Britain’s Prince Philip has launched a fierce attack on “absolutely useless” wind farms, in the latest outburst from the famously outspoken consort.
The husband of Queen Elizabeth II said that onshore wind farms would never work and accused their supporters of believing in “fairy tales”, a senior executive from a wind farm company has said.
“He said they were absolutely useless, completely reliant on subsidies and an absolute disgrace,” said Esbjorn Wilmar, of Infinergy, which builds and operates turbines.
Mr Wilmar suggested the Prince could put wind farms on his land, but he said that Prince Philip responded: “You stay away from my estate, young man.”
Cornwall is ‘favourite resort’
Cornwall is Britain’s favourite resort and the Lake District the top attraction, according to a survey published yesterday.
Cornwall is the favourite UK resort, followed by Scotland, the Lake District, London and Wales.
The Lake District is there again as top attraction, followed by Roman cities, castles and historic locations (places such as York, Edinburgh and Chester), then come Alton Towers, Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the London Eye.
Too much make-up at work
More than a third of bosses believe some of their female colleagues wear too much make-up to work, a poll says.
Having bright red lips, over made-up eyes and too much blusher were seen as the biggest sins in the workplace, according to the survey by officerbroker.com. Striking lipstick emerged as the most unappealing look, with 32 per cent of managers questioned saying they found strong colours too much for the office.
Over made-up eyes polled 28 per cent of the vote, while 15 per cent said too much blusher was a turn off. But more than one in 10 (12 per cent) bosses said they liked women to wear some make-up to work.
Fighting corruption
Dmitry Medvedev joked that he “sometimes itches” to execute civil servants convicted of corruption, Russian news agencies have reported.
“The severity of punishment has never been the most important thing for us. Of course, in other countries, you gun down civil servants in public but in our society it is not the same,” he said.
“But I sometimes itch to do something like that,” he said, during a visit to the southern Urals’ Bashkortostan region.
Mr Medvedev made the remark as he called for “effective” anti-corruption measures.
Left stranded
An American in Ukraine, who was left homeless after an online dating scam, is to fly home after the US embassy made him a loan.
Cary Dolego, 53, a former candidate for governor of Arizona, says he plans to return to Ukraine some day to resume his search for romance.
He was found on the streets of Chernivtsi hungry, unkempt and suffering from pneumonia .
He had planned to meet a woman he met online, but she never showed up.
School run
A mother is facing charges after allowing her nine-year-old son to drive himself to school – with her in the passenger seat.
Tammy Oneal, 34, told Delaware police she has allowed her son to drive in a field since he was five. She said the boy begged her to let him drive the quarter-mile to school.
Mrs Oneal was charged with reckless endangering and endangering the welfare of a child. She was released on $1,000 bail.