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Dogs and drones used in hunt for racoons which escaped zoo on Isle of Wight Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailA hunt using tracker dogs and drones has been launched to trace a group of raccoons which managed to break out of a zoo on the Isle of Wight.The four animals escaped their compound at Amazon World Zoo Park in Sandown on Friday morning.Staff are now appealing to locals to keep an eye out for the 18-month-old sisters, which only arrived at the zoo last…

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Stolen engagement ring of veteran’s late fiancée returned with apology note Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailA former British soldier who served in the Falklands War saw his late fiancée’s engagement ring returned in the mail after it was burgled from his home.Darren Horsnell, 62, had been on a fundraising trip organised by the veterans’ charity he works for last month when he returned to his home in Lancashire to find it had been rifled through and possessions taken.But the most precious of the things…

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Birmingham Council latest to consider cycling ban in city centre Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailAnother council is considering a cycling ban in parts of the city centre to prevent the “dangerous combination” of pedestrians and bikes.Birmingham City Council has become the latest in a string of local authorities to consult on clamping down on cyclists in pedestrianised areas, in addition to Colchester, Bedford, and Grimsby.Cycling guru Professor David Cox, former chair of Cycling UK and leader of the charity’s Bike West Midlands Network campaign…

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Crypto is is on the verge of becoming mainstream, according to Jonathan Steinberg, founder and CEO of asset manager WisdomTree. In a recent interview on CNBC, Steinberg highlighted the factors driving adoption of cryptocurrencies, including regulatory clarity, publicly-traded cryptocurrency funds, and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). Steinberg is basing his theory on the support presidential candidate Donald Trump’s gave crypto in recent speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference. Trump’s ambitious tone US political leaders are becoming more open to crypto. Trump’s ambitious tone and promises of regulatory clarity for the industry could have a positive impact on both crypto…

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15 Year old who fatally stabbed another teen Muhammad Hassam Ali, 17, was killed by stranger after a four-minute conversation in city centre. The teen was followed by another teenager through Birmingham city centre, that he did not know, who consequently stabbed him to death after a four-minute conversation has finally been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years. Muhammad Hassam Ali, known as Ali, was 17 when he died in hospital on 20 January, hours after he and his friend were confronted by two masked 15-year-old boys they had never met as they sat in Victoria Square,…

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Leonard Glenn Francis, aka “Fat Leonard,” will be sentenced next week after his conviction, dramatic escape from custody and recapture in one of the biggest bribery and corruption scandals in U.S. military history. Fat Leonard faces sentencing in Navy bribery scandal Francis is due in U.S. District Court in San Diego on Tuesday, 11 years after his initial arrest and two years after he cut off his ankle monitor and fled to Venezuela. He returned to U.S. custody in December after his apprehension by Venezuelan authorities and a prisoner swap between the two countries. Under a plea agreement, the 6’3″,…

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