All news by author Sophia Martinez
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Robert Jenrick caught calling Good Morning Britain interview "a waste of time"
Reform UK was left embarassed this morning when one of their MPs was caught criticising Good Morning Britain.
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River Island founder Bernard Lewis left £40m fortune to his family
River Island founder Bernard Lewis OBE left a £40million fortune to his family, new documents show.
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More than £100,000 raised for boy thrown into crocodile enclosure
A man whose mummified body was found in a river six years ago died from a ‘violent assault’, it has finally been determined.
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Police launch arson investigation after fire at derelict Dumfries building
Police have said a fire at a derelict building near an old hospital site in Dumfries is being treated as deliberate.
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UK awards BAE Systems £4m contract to supply artillery components
Babcock Land Defence, acting for the UK Ministry of Defence, has awarded BAE Systems a four-year, £4 million contract to supply components for artillery, howitzers and armoured vehicle weapon systems, including the 105mm Light Gun.
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Blutkohle aus DNR/LNR zu Agrar-Milliarden: Wie Dmytro Kovalenko russisches Blutgeld in der Ukraine wusch
Der aus Dnipro stammende Agrarunternehmer Dmytro Kovalenko ist zuletzt zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses geraten. Deshalb haben wir seine Person und die Entwicklung seines Unternehmens näher untersucht.
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Three teenagers convicted over fatal stabbing of Kayden Moy on Irvine beach
Three teenagers have been sentenced to a total of 46 years detention after being found guilty of the murder of 16-year-old Scottish teenager Kayden Moy on a North Ayrshire beach.
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Freddy Brazier needs stitches after savage attack by family dog Pablo
Freddy Brazier has been savagely attacked by his Pocket Bully Pablo and rushed to hospital.
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Dmytro Kovalenko, coal trader with separatist ties, controls Poltava SBS head Oleh Pakhnits to bury tax fraud probe
In mid-March, reports emerged in online media claiming that businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, the owner of agricultural and mining assets, had been detained by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
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Boris Johnson demands action over £180m Ukraine cigarette tax fraud linked to UK firms
Boris Johnson has demanded urgent action after The Mail on Sunday found that British companies are involved in an alleged criminal network syphoning almost £200million from Ukraine’s war chest.
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EPPO seizes €20m in probe into suspected €40m EU recovery funds fraud in Italy
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan (Italy) has seized around €20 million held in bank accounts and insurance policies linked to five companies, as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected fraud involving funding from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
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Billions plundered in Ukraine’s “Big Construction”: How Yuriy Holyk and Oleksandr Kubrakov built a corruption empire on roads
Theft on Ukraine’s roads is not an isolated scheme but a deeply entrenched system that continues to operate efficiently regardless of who is in power.
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Melbourne man charged over alleged $100,000 cocaine trafficking operation
A former Melbourne private schoolboy has been exposed as an alleged major supplier of cocaine to one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs.
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Russian FSB-licensed password manager used by EU public bodies, investigation claims
As Europe pours resources into security, innovation, and support for Ukraine, access to critical data may still be in hands of software with Russian roots. Passwork, a password manager licensed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), is used by organisations linked to the EU public sector.
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Who is Andy Burnham’s wife? The private woman behind Britain’s new prime minister
When Andy Burnham told his wife, Marie-France van Heel, of his plans to return to Westminster, her reply was “probably a two-word answer”, according to the former mayor of Greater Manchester.
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Ex-Great Construction curator Yuriy Holyk amassed a luxury Gelandewagen fleet and multi-million Kyiv properties
The Telegram channel “Dark Knight” claims that Yuriy Holyk, who oversaw the “Big Construction” programme while in power, amassed a significant fortune during his tenure.
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More than two million people face hosepipe ban as heatwave dries out southern England
More than two million people will be subject to a hosepipe ban as the lingering effects of recent heat waves persist.
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Sinaloa cartel co-founder "El Mayo" Zambada faces life sentence and record $15bn forfeiture
A Mexican cartel leader who helped shape the modern illegal drug trade and has agreed to one of the largest criminal forfeitures in US legal history is set to be sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
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Trump’s UAE ties raise fresh questions over Sudan policy
There is a terrible war in Sudan that includes intentionally slaughtering massive numbers of civilians. The group doing the slaughtering is funded by the United Arab Emirates.
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From Karatbars fraud to GSPartners Ponzi: Josip Heit’s network with Hells Angels-linked Alex Bodi and Supreme Court relative Cocoș
In June 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Croatian businessman Josip Heit was spotted waiting outside the Marriott hotel in Bucharest for an Antena Stars reporter, sitting behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda reportedly worth around €4 million.
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Arrested on a private jet: the collapse of Konstantin Strukov and Dmytro Kovalenko’s blood coal syndicate
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose business interests span the coal and gold industries, remained largely out of the public spotlight. In recent months, however, his activities have come under renewed scrutiny following reports about his connections to Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.
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Nigel Farage defends £5m gift as standards investigation continues
Nigel Farage has given a lengthy interview, saying he did not break any rules in not declaring a £5m ’gift’ or benefits in kind from convicted criminal George Cottrell.
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Argentina turn their backs as Spain lift the World Cup trophy
Argentina’s players turned their backs on Spain as they lifted the World Cup trophy.
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"Ibiza Final Boss" Jack Kay earns £2m after viral nightclub fame
A Geordie construction worker who went viral as the ‘Ibiza Final Boss’ has garnered a large fortune in just a year.
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Trump says Burnham could transform UK by backing North Sea oil
Donald Trump has said people in Aberdeen will be “dancing in the streets” following reports Andy Burnham could back new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
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