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Paul Barnes Hunstanton RNLI were called to a kite-surfer in distress. Picture: Matthew Usher. There’s another one gone. Last weekend was a Bank Holiday affair, yet again blighted by lousy weather, dull and breezy with a wind fit to freeze those proverbial brass monkeys, all of whom had strict orders to stay indoors for fear of something vital becoming brittle and dropping off. In the past, when such dismal bank holiday weekends were forecast, we used to offer up expressions of sympathy for se...

Published: 3:35 PM April 7, 2021    Updated: 4:28 PM April 7, 2021 Jack Jay, Johnny Mac, James Franklin and the cast of Pirates Online! from the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus - Credit: Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus The show must go on(line)! Last year, the Pirates at Great Yarmouth’s Hippodrome Circus were in lockdown, this year they’re live again, albeit on the small screen rather than on stage. The Hippodrome’s usually sold-out live Easter show has been cancelled for the second...

  Further to the announcement of 2 March 2021, Mountfield Group Plc announces, , the completion of the disposal of Mountfield Building Group Limited ("MBG") and Connaught Access Flooring Holdings Limited ("Connaught") ("Completion") and directorate changes.   Following Completion, the Company has been designated as a Cash Shell pursuant to AIM Rule 15. As such, the Company must make an acquisition or acquisitions which constitute a reverse takeover under Rule 14 of the...

Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 03.30 EST The dinner dances hosted by Robert and Betty Maxwell at their Italianate mansion in Oxford, Headington Hill Hall, were reckoned, even by hardened partygoers, to be in a class of their own. Every year on Maxwell’s birthday, the great and good would descend in their droves to enjoy his hospitality. Labour party grandees would rub shoulders with captains of industry, leading scientists with newspapers editors. But the party to celebrate Maxwell’s 65th...

WHEN the naked, 22-stone corpse of Robert Maxwell was fished out of the Mediterranean, off the Canary Islands, on November 5, 1991, his manner of death was regarded as a mystery. Did he fall off the back of his boat accidentally, possibly while having a pee, was he murdered by Mossad (a theory advanced in an Israeli book) or did he commit suicide? Suicide became favourite a few months later when it was discovered that the Daily Mirror pension fund had a £460 million hole in it and that his ...

When British broadcaster Michael Parkinson asked entrepreneur Robert Maxwell, his guest on Desert Island Discs in 1987, what, at the end of the day was his achievement, Maxwell answered "the achievement... is that... I will have left the world a slightly better place by my having lived in it". Four years later, Maxwells body was found in the water off the Canary Islands where his yacht Lady Ghislaine was sailing; no one knows whether his death was murder, suicide, or an accident and initially h...

The author of A Very English Scandal details the media tycoon’s bullying, lies and looting of pension funds in an absorbing profile of the war hero turned rogue

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Express The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell Today, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert is remembered mostly for his death. But in his prime he represented power, money, and shocking deceit—and British society ate it all up. John Preston Jan 31, 2021 Can scandal be hereditary? Ghislaine Maxwell’s involvement w...

Published: 9:24 AM December 30, 2020    The Hippodrome Circus is helping people to celebrate the end of 2020 with a free streaming of its Christmas Show and NYE countdown from 7pm which they can watch from their sofas. - Credit: Hippodrome Circus For Great Yarmouths Hippodrome Circus New Years Eve is usually the biggest night of the year. Always sold out, it adds a few extra bells and whistles for its whooping audience as it flips and juggles into January. Moving into Tier 4 on Boxing Day me...

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