Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: Walking holidays in the UK. Luxury will be in the (fresh) air on Britain’s best walking tours this summer as travel firms sweep away the old giant-rucksack-and-youth-hostel image. … Read more
Beyonce sends Taylor Swift a massive floral arrangement days after both of their historic Grammy wins: ‘Best Friday ever!’ By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 17:30 GMT, 19 March 2021 | Updated: 17:30 GMT, 19 March 2021 Beyonce became the most decorated female artist in Grammys history on Sunday night. But that didn’t stop her … Read more
Adam Levine is the proud new owner of a sprawling compound in the coveted community of Montecito. The 41-year-old Maroon 5 crooner and his model wife Behati Prinsloo, snatched up the historic estate for $22.7M and the 9-bedroom 11-bathroom home sits on 5.2 acres. The pair’s jump from Beverly Hills to the seaside town puts … Read more
Even if we don’t yet know whether we’ll be able to jet abroad for our holidays this year, many of us are looking forward to a post-lockdown break. And for a perfect family day out, what could be more fun than a visit to Britain’s largest theme park, Alton Towers in Staffordshire, with its thrilling … Read more
Piers Morgan has revealed he’s received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The TV presenter, 55, shared the ‘historic moment’ in a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, joking that it wasn’t ‘even as painful as working with Susanna Reid’. And although a major event, an impressed Piers revealed he was ‘in and out’ of the Violet Melchett … Read more
Pope Francis today held a historic meeting with the top Shia Islam cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on day two of his landmark visit to Iraq. The 84-year-old, who defied security fears and the pandemic to become the first pontiff to travel to the Gulf, met with the Grand Ayatollah in Najaf as his four-day trip … Read more
Pope Francis made a rousing call for peace on the first day of his historic visit to war-battered Iraq today, pleading with his hosts for an ‘end to acts of violence and extremism, factions and intolerance’. The 84-year-old, who defied security fears and the pandemic to become the first pontiff to travel to Iraq, urged … Read more
The Pope departs from Rome for historic first-ever visit by a pontiff to Iraq – and his most dangerous foreign journey since his election Pope Francis boarded flight at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on Friday 84-year-old will arrive in Baghdad today, for the start of a three-day visit to Iraq It marks the first … Read more
Gold miners in Wales have unearthed new deposits near a historic pit that supplied precious metal used in Royal wedding rings. Bosses say exploration was ‘more successful than we could reasonably have anticipated’ as they searched around the former Clogau mine in the Welsh hills. The North Wales mine was the site of a mini-gold-rush … Read more
Statues with links to slavery should be allowed to STAY if ‘counter-memorials’ are installed alongside them, says Historic England chairman Sir Laurie Magnus appeared during an online policy exchange conference He suggested that authorities reflect on the events of last year during BLM rallies Bronze figure of 18th-century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled in … Read more