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The Queen, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson led politicians and royals who paid their respects to Britain’s war dead at the Cenotaph on Sunday.  Strict social distancing was in place to allow the ceremony to go ahead this morning as the country remains under a blanket second lockdown …

UK bolsters economic support as England goes into lockdown … with the likes of British Airways, Royal Mail and Rolls-Royce all laying off thousands. Source link

R etail bosses today hit out at the “arbitrary” distinctions being drawn up to decide which shops and venues can remain open through England’s four-week lockdown as the hit to “non-essential” shops was estimated at £8billion.   Tom Ironside, director of policy for the British Retail Consortium which represents more …

London stocks finished higher with investors seemingly brushing off the as yet inconclusive US election results, although a ‘clean sweep’ of the White House and Congress by Democrats was now off the table. The FTSE 100 rose 1.67% to 5,883.26 and by the end of the session, cyclical areas of …

A Chelsea mansion worth £8.5million has collapsed during mega-basement construction work in the heart of the celebrity-filled suburb.  Neighbours reported hearing a huge thud as loud as thunder in the middle of the night as the mid-terraced house was completely destroyed.  Emergency services were still at the scene this morning …

Hundreds of thousands of jobs hang in the balance as coronavirus cases surge in Britain and the government scales back its support for workers. Through the pandemic, a generous government salary support scheme kept unemployment in check, but it ends Saturday. It will be replaced by …

Meghan Markle’s high-stakes privacy case has been delayed until next October – despite concerns raised by her father that he might die before it takes place. Thomas Markle revealed that he suffers from heart and lung problems and wants to get the case ‘over with as quickly as possible,’ because …

The crowds queuing up for the panto at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, had never seen anything quite like it.  Into the car park growled one hefty, blacked-out limousine after another for what would turn out to be nothing less than a royal command performance. It was a few days before …

A ‘wish you were here’ postcard has finally been delivered 100 years after it was originally posted.  The postcard was dated July 1920 and addressed to Miss Eva Browne on Glebe Road, Unthank Road, Norwich.   It has a picture of St Paul’s Cathedral in London on one side and attached is …

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell denied claims Prince Andrew slept with Virginia Roberts while being questioned about his relationship with friend Jeffrey Epstein, newly-released transcripts revealed today. The documents from April 2016 contain details of when the Duke of York is alleged to have had sex with Epstein’s victim in London, …