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
KATY PERRY: Smile (EMI) Verdict: Katy’s bubbly new arrival Rating: The last time we heard from Katy Perry was when she brought her Witness tour to the UK two summers ago. With the Californian singer standing centre stage in a flashing LED bra, surrounded by Day-Glo dancers and giant flamingos, it was a dazzling spectacle … Read more
THE KILLERS: Imploding The Mirage (EMI) Rating: Verdict: Rousing anthems THE WATERBOYS: Good Luck, Seeker (Cooking Vinyl) Rating: Verdict: Expansive Celtic rock ERASURE: The Neon (Mute) Rating: Verdict: Sparkling electro-pop They have loosened their ties with their home town of Las Vegas, lost a key band member and seen their stadium tour sunk by lockdown. If … Read more
KATE RUSBY: Hand Me Down (Pure) Rating: Verdict: Stunning covers collection Folk singer Kate Rusby, 46, seen her touring plans thrown into disarray this year Like many musicians, Kate Rusby has seen her touring plans thrown into disarray this year. Dates she should have played in the spring have been rescheduled for 2021, and festival appearances have … Read more
You have decided savings rates are just too poor and you want to invest. Whether you have taken financial advice or not, you have looked at your pension arrangements and your cash savings, you’ve considered the risks, you can lock your money away for at least five years and want to start an investing Isa. … Read more
THE PRETENDERS: Hate For Sale (BMG) Verdict: Still a force to be reckoned with Rating: RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: Unfollow The Rules (BMG) Verdict: Baroque pop with sweeping tunes Rating: MARGO PRICE: That’s How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista) Verdict: Gritty country tunes Rating: For a band that got together in the white heat of London’s punk … Read more
PAUL WELLER: On Sunset (Polydor) Rating: Even a musician as restless as Paul Weller sometimes feels the urge to return to the sounds that first inspired him. Since taking a leap into the unknown on 2008’s 22 Dreams, The Modfather has regularly wheeled away from the mainstream with detours into tango, free-form jazz and abstract … Read more
The pedlars of crackpot Covid conspiracy theories missed a trick. Forget 5G: a more believable ruse would have been that the US tech giants set off the coronavirus pandemic. Such has been the impact on the FAANG stocks that the idea, fanciful of course, might have gained some traction. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google/Alphabet, … Read more
Euromillions winner Adrian Bayford is trying to save a state-of-the-art games room he built on his sprawling £10 million country estate without permission. The multi-millionaire, who scooped £148 million eight years ago with wife Gillian, stripped out a garage and replaced a leaking roof to turn the outbuilding into a snooker room and cinema with … Read more