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A cannabis tycoon dubbed ‘Dr Pot’ and his business partner earned £13million last year as their company’s medicinal drugs were approved for use by the NHS. Dr Geoffrey Guy, who earned the nickname after founding Cambridge-based GW Pharmaceuticals in 1998, made £5.8million in 2019 as the company’s chairman. GW’s chief executive Justin Gover pocketed an … Read more
Watch your step! Hilarious moment plumber tumbles into a customer’s flowerbed after tripping over plant pot Ricky Cooper, 42, was filmed falling in a flowerbed after stepping on a plant pot The plumber from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was dropping off keys after a job The video has so far been viewed more than one million times … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Noel Edmonds is serenading pot plants and soothing pets with his new ‘positivity’ radio network in New Zealand By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:04 BST, 7 June 2020 | Updated: 01:38 BST, 7 June 2020 Noel Edmonds last year branded claims that … Read more
Help! My pension pot could run out within four years if I keep taking the same income: Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 08:26 BST, 25 May 2020 | Updated: 08:26 BST, 25 May 2020 I am 74 years old, live in Spain with my wife and have a UK … Read more
If lockdown has you longing for flourishing flowers or a kitchen garden, award-winning Royal Horticultural Society judge Jo Thompson is here to show you how The plants in this border have been chosen to attract and support wildlife. Towards the front, spilling on to the gravel path are old fashioned peach Dianthus, Ageratum with … Read more
Pointer: New tax year started on April 6 Thanks to the upheaval in our lives over the past few weeks, the start of a new tax year on April 6 will have passed many of us by. But it heralds a raft of key changes – some of which could have a positive effect on … Read more
Smoking marijuana even just occasionally could increase your risk of suffering complications from the novel coronavirus. The virus causes COVID-19, a respiratory disease that can progress from mild illness to viral pneumonia and organ failure. Doctors say cannabis leads to inflammation in the lungs, which affects the body’s ability to fight off the virus. They … Read more
A father has blocked a bin lorry in the street in a 30-minute standoff after being told his recycling could not be emptied because it had an empty Pot Noddle tub. Robert Watts, 44, claimed when his wife Linzie, 29, offered to remove it, bin men still refused as the rubbish would now be ‘contaminated’. … Read more
I’m a widow with young twins who inherited a £148,000 pension pot after my husband died, but it’s down 18% – what should I do? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:27 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 07:27 BST, 6 April 2020 I would like to ask you some … Read more
‘Unscrupulous’ eBay users are attempting to exploit desperate shoppers in the midst of the coronavirus crisis by selling out-of-stock essentials for more than ten times their shop price. One user of the online market place listed a 1kg bag of self-raising flour for a whopping £14.99, before slapping on an extra £6.99 in post and … Read more