Railway bosses plan to lay on 1,000 extra trains EVERY DAY from next week to help cope with predicted ‘staycation’ boom Demand for domestic getaways soared ahead of easing of lockdown restrictions Rail bosses are expecting a passenger surge fuelled by reopening of hospitality Services will hit almost 18,000 a day from Monday, up from … Read more
Millionaire residents of Sandbanks are battling developers over plans to build a ‘soulless’ block of flats on the site of an historic hotel where inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi established the world’s first wireless communications. Almost 5,000 letters of objection have been lodged against the £250million development, which if approved by planning officers, would … Read more
Millionaire residents of Sandbanks are battling developers over plans to replace a historic hotel, where inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi lived, with a ‘soulless block of flats’. Almost 5,000 letters of objection have been lodged against the £250million development, which if approved by planning officers, would see the Haven Hotel at Poole Harbour, Dorset, bulldozed … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s plans for domestic vaccine passports are in jeopardy after it was claimed Sir Keir Starmer and Labour will oppose the rollout of the documents. Some 40 Tory MPs have already made clear they are against ‘Covid Status Certification’, warning that introducing the checks in everyday life would create a ‘two tier’ nation. The … Read more
Officials today defended the accuracy of controversial lateral flow tests as the Government announced everyone in England will be tested twice a week as part of a bold scheme to ease lockdown. Health Minister Edward Argar said the cheap devices – which offer results in as little as 15 minutes – could play a ‘key part’ … Read more
Fans of the Bronte sisters have been left furious by plans to build a sprawling council estate over the wild and windswept moors that inspired Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. The rolling hills just outside Bradford, West Yorkshire, have been unchanged for centuries and have been protected Green Belt land under modern planning rules. But … Read more
Vision: Helen Mahy in the six-acre wood she planted at her Surrey home Helen Mahy, chairwoman of one of Britain’s biggest green energy investment firms, is determined to show off her own sustainability credentials. Striding around the Surrey farm she shares with husband Mark and their two spaniels, the City grandee gamely clambers over a … Read more
‘Raising taxes will NOT slow the economy’: Biden doubles down on his $2trillion infrastructure plan that Republicans have vowed to fight ‘every step of the way’ and has been slammed by big business On the heels of Friday’s 900,000-plus jobs report, President Joe Biden pressed that his $2 trillion infrastructure plan would not slow down … Read more
Love Island bosses have reportedly made a Covid contingency plan in an attempt to be ready for every possibility ahead of the 2021 series. It is thought that execs have been ‘planning for the worst’ and found a villa in Jersey which they could use if current plans to return to sunny Majorca have to be … Read more
I once watched a guy run down a tourist beach in Spain throwing money away. He literally sprinted over the sand, cackling dementedly as he chucked large wads of bank notes into the air and shouted at everyone to ‘TAKE MY CASH!!’ It seemed like the most wondrously generous thing imaginable and gleeful holidaymakers sprang … Read more