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A new artwork of swimming fish has appeared on a police box in the City of London, sparking speculation that it might be the latest Banksy.The elusive street artist has not yet claimed the piece, but if he does it would be his seventh artwork to be unveiled this week in various locations across the capital.The aquarium-like design on the police box differs from Banksy’s previous silhouette artworks in that the school of fish has been painted with more detail and tone.The artist has revealed a new animal artwork each day this week – including a goat, elephants, monkeys, a...

New swimming fish design on London police box thought to be latest Banksy

There have been no objections to the Sunniside scheme, despite previous parking concerns.

Plans for 75 new homes in city centre approved

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Elusive artist Banksy has unveiled a menagerie of animal-themed artwork in London in recent days, starting with a goat and ending with a school of fish. The goat popped up on Monday. The artwork shows a goat with rocks tumbling down below it on the side of a building in Kew Bridge in London. A CCTV camera on the building is pointed toward the goat. Banksy posted a picture of the mural to his Instagram account and has continued to do so for each subsequent animal. None of the posts have captions.A new work featuring two elephant heads facing each other, trunks...

Seven new Banksy artwork appears in London

Almost 300 homes are to be built on an industrial site that was initially planned for redevelopment 10 years ago. Durham County Council is to build 282 homes on the site at Stephenson Road, between Peterlee and Horden, after its plans were approved on Friday. Planning permission was initially given...

Almost 300 homes to be built on old industrial site

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In the mid-1970s, Good Timesmade a star of actor/comedian Jimmy 'JJ'/'Dynomite' Walker. However, behind the scenes, the tension between the stars was relatively challenging. According to what Jimmie Walker once relayed, most of the show's cast rarely had any interaction behind the camera. Walker didn't recall having any conversations with actress Esther Rolle, who played his TV mother, Florida Evans, or actor John Amos, who played James Evans, his TV mother.

Actor/Comedian Jimmie "JJ" Walker Behind the Scenes of TV's 'Good Times' in the 1970s

He gave officers a false name and address, but later admitted having drugs and money in his vehicle.

Drug dealer jailed after being caught in park

Jodie Beer is jailed for six years for trying to take cocaine, pills and phones into Parc prison.

Prison officer smuggled drugs in juice cartons

Previous Home Office plans would have seen the hotel used by migrants

Hotel could be used to house homeless people

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A 75-year-old pensioner was punched twice in the face after asking a fellow passenger to stop smoking on board an Elizabeth Line service.Detectives at the British Transport Police said the victim challenged a man who was smoking on an Elizabeth Line service from London to Twyford shortly before 11.45pm on July 8.Smoking and vaping is banned on TfL services and in TfL stations.The man then threatened the victim and then punched him twice in the face as he left the service at Maidenhead.The victim sustained a black eye and a cut to his eyebrow in the attack.Police believe the man...

Man punched pensioner twice in the face after he was asked to stop smoking on Elizabeth Line train

Organised-crime groups have been targeting empty shops and pubs in town centres to grow cannabis on an industrial scale, say police bosses. Over the past year, raids have been carried out in dozens of properties, from an old toy shop in Ayr, Scotland, to a former bank in Welshpool, Powys.

Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets

A department store will shut its doors for good in Northampton town centre this weekend. Next will have its final day of trading on Saturday and will be replaced by an as yet unknown retailer. Mark Mullen, the operations manager for Northampton Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID), said the...

Major retailer to close permanently in town centre

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(MA) Meet Angel August, a small Yorkie and Chihuahua mix pup who could really use your help moving...into your house! Angel recently came into Great Dog Rescue New England's care after an unexpected tragedy. Although she has been an owned pup her whole life, sadly Angel's owner passed away. Now safely in rescue care, Angel is patiently waiting for the next chapter of her life to begin. Will you help her write it?

Little Yorkshire Terrier Who Lost Her Owner Now Looking For Love

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

Police are called after a fight with weapons breaks out in a village close to Bedford.

Two arrests after boy, 16, shot in fight

A medical tribunal has found a doctor's fitness to practise to be impaired for writing false prescriptions. Dr Marc Whitehouse admitted to writing prescriptions while impersonating a chief medical examiner on five occasions between March 2016 and December 2018. At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing, it was also...

False prescriptions doctor's licence suspended

The baby's body may have been under the floorboards of a Victorian house for more than 100 years.

Search for relatives of baby hidden a century ago

Colorado State

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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As they were driving along the A358, Mr Bennett said his wife's contractions became "worse and worse". "I thought I would have one [contraction] per junction," said Mrs Bennett, jokingly. "I thought four or five minutes per junction, I can do that," she added. As her contractions grew closer, Mr...

Mr Bennett said: "She pulled out a baby, just right there and then as I was driving along."

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More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

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London's public spaces get £12m funding from mayor

The money will be spent on high streets, green spaces and improving walking and cycling...

London's public spaces get £12m funding from mayor

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