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After surviving two life-threatening brain haemorrhages, Emilia Clarke founded SameYou in 2019; seven years later, it has raised over £3.8 million and helped more than 1,200 survivors access online rehabilitation

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Representative Image (AI-generated) For actor Emilia Clarke, surviving two life-threatening brain haemorrhages changed her understanding of recovery and the support people need after a medical crisis. In 2019, she founded the brain injury recovery charity SameYou with her mother, Jenny Clarke, to address gaps in rehabilitation and help survivors rebuild their lives. According to SameYou’s…

In 2022, a Russian Orthodox priest bought a £470,000 home beside a woman who paid £260,000 for hers; their fight over a one-metre strip of land has led to CCTV, criminal charges and a holy-water blessing at the fence

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The priest was also filmed sprinkling holy water along the fence separating their homes (Property photo: Google Maps) A Russian Orthodox priest and his neighbour in West Yorkshire, England, are caught in a dispute over a strip of land barely a metre wide. The disagreement has resulted in police complaints, CCTV surveillance and criminal proceedings…

In 1940, a Jewish family’s Kandinsky painting was sold under Nazi occupation; 83 years later, their heirs recovered it, and it has now fetched £31.56 million at a London auction after decades of dispute

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Kandinsky painting sold under Nazi occupation returns to heirs, fetches £31.56m at London auction (Image Credit: Instagram/ @ art__window) A painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, sold under disputed circumstances during Nazi occupation in 1940, has fetched £31.56 million at a London auction, bringing renewed attention to one family’s decades-long struggle to recover its artwork….

London woman bought a £600,000 semi-detached home in 2021; a year later she challenged her neighbours’ kitchen for crossing the boundary by 48cm, but a tribunal has now ruled the tiny strip belongs to them

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Photo credit: Champion News A London homeowner has lost a four-year legal battle over a strip of land measuring just 48 centimetres after a tribunal ruled that her neighbours’ kitchen extension had acquired “squatters’ rights.” Susannah James bought the £600,000 semi-detached house in Surbiton in 2021, but a year later claimed that part of the…

An anonymous donation of nearly 160 rare banknotes to a British Heart Foundation charity shop in Edinburgh has raised £85,860 at auction; one note features a young Queen Elizabeth II, and the proceeds fund medical research

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A rare uncirculated banknote featuring a young Queen Elizabeth II, issued in Malaya and British Borneo. Photo: Noonans A collection of rare banknotes that arrived anonymously at a charity shop in Edinburgh has raised £85,860 at an auction held on Wednesday. The British Heart Foundation (BHF), which received the donation, will use the money to…

In 2008, a woman bought a glass vase for £1 at a Scottish car-boot sale and used it as a plant pot; after experts identified it as a 1929 René Lalique piece, Christie’s sold it for £32,450

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Photo credit: www.collectissim.com In 2008, a woman bought a glass vase for just £1 at a car-boot sale in Dumfries, Scotland, because she liked how it looked. She used it as a plant pot without knowing that it was a rare piece by French glass designer René Lalique. Later that year, the vase was identified…

A 12-year-old boy was beside his mother when she passed out while driving at 60 mph, grabbed the wheel and stopped the car before calling 999; now 13, Zac Howells has won a Pride of Britain courage award

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Zac Howells will receive the Child of Courage Award at London’s Pride of Britain Awards, honouring his extraordinary bravery. For most children, a car journey with a parent is an ordinary part of the day. For Zac Howells, one December drive suddenly became a test of instinct, courage and extraordinary composure. At just 12, he…

A tiny painting bought for about $37 disappeared into a cupboard for years; after it resurfaced during a home renovation, experts authenticated it as a John Constable work worth roughly $315,000

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A modest painting purchased for just a few dozen dollars turned out to be a potentially life-changing discovery after spending years forgotten in a cupboard. The artwork, attributed to renowned British landscape painter John Constable, came back into the spotlight during a home renovation, eventually drawing attention from art experts and collectors. The discovery was…

Indian-origin Met Police officer charged with attempted rape, sexual assault in London | World News

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PC Harman Singh charged with attempted rape and sexual assault in UK. An Indian-origin Metropolitan Police officer is due to appear before a London court after being charged with attempted rape, sexual assault and intentional strangulation over alleged offences against a woman earlier this year.Police Constable Harman Singh, attached to the force’s North Area command…

Henry Nowak murder case: Sikh man’s mother may be released early under new UK prison rules | World News

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Kiran Kaur and Vickrum Digwa The mother of a Sikh man jailed for murdering an 18-year-old student Henry Nowak could leave prison early under changes to England’s early release rules.Kiran Kaur, 53, was sentenced to three years in prison in July for removing the knife her son, Vickrum Digwa, used to kill Nowak in Southampton…