Chris Tarrant lottery firm betting on £1bn listing

Online gambling company fronted by TV star Chris Tarrant weighing a stockmarket float at more than £1bn By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 20 March 2021 An online gambling company fronted by television star Chris Tarrant is weighing a stockmarket float at more than … Read more

Lottery winner, 31, tells court he took eye off road to stop his son ‘screaming’ before fatal crash

A £45million lottery winner accused of killing a 75-year-old woman in a crash has told a court he took his eye off the road to stop his son ‘screaming like a burglar alarm’. Matthew Topham’s BMW collided with a Ford Fiesta in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day 2019. The crash killed Mary Jane Regler, … Read more

Council tax postcode lottery: £150k home pays more than a £77m mansion

One is a £77.5million eight-bedroom luxury mansion in one of London’s most exclusive postcodes.  The other is a modest family home in County Durham on the market for £150,000. Yet the owners of the three-bedroom semi-detached home in the village of Lanchester have to pay £1,794 in council tax every year.  Whereas the millionaires whose … Read more

Council tax postcode lottery: £150k home pays more than a £77m mansion

One is a £77.5 million eight-bedroom luxury mansion in one of London’s most exclusive postcodes. The other is a modest family home in County Durham on the market for £150,000. Yet the owners of the three-bedroom semi-detached home in the village of Lanchester have to pay £1,794 in council tax every year.  Whereas the millionaires … Read more

Now 54-year-old David Cameron gets his Covid jab amid postcode lottery fears

Former Prime Minister David Cameron got his Covid vaccine today — despite not being in his sixties. The 54-year-old said he was ‘proud’ to have received the jab and hailed the NHS for its ‘deeply impressive’ roll-out.  He tweeted a photograph of himself being injected at a clinic in London, adding: ‘Huge “thank you” to our brilliant … Read more

Student’s lottery numbers come up in £182 Euromillions draw but she forgot to buy weekly ticket

Student whose lottery numbers came up came up in £182million Euromillions draw – the week she forgot to buy a ticket Rachel Kennedy from Hertfordshire thought she had scooped Friday’s jackpot  The Brighton student plays the lottery with the same numbers every week When she rang to claim the win, she was told she hadn’t … Read more

Student’s lottery numbers come up in £182 Euromillions draw but she forgot to buy weekly ticket

Student whose lottery numbers came up came up in £182million Euromillions draw – the week she forgot to buy a ticket Rachel Kennedy from Hertfordshire thought she had scooped Friday’s jackpot  The Brighton student plays the lottery with the same numbers every week When she rang to claim the win, she was told she hadn’t … Read more

Britain’s vaccine postcode lottery ‘means healthy adults in their TWENTIES are getting jabs’

Some regional NHS sites have started dishing out Covid jabs to healthy people in their twenties, it emerged today in another example of the UK’s vaccine postcode lottery. Despite national guidance stating only the top six priority groups should currently be invited for the jab, there have been growing reports of younger Brits who are … Read more

Parts of the UK are already jabbing over-50s without underlying conditions amid postcode lottery

Britain’s vaccine postcode lottery was laid bare today after it emerged parts of London have jabbed fewer than two-thirds of their elderly residents – even though some parts of the UK have already moved onto over-50s. Wales widened their jab roll-out on Monday to include everyone in the next phase at the same time – … Read more

England’s Covid vaccine postcode lottery: Parts of London have only jabbed 60% of over-60s

England’s Covid vaccine postcode lottery was laid bare today after it emerged parts of London have jabbed just 60 per cent of over-70s – while almost every elderly person has had their first dose in one district in Hampshire. The NHS England statistics, which go up to February 14, also show that some parts of … Read more