The £2.5m prize draw dream home that could leave its winner marooned

You may have seen the glossy TV advertisements offering a chance to win a ‘fully furnished dream home’ in a prize draw. And, no doubt, you would have been pleased to hear there’s ‘no mortgage, no stamp duty and no conveyancing to pay’. Also thrown in alongside the £2.5million five-bedroom ‘Georgian-style’ house in ‘the rolling … Read more

The £2.5m prize draw dream home that could leave its winner marooned

You may have seen the glossy TV advertisements offering a chance to win a ‘fully furnished dream home’ in a prize draw. And, no doubt, you would have been pleased to hear there’s ‘no mortgage, no stamp duty and no conveyancing to pay’. Also thrown in alongside the £2.5 million five-bedroom ‘Georgian-style’ house in ‘the … Read more

British volunteer, 35, is marooned on a snake-infested island for TWO MONTHS

A British castaway has been marooned on a remote snake-infested island for two months after her rescue boat was suddenly cancelled. Volunteer worker Natalie Poole, 35, has been living on Kyun Pila Island, Myanmar, with four others after a boat meant to bring them back to the mainland on May 5 never turned up.  The … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson is ‘marooned above the shop’

From the plumped up pillows of his king-size bed, through the tall windows above the famous rose garden, he can look down on the vast emptiness of Horse Guards Parade. Closer to home he can see the couriers bringing government papers, the delivery men with their supplies and the to-ing and fro-ing of visitors. But … Read more

The prisoner of Downing St: Boris Johnson is marooned above the shop, writes RICHARD KAY

From the plumped up pillows of his king-size bed, through the tall windows above the famous rose garden, he can look down on the vast emptiness of Horse Guards Parade. Closer to home he can see the couriers bringing government papers, the delivery men with their supplies and the to-ing and fro-ing of visitors. But … Read more