Owner of Canary Wharf in £1.6bn talks to sell one of Britain’s oldest port companies Brookfield looking to run a ‘strategic review’ of PD Ports PD Ports owns 13 UK shipping terminals, including those at Hull and Felixstowe By Ben Harrington For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 23:10 … Read more
Bob Weighton is spry, beady, dryly funny and has better hearing than me. He pops down to Waitrose, does his own cooking, reads avidly, writes poetry, makes furniture and ornaments out of recycled materials, is well-versed in current affairs and has only recently given up his ecological column in Church News. Which, had he been 80, … Read more
One of the oldest swords in the world that was mislabelled in a museum on the Saint Lazarus Island, Venice, is around 5,000 years old, according to a new study. The ultra-rare sword, which doesn’t resemble most ancient weapons in the world, was made around the year 3000BC and came from eastern Turkey. However, the … Read more
Britain’s oldest man today said he could not believe it when he was told he was now the oldest in the world – but added he wouldn’t bother celebrating. Bob Weighton, who is 111, admitted he was taken aback when his grandson last night broke the news to him that he had inherited the title … Read more
Smiling in Heaven: World’s oldest man dies aged 112 just days after he told Guinness Book of Records ceremony the secret to long life was to have a grin on your face and be happy Chitetsu Watanabe died 13 days after being named the world’s oldest man Guinness World Records presented him with certificate in … Read more