All news for 2024-04-10

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Former council house in London is on the market for £3,500,000
This unassuming home may have a deceptively modest exterior, but it’s price tag is pretty eye-watering at a cool £3.5 million.
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Russia ranked biggest cybercrime threat to rest of the world
Russia has topped the world’s first cybercrime index ranking, with Ukraine and China in second and third.
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Biden ‘considering’ dropping charges against Julian Assange
The United States is ‘considering’ dropping the charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, President Biden has announced.
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Student died after using two to three ‘big bottles’ of laughing gas a day
A student who may have been killed by long-term use of laughing gas was inhaling two to three “big bottles” of the substance each day, an inquest into her death has heard.
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David Cameron urges US Republicans not to be swayed by Putin’s "lies" concerning Ukraine
The Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron’s remarks came as he continues to drum up support to unlock billions of dollars from America to support Ukraine’s war effort
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A 17-year-old boy tragically passes away after falling into a river while riding an inflatable canoe with friends in Bolton
A 17-year-old boy was pulled from the River Croal in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and pronounced dead at the scene after falling into the water while riding an inflatable canoe
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Police Scotland reports that only 3.8% of complaints related to hate crimes have been verified as authentic thus far
Official data for first week shows 7,152 reports received though nearly half of those were made on 1 April
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Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells suggested postmasters had ’temptation’ to take money from tills
Tory peer James Arbuthnot, who doggedly campaigned on the scandal, told the official inquiry that he believed the Post Office was ’stringing MPs along’ to defend the faulty Horizon IT system
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The IMF warns that using industrial policy to enhance innovation is not a panacea for addressing slow economic growth
Aggressive government intervention could create expensive mistakes and prompt subsidy battle
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Briton and French wife face £11,000 Brexit visa bill to return home to UK
Stephen Kaye has Parkinson’s but couple blocked from Britain despite having paid taxes there
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A mother confesses to burying the bodies of two deceased infants at her residence after concealing their births
Former partner will still stand trial after tragic discovery made
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Fears for thousands of pubs as Slug and Lettuce owner battles major £2billion debt pile
Stonegate Pub Company, which has a network of more than 4,400 UK pubs and bars including Slug & Lettuce, has said there is a risk that its debt cannot be refinanced by its July 2025 deadline
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Rwanda’s national airline reportedly declines to transport asylum seekers to Kigali, delivering a setback to Rishi Sunak’s plans
RwandAir has reportedly turned down an approach from the Government to fly asylum seekers to Kigali as campaigners call on airlines to refuse to take part in the asylum scheme
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A father who murdered his four-week-old son, discovered with a "snapped neck" and 40 broken bones, has been sentenced to life in prison
Newborn Ollie Davis was found with a disturbing catalogue of injuries only seen on victims of a ’high energy car crash’ at the hands of evil parents Michael Davis and Kayleigh Driver
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Bulgarian gang exposed as Britain’s largest-ever benefit fraudsters, amassing £54 million for extravagant spending on luxury items
The gang faces record prison time over scams conducted on an industrial scale
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Price of gold hits record levels gripping global markets with 14% rise since the New Year
Gold is famously seen as a ’safe haven’ for investors
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Putin’s spies invent far-fetched US plot to recruit jailed Colombian cartel killers to fight for Ukraine against Russia
Russia’s intelligence service has sensationally claimed the US could recruit more and more convicts from across the world to fight in Ukraine over the summer
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In a tragic accident, a 15-year-old girl is fatally strangled by her hijab, leading to a court order for the go-kart company to pay £120k in damages
Ruwaida Adan, 15, from East London, was strangled by her own headscarf at Capital Karts in Barking when it became caught and the company has now been fined nearly £120,000
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Shoplifters who attack retail staff could face up to six months in prison under crackdown
The Government unveils plans today to create a standalone criminal offence for assaulting a retail worker, which could see offenders sent to prison or handed an unlimited fines