November 2013 was a hectic month for Meghan Markle. Striving to broaden her recognition beyond North America, where she had won modest acclaim for her role in TV legal drama Suits, she duly jetted off to London. There, the actress attended a red carpet film premiere in Leicester Square, met a tabloid gossip columnist for … Read more
A business minister today defended the Government’s claim that 30 per cent of all coronavirus transmissions are occurring in pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants after furious MPs accused ministers of ‘cobbling together’ numbers to ‘justify’ their point of view based on flimsy data from fewer than 100 pubs. Nadhim Zahawi MP argued the sample was … Read more
Ministers are calling on the government to protect homeowners after it was revealed that at least 800,000 homes have had faulty cavity wall insulation installed at their properties. Following the government’s announcement of a new energy efficiency scheme this month, MPs and campaigners have expressed their concerns about how property owners will be protected from suppliers who fail to … Read more
Hot tub crime machine: Purchase scams involving plug-in pools up 400% as crooks take advantage of sunshine loving Britons Hot tub sales have surged since the lockdown as Britons splash out on luxuries NatWest said purchase scams went up five-fold between April and May Hot tubs involved in third-most purchase scams after Nintendo Switch and … Read more
The official list of COVID symptoms has been branded ‘dodgy’ and ‘inadequate’ by a top scientific advisor. Dr Nick Summerton called for tiredness, breathlessness and loss of appetite to be included in key symptom list. Currently the NHS only notes a persistent cough and fever as the main signs, and says these are the only … Read more
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire duped out of £5million by dodgy quiz gang: How a consortium secretly provided contestants with the answers and played the system to plant their members on to the ITV show Applicants who paid a fee would be slipped the answers to the questions Producers believe the gang netted ‘at … Read more
He’s been married three times, imprisoned in both the U.S. and Australia, deported from Canada and exposed as a bigamist in the High Court in London. But none of that has diminished the confidence of Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester, who, at the age of 57, has declared his desire to start breeding again. … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus raises the potentially explosive problem of dodgy corporate debt By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 15 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 15 March 2020 Charting the right economic course through the coronavirus is almost as difficult as calibrating the right medical response. The two, of course, are … Read more