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Post-mortem shows death from strangulation

[ad_1] FamilyA post-mortem examination showed Harshita Brella was strangled to deathA woman whose body was found in a car boot died of strangulation, a post-mortem examination has found.Police launched a murder inquiry after the body of Harshita Brella, 24, of Corby, Northamptonshire, was found in Ilford, east London, on Thursday.The prime suspect is her husband Pankaj Lamba, 23, who detectives believe has fled the country. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
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Leah Senior, 27, took her own life in van fall

[ad_1] West Yorkshire PoliceLeah Senior's death was by suicide, an inquest in Wakefield concludesA woman who died after falling from a moving van had acted intentionally, an inquest has heard.Leah Senior, 27, from Huddersfield, was travelling in a Ford Transit driven by her boyfriend on Denby Dale Road on 17 January when she fell from the vehicle.Miss Senior's partner was arrested shortly afterwards, but faced no further action.On Tuesday, an
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Clarkson clashes with BBC over inheritance tax comment

[ad_1] TV presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson has had a heated exchange with the BBC about his own remarks that he bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax.Clarkson has fronted the Amazon Prime show Clarkson's Farm since 2021, about efforts to run the 1,000 acre Diddly Squat farm near Chipping Norton.Clarkson told the Times in 2021 that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in his decision to buy land
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Man jailed for role in Max Dixon and Mason Rist murders

[ad_1] A man who drove four teenagers on a revenge mission that led to two best friends being murdered has been handed two life sentences.Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, died after being stabbed by four teenagers in a frenzied attack outside Mason's home on Ilminster Avenue in Knowle West, Bristol, on 27 January.Antony Snook, 45, tried to claim he was oblivious to the plan, but a jury rejected
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Snow falls across parts of the UK

[ad_1] The first snow of the season hit parts of the UK overnight, with people in some areas waking up to a winter wonderland.Motorists and commuters are being warned of possible disruption, while hundreds of schools have closed in England and Wales due to the heavy snowfall.Scotland recorded its coldest early winter temperatures since 1998, while snow has been falling in the Home Counties and in central London too. [ad_2]
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Newport man says binned hard drive now worth £569m

[ad_1] BBCJames Howells says he is suing Newport City CouncilA man who accidentally binned a hard drive containing Bitcoin says it is now worth more than £500m following recent price surges.James Howells, 39, has been trying to retrieve the hard drive containing his lost Bitcoin fortune, which he believes is in a Newport landfill site, for over a decade.The hard drive reportedly contains 8,000 Bitcoins – worth around £4m at
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‘Betrayed’ farmers take Budget protest to London

[ad_1] Getty ImagesThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) has accused the government of "betrayal" as thousands prepare to gather in London for a rally against the planned changes to inheritance tax rules for farms."To launch a policy this destructive without speaking to anyone involved in farming beggars belief," NFU president Tom Bradshaw will say in his speech on Tuesday.The recent Budget announcement means that previously-exempt farms worth more than £1m would
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Fenland town’s wonky Christmas tree wish comes true

[ad_1] John Devine/BBCMarch Town Council requested another wonky Christmas tree after last year's leaning tree "put March on the map"A Cambridgeshire market town which became the centre of a global news story about its wonky Christmas tree last year has had this year's delivered – and it is a wonky one again.March Town Council said it had been inundated with requests to try to replicate the "banana" shaped tree this