45 h. ago Jewellery designer turning trashed spoons into treasures to raise funds for hospice

Mark Drury, 78, who also volunteers at Strathcarron, was inspired by the BBC programme ‘Money for Nothing’ - and will be selling his creations at his Stirlingshire studio.

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5 d. ago Egyptian heritage and craft infuse London boutique by jewellery designer Azza Fahmy

Egyptian heritage and craft infuse London boutique by jewellery designer Azza Fahmy  Dezeen

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5 d. ago US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database

Collection of migrants’ DNA has increased by 5,000% in three years in a ‘massive expansion of genetic surveillance’US immigration authorities are collecting and uploading the DNA information of migrants, including children, to a national criminal database, according to government documents released earlier this month.The database includes the DNA of people who were either arrested or convicted of a crime, which law enforcement uses when seeking a match for DNA collected at a crime scene. However, most of the people whose DNA has been collected by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency that published the documents, were not listed as having been accused of any felonies. Regardless, CBP is now creating a detailed DNA profile on migrants that will be permanently searchable by law enforcement, which amounts to a “massive expansion of genetic surveillance”, one expert said. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Thief jailed for stealing Jenson Button's model wife's £250,000 collection of jewels and designer bags

Mourad Aid, who had been living in country illegally, is set to be deported after serving his jail term

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6 d. ago Football Daily | PSG and Inter to serve up continental treat in Champions League final

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!With the 2024-25 season in Uefa-land drawing to its glamorous close, is there a better time to assess how the whole thing went down with everything considered in the round? Yes! But Football Daily doesn’t publish on Sunday morning, so let’s make the best of a bad lot. And it’s been a good year for English football all right. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United went to the artistic and creative mecca of Bilbao and staged what can only be described as a dirty protest, a Chelsea squad worth £1,400,000,000 struggled against (though eventually steamrollered) a team collectively priced at 0.96% of a Mykhailo Mudryk, and it’s fair to say the rest of the continent will be extremely glad to see the back of us.This is an extract from our daily football email Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Flog It! expert’s collection ‘most comprehensive set of York silver to be sold’

Michael Baggott’s collection is expected to make more than £200,000 at Woolley and Wallis auctioneers.

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6 d. ago Prolific thief who targeted Jenson Button's wife and stole her suitcase containing £250,000 of lavish goods is jailed

Thief, Mourad Aid, 41, who stole around £250,000 worth of luxury items and jewellery from Jenson Button's wife, Brittny, has been sentenced following a crime exclusively unearthed by MailOnline.

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7 d. ago Criminology lecturer who boasts she is 'UK's poshest thief' avoids jail despite stealing Le Creuset cookware, premium steaks, wine, and boutique gin in M&S and garden centre sprees

Upmarket thieves Pauline Al Said and Mark Wheatcroft have been fined £2,500 for daylight raids on a garden centre and a branch of Marks and Spencer.

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7 d. ago Picture This: The jeweller whose designs have never gone out of style

Can't make it to the V&A Museum to see the exhibition? Don't worry, this beautiful book is a stunning visual guide to Cartier's most beautiful creations.

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9 d. ago Thief selling stolen booze outside pubs is jailed for spitting at police

Thief selling stolen booze outside pubs is jailed for spitting at police  Romford Recorder

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1 week ago Rare 50p coin of King Charles is selling for more than £75,000 on eBay as collectors scramble to win auction

The commemorative coin, dating back to 2022, bears the image of the then-new monarch on one side and the Royal Coat of Arms on the reverse.

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1 week ago Labubu chaos as 'battlefield' resale market erupts after Pop Mart pulls viral dolls

A collector who has spent more than £1,000 on viral Labubu dolls says the resale market is a 'battlefield'

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1 week ago The online jewellery shops that are worth their weight in gold

From independent designers to affordable brands, find your new favourite accessories

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2 w. ago Private refuse collector fined £2,000 after he simply left piles of clients' rubbish among his own bins instead of proper sites

Daniel Morgan, 34, charged people to take away their old furniture, ripped-out kitchens and tyres.

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2 w. ago Legendary Scottish pit stop marks 60 years with rare whisky sale including £35,000 bottle

The pit-stop is celebrating 60 years by selling over £200,000 worth of rare Scotch from one man’s private collection.

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2 w. ago ‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize

Translator Deepa Bhasthi’s pick of 12 of Mushtaq’s ‘life-affirming’ tales about women’s lives in southern India becomes the first short story collection to win the £50,000 awardHeart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won this year’s International Booker prize for translated fiction, becoming the first short story collection to take the award. The stories were originally written in Kannada, the official language of the state of Karnataka in southern India.Described by the author and chair of judges Max Porter as “something genuinely new for English readers: a radical translation” of “beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories”, Heart Lamp’s 12 tales chronicle the lives of women in patriarchal communities in southern India. They were selected as well as translated by Bhasthi, the first Indian translator to win the award. She chose them from around 50 stories in six collections written by Mushtaq over a 30-year-period. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The King's new wheels! Monarch combines his love for cars and the environment and 'splashes £160,000 on an EV' for his collection

The monarch, famed for his passion for the environment, is reportedly set to splash out a staggering £160,000 on a brand-new Lotus Eletre - an all-electric 'hyper-SUV'.

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2 w. ago Rare 50p coin of Queen Elizabeth is selling at over £100,000 on eBay as collectors scramble to buy it

The item, which was listed on the online marketplace last week by a seller in Leicester, was described as a 'coveted piece' from the Beatrix Potter collection.

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3 w. ago Ivanka Trump is now a food waste entrepreneur – but there's just one glaring problem | Arwa Mahdawi

It’s a little bit rich to talk about food insecurity in the US when your last name is Trump. But after stints as a feminist influencer and political adviser, the president’s favourite daughter has found a new pathIvanka Trump has had her manicured fingers in many pies. She’s designed jewellery and shoes. She’s written a book called Women Who Work, marketed at women who work, full of inspirational quotes and touching anecdotes about how she, a woman, has sometimes worked so hard that she has had to sacrifice massages.That was Early Influencer Ivanka, anyway. Then came Ivanka’s political era. During Donald Trump’s first term as president, she appointed herself Daddy’s special adviser and did a lot of very special advising. In that capacity she gallivanted around the globe, dropping in on the G20 and hobnobbed with world leaders, all while insisting: “I try to stay out of politics.” And, of course, the president’s eldest daughter, who very nearly became the head of the World Bank, tire...

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3 w. ago Nissan to shut seven factories, cutting 20,000 jobs worldwide

Carmaker slumps to £3.4bn loss after talks over Honda merger collapse and US and China sales fallBusiness live – latest updatesNissan is to close seven factories with the loss of 20,000 jobs around the world, after a tumultuous year for the Japanese carmaker.As it slims down production, Nissan will make a further 11,000 job cuts, after 9,000 job losses announced in November, collectively reducing its workforce by 15%. They will affect staff and contractor jobs across manufacturing, sales and administration, as well as research and development. Continue reading...

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