Mail Online (1 July, 2024)

Resorts under siege by 'The Club'...of seagulls:

It's 9am in a quiet west country housing estate and on rooftops everywhere the bane of Royal Mail is eying up potential targets.

Known as 'The Club', the colony of herring gulls has become so aggressive towards postal workers that some deliveries are being suspended without notice.

Residents say the nesting birds dive-bomb anyone they consider a threat to their young, claiming at least one postman has been spotted donning a safety helmet before venturing into the Poldhu Road and Cardinnis Gardens area of Liskeard, Cornwall.

Mail Online (21 July, 2024)

Artistic swimmers, 22 and 23, look to follow in their mothers' footsteps as they go for gold in Paris Olympics

Artistic swimmers Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman will pursue the same Olympic dream as their mums as they go for gold in Paris.

Their mothers Karen Thorpe and Maria Shortman were a duet for Team GB in the 1990s when it was called synchronised swimming.

'We would never have become the athletes we are without them,' said Izzy, 23, who like Kate, 22, can hold her breath underwater for more than three minutes.

Mail Online (8 June, 2024)

Does Gordon Ramsay's Cornish fishing village Rock - where average house prices are £1.2 million - really need a £600k levelling-up grant?

It's a millionaires' playground favoured by celebrities, Royals and hordes of super-wealthy second-home owners.

Which is why some locals are asking why Cornwall Council has given the villages of Rock and St Minver a £600,000 taxpayer-funded levelling-up grant.

The seaside hotspot, where average property prices soared to £1.2 million last year, has been awarded the windfall to build a new community centre.

Mail On Sunday (19 May, 2024)

Furious business owners demand water company bosses 'bear the full cost' of compensation for Brixham poisoning scandal after wave of cancellations from holidaymakers

Furious business owners last night warned water company bosses they must 'bear the full cost' of compensation for the Brixham poisoning scandal.

Seaside B&Bs and self-catering cottages in the south Devon town are facing a wave of cancellations from holidaymakers fearful of exposing their families to the water-borne parasite cryptosporidium.

Mail On Sunday (13 April, 2024)

Revealed: Disgraced former BHS boss sent back to jail after being caught secretly running a restaurant chain with Marco Pierre White's son

Disgraced former BHS boss Dominic Chappell was thrown back in jail after being caught secretly running a restaurant chain with the son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Chappell, 56, who bought BHS from Sir Philip Green for £1 before it collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs, was released from prison last year after serving half his six-year sentence for tax fraud.

Despite being barred from running companies, the shamed entrepreneur helped to launch three Italian restaurants that folded with huge debts.

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