Marina restaurant owned by former Premier League star Craig Bellamy destroyed by fire ruled accident

An investigation has found the fire that destroyed football star Craig Bellamy's marina restaurant was an accident. The high-end bar and grill The Deck, on Penarth Marina, near Cardiff, went up in flames on Friday night just days after reopening to the public following lockdown. Fire investigators have ruled out …...Read More

Blogger reveals she doesn't want to have children because 'there are too many people in the world'

A blogger has revealed she doesn't want to have children because she believes there are 'too many people in the world' and it's 'destroying the planet'. Emma Luther, 39, who was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire and now lives in the Cotswolds, admitted her reluctance to start a family has been …...Read More

School reopening drive is 'last chance' for 'useful idiot' Gavin Williamson

Test will be his handling of full school reopenings slated for September Gavin Williamson has one 'last chance' to save his Cabinet position, with Ministers suggesting his final test will be the reopening of schools in nine days time. But some of the country's biggest education and teaching unions don't …...Read More

Letter written by Admiral Lord Nelson year before his death emerges for sale for £10,000

A letter written by Admiral Lord Nelson penned a year before his death at Trafalgar has emerged for sale for £10,000. The note revealed he feared for his financial future after the Napoleonic wars when his Royal Naval pay would have been half of what he was used to. Nelson …...Read More

London jewellers J McCarthy could be forced to close

Prestigious London jeweller J McCarthy could be forced to close after more than 200 years - over proposed plans to turn the building into a restaurant. The Westminster store, which counts Princess Anne and Margaret Thatcher among its customers, may have to search for a new premises after commercial property …...Read More

Children's balloon artist gave himself up for having child porn

A children's entertainer gave himself up to police after his horrified girlfriend found child pornography on his tablet, a court heard. Samuel Stamp-Dod's girlfriend found an indecent picture of a ten-year-old on the balloon artist's tablet and went on to find more child porn, prosecutor Matthew Bagnall told Ipswich Crown …...Read More

Quarter of migrants who claim to be children after crossing Channel from France are older than 18

A quarter of migrants who claimed to be children after crossing the English Channel from France were older than 18, council figures have revealed. Of the 1,668 who told officials they were children after landing on the Kent coast in the last five years, more than 400 were later found …...Read More

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have 'endless gratitude' to Tyler Perry for providing 'safe haven'

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are 'really grateful to Tyler Perry for his kindness' after he provided them with a 'safe haven during a complicated time', a source told People magazine. The Duke, 35, and Duchess of Sussex, 39, stayed at the American actor's $18million, 12-bedroom, eight-bathroom Beverly Hills home …...Read More

One of Britain's first gay dads proposes to daughter's ex-boyfriend while on holiday with them both

One of Britain's first gay fathers has proposed to his daughter's ex-boyfriend - while on holiday with them both. Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 50, who is originally from Manchester, is engaged to his bisexual assistant Scott Hutchison, 25, who previously dated his 20-year-old daughter, Saffron, for several months. The couple announced earlier …...Read More

Chemical firm ICI are being sued by family of safety inspector who died from lung cancer

The British chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries is facing legal action after the family of a worker who died from terminal lung cancer claimed he was exposed to asbestos over a 34-year period. Christopher Lees, 79, who was an in-house healthy safety inspector at the company's research plants, was unaware …...Read More