3 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr fined £375,000 after missing the weight for Conor Benn fight

Eubank Jr had two attempts at weighing in at 160lb, missing his first try by 0.2lb before falling short again.

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5 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr misses weight by less than an ounce and faces £375,000 fine

Fight with Conor Benn still goes ahead on Saturday nightPair allowed to add more than 10lb in rehydration clauseBritish boxer Chris Eubank Jr will be fined £375,500 after missing the weight by just 0.05lb (0.8 ounces) for Saturday’s fight with Conor Benn.At Friday’s official weigh-in behind closed doors in London, Eubank Jr came in above the 11st 6lb limit and also just failed to meet the weight at his second attempt. Benn tipped the scales at 11st 2lb.More details soon Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr misses weight by less than an ounce and gets £375,000 fine

Fight with Conor Benn still goes ahead on Saturday nightPair allowed to add more than 10lb in rehydration clauseThe controversial and dangerous issue of weight cuts surrounding Saturday night’s fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn has intensified after the former missed two attempts to make the 160lb middleweight limit on Friday morning. The 35-year-old Eubank initially scaled 160.2lb and then, after he tried for a second time, 160lb 0.8oz.That marginal amount of 0.8oz will not force a cancellation of the bout but Eubank Jr has been fined $500,000 (£375,000) for failing to make the stipulated weight. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago State Pension rule can raise payments by £5,000 a year but some are 'missing out'

An FOI request by a pension provider has found that more than two million people are being boosted by a particular rule in the State Pension system

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31 h. ago State Pension inheritance rule helps more than two million people boost payments by over £5,000

More than half a million pensioners were receiving over £5,000 a year in inherited Serps payments in 2023/24.

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31 h. ago Workers could get a £1,000 pension boost as DWP proposes new rule for providers

Millions of workers are missing out on their hard-earned pension savings

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3 d. ago DWP State Pension warning issued as thousands of Brits don't understand vital rule

According to new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), there are "significant knowledge gaps" among Brits who are currently approaching retirement

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7 d. ago DWP urges people to apply for State Pension compensation if they feel ‘adversely affected’ by rule change

Adult Dependency Increases were extra amounts paid to pensioners who had a dependent spouse below State Pension age.

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8 d. ago Madeleine McCann probe budget is CUT: Met Police team tasked with finding missing toddler has £84,000 slashed from investigation

They have been granted a further £108,000 to carry on the search for her - a drop of £84,000 on the amount awarded last year, MailOnline has learned.

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9 d. ago Over 10,000 London children miss out on first preference primary school amid warning over tumbling birthrate

Overall, 87.9% of pupils in London received an offer from their first choice school, equivalent to 73,481 children, data revealed on Wednesday

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1 week ago Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists

Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or £37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions One day in October 2024, Chris Swales, 54, a smoked-salmon producer with a confident demeanour and a stubbled jaw, stood at the gates of an industrial estate in east London staking out the units. There were teenagers loitering about, knackered cars, XL Bullies; everyone seemed to have more than one phone. It didn’t seem like the sort of place where nine pallets of frozen fish would be delivered, but – he checked the address he had noted down from the courier – this was the place.A couple of months earlier, Swales couldn’t have imagined that he’d be sniffing around Walthamstow on the hunt for £37,000 in missing produce, yet here he was. In August, he’d received an email – subject: “Collaboration” – from a man named Patrick Moulin, who claimed to be the buyer for Ma...

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2 w. ago Ayrshire's councils fork out replacing more than 15,000 damaged and missing wheelie bins

Figures released under Freedom of Information laws found that Ayrshire's councils replaced more than 15,000 wheelie bins in 2024.

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2 w. ago The 1% Club contestant misses out on £10,000 jackpot after taking a risky gamble on final question

Player Brett made his way through the trivia game easily but on the last round, he chose to take a risky gamble instead of walking away with the prize.

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3 w. ago Severe storms and tornadoes rip across US south and midwest, killing at least six people

Outbreak of tornadoes result in five deaths in Tennessee and one in Missouri as 213,000 households without powerViolent storms and tornadoes have torn across the US south and midwest, killing at least six people and downing power lines and trees, smashing homes, and upturning cars across multiple states.The outbreak of storms and tornadoes has resulted in five deaths in Tennessee and one in Missouri, with further fatalities expected to be confirmed. The storms are now tracking east, after leaving more than 213,000 households without power from Texas to Ohio. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000, as health system ‘overwhelmed’

WHO warns there is urgent need for care capacity, while US agency says number of dead could eventually exceed 10,000The fallout from Myanmar’s earthquake has overwhelmed parts of the healthcare system, the World Health Organization has said, as the official death toll rose to more than 2,000, with many more missing.Rescue operations faced “significant obstacles including damaged roads, collapsed bridges, unstable communications and the complexities related to civil conflict”, the WHO said in an update. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward in bid to solve case of boy missing from north London since 2008

Huge reward offered in effort to solve mystery surrounding disappearance of Alexander Sloley who went missing 17 years ago aged 16

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3 w. ago Alexander Sloley: £10,000 reward offered in missing person case

Alexander Sloley: £10,000 reward offered in missing person case  BBC.com

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who went missing days before his 17th birthday in 2008

Alexander Sloley, from Islington, north London, was 16 when he disappeared in August 2008 and has had no contact with his family since then.

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information about boy missing since 2008

People quizzed previously in connection with Alex Sloley’s disappearance were re-interviewed in 2019.

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4 w. ago North Korea sends 3,000 more troops to Russia ahead of Kim Jong Un’s likely visit to Moscow

North Korea sent an additional 3,000 troops and missiles to Russia at the beginning of 2025 to support its invasion in Ukraine, South Korea’s military said in its latest assessment, as Kim Jong Un is likely to visit Moscow again.

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