Multi-millionaire, 72, dubbed ‘Britain’s worst landlord’ is ordered to pay £125,000 after hounding council with letters and phone calls for a decade Last year Fergus Wilson, 72, was banned for life from contacting his local council The High Court ordered buy-to-let landlord to pay £125,000 for decade of abuse Wilson once referred to a female member of staff as a […]

Under-fire Boris warns he CAN’T protect Brits from cost-of-living misery as Charles unveils Queen’s Speech – but PM vows to get country ‘back on track’ with crackdown on eco ‘hooligans’, Levelling Up drive and Brexit red-tape bonfire Boris Johnson’s government is unveiling its legislative programme for the session with Queen’s Speech today Prince Charles read the speech after 96-year-old monarch […]

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner has announced his resignation, citing the birth of his second child, the pressure of a pandemic and a heart attack in early 2020 for his decision. Gunner said he had been reflecting on his future a lot over recent weeks, but knew he could no longer serve as chief minister when he held his […]

Manila: Ferdinand Marcos jnr, the son and namesake of the Philippines deposed late dictator, is headed for a landslide win in the country’s presidential election. Tens of millions of Filipinos braved scorching heat and hours-long queues to vote on Monday in what was cast as the most consequential leadership contest in the south-east Asian archipelago for decades. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos […]

NEW YORK – Steven Pico, then a student council president, remembers sitting at a Long Island school board meeting in the mid-'70's when a librarian whispered to him that board members had entered the library after hours seeking out books to ban. Talk of the ban turned out to be true. After attending a 1975 conference sponsored by a conservative […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A San Francisco judge tossed out former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit challenging his permanent ban from Twitter. U.S. District Judge James Donato said Friday that Trump failed to show Twitter violated his First Amendment right to free speech. Free speech rights don’t apply to private companies and Trump failed to show Twitter was working as a […]

RENTERS will finally be given rights against shameless landlords chucking them out for no reason. The long-awaited protections against "no fault" evictions are expected to appear in tomorrow's Queen's Speech. Currently landlords can send their tenants packing with eight weeks notice without any explanation. Boris Johnson vowed in 2019 to abolish the section 21 orders that leave vulnerable renters in […]

BAFTA winners fire pot-shots at the government over CH4 privatisation and Covid… with Lorraine Kelly joking: ‘Hello to Boris, I’m Lorraine’ after PM had no idea who she was The celebration of the great and the good in TV and film was hijacked by a number of political statements Lorraine Kelly set the tone when she sent a ‘special hello’ […]

Shanghai: Videos of people being dragged from their homes by health workers in hazmat suits coursed through Chinese social media late on Sunday before being pulled down on some platforms, as the city’s intensive lockdown enters its seventh week. The videos – which purported to show COVID-positive patients and their close contacts tussling with the workers – come as the […]

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake has rocked parts of South Carolina, according to reports. Locals said they could feel tremors shaking their homes as the quake struck just after 1:30am local time on Monday. It occurred around 3.6 miles east of Elgin and 21 miles northeast of Columbia, according to seismologists at the US Geological Survey. Locals took to Twitter to […]