25 h. ago Thieves steal £150,000 haul of viral Pop Mart toys after raiding shipment

Criminals raided the lorry carrying some £150,000 worth of the toys in the early hours of April 8 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

Economics

46 h. ago The EV graveyard is cleared! Abandoned new electric cars worth £275k dumped on Nottingham road are collected

The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.

Economics

46 h. ago EV graveyard for sale! Abandoned new electric cars worth £275k dumped on Nottingham road will be sold at auction

The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.

Economics

48 h. ago £200k of brand new electric vehicles abandoned on street for months leaving locals baffled

The dumped cars, which are all Fisker Ocean models, would normally retail for between £30,000 and £43,000, but have been parked up since the car manufacturer went bust in October, 2024

Economics

49 h. ago Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’

France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaignersFrance has a moral duty to reimburse Haiti billions of dollars worth of “ransom” payments that could help the struggling Caribbean country out of its current crisis, say campaigners.The renewed call for reparations comes on the bicentenary of an agreement to pay 150m francs to France in 1825 to compensate slave-owning colonists after the Haitian Revolution. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Astonishing queue of £200k electric vehicles dumped in street and left to rot

The Fisker Ocean cars have been abandoned on a road in Colwick, Nottingham, after the company that made them went bust and left them to rot at a local dealership

Economics

69 h. ago Over £275k of unwanted electric cars dumped at the roadside in Nottingham after US Tesla rival went bust

Nine brand new EVs have been abandoned on a public road after the Tesla-rivalling manufacturer went into liquidation last year.

Transport

3 d. ago The Diamond Heist review – Guy Ritchie’s thrilling tale of the failed Millennium Dome jewel robbery

This three-part documentary about the attempt to steal hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of diamonds is pacey and stylish – but it definitely didn’t need to glamorise the real-life violenceI suppose the wonder is that it has taken Guy Ritchie so long to get around to telling the story of the Millennium Dome robbery, in which – way back at the turn of the century, children – a group of south-east London criminals ram-raided a national joke in pursuit of the 203-carat Millennium Star diamond worth £200m, which De Beers had unaccountably agreed to display in the capital’s gangster heartland.Strictly speaking, Richie himself is not telling it; the three-part documentary The Diamond Heist comes from Oscar and Emmy award-winning company Lightbox and is executive produced by Ritchie. But the subject matter is so perfectly him that any meaningful separation in your mind as you watch it collapses quicker than a Greenwich exhibition venue’s shutters under the weight of a JCB driven at spe...

Events

3 d. ago Car valuation comparison: where to check how much your car is worth before selling

Selling your car this spring? Here’s how to find out what it’s worth and which sites offer the fastest payouts or best prices.

Politics

4 d. ago Luka Modric's incredible net worth, wife's football agent career, Swansea City ownership

Real Madrid icon Luka Modric has shocked the footballing world by announcing his intentions to invest in and become part-owner of Swansea City, but what do we really know about the Croatian?

Politics

4 d. ago Four arrested for selling obscene AI images in first crackdown of its kind

Suspects sold posters with obscene images on internet auction sites last year

Events

4 d. ago Declan Donnelly's astronomical net worth 'REVEALED' as he rakes in millions thanks to glittering TV career

Declan Donnelly's astronomical net worth has reportedly been revealed.

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4 d. ago Driver who crashed his car in Wishaw found to be transporting cocaine worth £22,000

Stuart Paton, 39, admitted being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug in Castlehill Road on October 15, 2023.

Events

4 d. ago DWP rule change means thousands more people can claim £333 every month

Carer's Allowance is paid to those who are providing at least 35 hours of care a week and is worth £83.30 a week after this crucial benefit went up this month

Economics

6 d. ago Gladiators host Bradley Walsh's stunning net worth, football career and 'seriously bad' health condition

The comedian and presenter hosts the final of Gladiators on the BBC

Politics

7 d. ago Love Island star 'Barbie' helped cartel flood UK streets with drugs worth £53m

A court heard how Love Island star Magdalena Sadlo was nicknamed 'Barbie' by other members of the drug cartel and told them: 'The devil works hard, but Barbie works harder...'

Events

7 d. ago Schools lined up for help getting cleaner school buses. Then came the EPA freeze

Hundreds of school districts around the U.S. may have to abandon plans to acquire electric buses after the EPA froze the latest round of money that was part of President Biden’s infrastructure law

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8 d. ago Two men arrested and charged after drugs worth £405,000 recovered in Carluke

On Wednesday, April 9, officers searched a premises on Chapel Street.

Events

8 d. ago Charles Rennie Mackintosh watercolour of French village to be sold at auction

Bouleternere was painted in 1925, just three years before the designer’s death, and is valued at £100,000-£150,000.

Politics

9 d. ago ‘Finally we are being seen as contenders’: delight in India as demand for south Asian art booms

As wealth in India has grown, so has the number of arts patrons championing both India’s 20th century modern masters and the next generationFor over seven decades, the masterpiece had gathered dust as it hung in the corridors of a Norwegian hospital. But last month, the monumental 13-panel 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) – one of the most significant pieces of modern south Asian art – sold for a record-breaking $13.7m in New York.The auction of the painting sent ripples through the art world. It was not only the highest price ever paid for a painting by Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India’s most celebrated modern artists, but it was the highest ever paid for any piece of modern Indian art at auction – going for four times the estimated price. It also happened to be the most expensive artwork auctioned so far in 2025. Continue reading...

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