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Clacton-on-Sea was named one of the UK’s worst seaside towns in a recent Which? survey – but the town was once a leading British beach destination. The seaside resort was first created on undeveloped farmland by railway engineer Peter Bruff in 1865. Its pier was finished in 1871 and the majority of tourists reached Clacton-on-Sea by steamboat until the development of the railways in the 1880s. Clacton-on-Sea was extremely popular with East End Londoners, who could easily reach the resort from the city for a daytrip or a short break. Butlin’s opened a holiday camp in the town in 1938. However, the rise…
It was rogue BBC journalist Martin Bashir who ended the royal career of Diana’s personal chauffeur Steve Davies. But it would take a quarter of a century before he discovered that, learning the truth by chance from an episode of The Crown.The driver was frozen out of the Princess’s inner circle at Kensington Palace in late 1995. ‘It happened overnight,’ he says. ‘From driving her everywhere I was banned from the wheel of her car. After the Christmas break I was told she didn’t want me near it, I wasn’t even allowed to wash or hoover it.‘I was still on…
Clarence Williams, a Texas middle school math teacher, allegedly duct-taped his student’s mouth shut for 30 to 45 minutesWilliams has been placed on paid leave for a week while the localschool district reviews the incident By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 21:46 EDT, 2 November 2012 | Updated: 08:14 EDT, 3 November 2012 [if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Devin Ortiz (right) had his mouth and nose taped shut by teacher A Texas middle school teacher allegedly duct-taped his 11-year-old student’s mouth shut for 30 to 45 minutes, making it hard for him to breath.…
Prince Harry’s future in the United States could be decided by a man who once called his wife ‘classic woke’ and accused her of wanting ‘freebies’.Depending on what type of visa the Duke of Sussex is on his fate may rest in the hands of whoever Donald Trump appoints as Secretary of State.A leading contender is Ric Grenell, the former U.S. ambassador to Germany who was also acting director of national intelligence in Trump’s first term.In the wake of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s landmark interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7, 2021, Grenell offered an uncompromising view.’Meghan Markle…
Thirteen unarmed civilians were shot dead by the 1st Battalion of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment on what became known as Bloody Sunday in Bogside, Londonderry on January 30, 1972.Another 15 people were wounded in the shootings, with one of those injured – John Johnston – dying four months later. Other protesters were injured by shrapnel or batons, and two were run down by army vehicles during the chaos which broke out on William Street. The killings, which took place in the space of ten minutes shortly after 4pm, happened during a protest against internment without trial organised by the Northern Ireland…
The ‘Financial Independence, Retire Early’ movement captures many people’s imagination – but it requires strict disciplineScrimping your way through young adulthood to achieve early financial freedom takes huge discipline.The ‘Financial Independence, Retire Early’ movement captures many people’s imagination, but you may well baulk at some of the extreme tactics of its ardent followers.Its fans aim to retire in their 40s by boosting their earnings as much as possible, saving 70 per cent of their post tax income by living simply, and building up their savings by investing. Of course, it’s possible to follow just some of the FIRE rules, or adapt…
By SAMEER SURI FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 03:03 EST, 10 November 2024 | Updated: 05:05 EST, 10 November 2024 Paris Hilton got a romantic kiss from her husband Carter Reum at the star-studded Baby2Baby gala in Los Angeles on Saturday.Every year, celebs turn out in force for Baby2Baby, a Los Angeles charity whose aim is to provide essential goods like diapers and clothes to underprivileged children.At each annual gala, one superstar mother is presented with the Giving Tree Award, and this year’s recipient was Charlize Theron.Among the cavalcade of famous faces was none other than Paris, 43, who is now a…
The US is currently suffering its worst drought in 25 years that has impacted all but two states.Roughly 257 million Americans are living under a severe drought warning as drier and warmer conditions overtook the nation last month, leaving only Alaska and Kentucky unaffected.Several states have asked residents to cut their water consumption by reducing shower times, not watering their lawns and flushing the toilet less to conserve resources and the situation was so severe in Pennsylvania it led to a lake drying up and revealed the remnants of a 200-year-old bridge.The worst-hit areas include Texas, Ohio, West Virginia, Wyoming, Montana and…
The emails, so many of them heartbreaking, have been flooding our inboxes. Mostly they’re from young people – in their 30s or early 40s – who have been diagnosed with bowel cancer. There have been hundreds – and many told stories that were strikingly similar.They’d ignored their symptoms – blood in their stools, weight loss or stomach pain – or, worse, had them dismissed by GPs because they were ‘too young’ to have this awful disease. Other emails came from grieving parents who’d watched their children die from bowel cancer after a diagnosis came too late.But what they all had…
The Mayans believed in many gods. They were also highly literate, architecturally advanced and developed a system of mathematics that included one of the earliest examples of zero.Today, in their former Yucatan heartland – and especially along the Caribbean coast near Mexico’s heaving Cancun – the worship is focused on one thing and one lucrative thing only: tourism. The maths is all about the bottom line.Most of the architecture isn’t exactly subtle, but what an extraordinary stretch of coast it is, going on and on for nearly 100 miles, punctuated by huge hotels, mainly all-inclusive, sunk into powdery white sand.It…