Scott Disick designs ‘please wash your hands’ tops amid coronavirus outbreak… and enlists Kourtney Kardashian’s family to advertise them By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 22:38 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 23:12 GMT, 7 March 2020 Scott Disick’s ‘affordable luxury brand’ Talentless has decided to bank on the paranoia surrounding the highly infectious coronavirus. … Read more
The coronavirus has now spread to almost 70 countries around the world and health officials are scrambling to stop people spreading the virus among themselves. But with many patients not realizing they’re ill, and others carrying on with normal life until they are diagnosed, the fast-spreading infection is proving difficult to contain. Avoiding an infection … Read more
Holidaymakers can now stay in the sweet shop that inspired some of Roald Dahl’s classic books, including The Twits and Matilda, as it’s now listed on Airbnb Mrs Pratchett’s sweet shop in Llandaff, Cardiff, sleeps up to 21 people and can be rented for £450 per night It has recently undergone a renovation by owners … Read more
Britain at its best: Whitby is the Yorkshire seaside town that inspired Dracula – and it’s to die for In Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic, Count Dracula lands at Whitby on a schooner The most splendid Gothic spot is its abbey, which overlooks the coast Harry Mount stayed at The Riviera, a comfortable B&B with ‘epic’ sea … Read more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed the five women who have inspired him the most throughout his lifetime from a singer-songwriter to a Celtic queen and even his own grandmother ‘Granny Butter’. Speaking in a revealing interview to mark International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March, the 55-year-old praised the women who shaped him into … Read more
Hockney hotspots: Exploring the glorious Yorkshire Wolds in search of the sights that inspired our greatest living artist An exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings opens this week Some of his best-loved works were inspired by the little-known Yorkshire Wolds An online interactive map has been launched to help find his favourite spots By Simon … Read more
Britain at its best: A Dickens of a town in the heart of Medway, Kent, that inspired Great Expectations Charles Dickens ‘adored’ Rochester, writes the Daily Mail’s Rob Crossan This year marks the 150th anniversary of the author’s death To mark the occasion, Rochester will be opening a gallery focusing on his life By Rob … Read more
In a defiant cry against further European integration, Margaret Thatcher declared to the Commons in 1990: ‘No, no, no’. Her declaration, which came at a time of intense Tory divisions over Europe, was to prove a pivotal point in her premiership. Now it has emerged that the speech was inspired by a newspaper story… written … Read more
The home that isn’t too big, or too small – but just right… Who wants to sleep in the Fairytale cottage which inspired Goldilocks and the Three Bears as it goes up for sale for £1million? Grade II listed property in the heart of Christchurch, Dorset, once belonged to author Robert Southey The four-bedroom cottage … Read more