Duncan Bannatyne is among 100 company leaders backing the Conservatives
- Let’s start with the obvious. It’s April 1st - don’t believe anything anyone tells you (especially if they’re politicians).
- Talking of tall stories, a so far unnamed baby giraffe has been born at Flamingo Land Zoo in North Yorkshire. When she grows up, she’ll have a tongue 50 centimetres long and have a kick capable of decapitating a lion. But for now she’s just very cute – HAVE A LOOK HERE.
- More than 100 company leaders, including Darlington-based Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne (pictured), have declared their support for a Conservative-led Government in a letter published in today's Daily Telegraph.
- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer on this day in 1976. From little pips...
- The first American weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral in 1960. Modern satellites tell us gales, rain and even snow are forecast for the start of Easter but things will calm down over the weekend.
- The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses on this day in 1933.
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