41 h. ago Car boot culture moves online: Checkout.com reports 127% uplift in pre

The traditional car boot sale – once the spring / summer hallmark of British grassroots retail – is transitioning online, as online platforms are increasingly being used to sell pre-loved items to reach wider audiences and optimise returns. Checkout.com, which processes billions of transactions for thousands of companies that shape the digital economy, has reported a 127% uplift in pre-loved transactions from February to March this year.

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4 d. ago Strictly's Dianne Buswell tells Chris McCausland 'you make me sad' as he shares struggle

Dianne Buswell, who landed the Glitterball Trophy with Chris McCausland last year, made the revelation after sharing some of the items that she snapped up in a car boot sale

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8 d. ago New UK law introduces major change that will affect anyone who shops online

Shoppers will notice the new change when completing online checkout

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8 d. ago Four arrested as Met Police seize £50,000 of stolen tools in raid on east London car boot sale

Officers carried out a major search of the Willow Farm Car Boot Sale on Sunday

Economics

9 d. ago Car boot sale guru shows off bargain designer haul but leaves some people fuming

In a post that has been viewed over 470k times, The Car Boot Guy shares his haul with his 261k followers on TikTok - but not everyone's impressed with his haggling

Economics

1 week ago Huge Greater Manchester car boot sale with classic cars and vintage clothes set to return

This year, visitors can expect a large display of classic cars, ride-ups from scooter and motorcycle clubs, and beautifully restored classic bicycles

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2 w. ago Rare George Cross found at car boot sale for £20 could make owner MILLIONS

The 1957 George Cross was awarded to Michael Paul Benner who gave his life in an attempt to save his companion in the mountains of Austria

Economics

3 w. ago Review: Why Mixx Revival record player had me heading for the car boot sales

The vinyl revival is real and MIXX has released a vintage-style portable record player to tap into the romanticism of the music experience we all once loved

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3 w. ago Harshita Brella: Husband charged with murder of wife found dead in car boot

Harshita Brella’s body was found in Ilford four days after she is believed to have been strangled to death in Northamptonshire

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3 w. ago Husband charged with murder of wife Harshita Brella who was found dead in car boot in Ilford

Pankaj Lamba, 23, is also charged with two counts of rape, sexual assault, and controlling or coercive behaviour

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3 w. ago Husband of woman found dead in car boot charged with murder in his absence

Pankaj Lamba is reported to have left the UK after Harshita Brella’s death.

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3 w. ago Husband charged with murder of wife Harshita Brella who was found dead in car in Ilford

A man has been charged with the murder of his wife who was found dead in the boot of a car in east London last year.

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3 w. ago Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – love and betrayal from the Nobel laureate

This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial TanzaniaA storyteller of understated brilliance, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel prize in literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Born in Zanzibar, Gurnah, now 76, moved to Britain in 1968 as a refugee of the Zanzibar revolution. His books often feature people who leave what they know and arrive “in strange places, carrying little bits of jumbled luggage and suppressing secret and garbled ambitions”, to use the words of a character from his 2001 novel By the Sea. Theft, Gurnah’s first book since his Nobel win, is in part a continued inquiry into familiar themes of exile and memory, home, longing and loneliness. It is also a poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal, set against Tanzania’s tourism boom during the 1990s.The novel follows Karim,...

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4 w. ago Harshita Brella murder suspect's parents arrested in India on suspicion of 'causing her death by subjecting her to cruelty and harassment'

The parents of a man who is believed to have fled the country after the body of his wife, 24-year-old Harshita Brella, was found in the boot of a car in east London, have reportedly been arrested in India.

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4 w. ago Drunk barmaid's small car 'was overloaded with SEVEN people including one in boot before passenger who was hanging out of window was killed when she crashed into lamppost'

Karla Dodds, 25, offered to take the group to a house party in her Hyundai i10, with four seated in the back and one 'reluctantly' climbing into the hatchback's boot, jurors were told.

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4 w. ago Haunting new details in tragic case of Harshita Brella brutally murdered and discovered in car boot

New information has been revealed in the search for Pankaj Lamba, who remains the chief suspect in the murder of his wife, Harshita Brella. Meanwhile, Harshita's heartbroken family continue to live in fear of retaliation

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