Record number of buy-to-let landlord companies set up in 2020 – beaten only by online shopping firms

A record number of buy-to-let landlords set up holding companies for their properties last year, in a bid to swerve higher taxes.  There were 41,700 new companies were formed in 2020 – an increase of 23 per cent on 2019, according to estate agent Hampton International.  Buy-to-let incorporations were the second most common type of … Read more

Animals are beaten to death, strangled and caged in unflinching photo series showing their suffering

Animals being slaughtered, savagely beaten and forced into tiny cages for human entertainment and consumption feature in a distressing new photo series revealing the shocking extent of human cruelty. The images, which reveal the barbaric realities of a dog slaughterhouse in China, foie gras production, and battery farming, are among many in a new book.   … Read more

Man, 31, is arrested after hospital worker mother, 62, was beaten to death 

A 31-year-old man has been arrested after a hospital worker mother was beaten to death at her west London home.  Police were called to the home of Harsha Patel, 62, in Greenford at 5pm yesterday where she was found with head injuries.  She died 20 minutes later.    Residents say Mrs Patel lived with her husband … Read more

Boy, 13, fighting for his life after getting beaten around the head with a metal pole

Boy, 13, is fighting for his life after ‘man, 35, battered children round the head with a metal pole as they left south London school’  A 13-year-old boy was beaten with a metal pole yesterday afternoon in Lambeth Scotland Yard confirmed the victim is fighting for his life in a London hospital  A 35-year-old man … Read more

Fury as black man is savagely beaten to death by supermarket security guards in Brazil

The beating of a black Brazilian man to death by supermarket security guards on the eve of the country’s Black Consciousness Day has sparked mass outrage. A short clip showed one guard restraining Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas just outside the doors of a Carrefour supermarket in the city of Porto Alegre. The other guard could … Read more

US Election 2020: Joe Biden has ‘no doubt’ he’s beaten Donald Trump

STATES STILL IN PLAY ARIZONA – 11 electoral college votes: Votes still being counted, deadline for result unclear 50.49% BIDEN 48.14% TRUMP Fox and the AP gave Arizona to Biden before dawn on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon, officials said that there were still 600,000 votes left to be counted which suggested that it could be put back … Read more

Two murderers admit knife attack on Sarah Payne’s killer Roy Whiting who was stabbed and beaten

Two murderers have admitted a knife attack on child killer Roy Whiting after he was stabbed and beaten to within an inch of life and left cowering under the bed of his cell.  The 61-year-old is serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in West Sussex, in 2000. Whiting … Read more

Baby girl ‘beaten to death by her British pilot father’ in Kazakhstan is pictured

This is the first picture of baby girl who died in a hotel room in Kazakhstan after her British father allegedly beat her so badly that her brain was crushed.  Sophia Barakat, aged one, is seen in the arms of 22-year-old mother Madina, who police say was also beaten during the attack. Investigators have charged … Read more

The Bachelorette is beaten by Gogglebox in a later time slot

The Bachelorette is beaten by Gogglebox in a later time slot – after drawing the lowest audience for a season premiere in the franchise’s history By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:47 BST, 9 October 2020 | Updated: 05:47 BST, 9 October 2020 The Bachelorette failed to deliver big ratings for its second episode … Read more