Cheltenham from home! Revellers dress in tweed to celebrate first day of the event during lockdown

A very different Cheltenham Festival got underway today, with none of its usual boisterous crowds and carnival atmosphere due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  The thousands of revellers who flocked to the event in 2020 – which concluded 10 days before the country went into its first national lockdown – are this year marking the … Read more

What a difference a year makes at Cheltenham: Horse racing festival is held without crowds this year

Eerie pictures of empty stands and deserted crowd enclosures show the stark reality of Covid restrictions on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. The four-day horse racing spectacle in Gloucestershire – which attracted 251,684 fans last year – is taking place behind closed doors for the first time in its 161-year history. Drone pictures … Read more

A year ago today, France and Spain went into lockdown

A year ago today, Britons were slowly starting to see the devastating impact of coronavirus. While the country was still months away from the peak of its first wave in April, the UK’s daily Covid death toll of just 10 saw the total fatalities almost double overnight to 21. Boris Johnson finally u-turned and banned mass … Read more

A year ago today, France and Spain went into lockdown

A year ago today, Britons were slowly starting to see the devastating impact of coronavirus. While the country was still months away from the peak of its first wave in April, the UK’s daily Covid death toll of just 10 saw the total fatalities almost double overnight to 21. Boris Johnson finally u-turned and banned mass … Read more

Owners set to be barred from the Cheltenham Festival next month due to Covid restrictions  

REVEALED: Covid restrictions mean owners are set to be BARRED from next month’s Cheltenham Festival – with organisers still reeling from backlash from allowing 250,000 spectators into the 2020 showpiece Cheltenham has one of the lowest Covid-19 infection rates in the country  However, national restrictions likely to remain in place when lockdown is lifted Irish … Read more

Clarifications & corrections | Daily Mail Online

Clarifications & corrections By Daily Mail Published: 00:16 GMT, 23 November 2020 | Updated: 00:16 GMT, 23 November 2020 On July 13, 2019, we published an article headlined ‘My Dust-Up with Dyson’, about Sir James’s and Lady Dyson’s employment relationship with their former house manager, Mrs Flanders, alleging that Sir James and Lady Dyson had … Read more

Clarifications & corrections | Daily Mail Online

Clarifications & corrections By Daily Mail Published: 23:41 GMT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 23:41 GMT, 12 November 2020 In Amanda Platell’s column on June 27, it was stated that the Cambridge academic Professor Priyamvada Gopal was attempting to incite an aggressive and potentially violent race war, and that she supports and endorses the subjugation … Read more

Elizabeth Day: To hug or not to hug? 

Elizabeth Day: To hug or not to hug? By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:02 BST, 20 September 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 20 September 2020 Styling: Holly Elgeti. Make-up: Nicky Weir using Hourglass Beauty. Hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using T3 Haircare. Dress, Mulberry. Jewellery, Daisy jewellery One of the many things … Read more

Doncaster mayor warns St Leger Festival pilot poses a ‘major risk’

The Mayor of Doncaster has called for a horse racing festival to be called off as she warned allowing spectators to visit the pilot event poses a ‘major risk’.  Around 3,500 people are expected to attend the start of the St Leger Festival at Doncaster Racecourse today, as a test to see how visitors can … Read more

Clarifications & corrections | Daily Mail Online

Clarifications & corrections By Daily Mail Published: 23:49 BST, 26 August 2020 | Updated: 23:49 BST, 26 August 2020 A book serialisation in February about the murder of hostage survivor Gill Moran’s family said that Ms Moran had ‘signified her consent for the retelling of the story’. While this was the authors’ belief at the … Read more