The National Trust has come under fire after it published a list of nearly 100 properties under its management that have links to slavery and colonialism. Members have threatened to cancel their membership and historians have accused the trust of being ‘unfair’ after the homes of Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling were among the 93 … Read more
Former Tory MP for Dover Charlie Elphicke has been sentenced to two years in jail after he was found guilty of three sexual assaults against two younger women.
Will Young spoke candily about the ‘internalised shame’ he felt about being gay while growing up. The singer appeared on Channel 4 show Sunday Brunch to promote his new book To Be A Gay Man, and admitted the last decade has seen him confront a lot of feelings about his sexuality. Will, 41, admitted he … Read more
Serial conman Peter Foster – a central figure in the notorious Cheriegate affair – was arrested yesterday over an alleged million-pound scam. Undercover police officers posing as joggers tackled the 57-year-old to the ground and handcuffed him as he walked his dogs on a beach in Queensland, Australia. The convicted crook, who helped Cherie Blair … Read more
Staycationers have been blasted for littering the UK’s beauty spots with rangers at the Queen’s Balmoral estate shaming wild campers for abandoning tents as the Lake District is buried under mounds of ‘heartbreaking’ rubbish. The estate’s rangers posted a picture of an array of abandoned tents left on Saturday. It echoes a catalogue of other … Read more
The Competition and Markets Authority said Covid-19 had forced it to abandon most of its radical plans for change which could have seen the introduction of price caps on funerals.
Albion (BBC4 on Sunday at 10.10pm and then on iPlayer) Rating: Verdict: Stage epic falters on the small screen The Comedy of Errors (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester) Rating: Verdict: Jolly slapstick in the sun Fanny and Stella (Garden Theatre at the Eagle, Vauxhall, London) Rating: Verdict: Lewd Carry On Cast your mind back, … Read more
No red carpet for Boris Johnson in Orkney. No welcoming waves nor friendly hurrahs. There was barely so much as a cheery ‘och aye!’ The greeting he received, in fact, as his Presidential-style motorcade zoomed through the southern west town of Stromness, was as chilly as the sea breeze and twice as salty. PG Wodehouse … Read more
‘Shame on you’: Tom Hanks has no time for those refusing to wear a mask or practice social distancing during COVID-19 crisis By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 01:14 BST, 1 July 2020 | Updated: 01:20 BST, 1 July 2020 He was the first big name to reveal he had tested positive for the coronavirus. … Read more
Companies taking taxpayer support urged to narrow gap between bosses’ and workers’ pay to help economy recover post-coronavirus Chief executives at some of Britain’s biggest companies have been earning 200 times more than their average employee 39 companies on taxpayer support were some of the worst culprits for large divides By Francesca Washtell For The … Read more