We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have taken control of two companies which were formed to protect their ‘brand’ and intellectual property rights. The companies, APL Anglesey and CE Strathearn, were set […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Under the mayoral rule of Boris Johnson, TfL spent around £4.4m – or 0.23 percent – of its total wage bill on employees taking time off from their normal jobs to carry […]
A simplified ‘traffic light’ system for local lockdown rules could be introduced in the UK within days, it has emerged. The Government is considering tougher coronavirus restrictions for parts of northern England as the second wave accelerates, with around 14,000 new cases a day across Britain. But with millions of people living under a patchwork […]
Former football coach and serial paedophile Barry Bennell has been sentenced to another four years in prison for further sexual offences against boys. Bennell, 66, is already serving a 30-year sentence at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire after being found guilty of 52 child sex offences in 2018. The former Crewe Alexandra coach, who is also […]
The number of patients admitted to hospitals with coronavirus in north west England are expected to reach the levels of the April peak ‘before the end of this month’. It would mean 3,000 people in hospital with the virus – and health officials fear not even a full lockdown could prevent numbers rising even higher. […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. King Harald V of Norway will undergo heart surgery on October 9 to help ease his breathing. The 83-year-old Norwegian monarch was also admitted to hospital last month because of dizziness, but no […]
Two external members of the Nobel literature prize committee have quit after criticising the Swedish Academy. Gun-Britt Sundstrom said the choice of Peter Handke as this year’s winner had been interpreted as if literature stood above politics and she did not agree. The choice of Handke was criticised because of his vocal support for the […]
This is the moment that a ‘dangerous’ rave was shut down in a derelict pub at 9.30am on Sunday. More than 150 people were crammed into the ‘hazardous and unsanitary’ building that had no running water. Neighbours of the abandoned Tate and Lyle Sports and Social Club in east London’s Royal Docks complained about the […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The first of the coronavirus jab centres is expected to open next month, with five up and running by the time the festive season rolls in. According to leaked documents, London will […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Prince George, seven, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two, are all great-grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II, 94. The Queen and Prince Philip, 99, will welcome their 9th great-grandchild when Princess Eugenie, […]