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Lord Grade faces £2.5million court battle with a former business ‘partner’ he has since reported to the fraud squad over a fundraising campaign in the Far East Lord Grade is locked in a High Court battle with his Chinese business partner Zheng Yongxiong allegedly boasted of being jailed for a Ponzi-style scheme Lord Grade travelled … Read more
BBC director-general Tony Hall has promised not to abandon older audiences amid fears the corporation’s attempts to appeal to youngsters will leave them feeling ignored. Writing on this page today, Lord Hall said older Britons are ‘super-users’ of the broadcaster’s services and vowed they will always be ‘super-served’ by it. He said the BBC, which … Read more
It was Sir Winston Churchill who said: ‘In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ For the last four years of the Second World War, the role of bodyguard was played – in part at least – by a highly secretive government department called the Political … Read more
Make BP quit Russia, Lib Dem peer Lord Teverson urges Bank boss Carney Lord Teverson is concerned about BP’s £9.8bn stake in oil and gas giant Rosneft Tensions between Rosneft and US could damage BP’s ability to pay dividends BP dividends are relied upon by major pension funds By Harriet Dennys For The Mail On … Read more
DIRECTOR DEALS: Ocado chairman Lord Rose pockets £1.7m selling shares in the online grocer By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 28 February 2020 | Updated: 22:15 GMT, 28 February 2020 Ocado chairman Lord Rose pocketed £1.7million by selling 150,000 shares in the online grocer. The 70-year-old Conservative peer, who has chaired … Read more
Dominic Cummings is a genius and ministers who don’t want to work with him should ‘shut up’ and ‘stop whingeing’ says Tory Lord Lord Blencathra said ministers should ‘quit’ if they don’t like Dominic Cummings He was branded a ‘mastermind’ by the Tory peer for the Leave campaign Tory lord urged ministers to make way for … Read more
Dominic Cummings is a genius and ministers who don’t want to work with him should ‘shut up’ and ‘stop whingeing’ says Tory Lord Lord Blencathra said ministers should ‘quit’ if they don’t like Dominic Cummings He was branded a ‘mastermind’ by the Tory peer for the Leave campaign Tory lord urged ministers to make way for … Read more
Lord Of The Rings actor Elijah Wood ‘welcomes his first child’ with partner of three years Mette-Marie Kongsved By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 16:15 GMT, 19 February 2020 | Updated: 16:37 GMT, 19 February 2020 Hollywood acting vet Elijah Wood has reportedly welcomed his first child. The Lord Of The Rings star and his … Read more
Competition chief bares his teeth: JD Sports deal just the latest to be questioned by watchdog By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 23:09 BST, 11 February 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 11 February 2020 Getting tough: Former chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, Lord Tyrie, joined the CMA in 2018 JD Sports has … Read more
The Language Of Birds Jill Dawson Sceptre £18.99 Rating: Shortly before her death in January 1976, Agatha Christie voiced a question that was on many people’s lips. ‘I wonder what HAS happened to Lord Lucan?’ A little over a year before, a 29-year-old woman, Sandra Rivett, had been bludgeoned to death in the basement of … Read more