Channel 4 could cancel this year’s Great British Bake Off due to lockdown rules

Channel 4 could cancel this year’s Great British Bake Off over fears lockdown rules prevent contestants travelling to the show’s tent Contestants chosen from all over Britain would have to travel to Berkshire Source close to judges and presenters say they are preparing for cancellation Cancelling the show would be a major blow to already troubled … Read more

Channel 4 could cancel this year’s Great British Bake Off due to lockdown rules

Channel 4 could cancel this year’s Great British Bake Off over fears lockdown rules prevent contestants travelling to the show’s tent Contestants chosen from all over Britain would have to travel to Berkshire Source close to judges and presenters say they are preparing for cancellation Cancelling the show would be a major blow to already troubled … Read more

Adorable moment ecstatic pensioner, 92, meets her great grandchild for the first time

Adorable moment ecstatic pensioner, 92, meets her great grandchild for the first time from the upstairs window of her home after being stuck inside on lockdown for seven weeks Joan Cartwright, 92, was delighted after her grandson Will brought Holly over She flung her arms out through the open window of her flat in Horsforth, … Read more

Coronavirus UK: The Great British Staycation is on hold ‘for some time to come’

British holidaymakers hoping to visit UK tourism hotspots such as seaside towns were warned today they will be unable to do so ‘for some time to come’. Many workers with pre-booked annual leave who had been hoping to travel abroad this spring or summer will now be turning their sights to a holiday in Britain. … Read more

Donald Trump wishes ‘our great First Lady’ Melania a happy 50th birthday

Donald Trump wishes ‘our great First Lady’ Melania a happy 50th birthday as the family prepares to celebrate with a small gathering at the White House President Donald Trump wished his wife of 15 years Melania a happy 50th birthday via Twitter on Sunday ‘Happy Birthday to Melania, our great First Lady!’ the president tweeted   … Read more

Great British seaside resorts for a post-coronavirus lockdown escape, from Brighton to Margate

Wave hello to some post-lockdown vacation inspiration. Britain’s coastal towns are currently closed for business but one day in the near future we’ll be able to enjoy sunny days by the seaside again. Here’s our pick of some of the best beach towns, from bohemian Brighton to marvellous Margate. Margate: Modern art – and old-fashioned amusements … Read more

Ashley Graham cradles baby Isaac while enjoying the great outdoors at Nebraska farm for Vogue

Ashley Graham cradled her newborn son Isaac while getting some fresh air at her family’s Nebraska farm in a dazzling new photo. The 32-year-old, who is from Lincoln, is self-isolating with her husband Justin Ervin, their baby born in January and her mother Linda Graham. Now in a picture for Vogue‘s new Postcards From Home … Read more

The home lives of the great and good can be just as unruly

BOOK OF THE WEEK LIVES OF HOUSES    editors: Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee (Princeton £20, 304 pp) Since mid-March, most of us have been spending more time at home than ever before. Our dwellings have become half sanctuary, half prison; however much we are longing to leave, there is the ever-present fear that setting foot … Read more

Austrian wines are wonderfully underpriced and have been great for so long

Austrian wines are wonderfully underpriced and have been great for so long… so why are they not household names by now? By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 I’ve been banging the drum for Austrian wine so loudly for so … Read more