The floods that submerged the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna this month, killing 15 people, leaving thousands homeless and grinding transportation and businesses to a halt, were not one-off events, warn experts, who predict that there are more similar, frequent and violent storms to come. “The question to ask,” the country’s civil protection minister, Nello […]
Visitors to a country park in Wales were left fuming after its car park was “taken over” by a film crew. The site at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, was reportedly being used for three days by the production company behind the BBC series Casualty. Angry visitors claimed on Wednesday […]
The electric bike two boys were riding when they were killed in a collision was a birthday present for the younger victim, family members have said. After a community vigil for Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, in Ely on Friday, the younger boy’s aunt and grandmother said next month should have seen him […]
A teenager has appeared in court charged with several offences including causing death by dangerous driving after a hit-and-run accident in which a man was killed earlier this month. Abdirahman Ahmed, 19, of Lilford Road, SE5, appeared in custody at Croydon Magistrates Court today, in relation to a fatal collision in Lambeth. A man will […]
Boris Johnson has dismissed suggestions he may have taken part in further rule-breaking during the pandemic ‘a load of absolute nonsense’. Claims of potential further lockdown breaches emerged last week when he was referred to the police by the Cabinet Office over alleged events in Downing Street and at Chequers. It relates to entries in […]
Pro-Ukrainian fighters stormed across the border into southwestern Russia this past week, prompting two days of the heaviest fighting on Russian territory in 15 months of war. Yet President Vladimir V. Putin, in public, ignored the matter entirely. He handed out medals, met the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, hosted friendly foreign leaders and […]
Wetherspoons has become a staple of the British high street with multiple pubs owned by the chain found throughout the UK. The first J D Wetherspoon pub opened in north London in 1979 and rapidly established itself as the place to go for a cheap drink. The chain now owns more than 800 pubs across […]
Comic Relief: Matt Lucas shows off tattoos in X-rated sketch An Essex mum decided to get her face tattooed in an effort to beat her drug addiction. Sarah-Jane Howell, 27, revealed that she got hooked on drugs after getting in with the wrong crowd a couple of years ago. The barmaid decided to turn her […]
Antiques Roadshow: Queen Victoria’s knickers valued at £16,000 Prince Alemayehu was buried at Windsor Castle in November 1879 at the request of Queen Victoria, who had taken a keen interest in the Ethiopian royal. His family have since sought for his remains to be sent back to Ethiopia with his descendant, Fasil Minas, telling the […]
A celebrity stylist who gets “daily messages” from celebrities worldwide for outfit advice has revealed the secret behind Princess Kate’s clothing colour palette and why certain colours enhance and brighten the royal’s features whereas others colours are “too harsh” for her skin tone. The global personal stylist, Francesca Cairns, 33, told Express.co.uk: “I love Kate’s […]