Several are feared dead after a plane and helicopter fell from the sky after crashing mid-air near a country estate. Emergency services were called to the scene after the aircraft came plummeted into the Waddesdon Manor National Trust site just after midday today. Both aircraft came from the pilot training centre Wycombe Air Park some 20miles away from the estate at High Wycombe, Bucks. An air ambulance has landed near where plumes of smoke have been seen rising from the...

Britain is set to pay a long-standing debt of £450 million to Iran to help free imprisoned mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. According to new reports Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond have authorised government lawyers to settle the 38 year-long dispute over a tank deal. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been locked up since April 2016 on trumped up propaganda charges. Her sentence was extended after the Foreign Secretary made a colossal blunder over her intentions while in the country. According to exclusive reports Iranian hardliners have told...

Inspired by Wilkins Micawber – a fictional character from Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield – and his love of gin punch, this week’s recipe is ideal for the winter months. Created by Duncan McRae, Global Ambassador of Hendrick’s Gin, the hot gin punch is served in teacups; a nod to the prohibition act of drinking gin from teacups, in order to disguise the contents. Featuring Hendrick’s Gin, distilled in minuscule batches in Scotland with fresh cucumber and rose petals, the recipe...

What is the secret to making a good wine? Ask the French and they'll say they'll say its the terroir. Ask any New World grower and their more likely to say its the human input that really makes the difference. But ask the Leaf Plucker vineyard on the Western Cape of South Africa and they'll put it down to one rather unusual factor: sheep. Winner of the Gold badge at the Quality Drink Awards for Best White Wine Under £7, Leaf Plucker is a lovely example...

Theresa May's husband has become embroiled in the Paradise Papers tax haven scandal with the revelation of emails between his company and Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the tax avoidance leaks. Private Eye have seen correspondence between Capital Group where Philip May works and Appleby, whose stolen "Paradise Papers" documents have unearthed how the world's elite squirrel away investments in offshore tax havens, depriving countries of tax revenue that would pay for policing, hospitals, schools, defence,...

Scuffles broke out as students protesting about the salary of Britain's best-paid university vice chancellor were bundled out of meeting. Action group Bath Students Against Fees and Cuts is calling for the resignation of £451,000-a-year boss Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell. They stormed into the university's annual 'Let's Talk' event and unfurled a banner reading "Resign Now". Security guards grabbed one student and forcibly ejected them from the building after they were seen handing flyers to staff leaving the talk. The...

MedicX sells five properties – As part of its planned asset management activities, MedicX Fund has today, Thursday 16 November 2017, completed the disposal of five primary healthcare properties located in Wolverhampton, Southampton, Gravesend, Leicester and Grimsby. The total gross sale price was GBP5,575,000, representing a gain of approximately GBP250,000 over the most recent external valuation appraisal prepared by Jones Lang LaSalle, the Fund’s independent valuers. The net proceeds raised will be used in further pursuing the investment objectives of...

With more and more concerns about the environment and increasingly larger heating up of Earth because of human activity, the alternative heating sources become more frequent for homes and enterprises, especially in the developed countries, of which the UK seems one of the most proficient. Pondering about heat pump installation in UK, you can read more here https://www.huskyheatpumps.co.uk/air-source-heat-pump-installation, one should take into account: 1. The gained benefits They are further split in two: Decreasing the electricity bill on the yearly...

Prominent wildlife photographer Richard Bowler says the government's vote to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill is a vote to say animals can no longer feel pain or emotions. The move to reject sentience in the bill has been largely under-reported in the mainstream media despite Michael Gove facing criticism over his high animal welfare pledge. Eighty per cent of current animal welfare legislation comes from the EU, but after March 2019, European law will no longer apply...