Westminster townhouse which has entertained glamorous guests such as Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier could be yours for £3.9m The London townhouse is for sale with estate agents Savills Guests over the years have ranged from Queen Alexandra to Marilyn Monroe The property spreads across five floors and has three bedrooms By Myra Butterworth For … Read more
SNP’s Margaret Ferrier sparks coronavirus alert in Westminster after travelling 400 miles to the Commons before testing positive for Covid-19 By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 18:08 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 18:20 BST, 1 October 2020 An SNP MP tonight sparked a coronavirus alert in the heart of Westminster after admitting … Read more
Teenager, 18, is charged with defacing Winston Churchill’s Westminster statue branding the wartime leader ‘a racist’ Benjamin Clark, 18, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on October 9 He was arrested after Churchill’s plinth was yesterday daubed with yellow paint A slogan branding the wartime leader ‘a racist’ was sprayed on the stone plinth Scotland … Read more
The morning after Boris Johnson announced he was clawing back another raft of civil liberties, a vapour trail of anarchy hung over Westminster. In Parliament Square, where Extinction Rebellion has been camped out for the past ten days, female protesters removed their brassieres and chained themselves to the New Palace Yard railings. Those of a … Read more
The lost sacristy of Westminster Abbey: 13th century room where monks kept sacred items is unearthed at site where ‘hundreds’ of its brothers were buried The Great Sacristy would have been on the Abbey’s North Green where monks kept sacred items used in mass Abbey authorities want to fully understand grounds’ medieval footprint before building … Read more
New Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle spends £7,500 of taxpayers’ money replacing John Bercow’s ‘worn-out’ bed in the Palace of Westminster Sir Lindsay Hoyle has spent a total of £12,636 doing up his four-bedroom flat This included £7,523 on mattresses and bedding, according to an explanation The Commons Speaker spent £2,600 on cleaning and polishing furniture … Read more
OH, NO! Will this give the Duke and Duchess of Sussex yet another reason to be resentful? I hear that Westminster Abbey will not ring its bells for Meghan’s birthday next month. To add insult to injury, it did ring them for the birthday of beleaguered Prince Andrew in February, even though he’d stepped down … Read more
Westminster Abbey will reopen to visitors on Saturday after coronavirus forced its longest closure since Queen’s coronation nearly 70 years ago The gothic abbey has been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic It will initially be open to visitors on Saturdays and Wednesday evenings Steeped in history, it is the centre of royal weddings and … Read more
Westminster Abbey will reopen to visitors on Saturday after coronavirus forced its longest closure since Queen’s coronation nearly 70 years ago The gothic abbey has been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic It will initially be open to visitors on Saturdays and Wednesday evenings Steeped in history, it is the centre of royal weddings and … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon leads tributes after veteran ITN Westminster correspondent Harry Smith dies suddenly aged 69 Scottish political journalist Harry Smith has died aged 69, his family confirmed Nicola Sturgeon called him as a ‘stalwart of Scottish and UK political reporting’ Harry started out in local newspapers before landing roles at the BBC and ITN He … Read more