Boost for L’Oreal-backed hair firm as it raises £1.2m

Beauty start-up backed by L’Oreal raises £1.2m to help salons bounce back from lockdown By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2021 A beauty start-up backed by L’Oreal has raised £1.2million to help salons bounce back from lockdown.  About two-thirds of the UK’s … Read more

Second-hand car sales slide 15% with 1.2m fewer used motors purchased

Second-hand car sales slide 15% as coronavirus wipes almost 2 MILLION new and used vehicle transactions off the books in 2020 Used car transactions fell to 6,752,959 models last year – down 1,182,146 on 2019 Second-hand car sales compounds a 30% decline in registrations in 2020 Trade bosses have already described it as a ‘lost … Read more

French blockade of British border over mutant Covid strain cost Kent Police £1.2m, figures reveal 

French blockade of British border over mutant Covid strain that left thousands of HGV drivers stranded and sparked chaos at ports cost Kent Police £1.2m, figures reveal Emmanuel Macron ordered closure of the border with the UK on December 20 Thousands of HGV drivers spent Christmas parked in laybys near Port of Dover Freedom of … Read more

Aerial shots reveal rising river creeping towards George and Amal Clooney’s £12m mansion

George and Amal Clooney‘s £12million mansion has fallen victim to Storm Christoph – after flood water from the swollen River Thames seeped onto the lawn.  The 17th-century, Grade II-listed house in the celebrity haunt of Sonning is located on an island in the river, which past the edge of their grounds.  Photos taken today showed a large … Read more

Prison chiefs are slammed for spending £12m on flatscreen TVs for inmates in just four years 

Prison chiefs are slammed for spending £12m on flatscreen TVs for inmates in just four years Some 128,037 televisions were bought at an average cost of £96 each Freedom of Information request revealed £12.5million has been spent on sets Prisoners provided with televisions between February 2017 and December 2020  By Emer Scully For Mailonline Published: … Read more

Garage in Kensington bought for £350,000 two years ago is transformed into £1.2m pint-sized eco-home

EXCLUSIVE – Garage on Kensington’s ‘millionaire’s row’ – which was bought for £350,000 two years ago – is transformed into £1.2million pint-sized eco-home The run-down garage on Lexham Gardens was bought by David Lonsdale and business partner Hadi Sarmadi  The pair snapped it up in February 2019 and spent £550k turning it into a stylish, 70sq … Read more

Meet Danny Wallis: The entrepreneur who dropped nearly $12m on The Block

Meet Danny Wallis: The Melbourne IT entrepreneur who dropped close to $12million on THREE properties at The Block 2020 finale By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:00 GMT, 22 November 2020 | Updated: 13:00 GMT, 22 November 2020 Each of the five teams on The Block walked away with a tidy profit during … Read more

Princess Haya paid British bodyguard £1.2m to keep quiet about their affair as she fled Dubai ruler

The wife of the ruler of Dubai paid her British bodyguard lover £1.2 million to keep quiet about their two-year affair and the luxury gifts she gave him including a £12,000 watch and vintage shotgun, Mail Online has been told. Princess Haya, the sixth and youngest wife of billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, showered Russell … Read more

Scientist is fined £105 for taking part in eco protests at printing site that cost publishers £1.2m 

Scientist is fined £105 for taking part in eco protests at printing site that cost publishers £1.2m Dr Janna Goldstein was among more than 50 activists who blockaded print plant Protest took place in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, to highlight ‘climate crisis’ The illegal protest prevented 1,100 retailers from receiving newspapers  By Andrew Levy For The Daily … Read more

Drug dealing crackdown sees 1,000 arrests as £1.2m of drugs seized

Police have shut down 10 per cent of phone lines used by county lines drugs gangs in a crackdown which saw more than 1,000 arrests and £1.2million worth of narcotics seized.  All 43 police forces in England and Wales, along with the National Crime Agency and British Transport Police, took part in operations last week … Read more