Yorke settles £1.5m tax bill

Price in shillings that Elizabeth paid for tree at Woolworths in 1920 First example of an Xmas tree in Britain – put up at Windsor by George III’s German wife, Charlotte Woolworths started selling manufactured ornaments for trees after they became popular FORMER footballer Dwight Yorke has avoided bankruptcy after paying off a £1.5 million tax debt.

HM Revenue & Customs had taken the 47-year-old Man Utd legend to court.

But its representative Tomi Omoyinme told a hearing in London: “The debt has been paid in full.”