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Is this the end for Sanjeev Gupta, Britain’s ‘Man of Steel’?
The Times
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‘I was just congratulating your son,” said the Prince of Wales as he mingled with guests in the drab, grey-carpeted offices alongside a steel plant in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, one Friday in 2018. “It is remarkable what he’s doing.”The future...
Afghan who raped 15-year-old British girl lived luxury lifestyle in France, Germany AND Italy before arriving via small boat
GB News
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August 24, 2025
A small boat migrant who raped a 15-year-old British girl after claiming asylum lived as a tourist in Europe before arriving in the UK. Sadeq Nikzad, 29, travelled 4,000 miles from Afghanistan to Britain and lived the life of luxury across the...
Migrant rapist who attacked girl, 15, lived it up in THREE European countries before illegally entering Scotland
The Scottish Sun
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August 24, 2025
AN ILLEGAL immigrant lived it up as a tourist in three major European cities before arriving in the UK by small boat and raping a girl of 15. Sadeq Nikzad, 29, waltzed 4,000 miles across the continent before being smuggled into the country by...
'US Needs To Follow UK Approach To Forge Trade Deal With India'
MENAFN
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August 24, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) US President Donald Trump's recent executive order imposing a 50 per cent tariff on Indian imports for India's purchase of Russian oil threatens to unravel decades of carefully nurtured US-India strategic...
US urged to follow UK model on trade deal with India amid tariff row
Telengana Today
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August 24, 2025
A policy article warns that US President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on Indian imports over Russian oil purchases risk alienating India and pushing it closer to China. It urges Washington to follow the UK’s collaborative free trade...
These Are the Kinds of Laws Greece Needs
The National Herald
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August 24, 2025
Dear Editor, I read in your pages a report from abroad that referred to the people who run the soccer leagues in England and to a fan who behaved in a racist way toward a player. The player went to the referee, who stopped the match and informed...
Labour urged to launch fresh motoring laws for all new cars to have a defibrillator installed
GB News
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August 24, 2025
Experts are calling on the Government to introduce new rules to mandate the inclusion of defibrillators in all new cars sold in the UK. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced that it will introduce new questions to the driver...
Criminals face pub, concert and soccer match bans under new UK plans
The Straits Times
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August 23, 2025
LONDON – Convicted criminals could face being banned from going to the pub, music concerts and sports events such as soccer matches under new plans by the British government as it seeks ways to address the country’s overflowing prison crisis....
Tributes to lawyer and key figure behind the success of Scottish festival
The Herald (Scotland)
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August 24, 2025
Died: June 25, 2025 William Berry, who has died aged 85, was a distinguished Scottish solicitor and senior partner of the prominent legal firm Murray Beith Murray. He was a shrewd and wise practitioner of the law – always providing balanced and...
Expert reveals the deadly signs of killer neighbours as Scotland’s notorious murderers next door profiled
The Scottish Sun
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August 24, 2025
THE good book tells us to ‘love thy neighbour’ but Scotland’s criminal case book has often told different stories about hate-filled killers living next door. We all know the comfort that comes from knowing the people staying over the garden fence...
Woman who saw first ever Edinburgh Tattoo returns 75 years later to watch son in law take part
Edinburgh Evening News
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August 24, 2025
Last year Edinburgh-born Sylvia Boyce and her family began planning a trip across Scotland, stopping off in the capital to see the world-famous Edinburgh Tattoo – but she had no idea her son in law would be performing in it. An 83-year-old woman...
The Norman Conquest wasn’t a disaster for England
The Spectator
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August 24, 2025
For a certain kind of amateur historian there is a moment, fixed in the imagination, endlessly revisited: it is still not yet late on that bright October afternoon in 1066, the shield-wall locked and braced, the hill still theirs, the horses...
Road tripping in the Defender Octa across England's Lake ...
Autocar India
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With no route mapped, no B&B fussed over, we pointed the Defender Octa towards the Lake District’s scruffier bits, taking in Roman roads, hairpin bends and icy tarns. We were in the village of Boot, at the base of the Hardknott Pass, which was...
The once-thriving UK seaside town 'ruined' by migration chaos and abandoned high street
Daily Express
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August 24, 2025
Dover: Aerial views show castle and port in Kent town Once a bustling seaside town, Dover has found itself increasingly sidelined, not just by traffic congestion and infrastructure issues, but also by the way it has been portrayed. Despite its...
Blurring the lines between ornament and recreation: Nine of Britain’s best Arts-and-Crafts swimming ponds
Country Life
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August 24, 2025
The swimming pond has become a contemporary garden design staple and though styles differ, the principle is consistent: mini-ecosystems of plants and micro-organisms in shallower ‘regeneration zones’ to purify a deeper pool. With no chemicals...
Irish band silenced at UK festival for holding Palestinian flag
Al Mayadeen
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August 24, 2025
Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers were silenced at Victorious Festival after displaying a Palestinian flag and chanting “Free Palestine.” The band rejected the organizers’ explanation, calling it misleading and a form of censorship. Irish folk...
Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum: ‘We can’t give things away, but there is nothing preventing us from sharing the collection’
El País
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August 24, 2025
Nicholas Cullinan in the British Museum's Print Room.Pablo ZamoraNicholas Cullinan, 48, receives EL PAÍS in his office, clad in an impeccable gray suit and a carrying a mug decorated with Rosetta Stone inscriptions. A year has passed since he was...
Melania Trump to 'use quiet power' and be 'much more involved' in major UK visit
Irish Star
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August 24, 2025
Melania Trump is reportedly "acutely aware" of a faux pas her husband, Donald Trump, committed during a meeting with Queen Elizabeth and is determined that "nothing will go wrong" this time around. In July, Trump officially accepted an invitation...
Essex beach shack restaurant serving 'incredible seafood' named among UK's best
Brentwood Live
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Publisher Olive Magazine has shared its picks for the UK's best beach shack restaurants to visit. Introducing the list, it said: "Looking for Britain's best takeaway oysters? Or an authentic Craster kipper bun for lunch? "Soak up the sun, enjoy...
Bands boycott UK's Victorious Festival after it censors pro-Palestine band
The National News
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Several bands have boycotted the Victorious Festival in the UK after organisers cut off audio during Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers' set as they were leading a "Free Palestine" chant. British alternative rock band The Last Dinner Party, Irish...