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£10 banknote with King Charles’s face on it sells for £17,000 at auction
Some of the earliest banknotes to feature the face of King Charles have been auctioned off for a whopping £914,127.
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Birmingham council to sell athletes’ village homes at a loss of over £300 million
Sale of hundreds of empty homes designed, but not used, for Commonwealth Games attacked as ‘absolute scandal’
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Major incident declared in West Midlands after sodium cyanide spill into Walsall canal
Public told to stay away from area and Environment Agency call in after spillage in Pleck of toxic chemical
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Major rush hour delays on London Underground after police incident
A police incident between West Ealing and Greenford is causing delays in West London this morning.
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Seven appear in court over protest at Israeli-based firm’s UK site
Police say employees and officers were assaulted at Elbit Systems UK building in South Gloucestershire
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Boss who stopped cleaner accepting £3,000 holiday paid for by community enjoys holiday in Barbados
Paul Spiers has been cleaning the streets of Beckenham, south London, for years and is a much-loved figure. Locals donated £3,000 so he could have a holiday to Portugal
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Nottingham attack could have been prevented if NHS had ’done its job,’ health secretary says
Wes Streeting says victims ‘might still be alive’ if health service had recognised Valdo Calocane’s risk to others
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Priest thought to pose risk to children is paid off
The Church of England made a six-figure pay-off to a priest assessed as a potential risk to children and young people, a BBC investigation has found.
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Starmer plan to expand facial recognition technology after far-right riots condemned by charities
Charities and human rights organisations have called on Sir Keir Starmer to reverse a planned expansion of the use of facial recognition technology following far-right riots across England and Northern Ireland.
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UK riots: First perpetrators receive prison sentences for disorder
Rioters across the country are being jailed as the government warns those found to have taken part in the unrest would face the "full force of the law".
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Girl, 13, pleads guilty to violent disorder during riots as Lush looter admits vandalizing 10 cars
More than 500 people have been charged in relation to the disorder, but the government says it can’t guarantee some won’t end up being released after serving less than half of their sentences.
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Prince Harry’s chief of staff resigns after just three months
Josh Kettler departs before the Sussexes’ Colombia trip with both sides agreeing he was not the right fit
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Graham Thorpe death: England cricket legend was struck by train as he took own life
At Surrey Coroner’s Court in Woking, Area Coroner Simon Wickens offered his "sincere condolences" not just to Mr Thorpe’s family, but to "all those touched by his life and career".
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Girl, 13, died after taking sip of Costa Coffee hot chocolate
Hannah Jacobs died within hours of drinking a hot chocolate that was supposed to be made with soya milk in February 2022, a coroner is told. Her mother says she informed staff her daughter had a severe dairy allergy when ordering the drink.
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Reform UK’s Richard Tice invested millions into offshore tax haven property empire
The multi-millionaire businessman admits he set up a family trust in the Channel Islands tax haven of Jersey more than three decades ago, but rejects claims he undermined the British government
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Boris Johnson ’courted for Telegraph role’ as Nadhim Zahawi plots leadership bid
Backers are reportedly told the former prime minister has been sounded out as paper’s global editor-in-chief
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Labour MPs start quitting X over ’hate and disinformation’ concerns
MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership
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Boy, 12, admits participating in two scenes of violent disorder in Manchester
Boy and another 12-year-old among string of offenders pleading guilty at courts in Manchester and Liverpool
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Search for young Brit who plunged 100ft from cruise ship called off after four days
A search and rescue operation for a Brit who fell 100 feet from the deck of the Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas cruise ship in the Adriatic last Friday has now been called off
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Jailed rioters could be freed early under overcrowded prison scheme
Downing Street says there is no specific exclusion for those who took part in disorder after Southport knife attack
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Two-year-old dies after being pulled from canal in Wolverhampton
Boy was found in water near canal towpath in Ettingshall and taken to hospital, where he died
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Rush hour disruption on London Underground after Tube line closure
The Monday morning commute is off to a sticky start on the London Underground after severe disruption on Tube lines.
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Man in critical condition after being shot by police in Woking
Surrey police refer themselves to watchdog after incident on Sunday morning involving man in his 20s
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Two people die attempting to cross Channel in dinghy
Fifty-three people were rescued by helicopter on Sunday morning, French authorities have said
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Children to be taught how to identify fake news and ’putrid’ conspiracy theories online in wake of riots
Changes to the curriculum could mean schoolchildren analyse articles in English lessons to weed out fabricated stories, learn how to identify fake news in computer classes and analyse statistics in maths.