The new AgustaWestland AW139s will replace the current 15-year-old Sikorsky helicopters. At a previous financial briefing in 2022, a source described the eco-conscious King, then-Prince of Wales, as “pretty allergic” to travelling by helicopter and said he would always “raise an eyebrow” and object when the mode of transport was …
Read More »Cost of Royal family engagements over the last year increases by £300,000 to £4.2m despite appearances being scaled back after the King and Princess of Wales’ cancer diagnosis
The royals cut back on engagements last year amid the illness of the King and the Princess of Wales – but the cost of them went up by £300,000, official accounts reveal. Royal engagements racked up a £4.2million bill despite there being nearly 400 fewer visits and less foreign travel. …
Read More »comic strip writer who named Dennis the Menace’s dog
One day in 1968 Ian McLaren, a writer at DC Thomson in Dundee, was on his lunch break with Ian Gray, who had developed the character of Dennis the Menace in The Beano with a third colleague, Ian Chisholm. Gray explained that they were working on a dog to accompany …
Read More »Kate Middleton, King Charles Received 27,000 Messages amid Cancer News
Kate Middleton and King Charles’ offices were flooded with correspondence after both royals announced that they were undergoing treatment for cancer. On July 24 local time, The Royal Household released the Sovereign Grant Report for the 2023-2024 financial year, revealing the royal family’s annual financial statement and other highlights about …
Read More »“Unparalleled” British industrial designer Kenneth Grange dies aged 95
Pentagram co-founder Kenneth Grange, whose playful and prolific product designs helped to define the face of modern Britain, has died aged 95. Grange, who designed thousands of products that have entered the country’s industrial design canon over his 70-year career, passed away less than a week after his 95th birthday. …
Read More »Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons
By David Hartwig Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates 50 years since the creation of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with 14 stamps in a July 25 issue. Royal Mail presents eight of the Dungeons & Dragons stamps in two horizontal se-tenant (side-by-side) strips of four. The stamps …
Read More »Damage to Burray fence prompts police appeal
featured newsJuly 23, 2024 at 5:41 pm Police are appealing for witnesses to damage to a fence at Greenwell, Burray, which is believed to have been incurred between 9.30pm on Saturday, July 20, and 8.45am on Sunday. Officers say a vehicle left the carriageway and crashed through boundary fences, damaging …
Read More »Julius Baer ficha en Goldman Sachs a su nuevo CEO
Julius Baer ha anunciado que, tras una exhaustiva búsqueda, el Consejo de Administración ha nombrado a Stefan Bollinger director ejecutivo. Empezará a desempeñar su nuevo cargo como muy tarde el 1 de febrero de 2025. Bollinger, ciudadano suizo, es actualmente codirector de Gestión Patrimonial Privada para Europa, Oriente Medio y …
Read More »New Cyber Security and Resilience Bill announced in King’s Speech, Ralie Belcheva
In the week that saw one of the world’s biggest IT outages, apparently caused by a cyber security firm no-less, a new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill was announced in the UK. The bill was set out in the King’s Speech on Wednesday last week (or, to be more precise, …
Read More »Ex-footballer launches new range of WellPaws supplements
Ex-premiership footballer turned CEO of WellPaws, Neil Yadolahi, has announced the launch of a new range of supplements in the form of syrups and chewables for fussy pets. A former Burnley and Drogheda United player, Irish-born Yadolhi noticed that tens-of-thousands of pet owners struggle to get their animals to take …
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