When GB News launches at 8pm on Sunday, viewers will for the first time be able to immerse themselves in a non-stop, opinionated, US-style “anti-woke” current affairs television channel aimed at a British audience. GB News employees have also been told their target audience is “rational, civic-minded centrists” who feel BBC News has lost its […]
Wright, who is bringing the case through his Seychelles-based Tulip Trading firm, concedes he is a controversial figure since alleging in 2016 that he wrote the bitcoin white paper – which first outlined the technology behind the digital assets – under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. “As this very case shows, if we allow […]
Former professional-turned-pundit Aogo recently published a WhatsApp message on his Instagram account in which the former Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann called him a “token black guy”, leading to Lehmann’s sacking from Hertha Berlin’s supervisory board. She also rejected Palmer’s claim that he was being ironic and said he had lost the party’s backing. The Greens […]
Prince Michael has denied the claims, which were made by Channel 4 Dispatches in collaboration with the Sunday Times. Reporters set up a firm called House of Haedong and approached five members of the royal family with an offer of a role. He went on to describe Prince Michael as “Her Majesty’s unofficial ambassador to […]
One of the new Green councillors is 18-year-old Lily Fitzgibbon, a founding member of Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate, who helped organise the 2020 climate-emergency protest in the city which was attended by Greta Thunberg. The party’s other co-leader, Siân Berry, finished a distant third as a candidate in the London mayoral election, but once […]
Famous for the brightly coloured Georgian houses that line the town’s pretty quay, Aberaeron has become something of a foodie hub in recent years, with the Cellar Restaurant voted the best in Wales in 2019. Yorkshire’s gastro capital is a bustling market town with foodie shops selling everything from locally made gelato to beer, cheese […]
Their debut album, produced by Dan Carey, has a lot going on: the influence of Douglas Coupland, field recordings of bells and bees, oblique lyrical reflections on everything from big pharma to Easter eggs. Though nothing here is truly experimental or innovative – it’s more the kind of music that gets labelled as such because […]
The chief executive of easyJet Holidays, Garry Wilson, said it was “very disappointing” that so few countries had been included on the green list. …Read the full story
In Stockport the Lib Dems became the largest party with a one-seat advantage over Labour. In Cambridgeshire, the Conservatives lost control of the council after Lib Dems gained five seats, taking them to 20 to the Tories’ 28. They now have 12 seats, putting them in third place, after galvanising frustrations with the Labour-run council […]
The pair, who married 27 years ago and reportedly had no prenuptial agreement, are said to have drawn up a private agreement to divide their assets before announcing their divorce this week. For high-profile couples such as the Gates, the decision may be prompted by a desire to avoid costly court litigation and retain privacy. […]
The government has just announced its green list for quarantine-free international travel into England. There is a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine in place for all arrivals, which severely limits the numbers arriving, as well as a negative test taken within the last 72 hours. Travellers are required to have confirmation of a negative Covid-19 PCR […]
A Ryanair flight from London Stansted to Porto is currently priced at £232.99 on 17 May, while anyone travelling the day before would pay only £14.99. The UK travel firm Not Just Travel, which employs 800 people, has recorded a 50% increase in summer bookings in the last seven days. The travel firm is recording […]
Packages start at £20 per person for a pre-departure lateral flow test and a PCR test on day two after their return, including delivery and return costs for the tests. The government is expected to unveil its traffic light system on Friday. Andrew Flintham, managing director of Tui UK & Ireland, said: “We have always […]
There are clues to their existence in street names, in the winding of lanes and in the rushing sound of water deep in the capital’s drains. The hidden rivers are really good radial walks,” said Des Garrahan, of Inner London Ramblers, who leads guided walks on London’s buried rivers. So we’re talking scores and scores […]
About 16,000 new jobs could be created in restoring nature and planting trees in areas where unemployment is set to soar when the government’s furlough schemes end, according to the report from the Green Alliance thinktank. The future parks accelerator, a project to promote green spaces, has calculated that investing £5.5bn in greening urban areas […]
Senior UK government sources said the number of destinations to which Brits can travel quarantine-free from 17 May could be in single figures – despite pressure from Conservative MPs for the UK to greenlight travel to the whole of Europe as vaccine rates improve. Portugal, Malta and Gibraltar are likely to be green list countries, […]
The youngsters were found vomiting uncontrollably and falling in and out of consciousness on Saturday afternoon on Pound Lane in Epsom, according to Surrey police. One of the 12-year-old boys was discharged from hospital late on Saturday and the other three were expected to leave on Sunday. It is believed the sweets may have been […]
Six out of 10 polls published over the last two weeks instead show an advantage for the Greens, who scraped into fifth place when Germany last went to the polls in 2017. Polls in the run-up to the federal vote in 2005 indicated a towering 15-point lead over the governing Social Democrats for the CDU, […]
The building was valued at about £500m as recently as two years ago, according to the Sunday Times, which first reported details of the sale process. The private equity firm Apollo will receive the first £311.6m of a sale of the property as it was Redcastle’s senior secured creditor. Green took control of Topshop in […]
Lt Kevin Pawlak of the Brown County sheriff’s office said investigators believe the gunman was targeting a specific person he was angry at, but the person wasn’t at the casino at the time. “It is with great distress that I post this message to our gaming employees and their families,” she wrote. …Read the full […]