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More than two decades ago when I came to live in Portugal, a surprising number of people asked: ‘Do you speak Spanish already?’Sardines and fado music were known associations to the well-travelled, but many people still thought of Portugal as a region of Spain. Few had heard of the Alentejo, a region of dolmens and vineyards, olive trees and storks that takes up more than a third of the country. Portugal was often called ‘Europe’s best kept secret’.Fast forward to today and the country is on just about every traveller’s lips, with Lisbon usually featuring in the top ten of…
Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted he’s not holding any ‘grudges’ against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for trying to have him fired, but other Republicans are done with the chaos she and her rabble-rousing cohorts have brought on this Congress. ‘I don’t hold grudges. I’ve got to work with everybody. I told her last night before she left the floor, let’s move on, Marjorie,’ Johnson told ‘Fox and Friends’ on Thursday. Johnson told Politico he told Greene on the House floor after the vote: ‘I’m not angry about this. We have to work together. And I want to work with you guys and…
The distraught father attempted to drown his daughter in a riverThe man waded into the river with his two daughters after a family disputeBut rescuers pulled the pair to safety onto a boat in ChinaBy Belinda Robinson Published: 11:15 EDT, 25 May 2014 | Updated: 12:27 EDT, 25 May 2014 This is the moment rescuers pull a man and his daughter onto a boat after the man attempted to commit suicide and drown his daughter in a river following a family row.The harrowing scene unfolded in Qingjiang township of Yueqing, Zhejiang province yesterday.The man who was identified only as Mr…
By RUTH STAINER and HANNAH PHILLIPS Published: 12:00, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 17:00, 27 March 2025 A sneaky traveller managed to successfully avoid paying Ryanair’s baggage fees by creating a fake pregnancy bump.Grace Hale shoved two jackets and a bag full of makeup inside her top after realising they wouldn’t fit in her carry-on baggage.In a viral TikTok video titled ‘It’s a boy and we’re naming him Ryan’ the 20-year-old, who was travelling from London’s Stansted Airport to Edinburgh, showed herself with her fake ‘bump’.After walking through security, she bundled the items inside her top and wore a trench…
Dolly Parton shocked her fans on Monday with the announcement that her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, had died at 82.Unlike the bubbly 79-year-old country legend, Dean was a more reclusive figure who eschewed the touring life and was rarely seen in public — with or without Parton.Dean was last pictured out in public in photos snapped just over five years ago.The pictures were snapped in 2019, when he was seen venturing out to a post office in Brentwood, Tennessee.Prior to that, Dean hadn’t been knowingly photographed in public in four decades, though he and Dolly had both…
Outrage ensued on Monday as Elon Musk launched his latest attempt to get a conservative Wisconsin judge elected to the state’s Supreme Court.The billionaire leader of DOGE kicked-off a new social media campaign on Monday with the apparent aim to boost Republicans’ preferred candidate to replace a retiring liberal judge.He is offering $20 to every person who takes an image with another person while holding a picture of Judge Brad Schimel, the Republican candidate, while flashing a ‘thumbs up.’ Both people in the image will get $20, Musk explained in his X post on Monday.’Easiest money you ever made!’ he…
The best hotel in Wales. This accolade was bestowed upon The Parkgate Hotel in Cardiff in the 2024 AA Hospitality Awards – an eye-opening stamp of approval for the property, which is housed in the Grade II-listed former head post office building and county court on Westgate Street.Keen to see for myself what impressed the AA’s inspectors, I climb aboard a GWR express at London Paddington (see fact box for details on its ‘long weekender’ ticket deals, which include Cardiff) with my dear mother and head west to the Welsh capital at 125mph for a stay at The Parkgate, notebook and…
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 11:06 EST, 18 July 2011 A British teenager has been stabbed to death in a Spanish holiday resort.Andrew Milroy died from a single stab wound to the chest in Lloret de Mar during the early hours of yesterday morning.Police are thought to be hunting a gang of French youths of north African origin Andrew is said to have had an altercation with. The killing happened in the shopping centre of Lloret de Mar during the early hours of Sunday morningHis mother Jackie, originally from Richmond, Surrey, has spoken of her devastation.She runs American diner, called…
Vladimir Putin has sparked outrage by gifting electric meat grinders to the grieving mothers of slain soldiers. The tone-deaf gesture – orchestrated by Putin’s ruling party, United Russia – was met with an online firestorm of criticism, as the term ‘meat grinder’ is widely used to describe the brutal fate of Russian troops sent to die in his high-casualty war.The gifts were distributed in Murmansk, but instead of offering solace, they have been branded as heartless and grotesque, with critics accusing the Kremlin of mocking the immense sacrifices made by soldiers and their families.In an attempt to contain the backlash, Russian…
KFC has unveiled its Christmas menu, kickstarting the festive season with a tempting selection of chicken treats.The popular fast-food chain has released a new festive menu with the welcome return of previous favourites including one Stuffing Tower Burger – which sold out in UK shops last season. For turkey sceptics, the American franchise is offering up a number of succulent chicken Christmas alternatives, including the Stuffing Tower Burger, which will be available from 11 November.The sell-out sandwich includes a finger-licking crispy Original Recipe Chicken fillet, a sage and onion stuffing patty, spiced cranberry sauce, gooey cheese and crisp lettuce. The succulent fillings are…