Breaking news
Gotcha! Pranksters share their most satisfying tricks – including one who covered Brussels sprouts in chocolate so they looked like STRAWBERRIES People from across the globe have shared pranks they have played on loved ones Includes one mother who cut her fussy daughter’s sandwich into a puzzle shape Another shows ‘princess’ ice pack a wife … Read more
Rock ‘n’ Royal: Military band plays Jon Bon Jovi’s anthem Livin’ on a Prayer during the Changing of the Guard to celebrate the music legend’s Invictus Games single The Band of the Scots Guard played Livin’ On A Prayer at Buckingham Palace Prince Harry was seen with frontman Jon Bon Jovi at Abbey Road Studios … Read more
Actor Michael Medwin who played radio station boss Don Satchley in BBC’s 70s detective drama Shoestring dies aged 96 British actor Michael Medwin died yesterday in a Bournemouth hospital aged 96 Medwin best known for his role as a radio station boss in BBC series Shoestring He appeared in films alongside Michael Caine, Albert Finney … Read more
Alexandra Shulman, who edited Vogue from 1992 to 2017, on the style-setter with whom she found much in common When Audrey Withers became editor of British Vogue at the age of 35, there was widespread rationing and the American owner Condé Nast demanded staff cuts. Those left on the magazine often worked out of the … Read more
The far-right terrorist who killed nine and injured six during an attack on Hanau once played football for a youth team coached by Jurgen Klopp. Tobias Rathjen, 43, played in the youth section of Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt back in the 1980s, around the same time Klopp was managing there. Rathjen, who killed his 72-year-old mother … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S LEGACY by Nicholas Milton (Pen & Sword £25, 279pp) The wheel had turned, and, in a matter of a few weeks, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had gone from the hero promising ‘peace in our time’ to the villain whose attempted appeasement of the rapacious Adolf Hitler had failed. He … Read more
Children’s eyes twinkle as they impatiently wait their turn to climb onto Santa’s lap and tell him a precious secret: what they’d like for Christmas. But, for more than a decade, all one Utah Santa Claus was keeping a secret of his own. ‘Every kid wanted the same thing, and that was a mumble,’ Mark … Read more
Thousands of dementia patients may needlessly be selling their homes after being wrongly denied NHS funding, legal experts claim. Solicitors who specialise in fighting for funding say not enough people know that the NHS will pay their care fees if they have severe medical needs. And of those who apply for NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) … Read more