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The coronavirus lockdown has left many homeowners longing for a change of scenery - but some buyers are thinking bigger than others for their next move.According to agents, demand for private islands is booming as increasing numbers of Britons seek solitude and safety during the pandemic. Farhad Vladi, founder of Vladi Private Islands,…

GEORGE TOWN: The family of Annapuranee Jenkins (pix), who went missing in Penang three years ago, have sent their DNA samples to the police after some of the Aussie woman’s personal belongings and skeletal remains were found here earlier this year. Her son Steven confirmed that the DNA sampling was…

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the launch of a new, innovative payments service in Scotland. ‘Tyl’ is designed to make it easier for small business customers across the country to receive payments and manage cash flow during COVID-19 and beyond. Tyl is a point-of-sale card payments solution that enables…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Sir Keir Starmer was elected Labour leader in April A new leader and the end of Brexit as an election issue will not be enough for Labour to win back power, a review of the party's 2019 defeat has warned.The Labour Together project says the…

British Cycling has announced the next phase of how it plans to reintroduce all sanctioned cycling activities in England, including coaching and group activity beginning to return from today. It has also revealed that the next stage of its six-step programme to resume all activities, entitled British Cycling: The Way…

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Izabella Scott June 16, 2020 Olga Deterding was so rich that when her red Bentley broke down on the London Road, she left it on the shoulder for anyone to claim. Then she tipped off a gossip columnist, as was her habit, explaining exactly where to find the car, and even…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, as usual I collected too much political material over the weekend. I’ll beef up that section in a bit. –lambert UPDATE All done! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart. The data is the John Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the…

1 INTRODUCTION Introductions and expansions of alien invasive species are globally common and considered to be major sources of anthropogenic environmental change (Vitousek, D'Antonio, Loope, Rejmanek, & Westbrooks, 1997). The far‐reaching, negative consequences of invasive species on native species through predation, competition, habitat alteration and disease transmission are well documented (Pimental,…

Holly in her southwest London home-office: ‘I’ve turned it into my creative centre’Holly Tucker, the creative mastermind behind the juggernaut website Not On The High Street, tells Julia Llewellyn Smith how overcoming her own tough times has turned her into a guru for small businesses – and a much-needed lifeline…