Blame the never-ending rain, long office days or the constant emails about the British Airways January sale, but this time of year we are hard-wired to start planning how to use our annual leave. If you haven’t spent all of your money on your own Taylor Swift tour around Europe and are open to a new adventure this year, then we have compiled a guide to stylish holiday destinations that are worth adding to your bucket list for 2024.
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While it may lack the beauty and polish of its more progressive counterparts, former A’s outfielder Eric Byrnes once perfectly summed up why the archaic Coliseum wobbling tall in Oakland still means so much to the city.
‘It’s a giant concrete toilet bowl,’ Byrnes said bluntly back in 2018. ‘But it’s their toilet bowl.’
Even the most die-hard Oakland Athletics supporters would struggle to deny that their home stadium is an age behind others across the country. A decaying building
The Government is planning to scrap the need for planning permission for property owners who want to convert a house into two flats.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the plan in the Autumn Statement as part of a package aimed at slashing red tape and increasing the number of new homes.
The new rule, known as a ‘permitted development right,’ will apply so long as the external appearance of the building does not change.
But the idea has already proved controversial.
Britain’s woeful undersupply of housing at an affordable price can be partially blamed on shareholder handouts paid by the country’s biggest housebuilders, a new report claims.
Research published by Sheffield Hallam University found the eight largest UK housebuilders have paid £16billion in dividends over the last 18 years, with investors handed the equivalent of £22,000 per new home built in 2022 alone.
The researchers say dividends paid between 2016 and 2021 alone exceed the £8.8billion the Government spent on its
The British ‘danger tourist’ who was arrested by the Taliban’ secret police is alive and ‘living in luxury’ after befriending his captors, a ‘trusted friend’ of his ‘who talks to him regularly’ has claimed.
During the past few months in ‘prison’ in Afghanistan, Miles Routledge, also known as Lord Miles, is said to have been in talks with Taliban officials over a gold mine, as he apparently has ‘picnics and dinners with higher ups’.
The 23-year-old from Birmingham was arrested
One of Britain’s biggest lenders to small businesses is planning a £3.5bn merger on the Co-operative Bank, according to a report.
Shawbrook Group has approached the owners of the Co-operative Bank in recent weeks with proposals for a stock-based combination of the two firms, it is understood.
In what would be one of the most significant UK deals for the sector since the 2008 financial crisis, the offer comprises of roughly 29% that values the Co-operative Bank, which has 2.7
Prince Harry is reportedly planning a “big gesture” for his four-year-old son Archie to make up for him missing King Charles’s Coronation. The Duke of Sussex is travelling to Africa soon to film his upcoming Netflix documentary and is hoping to take his four-year-old son Archie on the trip, reported The Mirror.
During the Coronation of King Charles III earlier this year, Prince Harry travelled to London alone to attend the ceremony.
He now reportedly wants Archie not to miss
Mauricio Pochettino has reportedly decided not to loan new Chelsea star Angelo out to sister club Strasbourg as previously agreed. The Brazilian forward has impressed on the Blues’ pre-season tour of the US, prompting his manager to have a change of heart as he weighs up his options ahead of next season.
Chelsea’s transfer strategy has been slowly changed under the ownership of Todd Boehly, with the club now focusing on signing the best young players and nurturing their development
Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, has told multiple people within her party that she intends to run in the commonwealth’s gubernatorial election in 2025.
The centrist Democrat has been preparing for a run for the governor’s office for months or even years but more recently began making her political ambitions clearer. Spanberger and one of her top political aides told four Democrats that she is planning to make a run for governor in the next election, POLITICO reported, citing
