The Queen’s cousin and close friend Lady Elizabeth Shakerley has died at the age of 79. Lady Shakerley, who was more widely known in her professional capacity as Lady Elizabeth Anson, was the daughter of Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson, and Anne Bowes-Lyon, who became Princess Anne of Denmark when she remarried. …
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The wife of screen legend Sir Sean Connery, who has died at the age of 90, last night paid an emotional tribute to her ‘gorgeous model of a man’. Revealing how his final months were blighted by dementia, Micheline, who was married to the Oscar-winning star for 45 years, said: ‘It …
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Mystery ‘spy boat’ washes up near nuclear submarine base as Royal Navy set up elite unit to hunt for Russian drones near top secret sites Team understood to have been deployed to Faslane to track underwater drones Comes after an unmanned ‘spy boat’ found off the coast of Scotland last …
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Prince Charles reveals his sadness at not seeing his grandson Archie for more than a year after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left Britain for North America Prince Charles told of his sadness at not seeing Archie for more than a year Archie’s parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left …
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Key points in COVID lockdown Mark 2 Restrictions will start at midnight on Thursday morning and last until December 2. People can only leave their homes for specific reasons, such as to do essential shopping, for outdoor exercise, and for work if they are unable to work from home. Non-essential shops …
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Sir Keir Starmer tonight called for a second national lockdown to start immediately as the Labour Party claimed vindication for calling for a ‘circuit-breaker’ two weeks ago. The Labour leader also indicated that his Party will back the Government in a vote on a new England-wide lockdown due to take place in …
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England’s chief public health officials tonight unveiled grim graphs that show how all models of the coronavirus second wave predict the number of deaths will exceed SAGE’s ‘worst cases scenario’. At the heart of the scientific data supporting Boris Johnson’s decision to plunge England into a second lockdown was a …
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Boris Johnson is expected to announce a national lockdown next week after his scientific advisers told him it was the only way to save Christmas. Scientists from the Sage committee yesterday presented No 10 with bleak figures showing that Covid is spreading ‘significantly’ faster than even their original ‘worst-case scenario’ prediction. …
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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 …
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Pizza Express is to cut around 1,300 jobs across its UK restaurants after facing a profit hit in the face of tougher coronavirus restrictions. Bosses at the popular restaurant chain say they are not closing any restaurants but are instead slimming down the company’s existing team. It comes after the …
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