Raymond Briggs, ‘The Snowman’ Creator, Dies at 88

A British man has died while swimming in the sea at the Costa Blanca in Spain. The 74-year-old is said to have lost consciousness while he was in the water at a beach next to Moraira Castle called La Ampolla Beach, the Mirror reports.

Thousands more homeowners who paid a doubled ground rent on their property will receive a refund after the competition watchdog cracked down on “unfair” leasehold practices. More than 5,000 households in the UK will be compensated after being caught in contracts that saw their ground rents double in price every 10 years.

income on rent than any other age group, according to new data. An extensive new study from Dataloft, an agency that analyses the housing market, found that four in ten young people are now spending more than 30% of their pay on rent. According to the BBC, with whom Dataloft shared their data based on responses from 150,000 young people, experts warn that this level of spending on rent is unaffordable.

A young Scots man has died after a fatal fall at a volcano in Ecuador.

Royal biographer Angela Levin has labelled Prince Harry and Meghan Markle "extremists" during a furious rant about the couple.The royal writer slammed the pair for their behaviour and conduct towards the Royal Family during an interview on GB News.The expert expressed her fury Live on TV and said: "Anybody who actually admires the way that Harry and Megan are behaving are extremely wrong and should be ashamed of themselves." Levin continued: "I think psychologically, they've cracked open something, that other people think ‘well, I wouldn't want to do what they're doing because they're extremists and they behave very badly, but there must be some way of earning more money out of that’." The stern faced critic went on to accuse Harry and Meghan of trying to make money out of their ties to the Royal Family, but have no respect for it. Angela's criticism of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex raged on: "That's another reason why they should be so ashamed of themselves because it's just not right.

French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, best known for the ‘Le Petit Nicolas’ (‘Little Nicholas’) children’s books, has died at the age of 89.

Raymond Briggs, who created the original picture book that became beloved Academy Award-nominated short The Snowman, has died aged 88.

John Steiner, a British actor who appeared in Caligula and several other films in the 1960s and 1970s, has died. He was 81 and passed Sunday at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs after a two-vehicle automobile accident in La Quinta, the Riverside County Sheriff’s department told the Desert Sun newspaper.