The wreck of a submarine sunk off the coast of Malta has finally been verified as the missing HMS Urge which vanished with all hands en route to Alexandria in April 1942. Archaeologists from the University of Malta dove to the wreck twice in April and were able to identify the vessel based on the ‘N17’ … Read more
Blow for Malta as island is left OFF green list of ‘safe’ holiday spots that won’t require quarantine after May 17 despite airlines planning extra flights amid hopes it would be included Malta has been added to the Government’s amber list of world destinations The island, popular with British tourists, had been tipped heavily to … Read more
Blow for Malta as island is left OFF green list of ‘safe’ holiday spots that won’t require quarantine after May 17 despite airlines planning extra flights amid hopes it would be included Malta has been added to the Government’s amber list of world destinations The island, popular with British tourists, had been tipped heavily to … Read more
Sasha Smolova (pictured) took her children out of school for four weeks A single mother took her children out of school for four weeks after realising she could secure a cheap holiday thanks to heavily discounted Covid travel deals. Sasha Smolova and her sons Aleks, eight, and Andrey, six, jetted off to Malta for a month … Read more
Last Easter in Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, my daughter Deia, then aged 13, announced she’d had enough culture for one morning, was fed up with my ‘selfishness’ and wasn’t prepared to do what I wanted a minute longer. ‘I want to go shopping,’ she insisted mutinously. So we trudged to a grimy area near the station … Read more