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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Clodagh Stenson |Jonathan M. Eden |William McLennan
Clodagh Stenson, Jonathan Eden and William McLennanBBC England InvestigationsIn the early hours of 14 September 2019, Eleanor Paice jolted awake to the sound of smashing glass. Living in a staff flat above Blenheim Palace, the guest services supervisor was used to strange noises. But when fire alarms began to blare, she knew something was wrong. She quickly began evacuating to the great courtyard. But unbeknownst to her, she was running straight into the final moments of an audacious heist.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | William McLennan |Clodagh Stenson |Martin Eastaugh
William McLennan, Clodagh Stenson and Martin EastaughBBC England InvestigationsA man has been convicted over the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the fully-functional toilet, hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019. Michael Jones was found guilty of planning the burglary.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
terra.com.br | William McLennan
Pavel estava sem-teto na República Tcheca, vivendo em condições precárias e à procura de uma oportunidade que o tirasse da miséria. Quando foi abordado por uma quadrilha que prometia um emprego bem remunerado no Reino Unido, ele acreditou que aquela era sua chance de recomeçar a vida, de ter estabilidade e dignidade.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
msn.com | William McLennan |Phil Shepka |Jon Ironmonger
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
aol.com | William McLennan |Phil Shepka |Jon Ironmonger
September 29, 2024 at 6:03 PMNine victims of modern slavery were forced to work at a McDonald's branch in Cambridgeshire [BBC]Signs that modern slavery victims were being forced to work at a McDonald’s branch and a factory supplying bread products to major supermarkets were missed for years, the BBC has found. A gang forced 16 victims to work at either the fast-food restaurant or the factory - which supplied Asda, Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | William McLennan |Phil Shepka |Jon Ironmonger
15 hours agoDigitized archives and DNA testing prove what these Latinos suspected: Family histories that focused on white, Spanish ancestry include African roots and the legacy of slavery. Comedian Gadiel del Orbe always heard his brown-skinned Dominican father say their family came from Spain or the Canary …
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | William McLennan |Colin Campbell |Abby Newbery
Thousands of posts offering deadly drugs known as nitazenes have been found on X and the music platform SoundCloud by a BBC investigation. Nitazenes - more deadly then heroin - have recently been linked to nearly three deaths a week on average. After we alerted SoundCloud, it removed the posts. X, formerly Twitter, took down hundreds but many listings remain. SoundCloud said it had been "targeted by bad actors" while X did not respond to requests for comment.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | William McLennan
Charities have criticised the "nonsensical" closure of migrant hotels after the BBC found many residents were being moved from one hotel to another. The government has promised to shut 50 asylum hotels by January. BBC South East followed the closure of one of the first, in Folkestone, Kent, and found asylum seekers were bussed to other hotels in London and Bournemouth. The Home Office said it was working with contractors and councils to limit the impacts of the closures.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | William McLennan
Charities have criticised the "nonsensical" closure of migrant hotels after the BBC found many residents were being moved from one hotel to another. The government has promised to shut 50 asylum hotels by January. BBC South East followed the closure of one of the first, in Folkestone, Kent, and found asylum seekers were bussed to other hotels in London and Bournemouth. The Home Office said it was working with contractors and councils to limit the impacts of the closures.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | William McLennan
Three months after a major fire destroyed part of a historic hotel, local businesses say the disruption is still having a huge impact on trade. A wing of the 200-year-old Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton was demolished after the blaze in July. Restaurant owner Renzo Cafagna said the area had once been "very vivid...and now there's nothing there". Brighton and Hove City Council said the work was "slow and painstaking" because the building was "extremely fragile".
