Luxury property hunters could score a four bedroom, triplex penthouse currently owned by footballer Phil Neville and his wife Julie as it has recently been put on the market. The flat offers panoramic views of Manchester and is situated in one of the city’s most iconic developments, the Beetham Tower in Deansgate – also one … Read more
Were it not for the pandemic, Neville Lawrence wouldn’t have been in London when he received a phone call he had long been dreading, inviting him to a meeting at Scotland Yard. Having resettled in his Jamaican homeland 18 years ago, he flew to Britain just before lockdown in March to see his three grandchildren. … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more
Gary Neville already has some personal, human stories to share and he knows there will be more. The former Manchester United and England defender has given the two hotels he owns with Ryan Giggs and former Old Trafford team-mates over to the NHS to use for staff during the epidemic. Some 35 bedrooms are occupied and … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S LEGACY by Nicholas Milton (Pen & Sword £25, 279pp) The wheel had turned, and, in a matter of a few weeks, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had gone from the hero promising ‘peace in our time’ to the villain whose attempted appeasement of the rapacious Adolf Hitler had failed. He … Read more