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A 2,000-year-old coin was once used to pay a bus fare, it has emerged. James Edwards worked as a cashier for the Leeds Transport Company in the 1950s, collecting fares from the city’s buses and trams. He set aside any fake or foreign coins he came...
Insurers paid out an unprecedented £6.1 billion in property claims last year as severe weather continued to push up the cost of damage, an industry body has said. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) reported that the total was the highest...
A mother is taking legal action against the NHS after being subjected to more than six years of unnecessary chemotherapy. Samantha Smith, 45, was diagnosed with a brain tumour and treated at University Hospital Coventry, where she was told she required...
Following uncertainty surrounding the Chancellor's budget, homeowners cut their asking prices. Property sellers have cut their asking prices by an average of £6,700 over the past month, as uncertainty surrounding Rachel Reeves’s Budget...
The UK’s worst areas for roadside litter have been identified, amid growing concern that rubbish-strewn roads are becoming increasingly common. More than half of motorists, 55 per cent, say they have noticed more litter while driving. A new AA survey...
Telling a Sick Colleague 'You Let Us Down' Constitutes Harassment, Tribunal Rules A design and technology teacher, Annika Robinson, was awarded £137,112 in compensation after a tribunal found that comments made by her manager following her...
Two neighbours racked up more than £100,000 in legal fees during a five-year row over a fence in Dorset. Jenny Field, 76, and Pauline Clark, 64, have been in dispute since 2020 over a narrow strip of land between their bungalows in Hamworthy, Poole....
The site of Britain’s “wonkiest” pub has been left to decay and is now a “dumping ground” two years after it was destroyed in a suspected arson attack. The Crooked House, in Himley, West Midlands, was gutted by fire in August...
A Worcester homeowner has been ordered to tear down a controversial extension to her 125-year-old terraced house after it both drew fierce criticism from neighbours and was refused planning permission. Rozia Hussain, who owns a local newsagents, added a...
A doctor has pleaded guilty to illegally providing ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry in the weeks leading up to the actor’s death from a drug overdose in October 2023. Dr. Salvador Plasencia admitted to four counts of ketamine distribution, the...
