Day: May 26, 2025
Staff at luxury London auction house speak out after ramraid burglary
May 26, 2025John Dunne Published May 26, 2025 6:19pm Updated May 27, 2025 3:11pm A staff member at a Mayfair auction house ramraided by thieves over the bank holiday said that gallery workers have been left ‘shocked’ by the incident. The raiders ploughed a car into the front of Phillips in Berkeley Square. It is understood Phillips, […]
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Alan Yentob obituary
May 26, 2025Alan Yentob, who has died aged 78, had serious claims to being the most influential broadcaster in Britain over the last 50 years. There are very few successful shows on the BBC – with whom he spent his entire career – which did not bear his influence as producer, commissioner or presenter. They range through […]
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Gloucestershire cheese rolling race won again by German YouTuber Tom Kopke
May 26, 2025Daredevils have thrown themselves down a steep hill in the annual death-defying cheese rolling race in Gloucestershire. Brave competitors sprinted, tripped and tumbled down Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth to try and win the 8lb double Gloucester. The recent dry weather had made the racetrack harder and slower but more dangerous for the competitors who were […]
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Fox left screaming for hours after becoming submerged and stuck in thick oil
May 26, 2025Luke Alsford Published May 26, 2025 2:28pm Updated May 26, 2025 3:07pm A fox was left ‘traumatised’ after he became stuck in bitumen and then on the road, an animal hospital has said. South Essex Wildlife Hospital said their vets found the three-month-old male fox, known as a dog fox, screaming for help after he became […]
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Jury in Satchwell trial told to approach case ‘with open mind, without emotion’
May 26, 2025The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife have been told to approach the case “with an open mind” and “without emotion”. The judge said to jurors that they should not think “less” of the accused because he did not take the stand to give evidence. Richard Satchwell, of Grattan […]
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Six London NHS Trusts set to benefit from ‘cutting-edge’ radiotherapy machines
May 26, 2025Six London NHS Trusts are set to benefit from new “cutting-edge” technology which will help doctors to target tumours with greater precision. It comes as part of a £70 million Government investment to bring near accelerator (Linac) machines to the UK by August. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the new technology would “free up capacity […]
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Disabled man trapped in Hackney flat for months slams landlord over rehousing delays
May 26, 2025A disabled Hackney resident unable to leave his flat for months has condemned his landlord over the “nightmare” treatment he has experienced during the hunt for a new home. Wheelchair user Malcolm Cripps asked for a transfer from his third-floor housing association flat, after being repeatedly trapped inside due to a faulty communal lift he […]
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Kremlin accuses Trump of ’emotional overloading’ as US President says Putin ‘has gone absolutely CRAZY!’
May 26, 2025“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” the US President wrote in a social media post on Sunday night. Trump said the Russian president is “needlessly killing a lot of people”, pointing out that “missiles and drones are being […]
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Dad whose family was killed in London house fire keeps bedside vigil for surviving daughter
May 26, 2025John Dunne Published May 26, 2025 12:58pm Updated May 26, 2025 4:24pm Usman Ghani, 43, whose wife and three children died in a fire at the family home in north London is ‘devastated’ and keeping vigil at the bedside of his surviving daughter who was also injured, a family friend said. The dad suffered burns […]
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Crypto boss ‘chained up and electrocuted tourist before taunting him with chainsaw’
May 26, 2025A cryptocurrency boss worth £73,000,000 has been accused of chaining up, electrocuting and ‘torturing’ an Italian tourist for weeks. 37-year-old John Woeltz was arrested in New York after the victim managed to escape the high-end Soho apartment he was being held in and find a police officer. Woeltz has been accused of helping lure tourists […]
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