The ‘Czech Sphinx’ becomes Sainsbury’s fourth largest shareholder 

Czech Sphinx fills basket with Sainsburys: Billionaire investor Daniel Kretinsky becomes fourth largest shareholder By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 17 September 2020 A billionaire investor known as the ‘Czech Sphinx’ has become the fourth-largest shareholder in Sainsbury’s. Daniel Kretinsky, who is already the … Read more

Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic added to the UK quarantine list

The Government has imposed quarantine restrictions on numerous countries in recent weeks.  Below is the latest list of nations which are still viewed by the UK as safe to travel:    Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Denmark, … Read more

Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic added to the UK quarantine list

The Government has imposed quarantine restrictions on numerous countries in recent weeks.  Below is the latest list of nations which are still viewed by the UK as safe to travel:    Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Denmark, … Read more

Czech billionaire becomes largest Royal Mail shareholder

Billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx quietly becomes largest shareholder in Royal Mail By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 The billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx has quietly become the largest shareholder in Royal Mail, heaping more pressure on the troubled … Read more

Skincare consultant to the stars Joanna Czech reveals skin-ageing mistakes you could be making…

A skincare consultant to the stars, whose clientele includes Kim Kardashian and Anna Wintour, reveals the skin-ageing mistakes you could be making… Esthetician Joanna Czech has revealed the top ten mistakes that people make with their skincare routine, some of which you’re likely to be guilty of, and could be ageing your face.  Joanna, who … Read more

Skincare consultant to the stars Joanna Czech reveals skin-ageing mistakes you could be making…

A skincare consultant to the stars, whose clientele includes Kim Kardashian and Anna Wintour, reveals the skin-ageing mistakes you could be making… Esthetician Joanna Czech has revealed the top ten mistakes that people make with their skincare routine, some of which you’re likely to be guilty of, and could be ageing your face.  Joanna, who … Read more

Baby gorilla claps and dances around in front of visitors at Czech zoo in Prague

Standing oo-oo-ovation! Baby gorilla claps and dances around in front of visitors at Czech zoo A clapping baby gorilla was photographed at Prague zoo in the Czech Republic earlier this month The adorable photos were taken by Lucie Stepnikova, 33, and show the gorilla dancing for joy and entertaining the public Stepnikova said she has … Read more

Businessman awarded peerage by Harold Wilson had ten years of meetings with Czech spies

A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more

Businessman awarded peerage by Harold Wilson had ten years of meetings with Czech spies

A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more

How BBC’s Frank Gardner’s father was Cold War MI6 agent caught up in a shootout with Czech soldiers

In a quiet street on the outskirts of Ostrava in Communist Czechoslovakia, a British secret agent carefully unearths a package containing highly classified documents.  Working with practised ease, he replaces it with cash, which he puts in a food tin, along with instructions for his contact, and buries it in the pre-arranged spot. It is … Read more