Rita Ora has ‘left locals furious after spending the COVID-19 lockdown at a rented farmhouse 150 miles away from her London abode’. The singer, 29, is said to be staying with five people at the rural property in south-west England on a trip booked prior to the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation, with the group working on … Read more
Locals in ‘crazy’ Derbyshire town of Belper MOO out of their windows in unison every evening to fight the boredom of coronavirus lockdown At 18:30 every day for three weeks, residents in Belper have ‘Mooed’ together Resident Jasper Ward said it was a way to make the lockdown more bearable While it may appear crazy, … Read more
Hundreds of holiday lets and second home owners who have arrived in Cornwall ahead of the Easter weekend have been reported to the council. Locals have highlighted some 650 cases of people ignoring the government’s lockdown orders in the past five days alone, according to The Times. Since the nationwide measures to limit the spread … Read more
A group of furious locals blocked a Range Rover driver after he travelled 115 miles from Sheffield to Snowdonia despite the coronavirus lockdown. The man was spotted at around 10am on Saturday as he drove down country lanes near Bala in Gwynedd, Wales. Aled Wyn Williams recorded the confrontation before police were eventually called to the … Read more
They call it ‘Ibiza on ice’ – an Alpine resort famed for its perfectly-groomed pistes where visitors ski all day, and raucous bars where they party all night. By summer, Ischgl is a small town of around 1,600 residents in the Tyrol region of Austria. But when the snow comes, it transforms into what the … Read more
The owners of a farm who recently won their battle over ‘bullies and abusers’ to keep their privately-owned beauty spot have described the neighbours who threatened them as a ‘vipers nest’. Ruth Ramsden, 56, and her husband James, a barrister, initially turned down an application to turn the creekside copse at their home on Shillingham … Read more
This is Kelly’s Landing, a lobster ‘pound’ (or shack) on a wooden deck jutting into Maine’s Moosehead Lake. The woman next to me starts chatting. She’s a resident of Greenville, and delights in telling me that Moosehead Lake is the holiday destination New Yorkers prefer to keep to themselves. ‘This is a quiet, rustic, relaxed … Read more
Residents have fought riot police with wooden sticks and set up flaming barricades on the roads in an attempt to halt the construction of new migrant detention centres on two Greek islands. At least 500 people on Lesbos and Chios – including regional governor Kostas Moutzouris and West Lesbos mayor Taxiarchis Verros – clashed with … Read more