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Mail On Sunday (21st April 2012)

Suicide riddle of weapons expert who worked with David Kelly: Scientist tells wife he is going for a walk, then takes his life in a field... just like his friend Read more:

A weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

In circumstances strongly reminiscent of Dr Kelly’s own mysterious death nine years ago, the body of Dr Richard Holmes was discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment in Wiltshire. It is not yet known how he died.

Mr Holmes, 48, had gone missing two days earlier after telling his wife he was going out for a walk - just as Dr Kelly did before he was found dead at an Oxfordshire beauty spot in July 2003.

Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in the latest case but revealed that Dr Holmes had 'recently been under a great deal of stress'...

Mail On Sunday (22nd January 2012)

One-third of Big Issue sellers now Romanian: Job once reserved for Britain's homeless has been swamped by Eastern European immigrants. And many of them have homes AND claim benefits

Over the past 20 years, they have become a familiar fixture on Britain’s high streets: bedraggled, wrapped up against the elements and far from freshly washed - but often with an engaging line in patter.

Through their determination to work themselves out of poverty, Big Issue sellers ...

Mail on Sunday (18th December 2011)

Now middle class cash in on the stamp duty dodge thanks to loophole used by the super-rich

A loophole used by the super-rich to avoid paying stamp duty is now being exploited by middle class homebuyers.

A clutch of financial services companies have sprung up in recent months promising savings of thousands of pounds in house- moving costs through Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) mitigation schemes.

The companies, which often use cold-calling techniques and pop-up adverts on websites, claim the taxman has never mounted ...

Mail on Sunday (13th November 2011)

How my cousin the Bishop has stopped me inheriting this £9m Chinese vase

A Bishop used his legal powers as executor of his aunt's will to stop a cousin inheriting a £9 million Chinese vase.

Jennifer Watson, 58, had 'grown up' with the vase since childhood, having seen it on numerous visits to the house of her aunt June Robertson Rodger - where it was on a shelf.

Neither of them had any idea of its true value ...

Sunday Express, (6th November 2011)

The War Horse: A Touching Tribute to Fighting Spirit

RUST red and hefty, the wooden handled trenching tool at almost a century old is a remnant of a different age. Once wielded to carve passageways in the mud that plagued soldiers in the Somme, it is now cradled tenderly in the lap of widow Dorothy Ellis, who will be 90 on Friday, Armistice Day.

The tool is a bridge into the past and a touch point for the future as her husband, First World War veteran Wilfred, was an inspiration for War Horse ...