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Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook’s stake in CT Group while holding Downing Street role creates potential conflict of interest Liz Truss’s chief of staff still owns a stake in Sir Lynton Crosby’s lobbying company despite his Downing Street role, meaning he could benefit financially from the firm’s work for corporate clients. Mark Fullbrook, who is in charge of the prime minister’s political operation, co-founded the British arm of the lobbying business CT Group with Crosby. Its clients have included the tobacco company Philip Morris, the Saudi Arabian government, and the mining firm Glencore. Continue reading… ​Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook’s stake in CT Group…

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Organisers appeal to public for help tracking down ice age relics that were once subject of fascination It was about 450,000 years ago that a glacier from Wales scattered hundreds of large boulders over what is now Bromsgrove and south-west Birmingham. These ice age relics, some the size of a small car, became mini tourist attractions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attracting visitors from across the country in their best clothes who posed in front of them for photographs. Continue reading… ​Organisers appeal to public for help tracking down ice age relics that were once subject of…

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