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A block of flats in the Fishponds area of Bristol is only just wide enough for a toilet cistern. The unusual skinny shape has baffled and amused neighbours.
The bank, which has millions of customers and 20,000 employees across 444 branches in the UK, could be planning to step back from retail and commercial banking in Britain
An ex-convict who was jailed for heading a multi-million-pound cross-border drugs line now works at a security firm which holds the keys to Britain's largest freeport.
A block of flats in the Fishponds area of Bristol is only just wide enough for a toilet cistern. The unusual skinny shape has baffled and amused neighbours.
On average, 15 people every month are killed or left with life-changing injuries in a crash started by the poor state of the roads, current figures show.

Extracts from Mitford’s papers published but many more archives concerning British fascists remain concealed

Myths and suspicions have swirled around Unity Mitford ever since she decided to move to Mu…

Lights, camera, concrete! How Hollywood is playing a part in brutalism’s redemption

Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is the latest stage in the cultural rehabilitation of what was once architecture’s most reviled style but is now winning a new generation of admirers

This week an Oscar…

Caryl Phillips: ‘It was Britain that made me a writer’

The New York-based Kittitian-British author on why he set his new novel in the immigrant community of 1960s Notting Hill, the pitfalls of celebrity, and how he never misses a Leeds United match

Caryl …

The aggression from the Tesla billionaire is new; but Britain has years of experience in the consequences of falling for misleading promises

‘Never under­estimate the power of ignorance.” I came acros…

The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain

Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and arou…

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