Day: November 12, 2025
The Chinese ‘Bitcoin queen’, the £5.5bn stash and the five year police chase. Inside London’s crypto wars
November 12, 2025In a London courtroom in September, wearing a brown cardigan and animal print top, 47-year old Zhimin Qian, aka “BitQueen”, pleaded guilty to her role in one of the biggest cryptocurrency frauds in history. Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, fled China in 2017 after ripping off 128,000 investors and converting their cash into bitcoin. […]
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Leonardo DiCaprio honours ‘trailblazer’ Jane Goodall at activist’s funeral
November 12, 2025Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has remembered environmental activist Dame Jane Goodall as “an extraordinary woman” and “trailblazer” at the primatologist’s funeral. The conservationist, who was a “dear friend” of DiCaprio’s, and the world’s leading expert on chimpanzee behaviour, died at the age of 91 in October. Environmentalist DiCaprio paid tribute to the scientist, who was […]
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Beatrice backs premature birth research campaign
November 12, 2025Princess Beatrice has said helping raise awareness of the urgent need for more research into prematurity has become “incredibly close and personal” after the early birth of her daughter. Beatrice, 37, the eldest daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the disgraced former Duke of York and the King’s brother, is fronting a campaign for the premature birth research […]
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Labour Traitors war: Who has been accused of plotting against the Prime Minister and why?
November 12, 2025• Civil war has broken out inside Labour amid claims of a plot to remove Sir Keir Starmer, with Downing Street insiders accused of fuelling a ‘toxic’ briefing war • Senior figures including Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood, Louise Haigh and Lucy Powell have all been linked to leadership rumours, which they strongly deny • Growing […]
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‘Cannibal’ solar storm could be biggest to hit planet for 20 years, experts warn
November 12, 2025Nasa has postponed a space launch because of the predicted solar storm (Owen Humphreys/PA) PA Archive The largest solar storm to hit our planet for more than 20 years will disrupt communications and satellite navigation systems, the British Geological Survey has warned. The organisation has upgraded its geomagnetic forecast to the highest intensity level amid […]
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Marianne Rigge obituary
November 12, 2025My wife, Marianne Rigge, who has died aged 77, was a passionate public advocate for the interests of NHS patients, and a pioneer in creating ways of giving people easier access to medical and health information. The daughter of a GP, she founded a national charity, the College of Health, with the renowned social entrepreneur […]
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Central London neighbourhood to get ‘mind-blowingly good’ upgrade for cyclists
November 12, 2025A central London neighborhood is getting a major makeover to make its streets safer and easier to navigate for cyclists and pedestrians. Camden Council has revealed the ambitious plans under its Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood scheme to boost walking and cycling and create better public spaces, building on London’s wider commitment to sustainable travel. Transport for […]
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British neo-Nazi who worked at Buckingham Palace giving tours is unmasked
November 12, 2025Sarah Hooper Published November 12, 2025 1:13pm Updated November 12, 2025 2:10pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A Leicestershire man working with far-right groups and trying to form an ‘Anglo-American alliance of white supremacists’ used to work at Buckingham Palace, it’s been […]
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Why are we seeing the Northern Lights more often and so far south?
November 12, 2025It felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience, seeing the Northern Lights in the UK on Tuesday night. But the thing is, for Josh Yonish, a 22-year-old geologist, he’d already seen them before up in Birmingham in May, as countless other Britons did. Now there they were once again above them, stripes of green, blue, pink and […]
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Major UK city overtakes London for fastest house price growth with 71% rise
November 12, 2025Over the past 20 years, one in five British homeowners have seen the value of their property rise by 20% or more. And new analysis from estate agent Savills reveals that, nationwide, nominal house prices have nearly doubled over two decades, climbing by 95%. However, when adjusting for inflation, the average real increase dwindles to […]
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