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Museum marks 60 years celebrating Oxfordshire’s heritage
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9803/live/aebf5190-c6ff-11f1-b4dd-e786ec6f11b1.jpg”] Cotswold Image Services/Cotswold Tourism The Oxfordshire Museum is based in Woodstock A museum that showcases the history of Oxfordshire and its people is celebrating its 60th birthday this week. The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock displays treasures dating as far back as the Roman occupation of Britain all the way to artefacts from…
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Hunton broadband fears after fibre works stop in village
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c68e/live/1a96b960-c707-11f1-9783-ed95709f9dec.jpg”] BBC Broadband was delivered using a copper infrastructure that is being withdrawn Residents in a rural Kent village have raised concerns they could be left without broadband access after fibre installation works stopped. Work began in August in Hunton to replace existing copper broadband infrastructure with fibre cables, but residents said it…
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Hotel to be built on former Wakefield Westgate station site
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5479/live/811fb160-13f1-11f1-8487-c54ea73ffb42.jpg”] Wakefield Council Work on the hotel on the former Wakefield Westgate site is due to begin next year Work on a new city centre hotel at the site of a former railway station will begin in 2027, it has been confirmed. The hotel will be built on the site of the former…
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One stolen every four minutes – inside the police battle against vehicle thieves
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4811/live/95407880-c3c5-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Watch: BBC joins police on front line against car theft NJ Converyand Adam Eley,BBC News Investigations It is 01:00 on a Thursday and we are in the back of an unmarked police car on the hunt for vehicle thieves in east London. A call comes in over the radio about a stolen…
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Not building third runway would be ‘missed opportunity’, says Heathrow boss
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/645d/live/6faaea30-c74c-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Getty Images Not building a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be a “huge missed opportunity” for the UK, the boss of the country’s busiest airport has warned. Thomas Woldbye told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme it would be “good to know” the government’s position on the project, after Prime Minister Andy…
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Russell T Davies criticises BBC boss’s ‘clumsy’ AI Doctor Who comments
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/cd57/live/99daefe0-c741-11f1-9085-f95bdc648acc.jpg”] James Watkins / BBC Longtime Doctor Who writer and showrunner Russell T Davies has criticised the new BBC director general over comments he made about an AI-generated episode of the show. Matt Brittin told a Royal Television Society conference in September that he had been sent a “pretty good” 50-minute unofficial Doctor…
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CJP’s Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka: India’s ‘cockroach’ leaders jailed after holding protest
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0ca5/live/441c37b0-c77f-11f1-95ce-4b6c75c54fd1.jpg”] LightRocket via Getty Images CJP’s Ashutosh Ranka (L) and Saurav Das were detained at the Jantar Mantar on Tuesday morning Two top leaders of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) have been sent to jail for five days after being arrested for allegedly trespassing at a protest site in Delhi. Saurav Das and…
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Russia arrests Japanese journalist on alleged espionage
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5c43/live/65eee660-c781-11f1-b999-873e5cdc91d4.png”] TASS The journalist, identified as Yuki Imai from the Hokkaido Shimbun, was detained in the far eastern region of Sakhalin Russian authorities have charged a Japanese journalist for espionage, accusing him of gathering information related to Moscow’s defence capabilities for Tokyo. The journalist, identified as Yuki Imai from the Hokkaido Shimbun, was…
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Lena Dunham’s Girls returning for limited run at HBO
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/243d/live/cb0a4af0-c770-11f1-ab87-2bb7c0d2443c.jpg”] Watch: Lena Dunham invites the cast of Girls to reboot the TV series next year HBO’s award-winning show Girls will return to screens for a limited run ten years after the series finale aired. Lena Dunham – the show’s creator, writer, and one of its stars – shared the announcement in a…
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Bank of America fined $1.2bn over failing to stop money laundering
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b893/live/c1765210-c764-11f1-b06d-fb50486dda65.jpg”] Bloomberg via Getty Images Bank of America has been fined $1.2bn (£910m) for failing to detect potential money laundering and other illegal activity, the US Treasury Department said on Tuesday. The banking giant failed to report over $5bn in suspicious activity to the government, $1bn of which posed national security and illicit…