Lord Bragg Granted Divorce

Writer and broadcaster Lord Bragg, 79, and his wife Catherine Haste have been granted a divorce after a 44-year-marriage. Judge Anne Hudd granted a decree nisi at a 50-second hearing in the Central Family Court in London. Neither Catherine Haste nor Melvyn Bragg were present at the hearing. Paperwork showed their marriage was solemnised at

Landlord fined £14,900 for abandoning hotel

A landlord who did not repair a decaying former hotel has been fined £14,900. Teeside Magistrates’ Court found Rajesh Kumar Gupta guilty of failing to repair roofing and guttering at the former Royal Hotel, in Loftus. He had been ordered to make the repairs repetitively by Redcar and Cleveland Council.   Gupta did not attend