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A chef has started a furious row after accusing customers of ‘window dining’ by sharing plates and not ordering drinks.Hugh Corcoran, who runs the Yellow Bittern on London’s Caledonian Road, launched an angry rant on Instagram saying that sharing plates have ‘ruined dining’ and that it’s ‘not worth opening’ for people only willing to spend ‘£25 a head’.The Belfast-born restaurateur took to Instagram to accuse customers of ‘just eating radishes’ and ‘drinking tap water’ at the restaurant-cum-bookshop he opened last month. He said that it had become normal for ‘a table of four to order one starter and four mains to share’. ‘Restaurants are…
If there was a World Cup for hotel beds, my king-size in The Peninsula New York would be in with a shout of making the final.It’s exquisitely comfortable.And the rest of this ‘Grand Luxe’ room in the landmark 1905 Fifth Avenue Beaux-Arts building that The Peninsula New York occupies is dreamy, too, a full-marks score derailed, however, by a faulty bath-tub plug and a dribbling, leaky shower hose that I summon maintenance men to fix.(I used to think that in hotels of world renown, basic room plumbing would be checked before a room was declared ready.)But back to the plus…
By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 09:17, 6 March 2025 German borrowing costs surged by the most since the fall of the Berlin Wall as a pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to boost its defences sent its bonds into free fall.In what was described as a ‘seismic’ and ‘historic’ shift in policy, chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz outlined plans to exclude military spending from the country’s stringent ‘debt brake’ rule to free cash for a massive rearmament programme.He set out plans to create a £400billion fund to upgrade German infrastructure and revive the ailing economy.‘A really big bazooka. A fiscal sea change for…
By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 10:25, 10 February 2025 Shareholders have been told to ‘act now’ if they want to vote on the final attempt by US hedge fund Saba Capital to oust the board of a London-listed investment trust.Edinburgh Worldwide, which is listed on the FTSE 250, is the last trust to face a shareholder vote this Friday after six others fought off plans by Saba boss Boaz Weinstein to clear out their directors and replace them with his own allies.But investors wanting to cast their ballots through some of the UK’s largest investment platforms will need to move fast…
A young female farm worker was fed alive to a herd of pigs after being brutally raped and beaten by a colleague with a grudge against her father. Igor Zaika, 41, admits attacking his boss’s 17-year-old daughter, and is believed to have knocked her unconscious and left her to be mauled to death by pigs to cover up his sexual assault. The farmworker is accused of committing a violent sexual assault on the young girl while she was unconscious after punching her and striking her with a stick in his vicious attack. Milena had been left home alone in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, by…
By ASHLEIGH GRAY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 03:09 EST, 15 November 2024 | Updated: 03:09 EST, 15 November 2024 James Van Der Beek attended the Sidelined: The QB and Me premiere in West Hollywood on Thursday evening.It was the 47-year-old former Dawson’s Creek actor’s first red carpet appearance since he announced he has stage three colorectal cancer in early November.For the occasion, the Hollywood vet looked stylish in a brown suit with a yellow-gold windowpane pattern throughout.He added a textured burnt orange sweater underneath and rounded out the sharp look with suede brown loafers.James appeared to be in good spirits as he…
Thousands of Americans have been struck down by incurable fungus on the West Coast dubbed a ‘new epidemic’. Valley Fever – which got its name because a majority of cases are found in Arizona and California – is a deadly lung infection that kills one in 100 people that contract it. This year, the numbers have spiked to 9,826 in California, which is a 46 percent increase from last year. Meanwhile, there have been 12,368 reported cases of Valley Fever in Arizona, up from 10,990 cases in 2023, marking an uptick of more than 11 percent. Experts are now frantically trying to design a human…
By CONNOR BOYD HEALTH AND SCIENCE EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 16:58 EST, 12 November 2024 | Updated: 17:11 EST, 12 November 2024 A ‘healthy’ teenager is in critical condition after catching bird flu in Canada.And in a potentially alarming development, health officials say it’s not clear how they became infected. Health officials are still identifying the strain, but the patient is assumed to have H5N1, the virus that has infected dozens of Americans this year.Almost all of the US cases were farm workers with direct contact with infected cattle or birds – but the case in Canada is different.The teen had…
By SHAUN WOOLLER HEALTH EDITOR Published: 19:44 EST, 19 December 2024 | Updated: 19:45 EST, 19 December 2024 The NHS raked in £70million in charges from staff last year as seven in ten of the lowest paid workers were forced to pay to park their car.New figures from NHS Digital show trusts pocketed £70,510,110 in 2023/24 by charging the likes of doctors, nurses and porters to park their vehicles.NHS staff in the North West paid out the most at almost £15 million, followed by the North East and Yorkshire with more than £14.5 million, then the Midlands with more than…
By BETHAN SEXTON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 07:49 EST, 24 December 2024 | Updated: 11:09 EST, 24 December 2024 Christmas Eve travel plans for millions of Americans have been thrown into chaos after American Airlines was forced to ground all its flights due to a technical issue.A snow storm which blew in on the East Coast at the same time as the outage has only added to the travel woes, with the wintery conditions bringing flights to standstill at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.The disruption comes on one of the busiest days for festive travel, with hundreds of flights already delayed or…