Police bust pop-up pub complete with beer taps, pool table and Premier League football on TV

Police bust pop-up pub complete with beer taps, pool table and Premier League football on TV and dish our £200 Covid fines to seven drinkers Leicestershire Police shut down a makeshift pub in Leicester on Wednesday  Clip shows revellers playing pool and drinking as football played on Sky TV  Seven fines of £200 were issued … Read more

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney officially complete Wrexham takeover after making £2m investment

‘The Wrexham Supporters Trust Board is pleased to announce the completion of the sale of Wrexham AFC to RR McReynolds LLC. ‘We would like to thank all our members for their participation in the voting process and patience regarding the deal. Also, to our advisors on the deal, namely BDO, Kevin Jacquiss, Mackenzie Jones, Rob … Read more

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney officially complete Wrexham takeover after making £2m investment

‘The Wrexham Supporters Trust Board is pleased to announce the completion of the sale of Wrexham AFC to RR McReynolds LLC. ‘We would like to thank all our members for their participation in the voting process and patience regarding the deal. Also, to our advisors on the deal, namely BDO, Kevin Jacquiss, Mackenzie Jones, Rob … Read more

Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan WIN bid to build dream home (complete with a bar, gym and pool!)

Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan have won another planning battle to build their dream family home, following opposition from local councils. The couple had already been granted permission to demolish a £1.3 million farmhouse and construct a five-bedroom house in Ongar, Essex, complete with bar, gym and outdoor swimming pool. Last month, they submitted a … Read more

Home buying bottleneck means transactions taking longer to complete

The average property is taking nearly a month longer to sell once under offer, due to a conveyancing bottleneck that has developed since the property market shutdown in March and April. The multi-agent property seller Movewise looked at properties that had exchanged over the past 30 days, and found that the buyers’ offer had been … Read more

Skytrax hygiene audit team left shocked by Zanzibar airport’s ‘complete lack of Covid-19 measures’ 

‘A complete lack of Covid-19 measures’ at an airport on the paradise archipelago of Zanzibar has left a hygiene audit team shocked. Respected UK-based air transport rating agency Skytrax said that Abeid Amani Karume International Airport was ‘failing on Covid-19 safety protocols’ after it assessed measures and standards at the airport earlier this month. It … Read more

Sophie Ellis-Bextor reveals she ‘felt like a complete failure’ as a parent in first lockdown

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has candidly revealed she ‘felt like a complete failure’ as a parent as she struggled to cope with her five children during the first lockdown. The singer, 41, shares sons Sonny, 16, Kit, 11, Ray, eight, Jesse, five, and Mickey, two, with musician husband Richard Jones, 41. And speaking about how she managed to … Read more

HOROSCOPES: Stop focusing on projects you won’t complete, Capricorn 

HOROSCOPES: Stop focusing on projects you won’t complete, Capricorn By Sally Brompton for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:02 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 3 January 2021 Capricorn 22 Dec-20 Jan With energetic Mars in the most dynamic area of your chart, the next few weeks will be highly productive. And they … Read more

How conspiracy theorists peddled ‘complete rubbish’ claims that 5G technology spreads coronavirus

Conspiracy theories over mobile networks have a long history, with protesters regularly ripping down 3G base stations near schools and homes back in the early 1990s. In those days people feared the masts were a cancer risk and whether there was enough testing conducted – claims also hurled against WiFi as it was unveiled around the same … Read more

Architects complete two-month stay in a collapsible Moon shelter

Two Danish architects have completed a two-month stay in their own collapsible shelter in a remote part of Greenland to stimulate harsh conditions on the Moon. Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, who are part of a design firm called SAGA Space Architects, camped out in the ‘Lunark’ shelter amid -28°F (-16°C) conditions on the island’s north without … Read more