Russian oligarch’s ex-wife hasn’t been paid enough money to ‘purchase a bag of crisps’, court hears

Russian oligarch’s ex-wife fighting to get her hands on £450m she was awarded in UK’s biggest-ever divorce hasn’t been paid enough money to ‘purchase a bag of crisps’, court hears Tatiana Akhmedova has been fighting in British courts to get the millions owed  In 2016 she was awarded 41.5 per cent share of Farkhad Akhmedov … Read more

Bus driver chases off mugger after spotting him trying to snatch elderly woman’s bag on the street

Bus driver pulls over and chases off mugger after spotting him trying to snatch elderly woman’s bag on the street Károly Zsolt Kis was driving in Miskolc, Hungary when he saw the attack He turned the bus to block off the road and pushed the mugger off the victim Police have identified and arrested a … Read more

M&S sends shoppers into frenzy after they re-stock their summer beauty bag

M&S brings back sell-out £15 summer beauty bag filled with £110 worth of products – and savvy shoppers are already listing the bargain buy on eBay for up to three TIMES the price Marks and Spencer has restocked its sell-out Summer Beauty Bag for 2020   Each prized beauty bag contains 11 must-have products to get … Read more

Patient, 34, dies after judge ruled he had right to refuse permanent stoma bag 

Patient, 34, dies after judge ruled he had right to refuse operation because he did not want to live with a permanent stoma bag A 34-year-old man made it clear he did not want to live with a permanent stoma  Mr Justice Hayden ruled the man should be able to die because of this evidence  … Read more

You can bag a summer bargain – IF coronavirus travel restrictions are lifted

There’s been uproar about the Government’s new 14-day quarantine rule, which starts on Monday. And the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is sticking to its ban on all non-essential overseas travel. But both these could be reversed — and if you think that could happen by July or August, you might just want to take a … Read more

Bag yourself some healthy returns as luxury goods firms bounce back

Let’s say hurrah for £5,000 handbags, handmade Swiss watches and trainers at £630 a pair. Demand for luxury goods was merely put on pause by the pandemic, and has now been rekindled. Or so you would conclude from the rebound in the share prices of companies that make and sell these and other objects of … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Investors look to bag property bargain

Dealmaking appears to be returning to the property sector as investors look to bag a bargain during the market slump.  Shares in shopping centre owner British Land climbed 2.5 per cent, or 10.1p, to 407.3p after Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management snapped up a 7.3 per cent stake.  Traders also welcomed the news that … Read more

How to fold a plastic bag in five simple steps: Supermarket shopper’s space-saving hack wows

The best storage ‘hack’ yet: Shopper reveals her VERY simple game-changing trick for folding up plastic supermarket bags in seconds A supermarket shopper has wowed thousands with her plastic bag folding hack The shopper who goes by Brenda Moiselle folds the bag into a tiny triangle This isn’t one way to store reusable bags; there’s … Read more

Thai vets pull discarded plastic bag from a green turtle’s backside

Turtley gross! Thai vets pull a 12-inch strand of discarded plastic bag from a green turtle’s backside that it mistook for food Footage shows a foot-long piece of soft plastic being pulled from a green turtle Ocean rubbish stuck inside the turtle would have eventually caused it to die It’s likely herbivorous species of turtle mistook the … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Drag wasn’t my bag but I love it! Richard E. Grant talks

Richard E. Grant is ready for his closeup…as a drag queen.  The Oscar-nominated actor has undergone a head-to-toe transformation for the feature film version of stage hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie: hair concealed under what he described as a ‘Folies Bergere meets Mrs Thatcher 80s-style wig’, feet squeezed into a pair of Jimmy Choo’s.  … Read more