ticket holder stakes claim for £58.3m EuroMillions jackpot after striking lucky in Friday’s draw 

UK ticket holder stakes claim for £58.3m EuroMillions jackpot after striking lucky in Friday’s draw The winner has scooped £58,366,487.50 after matching all five main numbers Winning numbers in Friday’s draw were 16, 28, 32, 37 and 45 and 01 and 11  It is the second EuroMillions jackpot winner in the UK this year after one … Read more

Coronavirus: Japan FINALLY draw up plans to postpone Tokyo 2020 after weeks of denials

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more

Can I draw from an old pension and still put £40,000 a year into other schemes?

I am 60 later this year and as a deferred member of the NHS defined benefit 1995 scheme I am entitled to claim my mandatory 25 per cent lump sum and receive a monthly pension. There is no benefit to delaying taking these sums. I have worked in the private sector for the last 19 … Read more

HARRY COLE: Civil servants take time out of coronavirus duties to draw up ‘risk assessment’ of a dog

HARRY COLE: Proof that Whitehall is now barking mad – as civil servants take time out of coronavirus duties to draw up a two-page ‘risk assessment’ for the arrival of a dog By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:24 GMT, 15 March 2020 | Updated: 01:26 GMT, 15 March 2020 Taking time … Read more

Food Standards Agency forced to draw up new rules for trendy ‘raw’ milk

Food Standards Agency crack down on trendy ‘raw’ milk after it caused five food poisoning outbreaks in two years Advocates claim the milk is high in important enzymes and beneficial bacteria But it has not been pasteurised or heat treated and is fresh from a cow It exposes people drinking the milk to dangerous bugs … Read more

Tourists draw famous landmarks from memory with some VERY mixed results

UK and U.S tourists were asked to draw some of the world’s most famous landmarks from memory and the results range from the amazingly good to the shockingly bad. And overall, it seems that it’s Americans who are the better artists with higher accuracy scores than the Brits. In total, 132 people aged 18 to … Read more