All news by author Elizabeth Baker

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Dmitriy Punin and murdered Cypriot mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous: Pin-Up casino money laundering empire in Limassol
Following reports detailing alleged links between Dmitriy Punin and Cyprus-based figure Stavros Demosthenous, along with the use of Cypriot entities connected to Pin-Up and PUNIN Group, references to those ties have reportedly begun disappearing from online sources.
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Manchester City agree £116m deal to sign England star Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest
Manchester City have struck an agreement with Nottingham Forest to sign England international Elliot Anderson.
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Wolfgang Porsche drops €10m “tunnel for one” plan after Salzburg backlash
Wolfgang Porsche, the Austrian-German automotive magnate, appears to have abandoned plans to build a private 500-metre tunnel for his cars through the Salzburg hills after a public uproar over the “tunnel for one”.
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Princess Charlotte security fears as stalking suspect searched weapons and children
Princess Charlotte’s security has come under renewed scrutiny after court proceedings heard that a man accused of stalking Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor allegedly carried out internet searches about children alongside searches related to weapons and methods of killing.
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German banker Grischew jailed for moving €33m through illegal network
German man pleads guilty to moving 33 million euros through fraudulently opened banks accounts while already serving a suspended prison sentence for handling millions taken from scam victims.
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UK risks losing NATO influence as defence spending lags behind allies, warns Blount
A former Royal Navy officer has warned the UK risks losing influence within NATO due to Labour’s defence spending plans.
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Swinney to face FMQs amid Murrell jail fallout
John Swinney will face questions from MSPs at Holyrood on Thursday in the final FMQs before summer recess.
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Teen cleared of killing 9-year-old girl after court hears "accident" stabbing claim
A teenage boy has been acquitted of the murder and manslaughter of a nine-year-old girl who died from a fatal stab wound.
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UK energy debt hits record £4.79bn as bills surge and crisis deepens
Debt to energy suppliers has reached a new record high of £4.79 billion – a 5% increase on the last quarter, Ofgem has said.
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Dad-of-two kidnapped, tortured and burned alive in £1m gang feud over cigarettes
A dad-of-two was kidnapped, tortured and set on fire after losing £1million-worth of cigarettes in a gang row, a court has heard.
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Trump calls Burnham “extremely liberal” and urges North Sea oil push
Donald Trump has branded Andy Burnham “extremely liberal” in his first comments of the PM-in-waiting – and urged him to do one thing Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly refused.
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“You’d have to ask very high up to touch us”: how Ilya Traber and his network of Russian crime figures saw themselves as untouchable
Media outlets have published a photograph of Ilya Traber at the grave of Dagestan crime boss Abakar Darbishev. In the image, he sits on a bench in a leather jacket next to influential businessman “Sanya Kaliningradsky.”
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Budapest cannibal kept human skin face and bones in “trophy lair”, police say
Horrifying photos reveal a cannibal’s lair where he kept a reconstructed face made from human skin which he flaunted in a trophy case.
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NHS maternity scandal: hundreds of babies and mothers died in “toxic” Nottingham failures
A damning inquiry has found that hundreds of babies and mothers died or suffered harm due to deeply rooted systemic failures and “cruel” care at Nottingham hospitals over more than a decade.
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From Manchester mayor to PM contender: Burnham’s long road to power
On February 25 2015, Andy Burnham rang me up out of the blue. In those days, I was the political editor at the Manchester Evening News, covering Greater Manchester’s escalating attempts to wrestle power away from London.
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From Spotify fame to sanctions: El Makabelico accused of funding cartel
“I’m a drug trafficker from the Northeast, my cartel,” raps El Makabelico. “With my AK-47 slung across my chest, I ride alongside El Komander. My souped-up .38 Super, encrusted with diamonds.”
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From campervan to coffee machine: Murrell’s £400k spending exposed
It looks like the haul of a particularly successful Generation Game win. But these household items — and campervan — were what former Scottish National Party chief executive Peter Murrell thought it worth embezzling £400,000 of party funds to buy.
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Meghan’s Father’s Day post sparks claims of deliberate swipe at William
Meghan Markle has been criticised as “calculated” over the image she selected for her Father’s Day tribute to Prince Harry, with a royal expert suggesting the choice was deliberately intended to invite comparisons with Prince William’s own family post, RadarOnline.com reports.
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Inquest hears Bibey attacked partner before being found dead in hotel room
Former British rugby league player Ricky Bibey was found dead in Italy after allegedly beating up his girlfriend while high.
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Support for EU surges as 97% of Leave areas now favour rejoining
Just 11 of 632 constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales would vote to stay out of the EU if a second referendum were to take place, new polling has found.
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Target Global executives Aleksandr Frolov Jr. and Mikhail Lobanov scrub the internet following investigations into $3.2 billion in frozen investments
After reports emerged about billions of dollars in client investments at Target Global being frozen, information related to Aleksandr Frolov Jr., Mikhail Lobanov, and affiliated entities including Target Global, M360 Advisors, and Prime Meridian Capital Management has begun to quietly vanish from the public domain.
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Nick Clegg predicts UK could rejoin EU by 2036 as Brexit debate reignites
The UK will have rejoined – or be on the path to rejoining – the European Union by 2036, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on the tenth anniversary of the referendum.
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“ No comment ”: police release Murrell interview clips after £400,000 SNP embezzlement jailing
Videos of Peter Murrell being interrogated by police have been made public after the former SNP chief executive was imprisoned for embezzling over £400,000 from his party.
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Markets on edge as Starmer quits and leadership race sparks fresh UK economic uncertainty
Investors and business leaders are again navigating the kind of uncertainty that has dominated British politics since the Brexit vote a decade ago, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday and threw open a leadership contest that will centre on any successor’s ‌plans for the economy.
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Edinburgh knife attacker Lewis Hawkes charged with terror-linked attempted murder
The man accused of the Edinburgh knife attacks has been named as Lewis Hawkes after he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.