MARKET REPORT: Smurfit Kappa makes packet from online boom

MARKET REPORT: Online shopping boom drives sharp rise in paper prices and delivers ‘remarkable’ first quarter for packaging giant Smurfit Kappa By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2021 The online shopping boom has driven a sharp rise in paper prices and delivered … Read more

Shirley Ballas puts on brave face as she leaves The One Show after discussing her father’s funeral

Shirley Ballas put on a brave face as she left the BBC’s London studios on Friday evening following her appearance on The One Show. The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 60, put on an animated display for as she donned a rose print shirt-dress teamed with black footless tights and red heels.  Opening up on the show … Read more

How similar are Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle’s beach clips?

Prince William and Kate Middleton opted for ‘casual’ poses and ‘wistful’ colour filters compared to the ambiguous black and white snap of Meghan Markle and son Archie on the sand, photography experts claim.  Kate Middleton, 39, and Prince William, 38, posted a short clip to the Kensington Royal Instagram page showing themselves enjoying the great outdoors … Read more

Lisa Rinna goes braless while running errands as Kyle Richards parties it up in Turks and Caicos

Lisa Rinna goes braless while running errands in LA… as her Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills costar Kyle Richards parties it up in the Turks and Caicos By Ashley Hume For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:37 BST, 30 April 2021 | Updated: 22:37 BST, 30 April 2021 Lisa Rinna opted to go braless while out running errands … Read more

MONTY DON: Grow gorgeous wispy grasses from seed and you’ll get an abundance to use – or lose

Three years ago I sowed a packet of seed of the beautiful, ethereal feather grass, Stipa tenuissima. At first they appeared as hair-like seedlings but by that autumn the small plants were growing in individual pots and the following spring I planted them out into what was then the new Paradise Garden.  These were the … Read more

Seychelles holidays: It has vaccinated almost its entire population and is keen to welcome us back

As of this week, 95 per cent of adults in the Seychelles had been given their first Covid jab. Some 82 per cent have even had their second jab in the country that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chose for their honeymoon. And with a population of a mere 98,000, the Seychelles seems one … Read more

Fishing holidays: Northern Scotland is angling heaven but it won’t matter if you don’t catch a thing

Day four and delirium has set in. I see fish in every shadowy corner of the River Findhorn — ghosts holding in the current. The water looks almost like the whisky made here in Scotland’s northeastern county of Moray, but it doesn’t have that dangerous glint. This is slick black tea, tannin-heavy and sickly. Closing … Read more

Hipgnosis raises another £10m in order to buy artists’ music royalties

Hipgnosis Songs raises another £10m in order to buy artists’ music royalties By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2021 Hipgnosis Songs has raised another £10m in order to buy artists’ music royalties.  The music investment company issued 9m shares at a price … Read more