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A Baroness was among the victims of an A-list lawyer who was convicted of running one of the biggest tax fraud schemes in UK history in 2017, according to the
Daily Mail.
Baroness Jacqueline van Zuylen told London s High Court that after being introduced to Rodney Whiston-Dew by her ex-husband s new partner a decade ago, she was persuaded by him to invest just over £2 million of her money into a trust in the Seychelles. She claims that he would not divulge the status of her money despite frequent requests, and, after five years, asked for him to return it, which he did not. She is now suing him for £4 million.
Flat fish are overdue a starring role in the seafood line-up
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What’s in a name? The sweet sound of the cash till ringing, or so say the fish marketeers. With this in mind, megrim, one of the biggest catches of the South West, is being renamed Cornish sole by Seafood Cornwall, part of the Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation. The aim is to make them more appetising to us, by combining the wholesome connotations of the fisherfolk of the South West with a familiar, if technically inaccurate, word – sole.
No, megrim isn’t a real sole, being from the same family as turbot and brill, although not in their league gastronomically. The one true sole is the Dover sole, and slip sole which is a small Dover sole. Lemon sole isn’t a sole either, but a relative of halibut and dab. To be fair, Dover sole hasn’t got much to do with Dover since it’s fished from Scotland to the Mediterranean.
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A TRUCK driver banged on the window of a tradie’s ute then punched him in a nasty outburst of road rage.
When the tradie put up his arm to protect his head the blow from Alan Davidson struck his forearm, an Ipswich court has heard.
Davidson was a disqualified driver at the time and should not have been on the road in his work truck when he lost his temper.
It was one of nine charges Davidson was sentenced for at Ipswich Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Alan J Davidson, 39, from North Ipswich, pleaded guilty to assault doing bodily harm to the man on November 21, 2019; four charges of driving when disqualified (in August and November 2019, and two in April 2020); drink driving when unlicensed on April 1, 2020; obstructing police when in licensed premises on October 31; failing to stop; and failing to appear at court.
York cookery writer Laura Mason at the Mansion House for the York Food and Drink Festival in September 2005
Picture: Mike Tipping LOVING tributes have been paid to Laura Mason, the York cookery writer and food historian, who has died from cancer aged 63. Laura, who died on February 2, was born in Ilkley but settled in York. Her funeral took place on February 15. She was well known in York for her cookery writing and involvement with the York Food Festival. As an expert on confectionery she advised the makers of the 2004 film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, on the set-up of Honeyduke’s Sweetshop.