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The millionaire suing the Duke and Duchess of York over claims they missed payments on their luxury chalet is a glamorous French socialite who was once a close friend, it can be revealed. Isabelle de Rouvre, who is dating French art dealer Michael Kennedy, is pursuing the couple through the courts for £6.7million. The 74-year-old … Read more
Public health officials in Switzerland have said that it is now safe for children under the age of ten to hug their grandparents. The relaxation of restrictions in the country comes after Swiss scientists concluded that grandparents are not at risk of catching Covid-19 from their young grandchildren as they do not have the ‘receptors’ … Read more
A solider fell to his death in a climbing accident in the Swiss Alps when a rock holding his abseiling rope toppled over as he descended a mountain, an inquest has heard. Lance Corporal Hayden Prince, 24 from Cambridge, was on a private trip with two mountaineering friends while on annual leave from the British … Read more
Royal Mail boss Rico Back facing calls to return to UK from his Swiss penthouse – or quit By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 17 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 17 April 2020 Royal Mail’s boss is facing calls to return to the UK from his Swiss penthouse – or … Read more
US and UK flags are projected onto Switzerland’s Matterhorn to send a message of hope during coronavirus pandemic – along with the slogan ‘Dream Now, Travel later’ Renowned light artist Gerry Hofsetter, 58, is behind the incredible light display The American flag illuminated the 14,690ft tall mountain on Thursday night Tourist site Zermatt Matterhorn said … Read more
The Swiss property where Mary Shelley wrote her famous novel Frankenstein has gone on sale for £2.38m. The writer and her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, stayed at the former guest house in 1816 – and now the four-bedroom villa next to Lake Geneva is up for grabs. The house, in the medieval … Read more
Air pollution from 12th century British lead mines ‘was as bad as the industrial revolution’ and has been detected in glacial ice from the Swiss–Italian Alps. Researchers used high-precision laser technology to analyse the contents of an 800-year-old section of ice bored out of the Colle Gnifetti glacier in 2013. They found that the levels of … Read more
A luxury hotel chain in Switzerland is offering a quarantine package to its guests that includes in-room coronavirus testing, doctor visits and 24-hour nursing care. Le Bijou is a part hotel, part serviced apartments company, and operates its luxury accommodation across Switzerland in cities including Zurich, Geneva and Basel. With around 20% of the global … Read more
BASE jumper’s parachute FAILS after throwing himself off a Swiss ravine but he miraculously survives after landing in a shallow river The unidentified thrill-seeker leapt into a 300ft deep ravine in Switzerland He said online the canopy opened the wrong way and he got twisted under it As he tried to free himself he crashed … Read more
A mother and daughter attacked a pilot after pushing him into his cockpit and biting him in a row over a buggy, a court heard today. Henrietta Mitaiare, 23, and her mother Mary Roberts, 53, flew with Swiss Air from Zurich to London Heathrow on May 2 last year. Before the flight left the Swiss … Read more