Woman wearing safety goggles AND glasses delivers flowers to No10 TWICE in one day

A woman from the High Commission for Pakistan delivered flowers to 10 Downing Street twice in one day wearing both glasses and safety goggles. On her first visit, the diplomatic official got out of a Mercedes car clutching a huge bouquet and a large envelope to ‘Hon Mr Prime Minister & Ms Symonds, 10 Downing Street’. She returned later … Read more

Secret buyer of the Ritz who paid £800m is Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri 

Revealed at last: Secret buyer of the Ritz who paid £800m for the iconic London hotel is Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 22:39 BST, 22 April 2020 Ever since The Ritz was snapped up last month for £800 million making … Read more

One in four doctors come from countries that are ‘banned from working for the NHS’

One in four new NHS medics come from countries that are ‘banned’ from working for the health service, figures have revealed. The NHS’ Code of Practice lists 97 nations that ‘should not be actively recruited from’ because they receive aid or suffer from a shortages of medics. But an investigation has shown certain NHS trusts … Read more

Pakistani PM Imran Khan urges western governments to waive debt repayments

Pakistani PM Imran Khan warns MORE people in developing countries will starve under coronavirus lockdowns than will be killed by the disease as he urges western governments to waive debt repayments Pakistan has recorded 5,183 infections, with 88 deaths, so far in the pandemic Its already-struggling economy has been hit hard by the nationwide lockdowns … Read more

Mother of quadruplets, 39, who died of coronavirus feared she was infected by Chinese passengers

A mother of ‘miracle quadruplets’ who died of coronavirus feared she was infected at Heathrow Airport while working for British Airways, her heartbroken husband has told The Mail on Sunday.  Shabnum Sadiq, 39, was employed as a customer care relations manager for BA at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.  Before falling ill she had told her husband … Read more

Mother of quadruplets, 39, who died of coronavirus feared she was infected by Chinese passengers

A mother of ‘miracle quadruplets’ who died of coronavirus feared she was infected at Heathrow Airport while working for British Airways, her heartbroken husband has told The Mail on Sunday.  Shabnum Sadiq, 39, was employed as a customer care relations manager for BA at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.  Before falling ill she had told her husband … Read more

Muslims clash with police outside a mosque as they try to enforce Pakistan’s coronavirus lockdown

Pakistani Muslims clashed with police trying to enforce new curbs on gatherings to prevent Friday prayers and contain coronavirus infections, officials said. TV footage showed dozens of people chasing two police vehicles and pelting them with stones as an officer fired in the air to disperse the crowd. The astonishing video outside a Karachi mosque … Read more

British man jailed for decapitating US journalist Daniel Pearl has his death sentence overturned

A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a British-born Islamist militant convicted of beheading a US journalist in 2002. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, of Wanstead, in east London, UK, was found guilty of the abduction and murder of south Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, in 2002. Pearl, 38, disappeared in … Read more

Naans vast and crisp, the size of a pillow

Taste Of Pakistan 369 Hanworth Rd, Hounslow Rating: Taste Of Pakistan is not the sort of place you’d stumble upon. Unless, that is, you lived halfway down the Han-worth Road, deep in London’s Hounslow. But even then, you might well wander past the faded, unassuming storefront, wedged between a derelict betting shop and shuttered south … Read more