Once a shrine to a retailer’s brand, ‘flagships’ lose luster

It used to be considered the retailer’s crown jewel — a large format store on a swank corridor that showed off the best of what a brand had to offer. But now the so-called flagship store is disappearing from high-profile shopping thoroughfares like Manhattan’s Madison Avenue and Chicago’s Magnificent Mile because of skyrocketing rents and the shift to online shopping. […]

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Our 20,000 new police recruits WILL cut crime says Boris Johnson

Our 20,000 new police recruits WILL cut crime says Boris Johnson as Priti Patel chairs first meeting of new national policing board The Prime Minister said that the new project would be completed in three years The PM gave an opening speech at the newly-establised national policing board  It will be headed up by Pritti Patel who was also in attendance […]

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Lawyers crushed to death after skiing on slope with avalanche risk

Two Barclays Bank lawyers were crushed to death under tons of snow in the Italian Alps after skiing on a slope that had a ‘considerable’ avalanche risk, inquest hears Matt Ziegler, 43, and Katherine Clarke, 39, died while skiing on February 3, 2019 Pair went out after slopes reopened on the Canale degli Spagnoli Val Veniy run Heard conflicting reports […]

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Iowa man on Florida honeymoon drowns during first ocean swim

An Iowa seminary student honeymooning in Florida drowned when he was swept out to sea on his first time in the ocean, officials said. A St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office incident report says Dalton Cottrell, 22, of Malcom, Iowa, drowned while swimming Tuesday at Crescent Beach, south of Jacksonville, according to The Florida Times-Union. A beach-goer heard screaming from the […]

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Fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee ‘moves into tin foil-covered compound in Lithuania to evade CIA kidnap teams’ – The Sun

FUGITIVE anti-virus tycoon John McAfee claims him and his wife have fled to an “ultra-secure” facility in Lithuania to evade the CIA. The 73-year-old shared his location – which was covered in tin foil – as being in Vilnius in a tweet and it comes just days after fleeing the Dominican Republic. He tweeted: “Sorry for the silence. @theemrsmcafee and […]

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