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MH17 disaster: Phone-taps 'show Russia directed Ukraine rebels' 14 November 2019 Related TopicsUkraine conflict Image copyright Reuters Image caption The plane was en route from Amsterdam to Kual…
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Masked burglars stole £300,000 of gold from a jewellery shop after smashing a hole through a wall from a neighbouring barbershop and then crawling through. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/masked-raiders-smash-through-wall-in-300k-jewellery-heist-in-lewisham-a4286886.html
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A crown court defendant recruited friends and family to hand out £20 notes to jurors in an attempt to derail his trial, a court heard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/defendant-used-family-to-hand-out-20-notes-in-jury-bribery-bid-a4286031.html
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Sussexes and Cambridges reunite at Remembrance event 9 November 2019 Related TopicsRemembrance Day Image copyright Reuters The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reunited for the Royal British Legion's annual Festival…
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A teenager was stabbed to death when a fight broke out inside a youth offending service office in the town hall of Boris Johnson’s west London constituency. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/uxbridge-stabbing-shock-after-teenager-knifed-to-death-in-town-hall-s-office-for-young-offenders-a4282141.html
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India air pollution at 'unbearable levels', Delhi minister says 3 November 2019 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Worshippers braved the smog to enter the polluted River Yamuna as part of the …
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Grenfell Tower fire: 'Systematic failures' in fire brigade's response 29 October 2019 Image copyright PA Image caption The 1,000-page report will be made public on Wednesday …
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Harry Dunn crash: US Diplomat's wife 'devastated' by his death 12 October 2019 Related TopicsHarry Dunn crash Image copyright Justice4Harry19 Image caption Harry Dunn died in hospital after his m…
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A man was killed and 15 other people injured in a horror bus smash that witnesses said “shook the ground”. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/oprington-crash-horrific-bus-collision-that-killed-one-and-injured-15-shook-ground-say-witnesses-a4276171.html
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23 October 2019 The bodies of 39 people have been found in a lorry container in Essex. Police were called by the ambulance service shortly before 01:40 BST after the discovery at Waterglade Industrial Park in Eastern Avenue, Grays. The lorry driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Early indications are that 38 adults and one teenager have died, E…
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Bury North: ‘England is a total joke. We’re a laughing stock abroad’ In the foothills of the Pennines, the market town of Ramsbottom was busy with afternoon shoppers when news broke of a looming general election. Teacups clattered, eyes rolled and heads shook wearily in a town that voted 53% for leave in June 2016. .... Chingford: ‘We’ll carry on going around in circles without an election’ For 33-year-old Jamie Bourn, who works in a homewares shop in Chingford, north-east London, an election can’t come quickly enough. “I think we’ll just carry on going around in circles like we are now if we don’t have an election,” he said on Tuesday afternoon, followi…
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Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Death penalty for 16 who set student on fire 24 October 2019 Image copyright family handout Image caption Nusrat was doused with kerosene and set on fire on a rooftop …
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Five men have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a crime group suspected of attempting to smuggle migrants into the UK. Five men have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a crime group suspected of hiding migrants in a cattle truck in a bid to smuggle them into the UK. The arrests followed the discovery of 13 migrants, including one child, found in a hay compartment on a lorry carrying livestock in the port of Calais on Saturday evening (19 October). Border Force officers had searched the vehicle acting on information from the NCA. After the search the lorry driver, a British national, was detained by t…
