Squatters have been using lottery winner Adrian Bayford’s gym and swimming pool at his empty mansion. Mr Bayford, 49, is selling the £6.5million Grade II manor house in Linton, Cambridgeshire. He has now had to increase security after intruders started using the impressive home for themselves, breaking into his personal leisure centre, The Sun reports. Warning signs … Read more
The BBC’s tax-payer funded offices are sitting empty as vast swathes of employees continue to work from home. Workers in pubs, restaurants and shops surrounding the BBC’s London and Manchester headquarters have reported a hit to their profits – with some seeing a drop of 80 per cent as staff leave their desks deserted. Some … Read more
The house that time forgot: Abandoned home known as Red Dress Manor filled with black-and-white photos, intimate love letters and an eerie bridesmaid frock goes on sale for £700,000 after lying empty for more than 40 years Derelict dairy farm in Llanymynech, Powys, mid-Wales built in 1725, has stood empty for more than 40 years … Read more
Hospitals are empty despite coronavirus cases going up – and it could be because the most vulnerable to the disease have already died, an intensive care specialist claimed today. Dr Ron Daniels, a consultant in the West Midlands, said there are barely any Covid-19 patients being admitted despite infections being on the rise since July. … Read more
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley wants to take advantage of empty stores shut down during the coronavirus pandemic in shopping centres to expand further. His Frasers Group results painted a confident picture for the future of the high street, despite Covid-19. Frasers, which includes House of Fraser, Sports Direct and Evans, among others, said the … Read more
A wealthy buyer has purchased a 30ft strip of grass with a view of the exclusive resort of Sandbanks for an astonishing £3.5million. The empty plot of land with overgrown grass and uneven concrete runs down to the edge of Poole Harbour in Dorset. It has one of the finest views of the Millionaire’s Row … Read more
Kelly Clarkson filled the empty seat of Simon Cowell as America’s Got Talent aired its first live show Tuesday from Universal Studios Hollywood. The 60-year-old judge and show creator broke his back in an e-bike accident Saturday, and is set to undergo intensive physical therapy before he can return. ‘As some of you might know, Simon … Read more
In 1962 I started my career in the City of London as a trainee at Philip Hill Higginson Erlangers, a leading merchant bank of the day (to become Hill Samuel), having failed to trouble the examiners at A level twice, which precluded me from becoming a corporate lawyer, much to the chagrin of my impecunious … Read more
Simon Cowell was due to start filming for the quarter finals of America’s Got Talent on Sunday. But instead the head judge is recovering in hospital after breaking his back when he fell from his electric bike over the weekend. Simon’s AGT co-star Sofia Vergara shared a photo of the show’s set on Sunday, with … Read more
Many of Britain’s coronavirus wards are standing empty as new figures have today revealed that the number of people in hospital and dying from Covid-19 has plummeted by 99 per cent since the height of the pandemic. Coronavirus death figures in hospitals have plummeted from 866 people a day at the height on April 10 … Read more