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The family home where Captain Sir Tom Moore raised millions for NHS charities during the pandemic has been put up for sale for £2.25m.

The house and grounds in Marston Moretaine, in Bedfordshire, became well-known after the Army veteran walked laps around the garden, raising £38m for NHS Charities Together.

He lived there with his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her family.

The Grade II listed property has seven bedrooms and four bathrooms.

In a marketing video posted online, estate agent Hadyn Van Weenan said the Old Rectory featured an "iconic and very famous driveway".

They did, however, do a public good.
I'm sure Channel 4 loses similar amounts for some of the Dispatches.

Can you guess which ones?

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Grindr, the world's biggest dating app for the LGBT community, is being sued for allegedly sharing personal information such as people's HIV status with third parties.

According to the claim, lodged at the High Court in London, "covert tracking technology" was deployed, and highly sensitive information was illegally shared with advertisers.

Law firm Austen Hays says there are more than 650 claimants and "thousands" of UK users were affected.

Grindr says it will "respond vigorously" to the claim.

Cross posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13328418

Christopher Cash, 29, the researcher, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged under the Official Secrets Act.

They are accused of giving "articles, notes, documents or information" to a foreign state, the Met Police in the UK said.

Mr Berry, from Witney in Oxfordshire, and Mr Cash, of Whitechapel, London, were arrested last March in connection with the investigation.

It was previously reported that one of the men - Mr Cash - was a parliamentary researcher involved with the China Research Group, and who is understood to have had access to several Conservative MPs.

Despite a recently proposed smoking ban, it’s been revealed the UK government has been providing cigarettes to Ukrainian troops training in the country.

Under a scheme with the Ministry of Defence, Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training in the UK are given duty-free tobacco as part of their rations.

It came after soldiers reportedly complained about the high prices of cigarettes in the UK – which average around an eyewatering £15 per pack.

In Ukraine, a pack of 20 cigarettes will only set you back roughly £1.70.

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It’s said the move has helped Ukrainian soldiers focus, with the lack of cigarettes posing a ‘risk to morale’.

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A source, familiar with the deal, told the Telegraph: ‘It is fair to say that smoking is going to be less of a threat to these brave soldiers’ lives than fighting Putin’s illegal invasion of their country.’

Evidence suggests dozens of suppliers are advertising openly on the internet and sending nitazenes in the post from China, where they are manufactured in laboratories. The majority of suppliers claimed to work for companies that otherwise appeared legitimate, with professional websites and business addresses in Chinese cities.

Nitazenes, which are illegal in the UK, are synthetic drugs produced in laboratories. They are similar to heroin and morphine, but can be several hundred times more potent.

It's thought users often take them unknowingly - because they are hidden within other illegal substances by dealers looking to cut production costs.

Nitazenes have been found by a publicly funded testing lab in a range of drugs, including street heroin and black market pills which dealers had wrongly claimed contained anti-anxiety drugs, such as Xanax and Valium.

After the BBC alerted SoundCloud, it removed the posts. X, formerly Twitter, took down hundreds but many listings remain.

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Muhammad cannot afford legal action or £20,000 fees, with Rwanda deportation a threat if his wife and children join him

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Exclusive: Ex-double agent allegedly admitted to murder during training presentations to members of the security services

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Harborough District Council uses cameras made by Chinese firm Hikvision in Market Harborough and Lutterworth, but a councillor has called for the cameras to be replaced over "security" concerns.

District councillor Simon Whelband told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) the company had previously been accused of "aiding the oppression of Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims".

Mr Whelband is urging the the council to follow the lead of other authorities which have agreed to phase out Hikvision cameras.

He cited a 2021 House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee report which said "equipment manufactured by companies such as Hikvision should not be permitted to operate within the UK".

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Chain changes ‘That’s why mums go to Iceland’ line to reflect fact other people also do grocery shopping

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