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Sep 8, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Frances Read

    Art thieves in France make off with Renoir paintings (opens the original)

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    French police are hunting for a pair of thieves who stole Renoir paintings worth millions of pounds from a museum in the French Riviera. The robbers managed to cut through a metal fence at the back of the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer just before 6am in the morning. But the heist did not go entirely to plan: they were identified on CCTV – and then dropped two of the paintings in the museum’s gardens in their rush to get away.

  2. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Frances Read

    Masked protesters block Dover roads in ‘anti-illegal migrant’ demonstration (opens the original)

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    Hundreds of demonstrators dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocked the streets around Dover earlier today, shouting ‘stop the boats’ in what the Port of Dover described as a ‘public order incident’. The protest seemed to take the police by surprise and intimidated residents. The demonstrators were eventually escorted to the railway station. It appears an anti-immigration group with links to the far right have claimed responsibility for the demonstration.

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Frances Read

    Police make 12 arrests after deadly Cleveland crash (opens the original)

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    12 people have been arrested by Cleveland Police for alleged criminality, including links to organised crime – after the crash which killed two police officers and five young men on the A66 near Middlesbrough. Four of the five young men had previous criminal convictions – some against police officers. Flowers and other tributes have been left outside Cleveland Police headquarters in memory of the two officers who died.

  4. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Frances Read

    Trump Tariffs: Canada promises ‘dollar for dollar’ retaliation in US trade war (opens the original)

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    The trade war between the United States and Canada has heated up – amid the collapse of negotiations between the two countries. Donald Trump accused Canadians of wanting all the benefits of being a US state without actually being one. Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney warned his country would retaliate “dollar for dollar” after the US imposed 50% tariffs on twenty billion dollars worth of Canadian products.

  5. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Frances Read

    Andy Burnham brands UK ‘a tinderbox’ as at least 19 homes destroyed in wildfires (opens the original)

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    Crews in the West Midlands are continuing to tackle a number of fires although officials said the situation had “vastly improved” since yesterday. Six firefighters were taken to hospital with smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion, while 54 people were injured yesterday at the sites of eight different fires – 19 of them had to be treated in hospital. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, visiting the worst-hit area, said the UK had become a “tinderbox”.

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