Workers gathered at Windsor Castle to quietly protest plans to axe up to half of the Queen’s household staff in cuts amid the coronavirus pandemic. Royal Collection Trust staff staged a silent protest outside Windsor Castle on Tuesday over new plans which reportedly see staff facing pension cuts and 200 compulsory redundancies handed out. The … Read more
A Government task force has been launched to reopen Hammersmith Bridge after it closed to motor traffic last year due to structural problems. The 133-year-old cast iron suspension bridge in west London was closed ‘indefinitely’ to motorists in April last year after ‘critical faults’ were detected. The bridge further closed to pedestrians and cyclists last month … Read more
Elon Musk lost a record $16.3 billion after Tesla shares plummeted by 21 per cent losing more than $100 billion off its market value yesterday – the company’s biggest ever drop. To add insult to injury, the electric car maker was snubbed for inclusion in the S&P 500 Index. Musk’s drop in net worth is the … Read more
UK holidaymakers claim British Airways‘ refused to give them a refund for their cancelled flights to the US and instead handed them travel vouchers they never asked for. Gordon and Margaret Minto, from South Shields, said they emailed the airline asking for their money back after their trip was cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic. The couple … Read more
The UK has announced 2,659 more coronavirus cases and eight deaths as Government prepares to tighten restrictions from Monday. The rise of 2,659 cases means almost 13,000 case have been diagnosed in the past four days alone – the highest numbers since mid-May. At a press briefing this afternoon, the chief medical officer for England … Read more
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin wants to build a real-life ‘castle’ in his backyard – but his New Mexico neighbors are refusing to bend the knee, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The 71-year-old creator of Dragonstone, Winterfell and the Red Keep describes his proposed Gothic-style structure as a free-standing ‘seven-sided library’ in a planning … Read more
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held ‘hostage’ illegally by Iran and is an emotional wreck, her husband has said after new charges were announced in Tehran. The 42-year-old mother-of-one has been detained in Iran since 2016, when she was sentenced to five years in prison on spurious spying charges. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was moved to house … Read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being persecuted by Donald Trump because of the President’s ‘considerable personal antipathy’ to Barack Obama, a professor of peace studies told his extradition hearing in London today. Professor Paul Rogers called Assange’s prosecution politically motivated, and said his political opinions put him in the ‘crosshairs’ of the Trump administration. Assange, 49, … Read more
EasyJet pilot orders passenger with chronic asthma to wear a mask or be thrown off flight from Jersey to Gatwick Nick, who spoke under condition of anonymity, was confronted on his flight The pilot threatened to kick him off the plane if he didn’t don a face covering Nick told the crew of the flight … Read more
This is the shocking moment a racist pensioner is beaten up by two black passengers after he called them ‘monkeys’ on a bus in north London yesterday. The confrontation took place on a street around Edgware at around 6pm yesterday. In the footage, the pensioner is accused of calling the black passengers ‘monkeys’ to which … Read more