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Veteran BBC journalist John Simpson said his son’s future job opportunities could be hurt by an Oxbridge degree, amid concerns about elitism. The reporter said his ‘great ambition’ for his 14-year-old Rafe, who attended New College School, a private prep school for boys, to study at Oxford or Cambridge could be ‘one of the biggest millstones around his neck’. He pointed to remarks made by the BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie who signalled an end to the conveyor belt of Oxbridge graduates at the broadcaster. Veteran BBC journalist John Simpson with his son Rafe , who attended New College School, a private preparatory school for boys in Oxford  Mr Simpson said he joined the BBC in 1970 as a ‘white male, privately educated Oxbridge graduate’. But he said ‘now every single one of them is a reason not to employ me’. During an Ofcom event last week, Mr Davie, who studied at Cambridge, said the broadcaster needs to stop ‘just taking people from a certain academic track’ and it will now r

A mother-of-four from Montana has been found dead in her car inside a storage container after she was reported missing since September.  Sally Jane Demaris Smith, 52, went missing on September 25, sparking a desperate search led by family and friends.  She was last seen in Great Falls and was believed to have been driving to Malta area.  Her body was found over two weeks later inside her 2005 Toyota Corolla in a storage unit just outside Great Falls, police say.  Authorities have not revealed whether the death is being treated as suspicious.  Sally Jane Demaris Smith, 52, went missing on September 25, sparking a desperate search by family and friends Her body was found over two weeks later inside her 2005 Toyota Corolla in a storage unit just outside Great Falls Her body was found over two weeks later inside her 2005 Toyota Corolla in a storage unit just outside Great Falls, police say Smith worked as a speech and language pathologist at Meadow Lark Elementary School They are set to r

Online shopping giants are celebrating a boom in profits today as the High Street gets set to see yet more tumbling sales in the face of another lockdown.  While Britain's High Streets may have suffered irreparable losses in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, online stores have seen a surge in orders with fashion giants Asos and Boohoo leading the way.   Asos has seen its profits more than quadruple, buoyed by higher demand as customers are forced to shop on the internet and return fewer items amid the crisis.  The firm reported pre-tax profits of £142.1 million for the year to August 31, up 329% from £33.1 million a year earlier, as sales jumped 19% including 18% growth in the UK.  Online takeaway platform Just Eat today revealed that hungry households in the UK ordered 46.4 million takeaways in the three months to the end of September.   The number of orders it received leapt from 103.6m to 151.4m from July to September - sending shares surging to a record high of 9410p, makin

A tandem skydiver knew just what to do when the lines of his instructor's parachute got twisted during a 12,000-ft jump.  GoPro footage shows Kristian Porreca, 24, taking to the skies above Wollongong, Australia, for a once in a lifetime trip. But the rookie jumper, attached to tandem master Mick, had to think fast when the lines of the parachute became tangled and put them both in imminent danger. GoPro footage shows Kristian Porreca, 24, taking to the skies above Wollongong, Australia, for a once in a lifetime trip In the clip, Kristian and Mark ascend to 12,000 feet before launching themselves out of the plane.  Kristian smiles and gestures toward the camera as the pair free-fall through the clear blue skies. Mark then pulls the toggle to launch the parachute to slow their descent. But the pair are sent into a dramatic spin as the lines become tangled with Mark repeatedly glancing up in a panic.  But the rookie jumper, attached to tandem master Mick, had to think fast when the

A suspected kidnapper who rammed his £160,000 Lamborghini into a police car and left four officers injured has been arrested. Officers from the Metropolitan Police had attempted to arrest the 30-year-old man on October 5 in Bexleyheath, but he used the 'reckless' manoeuvre to evade capture. Four officers suffered whiplash as a result of the incident but non were seriously injured. In a targeted operation and now armed with a warrant for his arrest, specialist officers raided a property in the Isle of Dogs, east London, yesterday and arrested the wanted man. A 30-year-old man crashed a Lamborghini Urus, like the one pictured, into police officers as they tried to arrest him on suspicion of kidnapping and blackmail in London earlier this month He was taken into custody on suspicion of assault on police, kidnap and blackmail. A spokesman for the Met has confirmed that the kidnapping and blackmail allegations relate to two separate incidents. The spokesman added that the victim of

Gourmet Burger Kitchen is to close 26 restaurants and axe 362 roles despite being saved from administration. The chain had been bought in a rescue deal by Boparan Restaurant Group, which also plucked Carluccio's out of insolvency earlier in the pandemic. GBK said it had started to see improvements in trading last year after a major restructuring process in 2018, which saw it shut a raft of sites. Gourmet Burger Kitchen is to close 26 restaurants and axe 362 roles despite being saved from administration However, the company, which had been owned by South African group Famous Brands, said it slid into administration after the virus impacted upon its liquidity and potential to be sold as a solvent business. The group has now been sold in a pre-pack administration deal after working with insolvency specialists at Deloitte. It said the move will save 35 sites and 669 jobs from its original network of 61 restaurants and 1,031 employees. The restaurant chain was bought by 'Chicken K

One of India's top jewellery retailers has withdrawn an advert featuring an interfaith baby shower after a vicious backlash on social media from Hindu hardliners. Critics of the withdrawal said it exemplified the atmosphere of religious intolerance towards minorities that has grown since Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power six years ago. The advert by Tanishq - whose owners are from the Parsi minority who follow the Zoroastrian religion - showed a Muslim family organising a traditional baby shower for their Hindu daughter-in-law. In the advert, the daughter-in-law says, 'But these rituals aren't celebrated in your home.' The mother-in-law replies: 'But the ritual of making daughters happy is in every home.'  In the advert, a Muslim mother-in-law walks her Hindu daughter-in-law into her home for a traditional Hindu baby shower in India  The company said the idea behind the 'Ekatvam' (unity and oneness) collection was to 'cel

A killer gunned down his love rival when he discovered his ex-girlfriend had sent the murder victim a film of herself performing a sex act, a court heard. Louis Kelly, 40, shot Mark McCann-Barrett, 33, in Ashdowne Court in Tottenham five times after the victim called him about the home made porn film featuring Georgia Duncombe. Jurors heard Mr McCann-Barrett's current girlfriend Amy Drajic had had discovered the video while scrolling through his phone. To diffuse the argument between them, the victim called Kelly, asking him to admit to his girlfriend that Kelly himself had sent him the video. Murder victim Mark McCann-Barrett 33, was shot five times by Louis Kelly over footage of Kelly's ex-girlfriend performing a sex act The court heard it was in actual fact Ms Duncombe who had herself sent McCann-Barrett the footage via WhatsApp. But Kelly was incensed to discover the father-of-three had the film in the first place and shot him dead with a Glock pistol, the Old Bailey heard

The British public overwhelmingly backs a short, sharp nationwide lockdown at half-term, a new poll revealed today. A full 68 per cent of those questioned by YouGov backed the plan to some extent. Just one in five people (20 per cent) said they opposed the plan being championed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as a way to get a grip on a surge in coronavirus and reduce long-term damage to the economy. Britain's daily Covid-19 cases have jumped 40 per cent in a week as health officials today announced 19,724 more infections and 137 new deaths.   But in brutal clashes at PMQs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed calls from Sir Keir and his own SAGE scientific advisors for a 'miserable' national 'circuit breaker'. Just one in five people (20 per cent) said they opposed the plan being championed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as a way to get a grip on a surge in coronavirus and reduce long-term damage to the economy In brutal clashes at PMQs, Prime Minister Boris