Major West End stores across London stand frozen in time with festive window displays as staff count down to reopening on April 12. Tier 4 level restrictions forced non-essential retailers across the capital to close on December 20 – with many failing to take down their Christmas lights following the announcement. That closure was then … Read more
Carrie Symonds is the cover star of this month’s Tatler, with an in-depth feature written by the journalist Anne McElvoy. The article contains a raft of revelations about Boris Johnson‘s 32-year-old fiancee, who it calls ‘one of the most influential women in Britain’. Insiders describe No10 as like a Tudor court, with Ms Symonds exerting … Read more
‘The naughtiest, daftest dear chap’: Zoe Ball posts emotional tribute to late Radio 1 colleague Simon Willis following his tragic death aged 50 after a 3-year battle with cancer By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 13:41 GMT, 4 March 2021 | Updated: 14:38 GMT, 4 March 2021 Zoe Ball has led tributes to a much-loved … Read more
New Zealand is hit by 7.3-magnitude earthquake triggering tsunami warning Earthquake struck off the coast of NZ’s North Island early on Friday local time Tsunami waves were possible within 180 miles of epicentre, warning centre said New Zealanders who felt the quake were told to flee inland or seek high ground By Tim Stickings For … Read more
Children have been told if they refuse to wear masks when they return to school, they may be kept apart from their friends. Parents have criticised the plans to segregate those pupils who wear masks and those who do not when they return to schools on March 8, with one parent branding it ‘mask apartheid’. … Read more
Saturday Night Takeaway SPOILER: ‘Have you come to rescue us?’ Ant and Dec seek help from Bear Grylls as they’re CLONED in Double Trouble sketch By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 14:24 GMT, 4 March 2021 | Updated: 14:24 GMT, 4 March 2021 Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly seek help from Bear Grylls as they’re cloned … Read more
Houses ripped up from their foundations, boats washed miles inland, streets buried in rubble and smoke rising from electrical fires – these were the other-worldly scenes beamed around the world almost 10 years ago after Japan was hit by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. It was 2.46pm local time on March 11, 2011, … Read more
Incredible photographs taken by one of America’s earliest news picture agencies have emerged, with Titanic survivors, teenage suffragettes and even royalty among the images. The pictures were produced and gathered for worldwide distribution by George Grantham Bain through his Bain News Service. The service was established in 1898 by Bain, who was known as the … Read more
Thousands of customers of M&S Bank will be looking for a new current account in August after the supermarket bank said it was closing its banking services to focus on credit cards and digital payments. The bank, half-owned by the supermarket and HSBC, said a small percentage of its 3million customers will be affected by … Read more
The materials essential for life on Earth including organic matter and water have been discovered on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, study shows. Planetary scientists from Royal Holloway University of London examined a single grain of dust returned to Earth from asteroid Itokawa by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part … Read more