Coin hidden in 1971 earns finder free pint of beer

The card, discovered by Ellie Mead in Bicester, Oxfordshire, revealed the cache was left there in 1971 by electrician David Judd, who promised "one pint best beer if penny returned". A Facebook appeal traced his…

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Thai teen found in suitcase died from suffocation, police reveal

Police in the coastal city of Pattaya previously said they had found Tunchanok Donhomla's naked body in a bag near a railway track in the early hours of 27 June. This was just 15 minutes after they had arrested…

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Solutions sniffed out for bad smell plaguing city

It hopes to create a chemical curtain to block the stink and a storage barn for solid sewage chunks as part of the measures. Strong odours emanating from the sewage treatment works on the city outskirts have particularly…

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Valentine card from Amy Winehouse to be auctioned

The late Back to Black singer sent the love note to Blake Fielder-Civil after he was sentenced to 27 months behind bars in 2008 for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. At the time it was sent…

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'I'm not sure who I am' - Bake Off winner in shock after bipolar diagnosis

But a new diagnosis has revealed that she has bipolar 2 and autism instead of ADHD, which she said has "come as a shock". In an Instagram post, Grasso said she needed her fans "now more than ever" as she learns more…

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French civil servant drugged us to make us urinate on ourselves, say accusers

"I was scared. I didn't know what was happening." It was July 2011 and Anaïs, who was then 27, was being interviewed for a job at France's Ministry of Culture in Paris. She didn't usually drink coffee but when the…

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Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Decisions made in calm carry more weight than those made in heat. Trust that what is meant to stay will, and what isn’t, will reveal itself quickly. Taurus (April 21st – May 21st) Don’t let pride get in the way of the…

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Ovarian cancer and menopause at 19 mean I can't have kids, but it's changed me for the better

Her stomach issues and headaches were blamed on a bug or a urinary infection - even anxiety. It was only after Enlli had further tests when a scan showed a cyst in her pelvis that the teenager from Caernarfon, Gwynedd…

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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir

The unbearable sadness at his death; the wretched knowledge that the very public onslaught against him began with the malign machinations of a self-defined "race realist" – who believes that, in an ideal world, black…

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Barking mad? How people in England’s ‘least friendly’ borough feel about the ranking

The level of intimacy is such that "I call her mum, because she cooks for me". So the market trader was surprised to learn that her borough, Barking and Dagenham, ranked the least friendly in England in a new study…

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