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Brexit border checks to ’add billions’ to consumer bills
Post-Brexit checks will add more than £330m to annual business costs and 0.2% to food inflation over three years, the government admitted.
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Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn, to cut 1,500 jobs while expanding hotel business
Premier Inn owner Whitbread is set to axe around 1,500 UK jobs as part of plans to build more hotel rooms and slash its chain of branded restaurants by more than 200.
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Royal Mail cancels £5 fine for counterfeit stamps
The Royal Mail is pausing the £5 penalty it was charging to anyone receiving a letter with a fake stamp.
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Syrian opposition supports US bill targeting Captagon trafficking
A U.S.-based Syrian opposition organization welcomed on Thursday a bill U.S. President Joe Biden signed a day earlier in order to combat the production and trafficking of a potent drug...
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British backpacker found dead in South American hostel bed
A British backpacker has been found dead at his holiday accommodation in Colombia.
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Tragic 999 call: Olly Stephens, 13, lured to death by schoolgirl
Olly’s heartbroken parents recounted his final moments
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TikTok prankster Mizzy convicted of theft for stealing woman’s iPhone before being apprehended by police
TikTok prankster Mizzy, real name Bacari OGarro, 19, was knocked off balance by an officer’s baton when he tried to dodge police while on an e-bike, a court heard
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Schoolboy, 14, killed in car crash as driver, 21, arrested over ‘dangerous driving’
Two other travellers in the car were also injured
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16-year-old girl found deceased at private school on eve of her first detention; father shares poignant last diary entry
Heartbreaking details of schoolgirl’s death revealed at inquest after she was found in secluded area
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Brit pensioner, 93, who suffocated his dementia-stricken wife, 92, in ‘mercy killing’ is jailed for 9 years for murder
He then allegedly tried to kill himself while lying awake next to her
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Lithuania scrutinizes company suspected of breaching EU sanctions
Lithuanian authorities are inspecting a company owned by the family of a prominent presidential candidate, after media reports suggesting the firm may have violated European Union sanctions against exports to Belarus.
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Turkish businessman linked to acquisition of luxury London residence for son of Azerbaijani official
Turkish magnate Erdal Aksoy proudly describes himself as a fixer of major business deals between Turkey and Azerbaijan.
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Benjamin Mendy settles six-figure debt, leading to dismissal of ex-Manchester City footballer’s High Court case
The former Manchester City and France defender had been a wanted man with HMRC, who had sought a bankruptcy order against him over an outstanding figure of £710k
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Gérard Depardieu questioned by French police regarding sexual assault accusations
Two women say actor assaulted them, one on a film set in 2021 and the other on another shoot in 2014
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A man confesses to murdering an 87-year-old, who was fatally stabbed while riding a mobility scooter
Lee Byer, 45, stabbed Thomas O’Halloran to death in Greenford in August 2022. A post-mortem found the victim had suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen.
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England rugby star Billy Vunipola reportedly taunted police while being tasered in a Spanish bar
England rugby star Billy Vunipola laughed and said ‘another one’ after he was tasered by police at a bar in Majorca.
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Major airline cancels flights to European city over Russian ‘GPS hacking’
Two commercial flights in central Europe were forced to turn around after suspected navigational jamming from Russia.
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Two men charged with murder following discovery of torso in Salford
Two men have been charged with murder after a man’s torso was found wrapped in plastic at a nature reserve.
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Italian mobsters allegedly gained significant influence in Toronto
Vincenzo Muià was determined to find out who had killed his brother Carmelo, a leader in a faction of the feared ’Ndrangheta crime group who was gunned down on the streets of Siderno, a coastal city in southern Italy in 2018.
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British tourist injured in shark attack is conscious and able to communicate
Peter Smith is in intensive care after suffering damage to an arm, leg and hand and puncture wounds to abdomen
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Tragic discovery: Body found in river during search for missing teenager after uncharacteristic disappearance
Police used helicopters, an underwater search team, and a drone team in their search
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Man kills wife, buys life-sized sex doll with insurance payout shortly after the murder
Following the suspicious death of his wife Kristen, Colby Trickle spent more than £1,000 on a life-sized sex doll using money from a life insurance payout. He was later convicted for her murder
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Mint Butterfield, billionaire’s missing 16-year-old child, discovered in van a week after disappearance
Mint Butterfield, the 16-year-old child of the founders of Slack and Flickr, who went missing last week was found in the back of a white van unharmed on Sunday
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UK and Irish ministers set to meet amidst rising tensions over Rwanda asylum seekers policy
British and Irish ministers are set to meet as tensions grow over the UK’s policy on migrants.
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Ireland benefits from €700m Brexit windfall through customs duties
Dublin records near-doubling of tax revenue from duties on imports of clothing, food and other goods from Great Britain