Second home owners who registered properties as businesses set to land £85m windfall from Government’s small business grant scheme By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 28 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 November 2020 Second home owners who have registered their properties as businesses are set to land an £85million … Read more
Care homes are told to ban Christmas decorations under pointless ‘bah humbug guidelines’ aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus Experts have said there is no scientific evidence that trees and cards pose risk Some homes have been told to quarantine Christmas cards for three days Presents should be brought unwrapped for staff to wrap, … Read more
Rishi Sunak vowed to plough £100billion into road, rail and broadband projects yesterday. The Chancellor refused to renege on the Government’s plan for ‘once-in-a-generation’ infrastructure spending. Despite the Covid hit to the economy, he said he was pressing ahead with the highest sustained level of public investment in more than 40 years. Mr Sunak told … Read more
Crucial plans to free up space in hospitals this winter were in disarray last night after care homes refused to take coronavirus patients unless the Government protects them from legal claims. The row means thousands of pensioners now face the prospect of being stuck in hospital alone at Christmas. The Department of Health wanted to discharge … Read more
Care home residents will finally be allowed to hug their loved ones again – and some may even be able to join their families for Christmas, it emerged last night. In his first major intervention on the Daily Mail’s Christmas campaign, Boris Johnson promised that rapid tests for visitors would be rolled out to all … Read more
Care homes to get more coronavirus tests so residents can scrap social distancing with up to two visitors who each get swabbed twice a week Rapid testing is already being trialled in Devon, Cornwall and Hampshire If a visitor regularly tests negative they could hold hands with home resident During the first wave care homes … Read more
Wake up and smell the roses. There’s a beautiful world of gardens at Britain’s ravishing historic homes waiting to be explored, from wisteria-covered walls to wonderful water features and bewitching woods where you’ll lose all sense of time. Here’s our pick of the best. ‘A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted,’ Sir Winston … Read more
If one moment could sum up the gut-wrenching misery of it all, this was probably it. The time is about 11.30 on a grey November morning and my 90-year-old grandmother is hurtling along the A303 to Cornwall, frightened out of her skin. Gwen Hyde, a widow and former psychiatric nurse who is adored by her … Read more
Noel Coward may have sung ‘The stately homes of England, how beautiful they stand, to prove the upper classes have still the upper hand’ – but that was in 1938, and today they are yet another casualty of coronavirus. While the landed owners of such magnificent historic piles might not receive – nor expect – … Read more
The Block homes went up for auction on Saturday, ahead of the highly-anticipated show finale. And now fans have been offered a glimpse inside the stunning pads, which went under the hammer between a reported $3.2million to $3.4million. Boasting gourmet kitchens, luxurious master bedrooms and inviting al fresco areas, take a look inside the completed … Read more