Day: December 20, 2023
Jury convicts boy and girl in England of murdering transgender teenager in frenzied knife attack
December 20, 2023For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A boy and a girl were found guilty Wednesday of murdering a transgender teenager in northwest England earlier this year, in a frenzied knife attack that was described […]
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London shares leap upwards after lower-than-expected inflation reading
December 20, 2023For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Shares in the City leapt upwards on Wednesday as traders celebrated a lower-than-expected inflation reading in the morning. The pre-Christmas bounce saw only eight companies trading in the […]
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The world’s best hotels for 2024 have been named – and six are in the UK
December 20, 2023Everybody loves treating themselves to a little bit of luxury every now and then. And if you fancy experiencing a night or two at one of the fanciest hotels in the world, it turns out that you won’t have to travel too far. That’s because six UK hotels were included in Condé Nast Traveller’s 2024 […]
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Company fined after worker’s precarious use of pallet raised by forklift
December 20, 2023A company has been fined £100,000 after one of its employees was spotted working at height while stood on a wooden pallet raised up by a forklift truck. The worker was part of a team of three who were removing heavy equipment from the deck of a boat in Ramsgate Harbour, Kent, in July last […]
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Disbelief at plan to fix London potholes as part of Network North project
December 20, 2023“It’s like a bad Christmas cracker joke,” said one northern leader in England as the government announced its latest Network North transport project: fixing potholes in London. The punchline, said Kim McGuinness, Labour’s candidate to be the mayor of north-east England, isn’t even funny. It’s “Tories celebrating widening the widening north/south divide”. There was anger […]
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Rare ‘industrial snowfall’ thought to be caused by pollution recorded in UK
December 20, 2023A rare phenomenon known as “industrial snowfall” appears to have occurred near Heathrow airport earlier this year, according to a study. Satellite imagery shows three large, white bands on the ground in parts of Surrey despite relatively dry conditions in the area at the time. The snow, which was recorded on 23 January, was distributed […]
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Woman spotted casually walking a camel down the street in Chingford
December 20, 2023Sarah HooperPublished Dec 20, 2023, 10:26am|Updated Dec 20, 2023, 5:50pm A woman was speechless after looking out her window in Chingford, east London – and spotting a camel strolling down the street. Asia Brown’s daughter told her she had spotted a camel out on the road, but had brushed it aside as her imagination. But after glancing […]
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‘Roll of fabric’ riddled with scabies sparks huge outbreak at London uni
December 20, 2023Fashion students at one of London’s most iconic universities have been given the itch after a roll of fabric containing scabies is said to have spread the illness around campus. Suited and booted undergraduates at Central Saint Martins in north London were told the itchy biters had infested their studios and fabric store. CSM university […]
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Rate of inflation falls to 3.9%
December 20, 2023The rate of UK inflation on goods and services eased back to 3.9% in November, the ONS said. The rate of inflation fell sharply again in November, official figures reveal today. The headline measure of the rise in the cost of living, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) dropped to 3.9% from 4.6% in October, a […]
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Woman diagnosed with MND launches fundraising drive for Doddie Weir charity
December 20, 2023Nicola McFarlane was diagnosed with MND earlier this year (Elaine Livingstone/PA) A woman diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) a decade after fighting cancer is helping to launch the annual fundraising campaign for the charity named after Scotland rugby star Doddie Weir. Nicola McFarlane, 47, from Dunblane, received the news that she had the terminal […]
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