The Prince and Princess of Wales also skipped celebrations last year as Middleton was in the throes of her cancer battle.
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Incidents over Baltic Sea come after UK’s deployment of six jets to eastern Poland to defend Nato airspace
RAF fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft flying close to Nato airspace over the Baltic Sea.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said two RAF Typhoons were scrambled from Malbork airbase in Poland on Tuesday to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M “Coot-A” intelligence aircraft.
Britain said on Sunday two of its fighter jets had intercepted Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea close to NATO alliance airspace in separate incidents on Tuesday and Thursday.The Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M “Coot-A” intelligence…
Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things Spanish
Almost 200 years ago, the pioneering British travel writer Richard Ford offered an observation that has been happily ignored by the legions of authors who have traipsed in his dusty footsteps across Spain, toting notebooks, the odd violin or Bible, and, of course, their own particular prejudices.
“Nothing causes more pain to Spaniards”, Ford noted in his 1845 Handbook for Travellers in Spain, “than to see volume after volume written by foreigners about their country.”
Rating agency downgrades Ineos Quattro as it says ‘trade barriers’ could affect it for next two years
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s loss-making chemicals business could take longer than expected to recover its financial health because of Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, analysts have said.
The billionaire industrialist has faced growing concerns over the state of his chemicals group amid problems with his business interests in Manchester United and All Blacks rugby.