PENNY’S PUMPKIN SOUP for HALLOWEEN TWENTY NINETEEN. The ingredients are oh so simple for this warming soup and it is up to you if you choose to include finely chopped onions or leave them completely out. What you do need is preferably a hand held electric soup wizzer, a good mashing implement or a liquidiser.…
An official report into Grenfell disaster blamed London Fire Brigade and said “ if the LFB had not suffered serious shortcomings and systemic failures in its response, fewer people wold have died”. The 1000-page damning report accuses Danyh Cotton the LfB’s commissioner of remarkable insensitivity after she gave testimony insisting she would have done nothing…
Keith Vaz, former chair of the Commons Home Affairs-committee, is facing a six-month suspension from parliament after an inquiry found “compelling” evidence he offered to procure class A drugs for other people. The Labour MP, who has represented Leicester East since 1087, resigned from the committee three years ago, after a newspaper exposé claimed he…
Soho House, the hotel and members’ club chain, has been valued at $2bn after raising $100m to help double its global footprint to 50 venues over the next four years. Nick Jones, founder and CEO said, “Expansion is definitely ramping up. We have the infrastructure to do it and we have the appetite People love…
The Barclay brothers David and Frederick Barclay, are pumping half a billion pounds into their ailing empire during a two-year cash-crunch at business that span the Telegraph newspaper and online retailer Shop Direct. The billionaire twins, who have turned 85 ye sterday, have spent £325m supporting operations in the past 18 months face a new…
Tiffany is expected to rebuff an unsolicited $14.5bn takeover approach from Bernard Arnault’s French luxury group LVMH. Tiffany’s adviser were yesterday still examining the surprise indicative offer from LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group by sales. The all-cash offer came earlier this month which pitches Tiffany shares at $120 per share at that time. Shares…
IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi led jihadists who carried out atrocities which killed thousands. “The fugitive leader of the Islamic State blow himself up during a US military operation in north-west Syria. He ran into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming and detonated his suicide vest after fleeing into a tunnel, chased…
EGX returns to London at Excel for 2019, to play major unreleased blockbuster games, with hundreds of Indie games and much more. With over 250 playable games on the show floor including Playstation’s Concrete Genie, Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers, Playstion’s Marvel’s Iron Man VR, Bandi’s Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Nintnedo’s Mario & Sonic at…
Rugby World Cup 2019 Handre Pollard kicks Springboks past defiant Wales to set up final against England. Alun Wyn Jones says that Wales’ indiscipline “piggy-backed” South Africa down the field for that last penalty. Great kick from Faf de Klerk, as he skips the ball into touch inside Wales’ 22 from an awkward angle then…