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Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porsche
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Top Gear’s Richard Hammond fined for speeding in Bentley and Porsche

Former co-presenter of BBC motoring show given penalty after being caught twice in three weeksThe former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been fined £999 by a court after being caught speeding twice in three weeks while driving his luxury cars.The 56-year-old was in a Porsche when he broke the spee...

Jamie Grierson
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Barclays increases bonus pool by nearly 30% as calls grow for UK bank tax
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Barclays increases bonus pool by nearly 30% as calls grow for UK bank tax

TUC leader says lender’s ‘bonanza’ quarterly profits of £3.3bn mean it ‘can easily afford to pay more tax’Business live – latest updatesBarclays has increased its banker bonus pool by nearly 30%after a rise in second-quarter profits that has fuelled calls for a tax raid on UK lenders to help fund An...

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
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Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third
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Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third

Average 25% increase for letters such as marketing, bills and medical appointment notices from 5 OctoberRoyal Mail will increase the price of its wholesale postal service by as much as a third, in a multimillion-pound blow to the NHS and other large organisations.The postal company has warned custom...

Joanna Partridge
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World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain
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World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain

Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growthOn a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out for the Cheshire countryside to study cosmic rays, the streams of high-energy particles that cr...

Ian Sample Science editor
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US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts
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US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts

Suffolk police ceded investigation into James Loubeau to the US military, leading to court martial acquittalA US airman accused of a “spree” of rapes and sexual assaults in England, drugging some women and breaking into the homes of others, was able to avoid British justice after local police handed...

Rob Evans, Harry Davies and Emine Sinmaz
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A dog saved Houssein Hamze from a bomb. When war returned, he stayed to care for Lebanon’s animals
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A dog saved Houssein Hamze from a bomb. When war returned, he stayed to care for Lebanon’s animals

In normal times the Mashala shelter founder takes in strays, but in wartime, he is the only lifeline for animals in the areaDuring Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah, Houssein Hamze woke up one night to the sound of barking. Alarmed, he got up to check on the dog – his first rescue pet. Moments lat...

William Christou in Zefta; photographs by Oliver Marsden
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Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets
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Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets

Unions say basic needs still not being met a year after regulator told operators to improve facilitiesTrain drivers are considering strike action over a lack of toilets, with unions saying basic needs are still not addressed a year after the rail regulator told operators to provide more facilities a...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
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Well-connected Melbourne man found guilty of raping former staffer
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Well-connected Melbourne man found guilty of raping former staffer

Jury finds that the man, who cannot be named, assaulted the woman at his home in March 2023Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA well-connected Melbourne man has been found guilty of raping a former employee.The man, who ca...

Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter
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Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury
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Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury

In opening statements, state argued Meta’s own research showed it harmed teens while firm’s attorneys pointed to transparencyThe long-awaited trial between the social media company Meta and the state of Tennessee began proceedings on Monday. Attorneys for Tennessee told a jury in Nashville that Meta...

Dara Kerr and agencies
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Betye Saar, pioneering figure of Black arts movement, dies at 99
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Betye Saar, pioneering figure of Black arts movement, dies at 99

Leading assemblage artist was known for reclaiming Jim Crow-era memorabilia as images of Black liberationArtist Betye Saar, the pioneering figure of the Black arts movement, died on Sunday morning in her home town of Los Angeles. She was 99.Saar, a famous practitioner of assemblage, an artistic styl...

Roque Planas
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Michigan progressive Abdul El-Sayed says ‘ogre’ remark not directed at rival
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Michigan progressive Abdul El-Sayed says ‘ogre’ remark not directed at rival

El-Sayed says in TV debate ‘ogre on a pike’ Zoom comment was in reference to John Fetterman, not Haley StevensThe Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said his comments that progressives need to put the head of an “ogre” on a pike was in reference to the US senator John Fetterman – no...

Robert Mackey and Lauren Gambino
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PM praises Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil as ‘giants’ as they resign from ACTU
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PM praises Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil as ‘giants’ as they resign from ACTU

Secretary and president of Australian Council of Trade Unions announced surprise departures on Monday eveningThe leadership of the trade union movement is set for a major shakeup after the secretary and president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions announced their surprise departures.The ACTU...

Dan Jervis-Bardy Chief political correspondent and Nick Visser
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DNC chair faces growing scrutiny amid financial pressure and internal turmoil
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DNC chair faces growing scrutiny amid financial pressure and internal turmoil

Fraught time for Ken Martin as new reporting details cash-flow problem and divisions over party’s directionMounting financial pressures and growing internal turmoil at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have intensified scrutiny of chair Ken Martin, as new reporting detailed a deepening cash-fl...

Lucy Campbell and Lauren Gambino
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