How the wine-in-a-can revolution is hotting up thanks to The Uncommon January 14, 2022 Canned wine has had a refresh. The UK market alone is now already worth over £3.5m and has grown 125 per cent over the last two summers. Now the sector has produced the first UK winemaker to achieve B Corp status. The Uncommon has been certified by B Lab, the not-for-profit behind the B Corp [...]
Former BBC Panorama and Question Time producer who searched for ‘preteen’ sexual abuse online sentenced January 14, 2022 A former BBC producer convicted of possessing indecent images of children has received a 22-month suspended sentence. Victor Melleney, 76, who previously worked on programmes such as Panorama and Question time, also pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to four counts of possessing a prohibited weapon. He was arrested by National Crime Agency officers at [...]
Brits to enjoy more freedoms in 12 days as PM prepares to ditch Plan B January 14, 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson is poised to scrap Plan B restrictions in just 12 days time as fears about the Omicron variant ease.
Party shambles: Downing Street apologises to the Queen for ‘suitcase full of wine’ party night before Prince Philip’s funeral January 14, 2022 A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said this afternoon Downing Street has apologised to Buckingham Palace after it emerged parties were held in Number 10 the day before the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral last year. Two gatherings reportedly took place at Downing Street, with the Prime Minister’s former director of communications James Slack apologising for [...]
One in four people working from home will not turn heating on this winter amid rising energy costs January 14, 2022 Nearly a quarter of people working from home will not turn the heating on due to energy price concerns, says Electric Radiators Direct.
Day after MI5 warning: Picture emerges of David Cameron talking with Chinese spy Christine Lee January 14, 2022 A picture is doing the rounds on social media of Chinese foreign agent Christine Ching Kui Lee with David Cameron, allegedly taken in 2014, when Cameron was still prime minister of the UK. The revelation come after MI5 took the rare step of issuing MPs and peers with a warning about Lee’s cultivating of British [...]
There are more Chinese agents like undercover spy Christine Lee as Communist party targets British MPs, Priti Patel warns January 14, 2022 There will be more Chinese spies that engage in “political interference activities” on behalf of the ruling communist party, Priti Patel has warned. The Home Secretary said the UK had “other adversaries” who would “look to interfere or come into our country in some shape and way” after it was revealed a senior Labour MP [...]
New claims emerge Downing Street held party night before Queen sat alone at Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral January 14, 2022 Two parties took place in Downing Street the night before the Queen sat alone at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, according to fresh claims this morning. The events are said to have taken place on the evening of April 16 2021 while the country was in a period of public mourning and coronavirus restrictions were [...]
Michael Gove has finally entered the cladding fray, but the fight isn’t over January 14, 2022 Among the political shambles of this week, something remarkable happened: someone stepped in to say a word or two about how to fix the cladding crisis. This someone was the Secretary of State for Levelling up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove. His intervention was met with relief that an issue which has languished on the [...]
Tower Hamlets campaigners welcome u-turn on proposed skyscraper with single fire escape January 13, 2022 Developer Ballymore has decided to delay plans for a 51-storey skyscraper with just one fire escape, after concerns from the London Fire Brigade. Campaigners had expressed outrage at the plans, which were due to go before the Tower Hamlets’ planning committee on Thursday. The Cuba Street tower was set to have 655 rooms and tower [...]