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Sports and entertainment agent Dave Gardner, 49, a long-time friend and business partner of David Beckham, has received a hefty fine after being caught speeding in West London last November.

The footage, filmed in Southampton near the scene of Mr Nowak's murder, was taken by a neighbour after they were startled by the sound of 'loud gunshots' on October 18, 2022.

Former army soldier and lorry driver Kevin Minto and his friend Phil Costello unearthed the ring while they were searching for treasure close to the Somerset village of Ilminster.

The coffee giant faced calls for a boycott after promoting a new range of 'Tank' coffee tumblers on May 18, which was the same date as the anniversary of the violent 1980 Gwangju Uprising.

Falling in love can be a bolt from the blue - but falling out of it is a slow-moving process, says our columnist Kat Farmer. She recalls when she reached the point of no return

An upcoming vote in a few weeks on America's cryptocurrency "Clarity Act" is "rattling Wall Street and consumer advocates," reports CNN, with its proposal to regulate the bulk of crypto markets through America's Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "It allows crypto companies to operate, at long last, in compliance with U.S. rules, rather than what they have been doing — essentially running their businesses within a patchwork of state and federal legal gray areas." Even for Jamie Dimon, the banking titan who's not known to mince words, it was a surprising shot across the bow when he described a fellow financier as "full of sh*t." "No one's gonna bow down to this guy or that company," Dimon told Fox Business last week. "This guy" being Brian Armstrong, and "that company" being cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The Dimon-Armstrong tension isn't new, but it is boiling over publicly as the Senate inches closer to a floor vote on the crypto industry's No. 1 legislative priority, known as the Clarity Act. Dimon, a longtime crypto skeptic, broadly supports crypto regulation but takes issue with a provision in the Clarity Act that would allow companies like Coinbase to "effectively pay interest on deposits... without the protection they should have." The spicy comment about Armstrong came after Dimon rattled off other concerns about the Clarity Act, including what he sees as its insufficient anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer safeguards that banks have had in place for decades... "If (Armstrong) takes deposits like a bank, he should have bank rules," Dimon said in the Fox Business interview... The immediate concern from banks (and many consumer advocates) is that crypto exchanges like Coinbase would, in the grand tradition of Silicon Valley innovation, lure customers in with huge rewards and then phase those benefits out over time. Deposits in a crypto exchange are also not insured by the federal government the way bank deposits are, but that's the kind of fine print that customers tend to overlook until it's too late. JPMorgan Chase spokesperson Trish Wexler underscored that the bank wants the bill to pass, with some "fixes," like prohibiting rewards on stablecoin holdings and strengthening anti-money-laundering guardrails. Coinbase's CEO responded in an interview with Politico: Armstrong pointed to restrictions on rewards paid to idle cryptocurrency balances and disclosures on stablecoins as part of a handful of policies included in the bill to appease the banking industry's requests. "I think it'd be good for the banks," Armstrong said of the bill. "It would be great for crypto companies as well ... Hopefully we can get past the absolutisms and just see if we can get this bill over the finish line." But CNN notes concerns about weaving cryptocurrency — "a historically self-contained financial system prone to stomach-churning booms and busts" — more deeply into America's traditional finance infrastructure: "It's not just a crypto story, it's a broad deregulation of our securities markets story," Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University who specializes in banking and cryptocurrency, said in an interview. And that should concern everyone, Allen says, even if they have no investments at all, because "if we get a financial crisis in this space... no one comes out of that unscathed."

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It's just a matter of hours until Dua Lipa and Callum Turner finally say 'I do' at the Villa Valguarnera in Sicily in front of all their friends and family on Saturday. 

Officers stopped an Audi RS6 from Leeds just before 11pm and found the loot alongside more than £1,500 in cash.

Thousands of Essex children live in poverty

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner's nuptials come just over two years after they began their romance and their first meeting would leave any rom-com director feeling inspired.

Dua Lipa married the love of her life Callum Turner in an intimate wedding ceremony at London's Old Marylebone Town Hall last week.

Callum Turner and Dua Lipa are in the middle of their three-day Sicily extravaganza after their legal wedding ceremony last week. 

Furious residents called out the sexism on Facebook, with one woman writing: 'Kingston council e-bike sexist horror', and: 'Weep, women of Kingston, weep!'

An official trailer dropped this week for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It's "a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game," reports Kotaku, "rebuilt from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5." Developed by Flying Wild Hog (with assistance/guidance from longtime Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics), "it will also make some changes to puzzles, combat, platforming..." The game's Steam page acknowledges that AI-assisted tools were used during development "to support some early exploration and temporary development content," but that any AI-assisted assets were "either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team." In a statement to Eurogamer, Crystal Dynamics clarifies that they "leverage" AI tools "to help our teams iterate on ideas faster and more efficiently, while ensuring that all finished content in the final product is human-crafted." (But are they considering AI-assisted assets "refined" by humans as "human-crafted"?) Polygon reports that "The early response to the news has been mixed to negative on the Tomb Raider subreddit, ranging from vague hopes that the generative-AI craze will simply go away to grim resignation that this is the future of game development." Beyond labor concerns, art theft worries, and environmental issues, the most straightforward reason AI art has been unpopular is that many players find it hideous. We'll find out for sure whether Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis' use of AI is particularly blatant when it comes out in February 2027. Its release date is February 12, 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC.

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A billion-plus for an entertainment complex while penny-pinching on rebuilding our hollowed-out military? It's a strange priority, especially when two major wars rage in Ukraine and the Gulf.

Over 2 million travellers from Britain and Ireland visit the cheapest of the Canary Islands every year - accounting for more than half of their tourist business.

David Beckham was out in his vegetable patch once again on Saturday as he showcased his impressive array of crops. 

Last May, Hay, now 29, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court to 19 years in prison for rape, attempted rape, and two sexual assaults against three women.

Speaking in Our Key Witness: Aftermath, Claire Throssell, from Yorkshire, whose two young children were murdered by her ex-husband has revealed how her late son's final act of love 'saved her life'.

Away from the cameras a string of heartbreaking tragedies has affected a number of stars associated with the series, which aired for seven seasons.