Richard Branson has touched a raw nerve with his £500million bailout request for Virgin Atlantic. He is portrayed as a tax-avoiding wastrel, living the high life in the Caribbean with a reputation for treating women carelessly. All this is true and the Virgin Money rescue of Northern Rock after the financial crisis cost the taxpayer … Read more
A Labour mayor who was expelled from the party after saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ his intensive care battle with coronavirus has now lost her job. Councillor Sheila Oakes, who is currently mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire, was sacked from her job as a paralegal at VHS Fletchers in Nottingham on Wednesday after going through … Read more
Labour Mayor kicked out of the party for saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ his intensive care coronavirus battle is now suspended from her job Sheila Oakes works as a paralegal for Nottingham law firm VHS Fletchers The firm has distanced itself from her and revealed she is under investigation Members of the public had complained to … Read more
Family of WWII hero and great-great-grandfather, 95, who lost his arm on D-Day can’t give him the funeral he deserves because of coronavirus lockdown Rex Blood was hit in the arm as his unit landed in Normandy in June 1944 He was amputated and survived cancer in the decades that followed Recently he was suffering … Read more
Harvey Weinstein should get a long prison sentence that reflects a ‘lifetime of abuse’ shown at his rape trial and in 36 other sexual harassment cases, NYC prosecutors urge judge Prosecutors asked for a harsh prison sentence for Weinstein on Friday Said he had spent a lifetime abusing others, sexually and otherwise Weinstein was convicted … Read more
The American bass Soloman Howard deserves a London debut worthier of his exceptional talents than this sorry Luisa Miller at the London Coliseum By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 Luisa Miller London Coliseum … Read more