Q. We’ve booked a holiday to Sri Lanka. What will happen if we cancel? Mary Wilson, via email. A. Abta, the trade body for UK travel agents, says: ‘Customers who are due to travel imminently to the island on package holidays will be offered options of deferring their date of travel, transferring to another destination … Read more
Police launch ‘sexual assault’ appeal after lorry driver kisses a woman in her 70s on the cheek for helping him get under a low bridge Social media users have ridiculed Derbyshire Police’s appeal for information A tweet posted by the force sparked a huge backlash and was later deleted Mocking Twitter users likened the police … Read more
Adorable moment ecstatic pensioner, 92, meets her great grandchild for the first time from the upstairs window of her home after being stuck inside on lockdown for seven weeks Joan Cartwright, 92, was delighted after her grandson Will brought Holly over She flung her arms out through the open window of her flat in Horsforth, … Read more
A pensioner collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack during a lockdown walk when he got into a ‘minor fight’ with a motorist in a parked car and it ‘quickly escalated’, say onlookers. Kenneth Hawker, 68, died after a ‘serious altercation’ with a stranger in the middle of a residential street in Great Yarmouth, … Read more
Heartbroken family of a desperately ill pensioner say their last goodbyes after Dutch fire crews lift them up to the fourth-floor window of his locked-down care home Family is helped by local fire department to say their last goodbyes to ill relative Relatives of Henry Nijhove, 87, of Holland, used extendable ladder to reach him … Read more
Shocking CCTV shows moment mugger drags pensioner in her 80s to the ground as he snatches her handbag on the street Theft took place in Sittingbourne, Kent, shortly before 9am on Tuesday Footage from CCTV camera showed woman crossing the road before the attack A silver car pulled up and its driver spoke to her … Read more