Thousands of British Airways cabin crew and ground staff will find out today if they will lose their jobs or face pay cuts after more than 6,000 employees accepted voluntary redundancy. Those who do not volunteer for redundancy and then refuse a new role under the new terms could be …
Read More »‘Furious’ Priti Patel backs sending the Royal Navy to tackle the migrant crisis
A ‘furious’ Priti Patel last night backed sending Royal Navy patrols into the English Channel after a record number of migrants reached Britain. Officials have been ordered to draw up plans in which, for the first time, the Navy could turn back boats. Yesterday up to 250 migrants made the …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: 135k face job losses in ‘economic Armageddon’
The scale of the Covid-19 jobs bloodbath has been laid bare as a Mail audit found 135,000 jobs in Britain are facing the axe. Analysis of the threat of redundancies since the virus took hold has revealed 230,000 jobs are set to go both here and abroad at more than …
Read More »UK offers £5m aid to Lebanon as ‘rigorous’ probe promised
More than a dozen countries have made offers of humanitarian aid and assistance following an appeal by Prime Minister Hassan Diab in a short televised speech Mr Diab called on friends of Lebanon to extend help to the small nation, saying: ‘We are witnessing a real catastrophe.’ Of its closest …
Read More »Royal insider says Prince Andrew claims ‘difficult to believe’
A royal insider today dismissed a new witness’s claims Prince Andrew was in a nightclub with Virginia Roberts on the night he is accused of having sex with her and not at Pizza Express. Shukri Walker claimed the duke danced and chatted with the Jeffrey Epstein victim – and says …
Read More »Actor gets £45k payout from clinic over ‘wonky’ hair transplant
A balding Royal Opera House actor has received a £45,000 payout after suing a Harley Street clinic and hair transplant surgeon over his wonky hairline. Ivan Luptak, 38, visited Harley Street’s Rejuvenate Hair Clinics Ltd for a consultation in April 2015, saying he wanted ‘thicker hair’ to boost his self-confidence …
Read More »Royal Navy counter-piracy warship HMS Trent sailing to Med
Royal Navy’s new counter-piracy warship HMS Trent sets sail for the Mediterranean to join Nato forces on mission to hunt international terrorists and criminal gangs Royal Navy warship HMS Trent sets sail from Portsmouth to join Nato in the Med Friends and family of the crew had to watch proceedings online due …
Read More »Royal Mint rejected coin marking legalisation of gay sex
The Royal Mint rejected plans for a commemorative coin marking 50 years since the partial decriminaliation of homosexuality in England and Wales due to a perceived “lack of appeal”, according to newly-released documents. The government-owned producer of coins in the UK briefly considered introducing a limited edition coin celebrating 50 …
Read More »Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency
Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency Mahatma Gandhi will be the first non-white person to feature on British currency The Royal Advisory Committee have started work on a coin featuring Gandhi Rishi Sunak backed a campaign to recognise the efforts of BAME individuals …
Read More »Royal Mint rejected plans for a commemoration coin marking 50th anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality because it was not deemed ‘commerically viable’
The Royal Mint rejected plans to celebrate a landmark anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality with a new coin, amid fears it wouldn’t be “commerically viable”, it has emerged. The Mint’s advisory committee reportedly met in 2015 to discuss the creation of a coin to commemorate 50 years since the …
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