Brooke Shields has taught her children that money does not grow on trees. The veteran actress and model spoke to US Weekly on Tuesday, revealing to the publication that her two daughters Rowan, 17, and Grier, 14, got summer jobs this year for the first time. ‘They got a paycheck every week,’ said Shields who started … Read more
Investors have had a bumpy ride since markets suffered eye-watering losses in March. But while savers may find their investments bruised, experts say now is not the time to panic and warn against making rash decisions. Laura Suter, personal finance analyst with investment platform AJ Bell, says savers should instead take their time to assess … Read more
Earlier this summer, the Prime Minister announced his £2billion plan to make cities more bicycle-friendly, and ‘give people the confidence to travel on two wheels’. Boris Johnson’s dream seems very much alive in North London’s Finsbury Park, where colourful cyclists swish in and out of the gates, and into the 9am traffic, while small children … Read more
We’ve all gone mad for fancy breads over the past few months. If you weren’t making sourdough, what did you do with yourself in lockdown? But to go with that lovely loaf, you need a truly superior spread, which is why foodies have turned to gourmet ‘artisan’ butter in their droves. So, what does it … Read more
Ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption today called on Britain to learn to live alongside Covid-19 because ‘there have been far worse diseases’. Lord Jonathan, who is also a medieval historian, praised Sweden’s approach to the pandemic, after the nation bucked the trend and opted against a lockdown. In his piece for The Telegraph, he said … Read more
The Voice Australia fans are stunned to learn the depressing truth about Daryl Braithwaite’s The Horses – as the rock star duets with winner Chris Sebastian By Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:10 BST, 19 July 2020 | Updated: 23:10 BST, 19 July 2020 For many Australians, Daryl Braithwaite’s The Horses is as … Read more
Donald Trump has said that black people who want statues of slave owners and Confederate figures removing should ‘learn from the history’ or risk ‘going to go back to it sometime’. Calls to remove statues of Confederate figures and those connected to slavery have been mounting in recent weeks in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests sparked … Read more
Priti Patel signalled the Government plans to introduce a terror clampdown today as she visited the site of the Reading rampage that left three dead. The Home Secretary said it was it was important to ‘learn the lessons’ of the bloody attack in the commuter town on Saturday evening as she met police officers in Forbury Gardens. … Read more
For those of us sensitive to noise, the rules likely to govern public manners as the nation eases out of lockdown seem almost like paradise, and certainly an improvement on the pre-Covid-19 social code. The new measures are based on the scientists’ belief that talking loudly produces thousands of droplets, which can remain in the … Read more
The mindset created during the years of British slavery in the West Indies, when black people were unfairly described as inferior to white people, still, I believe, sadly persists in many today. For example, last year, after arriving at an important organisation in Edinburgh to give a lecture, I was stopped by the door attendant … Read more