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How Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds made history as first unmarried couple to live together in Downing Street before announcing news of their Brexit baby Boris Johnson, 55, and Carrie Symonds, 31, have announced their engagement Couple have also revealed they are expecting a baby together in early summer They had made history as first unmarried … Read more
U.S. stock indexes plunged dramatically yet again on Thursday, as the rapid spread of the coronavirus outside China deepens investor worries about growth and corporate earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,190.95 points, or 4.42 percent, to 25,766.64, the largest one-day point drop in history. It comes during the quickest market plunge on a percentage … Read more
Animal magic! Ohio Zoo makes history with the world’s FIRST cheetah cubs born through IVF using a surrogate in a bid to help save the declining species Two cubs were born in on Feb. 19th through in vitro fertilization in Ohio The team inseminated a cheetah that is younger than than the biological mom Both … Read more
Annie Gray’s delicious Victory In The Kitchen, a biography of Georgina Landemare, Winston Churchill’s cook, is ‘popular history at its very best’ By Kathryn Hughes Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 Victory In The Kitchen: The Life Of Churchill’s Cook Annie Gray … Read more
Is our fate really in the stars? Not according to A Scheme Of Heaven, Alexander Boxer’s enthusiastic and exhilarating history of astrology By Andrew Lycett Published: 22:02 GMT, 28 December 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 28 December 2019 A Scheme Of Heaven: Astrology And The Birth Of Science Alexander Boxer … Read more
HISTORY BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER by Jung Chang (Jonathan Cape £25, 400 pp) One February day in 1943, a petite Chinese woman arrived by train in Washington DC and was welcomed at the railway station by Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the U.S. president. China was a U.S. ally in World War II, and … Read more
Where else in the world can you drive half an hour from a capital city airport and find an enchanting Gothic tower on a hill overlooking an ancient wood? What’s more, a tower to which the greatest Victorian poets dedicated poems? I arrived at Helen’s Tower, 11 miles from Belfast City Airport, in darkness. When I … Read more
Bombshell Cert: 15, 1hr 49mins Rating: I first saw Bombshell a few weeks … Read more
When Kent was the Klondike of coal: This intriguing slice of social history, filled with personal testimony from ex-miners and their families, is a well-written reminder Author Peter Williams explores the history industrial heartland the Kent Coalfield Miners arrived from all over Britain to work but weren’t greeted with enthusiasm The Kent Coalfield flourished through WWII but … Read more
NATURE THE TULIP by Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury £40, 467 pp) Who doesn’t love tulips? Colourful, flamboyant, easy to grow and cheap as chips, they are the perfect plant to brighten up a spring garden. Yet these cheery flowers have an unexpectedly dark and complex history. The tulip has had ‘more adventures than any Hollywood scriptwriter … Read more