An Indian restaurant owner has purchased a 49-foot Hawker Siddeley HS125 jet for 500 curries and 1,000 poppadoms. Shajahan Chowdhury bartered with the spicy fare to get his hands on the shell of the plane which he now plans to turn into a restaurant. Aviation salvage company GJD Services were only too happy ...
A nurse who raised serious concerns about patient and staff safety is about to be sacked and is now staging a hunger strike outside the Department of Health. Jade Taylor, 46, has also been sleeping outside the government office, decided she had to speak out after her own parents were ...
Sport News 24/7 It’s not every season that Leeds United reach the second international break of the season with the same manager in situ as started the season. Well, it’s not every season under Massimo Cellino’s stewardship that they do, anyway. In that regard, phase one of Garry Monk’s mission ...
Labour has finally got its mojo back, well a tiny bit, and have asked the government 170 questions on Brexit, one for each day before Theresa May has declared she will invoke Article 50 and begin the withdrawal from the EU. Emily Thornberry, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Keir ...
Sterling slumped to a 168-low last night selling at $1.2117 in late US trading. According to a trade-weighted index measuring sterling against a basket of its trading peers, the pound has now slumped to its lowest on record, even stretching beyond the introduction of free-floating exchange rates in the 1970s, ...
If you’re stepping out of the smoke for the weekend and you’re in search of something gorgeous and filthy (food I’m talking about), you’ll do well to beat Smokey's American Grill restaurant and takeaway in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Since opening in 2014 Smokeys has already scooped up the Wiltshire Restaurant of the ...
When it comes to buying a house, there are many things that top the ‘must have’ list - off-street parking, a decent garden, a bathroom suite that isn’t avocado to name a few. But, it’s not just about what’s on the inside that counts, the outside matters too. We’re talking ...
Brexit has already proved hugely divisive - to the point where the unity of the United Kingdom is once again in question - but it is also presenting golden opportunities for those able to position themselves on the right side of history. It is, however, hard to see how metropolitan ...
We used to walk, well run, to school being chased by the bigger boys, but in Eastern Thailand you get a much bigger companion to accompany you to school. The bullies wouldn’t have messed we us, if we had these animals taking us to double maths. These two kids walk ...