Day: August 6, 2024
Wife who spent £16,000,000 in Harrods forfeits Knightsbridge house and golf club
August 6, 2024A jailed banker’s wife, who once spent £600,000 at Harrods in a single day, has agreed to forfeit a £14 million house in Knightsbridge and a golf club in Ascot. Zamira Hajiyeva, who splurged £16 million at the luxury department store over the course of a decade, handed over the properties following a six-year investigation […]
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Dog walker made famous by Banksy’s newest work opens up on her 15 minutes of fame
August 6, 2024Liam ColemanPublished Aug 6, 2024, 5:13pm|Updated Aug 6, 2024, 6:20pm A dog walker who is the daughter of a multi-millionaire property developer said she walked past Banksy’s newest piece of art and didn’t even spot the huge mural. Lucy Boultbee Brooks, 32, was out walking her four-year-old beagle Rufus at 7am this morning and little […]
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Chilling map shows what would happen if the Hiroshima bomb was dropped on London
August 6, 2024At least 76,000 people killed and more than 245,000 wounded. Westminster Palace, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace obliterated. This would be the aftermath of an atomic bombing on London, similar to the one on Hiroshima during the Second World War. Today, August 6, marks 79 years since the US president Harry Truman deployed a nuke […]
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Banksy unveils new elephant street artwork day after goat piece appeared on London wall
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Youth appears in court over fatal shooting of man in Peckham
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Students expecting exam results sent blank emails by Scottish exam body SQA
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Suspected rioters continue to appear in court following mass disorder
August 6, 2024More suspected rioters have appeared in court on Tuesday following mass disorder across the country over the past week. A number of people charged with violent disorder have already pleaded guilty to their part in the widespread violence. Self-employed builder Joshua Simpson became the first person to be convicted following the rioting outside a hotel […]
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Duchess of Edinburgh cheers historic win for women’s cycling trio
August 6, 2024The royal family have congratulated Team GB’s women’s team sprint trio for breaking world records and speeding their way to a historic Olympic gold, sharing a video of the Duchess of Edinburgh cheering in the stands. Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell broke the world record three times to secure Britain’s first ever Olympic […]
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Banksy caught on CCTV just hours before new artwork appears in London
August 6, 2024Jasper KingPublished Aug 6, 2024, 9:45am|Updated Aug 6, 2024, 11:31am This is the moment a man believed to be Banksy was spotted at the back of a van getting ready to create his new piece of work. CCTV cameras show a man in a face mask, who is believed to be Banksy, in the cherry […]
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Man in his 20s stabbed to death on housing estate in east London
August 6, 2024Jasper KingPublished Aug 6, 2024, 9:02am|Updated Aug 6, 2024, 9:59am A young man in his mid-20s has been found stabbed to death in east London. The man was found with a knife wound on New Union Close, Isle of Dogs, at 4.15pm yesterday. He was treated at the scene by the emergency services but died […]
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