Virgin Trains cleared for up to 20 Channel Tunnel return trips a day
Virgin’s Channel Tunnel bid gets the green light Virgin Trains has been granted UK track access to run up to 20 daily return services through the Channel Tunnel, moving Richard Branson’s long-running push to challenge Eurostar’s three-decade monopoly a step closer. The Office of Rail and Road, which confirmed the decision on Monday, has approved […]
2 weeks ago
Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates gets married on Richard Branson’s island
Branson officiated the ceremony and gave a speech Alan Bates, the campaigner who highlighted the Post Office scandal, has got married on Richard Branson’s private Caribbean island. The 70-year-old and his partner of 34 years Suzanne Sercombe got married on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. The wedding was officiated by Branson, who reportedly […]
2 years ago
Richard Branson suffers graphic injuries after ‘colossal’ cycling crash
The billionaire businessman feared he had broken his back after the ‘colossal’ accident Entrepreneur Richard Branson has showed off some of the injuries he suffered after a huge crash that he was involved in while cycling. Warning: graphic image below In a recent blog post on his Virgin website, the business tycoon said that he […]
5 years ago
The Simpsons ‘predicted’ Richard Branson’s trip to space in 2014
Yet again, The Simpsons seems to have predicted the future. Along with everything that went on across the weekend, you may have missed the fact that Richard Branson went into space. On Sunday July 11, the Virgin founder flew up to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic flight in the plane’s first fully […]
5 years ago
Richard Branson is renting out his second private island
Moskito Island will welcome some lucky guests later this year Founder of the Virgin Group Richard Branson is reportedly renting out his second private Island, called ‘Moskito Island’, to the public for the first time in history. However, naturally, it will cost you. But we get onto that small insignificant detail later. Branson purchased Moskito […]
5 years ago
Come Flea With Me: Sir Richard Branson haggles flight prices in Tel Aviv market
Have you ever wondered how good Sir Richard Branson is at haggling? To celebrate Virgin Atlantic’s latest route – the airline now offers flights to Tel Aviv – the international businessman extraordinaire surprised locals in the city’s famous Jaffa Market. Not only that, but he even set up his own stall – pithily named ‘Come […]
7 years ago