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Marcus Rashford gets call from Boris who calls free school meals 'unacceptable'

Marcus Rashford has had a call from the Prime Minister, who said he is ‘committed to correcting’ the UK’s free school meals scandal. The Manchester United striker and child poverty campaigner slammed the food packages vulnerable families were receiving as ‘not good enough’, after pictures of scant offerings began circulating social media yesterday. In a […]

Dame Esther Rantzen: Let scared children talk through their fear on Childline

Dame Esther Rantzen tells Loose Women she’s looking for love again The Childline support service she founded in 1986 delivered nearly 55,000 counselling sessions about mental health between April and December. There was also a worrying 16 percent rise in average monthly contacts from children aged 11 and under compared with the months before the […]

Air travel recovery stalled as governments shun balanced approach to tackling Covid-19 risks

SINGAPORE – Despite widespread expectations of a gradual recovery, the global air travel has stalled amid border clampdowns by governments more concerned about the spread of Covid-19 than the health of their economies. CEO and Director General of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) Alexandre de Juniac lamented that international and domestic air travel numbers […]

UK billionaire and Daily Telegraph owner David Barclay dies

Mr Barclay and his twin, Frederick, built a vast business empire from shipping to retail LONDON (AFP) – Mr David Barclay, the secretive British billionaire whose portfolio included The Daily Telegraph newspaper and The Ritz hotel, has died aged 86 after a short illness, his newspaper reported on Wednesday (Jan 13). Mr Barclay and his […]

UK billionaire and Daily Telegraph owner David Barclay dies

Mr Barclay and his twin, Frederick, built a vast business empire from shipping to retail LONDON (AFP) – Mr David Barclay, the secretive British billionaire whose portfolio included The Daily Telegraph newspaper and The Ritz hotel, has died aged 86 after a short illness, his newspaper reported on Wednesday (Jan 13). Mr Barclay and his […]

Prince Harry ‘put at a distance from Archie’ in announcement with Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle’s half-sister discusses meeting Archie The Duke and Duchess of Sussex published a “letter to 2021” on their Archewell website, but the wording of the letter appeared to “airbrush the men out of the picture”. The letter focused on the mother-child relationship to the detriment of fatherly connection. Not only were Prince Charles and […]

Queen's cousin faces jail after sex attack on guest at Glamis Castle

The Queen’s cousin faces a prison sentence after sexually attacking a guest inside the Queen Mother’s childhood home. Simon Bowes-Lyon, 34, pleaded guilty to forcing his way into a sleeping woman’s room and assaulting her while drunk. He is said to have repeatedly pushed her onto a bed and against a wall, forcibly grabbed her breasts and […]

Queen's cousin faces jail after sex attack on guest at Glamis Castle

The Queen’s cousin faces a prison sentence after sexually attacking a guest inside the Queen Mother’s childhood home. Simon Bowes-Lyon, 34, pleaded guilty to forcing his way into a sleeping woman’s room and assaulting her while drunk. He is said to have repeatedly pushed her onto a bed and against a wall, forcibly grabbed her breasts and […]