Breaking news
The Parthenon Marbles: The Parthenon Marbles – popularly named the Elgin Marbles after the7th Earl of Elgin, the man who took them from Greece – are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that were mostly created by Phidias and his assistants. The Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, removed the Parthenon Marble … Read more
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter today revealed the family received a ‘lovely letter for the Queen’ following his death, adding that the monarch felt ‘genuine loss’. Hannah Ingram-Moore said the Queen and her 100-year-old father, who raised nearly £33million for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, were ‘two similar souls’. She joked that … Read more
Stunning images show the eccentrically-decorated home of the son of Britain’s first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. Strawberry Hill House, in Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, was the home of 18th-Century writer Sir Horace Walpole, who was the youngest son of Sir Robert. Completed in 1776, Sir Horace extensively built the home in a decorative style … Read more
Tributes have been paid to Sir William Macpherson, the judge who led the damning report into the Metropolitan Police after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, after his death at the age of 94. Sir William produced an historic report into the death of the teenager in which the country’s biggest police was described as ‘institutionally racist’. The … Read more
Conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne has admitted he was wrong to say being gay was ‘gross and unnatural,’ in Parliament 20 years ago – pinning his outdated views on ‘intellectual laziness’. The former senior aide to David Cameron previously voted against reducing the age of consent in the gay community from 18 to 16, while … Read more
Sir Cliff Richard has reportedly rented his luxury Barbados villa on Airbnb for £3,000-a-night. The singer, 80, is said to have advertised the six-bedroom pad after cutting £200,000 off the price to £6.6million in January – three years after it first went on the market. Coral Sundown boasts six en-suites, each with their own view of the Caribbean Sea, … Read more
The simmering Tory tensions over lockdown came to a head in spectacular fashion last week when venerable backbencher Sir Charles Walker encountered Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the Commons. Sir Charles passionately believes that measures to limit the spread of the virus risk causing more harm than they prevent, particularly in terms of mental health; … Read more
Sir Sean Connery’s heart never really left his native Scotland — and, in particular, Edinburgh, the city of his birth and of his life before Bond and stardom. And now a hitherto unseen collection of private letters is being auctioned which will leave his admirers shaken, if not stirred, as they reveal how much Auld … Read more
More than 150 former staff who lost their jobs when Philip Green’s Arcadia empire collapsed are set to launch a legal battle over their redundancies. Asos last week announced its £330million takeover of stock in Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands – but not the shops. Countless ‘disgusted’ employees were officially told they’d lost … Read more
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is facing a backlash after one of his most senior frontbenchers described the Covid pandemic as a ‘gift that keeps on giving’ for lawyers. Lord Falconer, the Shadow Attorney General, used the phrase during a briefing for a top City firm staffed by millionaire lawyers. The peer insists that he … Read more