TV DRAMA Trigger Point has sparked a surge in people applying for counter- terrorism police roles. The hit ITV show focuses on the Met’s Expos, explosives officers, as they battle to defuse bombs. It also features counter-terrorism specialist firearms officers. It has led to a 700 PER CENT increase in visitors to Counter Terrorism Policing’s […]
PIZZA is a best-seller in the supermarket frozen aisle. Sales of frozen food grew by nearly £1billion in the past two years of lockdown, with shoppers also enticed by cheaper prices. And when it comes to pizza, you could save yourself even more if you choose a supermarket own brand over a leading brand such […]
PARTYING with Noel Gallagher, arguing with Kate Moss, flashing Prince Charles and catching the eye of Matthew Perry – Denise Van Outen certainly made the most of the Nineties. But the bubbly blonde star — who became a household name as the presenter of Channel 4’s Big Breakfast — admits her life back then was […]
SUAVE actor Peter Bowles was Britain’s favourite toff – despite being the son of servants and growing up in modest circumstances. Peter, who died yesterday of cancer aged 85, shot to stardom as nouveau riche supermarket owner Richard DeVere in BBC sitcom To The Manor Born from 1979 to 1981. Audiences of 20million tuned in […]
A BOY of 12 has appeared in court charged with burgling some of London’s top hotels. The lad, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of carrying out raids on Claridge’s in Mayfair, the Four Seasons in Park Lane, the Corinthia in Whitehall and The Millennium, Knightsbridge. He also faces allegations of burgling […]
A GROUP of 50 orphans fleeing Ukraine are about to fly to Britain. The children, aged from six to 17, left on March 8 from five orphanages in under-fire Dnipro and are waiting in Poland. Nine adults are accompanying them, but although they have flights to Stansted arranged for Monday officials are still trying to […]
AGED just three, Anastasiya bravely tries to comfort her sobbing grand-mother after they were forced to flee for their lives in Ukraine. Pitifully, the child hugs Oleksandra Yakovleva as the pensioner tells of a shattered life and gut-wrenching goodbyes. Retired librarian Oleksandra, 57, said: “We waited for a new school for ten years then it […]