Lady Lola Bute gave a touching tribute to both her parents as she made a toast at her raucous 25th birth bash – admitting she ‘hasn’t always been easy’.
Dubbed the ‘party of the year’, the aristocrat, who is the daughter of the late John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute and fashion designer Serena Bute, hosted guests at the family seat – Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute – including Sienna Miller, Charlotte Tilbury and Poppy Delevingne.
While
Tesco has now been hit by an IT meltdown just hours after Sainsbury’s customers were stopped from using contactless payment at the tills on one of the busiest shopping days of the week.
The Every Little Helps grocer has cancelled some home deliveries today due a ‘technical issue’, a spokesperson told MailOnline, in a situation echoing the online shopping chaos experienced by rival Sainsbury’s this morning.
Tesco did not specify how widespread the issue is, but dozens of Tesco customers
Toby Carvery bills itself as the ‘home of the roast’ – where Sunday roasts are done ‘properly’.
But just how ‘properly’ is that? And how does the chain’s low-cost offering compare to a fine-dining version of the classic Brit favourite?
I endeavoured to find out, heading to a Toby Carvery in Worthing, West Sussex, for a three-meat roast costing the princely sum of £13.99, then trying the Sunday roast at London’s only Michelin-starred pub, Fulham’s renowned Harwood Arms, where a
Crime fiction writer Sharon Birch, 58, and her partner Stephen are desperate to downsize from their five-bedroom townhouse in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool.
They are among the almost 90 pc of people aged over 65 who are rattling around homes that are now too big for them, according to figures from research institute the International Longevity Centre.
But like millions of homeowners who would like to downsize, Sharon and Stephen’s plans are being thwarted by stamp duty, which they say is
Not long after midnight on February 7, 1986, a ragtag huddle of international reporters assembled on the tarmac at François Duvalier International Airport in Port-au-Prince, and we watched as Jean-Claude Duvalier, son of the dictator for whom the airport was named, fled Haiti on a US Air Force jet with his wife, BMW, mom, and kids, and trunks reportedly loaded with treasures and dollars. After years of popular protest against Duvalier, the United States had finally helped arrange his removal.… Read more
Food prices are higher than they’ve ever been – and it seems even the humble sandwich isn’t immune from price hikes after Pret a Manger found itself in the firing line this week for charging £7.15 for a baguette.
And no, it isn’t filled with wagyu steak or gold leaf – just cheese and pickle. The Posh Cheddar and Pickle Baguette at Pret doesn’t just have mature cheddar and chunky pickle, but some roasted tomatoes, sliced red onion, free-range mayo
Lifelong New Yorker Alec Baldwin was among the first celebrities to pay tribute to the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks on September 11, 2001.
As he reflected on the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the 65-year-old actor
‘I wanted to take a moment to mention that I watched the 60 Minutes piece about 9/11 that was on tonight, Sunday night,’ he began. ‘It was really really tough. It was a painful revisitation of the
Sir Richard Branson’s firm Virgin Galactic will finally send its first paying passenger to space today, bringing a nearly two-decade-long wait to an end.
The ‘Galactic 02’ mission will send a crew of six into orbit – including three tourists – aboard the VSS Unity spaceplane when it blasts off from New Mexico later.
The tourists are retired British Olympian Jon Goodwin, 80, who paid $250,000 (£191,000) for his ticket to space back in 2005.
There’s also Antiguan mother and
Former British Olympian Jon Goodwin has become the first paying customer to fly to space aboard a flight chartered by Sir Richard Branson’s firm Virgin Galactic.
Goodwin, 80 – who has been living with Parkinson’s disease for almost a decade and spent $250,000 for a ticket – said farewells to his family before boarding the firm’s ‘spaceplane’ in New Mexico.
Goodwin was joined by Antiguan mother and daughter duo Keisha Schahaff, 46, and Anastatia Mayers, 18, who won free tickets
Staff at a life-coaching firm in California are reportedly questioning what Prince Harry does, as 100 workers are set to be let go.
San Francisco-based BetterUp laid off a number of workers last week. However, the firm reportedly pays the Duke of Sussex a seven-figure salary as its chief impact officer.
According to the Daily Mail, the workers claim the Duke is a “distraction,” with one worker concluding that with Harry “the juice isn’t worth the squeeze”.
Another BetterUp employee
