Hard work: Linda Plant left school at 15 to work full-time in a market Businesswoman Linda Plant doesn’t bother to invest in a pension and only has limited investments in the stock market, preferring to put her money in property and her own ventures. The multi-millionaire famous for grilling candidates on the BBC TV series … Read more
How a humble herring is bringing hope to millions by helping to heal hearts through a new drug that unblocks coronary arteries It is the first time a drug has been shown to turn back the physiological clock Drug was sourced from species of herring fished off Chile and Argentina coasts Data shows arteries of those … Read more
Kate at her farm in wales, where she lives with her husband ludo plus A flock of sheep, Eight ducks, Four pigs, three Dogs, 20 hens and a cockerel In this exclusive extract from her new book, Kate Humble shares how a series of tragedies sent her off in search of an easier way of … Read more
Now snowflakes are triggered by FULL STOPS: Sensitive readers find the humble dot ‘weird, mean or too blunt’ The humble dot has been used to end sentences for the past 2,200 years But it has become sign of aggression to a generation weaned on text messages Many have been stunned by the revelation and branded it … Read more
Dismal. Deluded. Deranged? Well, let’s not quite go that far but it was not good. Boris Johnson’s Downing Street press briefing last night made for uncomfortable viewing. The Prime Minister had yanked on his Sunday suiting to address the hoo-ha over his senior aide Dominic Cummings. He was a late call-up. We were originally due … Read more
My bird-feeders are busy. I put out a mixture of fat-balls, nuts and seeds. There’s a bird bath, too, to help keep hard-working feathers in good order, writes TV presenter Kate Humble, pictured above Nature itself is the best physician,’ according to Hippocrates, who lived in the 4th Century BC and is generally regarded as … Read more
A TV animal expert who spent £22,000 building a tropical jungle inside his Oxfordshire home admits he is kept awake at night – by the animals’ mating calls. Warwick Vardy spent 20 years travelling the world locating, studying and collecting wildlife for hundreds of nature programmes for the BBC, National Geographic and Sky. Inspired by … Read more
HISTORY COCONUT: HOW THE SHY FRUIT SHAPED OUR WORLD by Robin Laurance (History Press £15.99, 224pp) You’d never have guessed it, but the humble coconut underpins rather a lot of what we laughingly call western civilisation. Without it, millions more soldiers would have died in both world wars. John F Kennedy might never have become … Read more
Carrie Symonds’ gushing announcement tonight that she is engaged to Boris Johnson and ‘hatching’ a baby caps a remarkable rise for the former Tory staffer – from PM’s mistress to fully fledged First lady. Ms Symonds, 31, worked for the Tory party from 2009, before hitting the headlines when her affair with Mr Johnson came … Read more