Dozens of subpostmasters who say they were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting in the Horizon IT scandal are battling to clear their names at the Court of Appeal. Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of postmasters were sacked or prosecuted after money appeared to go missing from their branch accounts. Post Office bosses were … Read more
Billionaire brothers who are buying Asda for £6.8bn get major boost in bid to build £5million ‘landmark’ mosque in Blackburn as plans are approved Project put forward by billionaire siblings Zubar and Mohsin in Blackburn, Lancs It had faced objections over the height of the building as well as potential noise The siblings recently completed £6.8billion … Read more
Billionaire brothers who are buying Asda for £6.8bn get major boost in bid to build £5million ‘landmark’ mosque in Blackburn as plans are approved Project put forward by billionaire siblings Zubar and Mohsin in Blackburn, Lancs It had faced objections over the height of the building as well as potential noise The siblings recently completed £6.8billion … Read more
A single mother today lost her legal bid to keep her brain-damaged daughter alive after Court of Appeal judges ruled her life support treatment should end. Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, thinks five-year-old Pippa Knight should leave hospital and wants specialists to stage a home-care trial. Doctors treating Pippa, who is in a vegetative state at … Read more
Johnny Depp’s bid to overturn ‘wife beater’ ruling in Amber Heard’s favour will be heard at the Court of Appeal this morning Hollywood star wants court to order a retrial of his libel claim against The Sun Article called him a ‘wife beater’ which judge found ‘substantially true’ last year It is not known whether … Read more
TikTok star Nathan Apodaca says he is selling one of his viral video clips as a non-fungible token (NFT) – and he expects bidding to start at $500,000. An NFT is a unique digital asset encrypted with the creator’s signature, which authenticates it as their original work. NFTs created by famous artists and musicians have become … Read more
Charities threaten legal challenge over Boris Johnson’s bid to cut the foreign aid budget Charities could take Government to court over planned £4bn cut to aid budget Ministers had announced lowering spending target from 0.7 to 0.5% of GDP But planned reduction may now only be for one year amid fears of a revolt Believed … Read more
Veteran City fund manager warns that plans to lure tech companies to list on UK stock market will ‘sow seeds of scandals and losses’ By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 Veteran City fund manager Richard Buxton has warned that plans to … Read more
Boris Johnson tells Scots to back the ‘great British spirit’ that delivered Covid vaccine rollout in his bid to save the Union PM to answer Scottish independence calls with successful vaccination drive He will try to put new confidence in Scottish Tories that the SNP not unbeatable Words come as feud between Sturgeon and Salmond … Read more
Is Meghan Markle already preparing a bid to be America’s first woman President? Duchess of Sussex will ‘use furore over Oprah interview to launch political career as she networks among Democrats’, claims senior Labour figure with strong links to Washington One senior Labour figure claimed she was networking among senior Democrats Networking said to be … Read more