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THIS amazing world-first video shows the moment a Somerset wingsuit pilot jumped from the peak of Africa’s second highest mountain. Tim Howell, 31, was the first man in history to fly a wingsuit from the top of a British mountain - and he decided to go one better. Former Royal Marine Tim, and photographer Ewan Harvey, first scaled, then jumped from the daunting behemoth known as ‘Mount Kenya’ - at 4,883 metres - second only in height to Killimajaro. After a gruelling climb the crew reached their jumping point, the summit known as ‘Point John’ - which stands at 750ft above se...

Winning Post: Operators count the cost of Deutschland IST4 Share April 1, 2021 Regulus Partners warns operators to prepare for further Bundesrat schadenfreude as the ‘toleration phase’ of the Fourth Interstate Treaty on Gambling reveals the unprecedented costs of operating in Germany’s re-regulated marketplace. __________ The initial financial cost of German gambling regulation is now becoming clear. In its components, it is in line with what we expected, but the impact remains sufficiently compartmentalised and uncertain for optimism to prevail. We believe that the current ‘Tolerati...

Exclusive: secretive procedure used to review laws ranging from Brexit trade deal to inheritance and land policy

In a letter to Alan and Glen Davis, whose plight was highlighted in the Daily Express last week, he said that he would raise the issue when it comes up in Parliament. The couple, both 78, bought their house in the Scillies in 1983 and it now has less than 40 years on the lease. They say it makes it unsellable unless the Duchy agrees to extend the lease – at a likely cost of thousands of pounds a year. Others have to pay the Duchy more than £1,000 per year if they want to let their homes out as holiday lets. Trending Labour's Lord Berkeley said he intended to ask for meetings with minister...

By Jonathan Owen2021-01-19T06:01:00+00:00 Review into scheme due out this month The true cost of the Palace of Westminster refurb programme is likely to be at least £12bn – three times higher than previously thought estimates of £4bn, according to sources close to the programme. Building understands that senior officials from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority briefed Number 10 on the true cost of the programme last year. More than 40,000 problems have been reported with the fabric and insides of the Palace of Westminster since 2017 alone And Meg Hillier, chair of the public acco...