Cowboy builder, 46, jailed for 13 months after he left family ‘financially crippled’

A cowboy builder has been jailed for 13 months after he ‘financially crippled,’ a family by spending their £46,000 on drink and drugs instead of building an extension.  Kelvin and Julie Briggs bought a house in Billingham, Teesside, with hopes of building an extension to make room for Julie’s elderly parents. But after shelling out … Read more

Cowboy builder, 46, jailed for 13 months after he left family ‘financially crippled’

A cowboy builder has been jailed for 13 months after he ‘financially crippled,’ a family by spending their £46,000 on drink and drugs instead of building an extension.  Kelvin and Julie Briggs bought a house in Billingham, Teesside, with hopes of building an extension to make room for Julie’s elderly parents. But after shelling out … Read more

Sales of flats HALVE as housing market is crippled by fire risk fears brought on by Grenfell

Sales of flats HALVE as housing market is crippled by fire risk fears brought on by Grenfell cladding crisis Flat prices halved amid fears over cladding similar to that on Grenfell Tower  In September last year flat transactions also fell by around 5,600, or 48 per cent Earlier was revealed homeowners could face £40,000 bill … Read more

China’s economy grows 4.9% while the rest of the world is crippled by coronavirus

China’s economy has grown 4.9 percent in the third quarter from last year proving the country is back to its pre-pandemic trajectory with consumer spending and industrial production going back to normal levels. China fell short in the third quarter of its forecast for growth between 5.5 percent and 6 percent predicted at the start … Read more

The doctors still crippled by Covid-19 six months after they caught it

Some can barely walk they’re so exhausted and their muscles so weak. Many have lost the ability to recall everyday facts or hold a conversation. Others have developed life-threatening allergies or chronic dizziness. All have suffered months of ill-health — careers are on hold, social lives are mothballed and family life is a shadow of … Read more

Crippled two-legged huntsman spider that was adopted by Australian woman is released into the wild

Crippled two-legged spider that went viral when it was adopted by an Australian woman is released back into the wild after growing its limbs back  Elina Walsh, from Far North Queensland, rescued a two-legged huntsman spider  She discovered Peggy at home in June and nursed the spider back to health   Peggy regrew all of her … Read more

China takes advantage of USS Roosevelt being crippled by coronavirus to send jets close to Taiwan

China appears to be taking advantage of the USS Theodore Roosevelt being crippled by the coronavirus by sending an aircraft carrier and fighter jets close to Taiwan over the weekend.   Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the Liaoning, China’s first operational aircraft carrier, and five accompanying warships passed first through the Miyako Strait, located between Japan’s islands … Read more

Big Brother stars across the world reenter a world crippled by coronavirus

Even to those who have stayed abreast of the rapidly changing coronavirus narrative, current changes to the modern world and our everyday way of living have required a lengthy period of adjustment. Strict guidelines put in place to stop the spread of an airborne disease that has so far claimed 82,195 lives an infected an … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: This Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and economy crippled

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone.  You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone … Read more

Banks to hand £20bn to small firms crippled by coronavirus

Banks set to hand £20bn in emergency cash to small firms crippled by coronavirus By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:09 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 00:27 GMT, 13 March 2020 Britain’s biggest banks pledged last night to immediately make available £20billion of emergency cash to small and medium-sized enterprises brought to … Read more