As I settled down to write a few minutes ago, an email popped into my inbox, purporting to come from Amazon. A blatant attempt to defraud me, writes TOM UTLEY. ...read
Tom Utley for the Daily Mail's recent articles
My haul of empty wine bottles is a weekly embarrassment... so my heart goes out to those poor guinea-pigs whose rubbish is being collected only once a month, writes TOM UTLEY
Yes, recycling waste is a sensible cause and should be encouraged wherever possible, writes TOM UTLEY. But for far too long, politicians pursuing high-minded ideals have ignored the impact of their policies on the everyday lives of those they are supposed to represent. Before they next preach to us about saving the planet, perhaps they should try living in a bedsit cluttered with stinking bins. ...read
TOM UTLEY: Is any parental duty more nerve-racking than sitting next to your learner driver son in the car (trying to hide your terror)?
The driver in question is not me but the beloved youngest of our four sons, whom I've been trying to teach how to reverse into a parking space — alas, with little success so far. It was last autumn, after he had twice failed his driving test, when I felt I could dodge my paternal responsibilities no longer. I had helped teach two of his older brothers to drive (son number three, mercifully, has shown no interest) — and I suspect other parents may understand my reluctance to repeat the experience. Indeed, there are few duties of parenthood more nerve-racking than sitting in the front passenger seat beside our learner offspring, desperately worried that they're going to hit someone or something, but anxious not to shatter their confidence by showing our terror. ...read
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- Theresa May prepares to take on Trump as she lands in Washington for today's crunch Brexit trade talks at the White House after landmark speech pledging an end to 'failed' wars
- Hip operations banned if you can sleep: NHS bid to save millions with new pain threshold test
- Smiling conman bags £330 'refund' for a TV he just picked off the shelf by shaking the manager's hand and telling the cashier it was fine to hand over the cash without a receipt
- If the Home Secretary's is not safe from the 'hate crime' mob then what chance have I got, asks RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
- Is this the best fish and chip shop in Britain? Chippy that sells posh coffee and whole LOBSTER picks up national award
- Astonishing forgiveness of fallen TV star Rory's wife: She stands by McGrath despite his 14-month harassment of married lover who ended their five-year affair
- Clarifications and corrections
- Horror as mother-of-four, 32, collapses and DIES in court in front of her parents after being given the verdict in a family legal battle
- Driver who left three people seriously injured in 100mph crash because he 'had to get to a meal for Ramadan' is jailed for three years
- A reckless motorist was caught on camera using a LAPTOP while driving - but driver who filmed it realised he shouldn't have been using his phone either
- Former NHS trust chief faces jail after she gave £20,000 of taxpayers' money to her husband's company
- Target the football stars and celebrities who dodge tax, say MPs: Call for a crackdown after loophole that allows image rights to be funelled offshore is exposes
- Next stop, Necker Island: Barack and Michelle Obama are all smiles as they arrive in the British Virgin Islands on Richard Branson's private jet and head straight for his lavish private island retreat
- Trump's migrant crackdown: The President will start building Mexico border wall TODAY -and is set to BAN people from Syria and six other 'dangerous' Muslim countries from entering America by signing executive orders
- PIERS MORGAN: Memo to anyone who voted for Trump or Brexit - pedophile-loving hypocrite Ewan McGregor holds you in utter contempt. So why on earth would you want to see any of his movies ever again?
- Chelsea Handler is accused of immigrant-shaming Melania for saying the First Lady - who is fluent in five languages - 'can barely speak English'
- 'Nobody believes they're twins!': Adorable girls with different skin colors are born to a black father and a white mother in Illinois
- Horrifying home security video shows home aide HITTING an elderly woman because she fed her dog 'human food'
- Sportscaster Erin Andrews reveals her secret battle with cervical cancer
- Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched a tuxedo-clad man repeatedly in the face as she broke up a fight at inauguration ball
- Single mother, 29, and her two young children are missing and their Virginia home is burnt to the ground after she went on blind date
- Outrage at woman Secret Service agent and Clinton supporter who says she wouldn't risk her life to protect President Trump
- The man with the world's longest penis is offered a part in a 'doctors and nurses' PORN film
- Chef, 18, was found hanging in his bedroom hours after his mother asked him to start paying £200-a-month rent
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Clarifications and corrections
Following a Hardcastle item in Tuesday's paper which said that Theresa May had not been invited to Clarence House for a one-to-one meeting with the Prince of Wales since becoming Prime Minister, we have been asked to point out that Mrs May has had discussions with Prince Charles on several occasions.