White Cliffs of Dover, one of country’s most famous natural landmarks, are to be protected by £1.2 million appeal launched by the National Trust. The trust is raising funds to buy a less-than-a-mile long part of the chalk cliffs to increase visitors’ access to the site and encourage habitat for wildlife. The purchase will fill in a five-miles-long missing link from its visitor centre above Dover Port to South Foreland…

The systems failure at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) which left millions of customers unable to access their accounts, has found its culprit in a junior technician in India, who accidentally erased information during a routine software upgrade. The “inexperienced operative”, who was working on the programme for the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Ulster Bank, is believed to have been based in Hyderabad, India. The technology website, The…

Nora Ephron, Hollywood screenwriter of the classic film When Harry Met Sally and the recent Oscar winning Julie & Julia, has died at the age of 71, in Manhattan. Ephron’s publisher, Alfred P Knopf, made a statement on Tuesday night confirming the writer’s death. Her son informed, she had died due to complications related to acute myeloid leukaemia. “She brought an awful lot of people a tremendous amount of joy,”…

MPs have urged tourists visiting some of the most alluring landmarks in central London to steer clear of a group of con artists who are reportedly running a racket of illegal gambling games on Westminster Bridge to fool unsuspecting people. There could be as many as nine separate gangs involved in illegal gambling at one of London’s most iconic establishments next to the Parliament building, a report claimed today, revealing…

The death of two-year-old Jamie Heaton in what is suspected to be a gas blast in Buckley Street, Oldham has elicited sympathy from superintendent Neil Evans, who said the police will help the grieving family in whichever way possible. “His loved ones are absolutely distraught and we will provide them with whatever support we can at what is clearly a very difficult and upsetting time”, the police boss said in…

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, presented her husband Prince William an action packed boat ride on his 30th birthday. Duchess Kate, reportedly, booked the boat ride for her husband weeks ago and hoped June 21, Prince’s birthday, would have a pleasant weather. But the weather turned out to be chilly and the Prince was left “soaked to the skin.” The Telegraph reported, Prince Harry, the Duchess and a small…

The Queen will visit Enniskillen, where the infamous ‘Poppy Day Massacre’ killed eleven people in the IRA bombing on Remembrance Sunday 1987, on the evening of her historic handshake with Martin McGuinness, alleged commander of the IRA’s northern unit. Martin McGuinness, who is the Deputy First Minister now, has always denied the claim of his involvement in the massacre. “He denies being in the IRA at that stage but most…

Jonathan Evans, director-general of the security service MI5, has warned that young British men are heading to new terror training grounds in North Africa and the Middle East, to train for attacks on the UK. The head of the intelligence agency said the terror group is establishing itself in those countries after being disrupted in Afghanistan and Pakistan. “A small number of British would-be jihadis are also making their way…

Last week’s systems failure problem at Royal Bank of Scotland has resulted in another bizarre situation when a man who had been jailed but granted bail was released only yesterday as it was unclear whether or not his bail payment had been made. The man who had been jailed at Canterbury Crown Court, Kent, was not freed until the confirmation of the bail payment was received. A second case in…