A rush of millionaires snapping up upmarket rural homes has driven price growth of country houses to a four-year high, figures show. Prices for rural properties including manor houses, cottages and farmhouses increased by 2 per cent in the three months to the end of September, according to estate agent Knight Frank. It marks the biggest … Read more
A businessman allegedly linked to organised crime has had almost £10million worth of properties, cash and land seized through an unexplained wealth order – including a Yorkshire mansion and an apartment in Knightsbridge. Mansoor Mahmood Hussain, 40, had ‘strong connections’ to ‘notorious criminals’ in the Leeds and Bradford area, including a murderer currently serving 26 years … Read more
Can YOU beat Who Wants to Be A Millionaire’s ‘fastest winner’ – who took just 20 minutes to answer these 15 fiendish questions By Henry Martin For Mailonline Published: 21:36 BST, 11 September 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 11 September 2020 1 (£100) Q:In the UK, the abbreviation NHS stands for National ‘what’ Service? Humanity … Read more
Hedge fund manager Rob Lucas (pictured), 58, his son, 18, and daughter, 22, were questioned as possible witnesses by officers after Claire Glatman died on Monday Police have ‘examined a millionaire’s speedboat’ as they probe the death of a British woman who was hit by a propeller while swimming off the coast of Corfu. Hedge … Read more
Three university professors have become overnight millionaires after a ‘major breakthrough’ in their coronavirus drug. Ratko Djukanovic, Stephen Holgate and Donna Davies created their Southampton-based company Synairgen almost two decades ago. Shares in the company, which was involved in a successful trial of a drug to treat COVID-19 this week, sky-rocketed by 3,000 per cent … Read more
The professional killer who murdered and dismembered Manhattan tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh escaped out of his building through the service exit after the victim’s sister showed up at his $2.2million apartment on Tuesday and ‘interrupted’ him dismembering her brother, leaving behind an electrical saw still plugged in. Saleh’s sister arrived at his apartment on East … Read more
More than 80 millionaires including director Richard Curtis and the heir to Disney sign open letter demanding governments tax THEM more to help economic recovery from coronavirus ‘Millionaires for Humanity’ is asking governments to raise taxes on its members They want to be taxed more to help fund economic recovery from Covid crisis Signatories include … Read more
Holly in her southwest London home-office: ‘I’ve turned it into my creative centre’ Holly Tucker, the creative mastermind behind the juggernaut website Not On The High Street, tells Julia Llewellyn Smith how overcoming her own tough times has turned her into a guru for small businesses – and a much-needed lifeline right now By the … Read more