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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 seasonal traders who depended on fair weather to beef up trade sufficient to see them through the blea...

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 year running, but there’s an online alternative for those missing their circus fix: and it’s fa...

  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 AIM Rules or be re-admitted to trading on AIM as an investing company under the AIM Rules (which re...

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 birthday in June 1988 was confidently predicted to outdo them all in terms of both opulence and pom...

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 whole empire was on the brink of collapse. The theory was that he must have killed himself out of gu...