Tom Clancy’s Chesapeake Bay estate sells for $4.9million

The hideaway estate of Jack Ryan creator Tom Clancy has been sold for $4.9million – $1.3million below the asking price.   The vast property known as Peregrine Cliff, in Huntingtown, Maryland, originally went up for sale for $6.2 million in late 2018.  It includes a 17,000-square-foot main home, built in 1989, and also 536 acres of … Read more

Coronavirus: UK confirms new cases and deaths

More than 1,000 people were today diagnosed with the coronavirus in the UK, marking the third occasion in the past four days. The Department of Health today confirmed another 1,009 people have caught the disease. And 77 more people have died of it across the UK.  Today marks the 27th day in a row that Scotland … Read more

Cow is born in Indonesia with two heads

Locals flock to see ‘lucky’ mutant calf born with two heads as farmer hand rears her – feeding her bottles of milk through both mouths Female calf was delivered on farm in Pondok Wuluh Village, East Java, on Sunday Animal has polycephaly – with four functioning eyes and two separate mouths Despite her unusual appearance, the … Read more

Boy, 17, is found guilty of murder after strangling teaching assistant Lindsay Birbeck

BREAKING: Boy, 17, is found guilty of murder after strangling teaching assistant, 47, to death and dumping her body in a cemetery Teenage boy, 17, found guilty of murder following a trial at Preston Crown Court He was accused of killing Lindsay Birbeck, 47, who was found in August last year Teaching assistant’s body discovered … Read more

Georgian country mansion that was childhood home of Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg goes on market

A Georgian country mansion that was the childhood home of MP Jacob Rees-Mogg before being turned into a hotel has gone on the market for £9.5million. Ston Easton Park is a stunning Grade I listed property with Grade II listed gardens designed by 18th century landscape gardener Humphry Repton. Rees-Mogg’s father and former-editor of The Times … Read more

Scotland train derailment: driver dies as carriage catches fire

How the Stonehaven train tragedy unfolded today 6.38am: Despite heavy rain overnight in the area, the train left Aberdeen station as normal, bound for Glasgow Queen Street.  6.53am: The train calls at Stonehaven station as normal, before departing and heading south.  Between 6.53am and 9.40am: After leaving Stonehaven, the train continued south, before encountering a landslip, … Read more