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Officers Stun as Ten Suspects Jump from Car in Cambridgeshire Hare Coursing Chase

Police were left stunned when ten men leapt from a single vehicle during a chase through the Cambridgeshire countryside in an operation targeting suspected hare coursers. Rural crime officers on patrol in Balsham, around ten miles southeast of Cambridge, spotted a suspicious SUV packed with men and dogs. When they tried to stop the vehicle, […]

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Swinney Launches £500,000 Support Fund for Displaced International Care Workers

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Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has announced that the Scottish Government will directly sponsor visas for overseas care workers in an effort to tackle what he described as a deepening staffing crisis in the social care sector. The move comes after Westminster’s immigration restrictions led to an 88 per cent fall in the number of

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Generation Z couples are facing a new wave of divorce challenges from volatile cryptocurrency portfolios to sprawling digital footprints with lawyers reporting a sharp rise in disputes over pre-marital wealth.

Divorce Disputes Triple Among Gen Z as Digital Assets Blur Financial Lines

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Generation Z couples are facing a new wave of divorce challenges from volatile cryptocurrency portfolios to sprawling digital footprints with lawyers reporting a sharp rise in disputes over pre-marital wealth. Research by law firm Nockolds shows that cases involving the “matrimonialisation” of assets have more than tripled in two years, climbing from 800 in 2022–23

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Judge Condemns Norfolk Man Who Collected Over 3,000 Child Abuse Images

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A Norfolk man who collected more than 3,000 indecent images, including children being sexually abused, has avoided jail. Police raided the home of 34-year-old Arran Horne, from Alderson Road in Great Yarmouth, in December 2023 after suspicions he had been downloading illegal material. During the search, officers seized several devices, a computer tower, a laptop,

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Meet the London Tradespeople Swapping Vans for Cargo Bikes

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In the trailer of his cargo bike, handyman Jeremy Lewis-Phillips has hauled it all 300kg of rubble, a two-metre-tall Santa’s grotto, even a full-sized tree. “The tyres were struggling a bit, but the bike was fine,” he laughed. “Anything other handymen carry in their vans, I can carry on my bike.” Lewis-Phillips, founder of Handyman

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Laser Maker M Squared Collapses, Wiping Out Millions in Public Funds

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Close to £40 million of public money has been lost following the collapse of M Squared Lasers, a Glasgow-based company that was the first ever backed by the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB). The photonics and quantum technology firm fell into administration after a sharp downturn in sales, leaving debts of more than £60 million.

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Unlocking the Hidden Economy: Supporting Unpaid Carers Could Add £47bn to UK GDP

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The UK economy could gain nearly £47.7 billion a year if unpaid carers were better supported to enter or remain in paid work, according to a major new study that exposes the economic price of locking carers out of the workforce. The research, titled “The Hidden Cost of Unpaid Care: The Economic Price of Locking

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£28 Million Timeshare Con Leaves Seniors in Financial Ruin

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A staggering £28 million timeshare fraud has left more than 3,500 people across the UK financially devastated. Most of the victims were aged between 60 and 90, many of whom had invested their life savings. The scheme, which operated under the Sell My Timeshare brand, saw fourteen people convicted, including managing director Mark Rowe and

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Norfolk Village Delighted as Stolen Sign Resurfaces Seven Years Later

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A village sign stolen from one of Norfolk’s smallest communities has been found hundreds of miles away seven years after it first went missing. The handmade sign for Brunstead also known, somewhat confusingly, as Brumstead had stood proudly at the entrance to the village for more than 30 years before vanishing in 2018, leaving residents

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Britain Leads Global Fight to End HIV with New Injectable Prevention

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The NHS has begun offering Britain’s first long-acting HIV prevention injection, a major step towards making the UK the first country in the world to eliminate the virus. The jab, known as cabotegravir, will initially be available to around 1,000 people who are at risk of contracting HIV but unable to take traditional pre-exposure prophylaxis

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