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A police appeal over the discovery of a "dumped crocodile" by a canal turned out to be "more fluff than fear". Derbyshire Police launched a snappy appeal on Thursday - its "strangest ever"- after the alleged sighting on the Trent and Mersey Canal, near Mercia Marina, in Willington. But the mystery creature turned out to be a stuffed taxidermy model, filled with hay, not a real reptile, and was reeled in by a fisherman. While there were no crocodile tears in sight, police joked on Friday: "It's not every day we get to say 'we've dealt with a crocodile in Derbyshire!'"

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Trains from Paddington and Euston faced major disruption after people were hit by trains in separate incidents today (October 17). Police were first called to Hanwell railway station in west London at around midday. Paramedics joined officers and treated a casualty at the scene, who sadly died. At around 3pm officers were then called to Watford High street station, on the Lioness line from London Euston. All Lioness lines between Watford and London Euston were cancelled following the incident.

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Prosecutors said that a young British teacher and a researcher at the heart of Parliament had worked together as spies for China, funneling sensitive information to Beijing’s officials. But weeks before their trial was to begin, the case collapsed. Prosecutors said it had fallen apart because the government would not confirm that at the time of the spying, China represented an enemy or a threat to national security. The documents offer insight into how British security officials view the rising threat posed by China and its extensive information gathering abroad. And they raise tantalizing questions about how Western countries should respond.

The New York Times, in a statement Thursday, reiterated its position that Trump’s lawsuit was meritless and said that “nothing has changed” with the new filing. “As we said when this was first filed and again after the judge’s ruling to strike it: this lawsuit has no merit,” a Times spokesperson said in a statement. “As set forth below, Defendants originated and distributed these publications, and the defamatory statements about President Trump therein, with actual malice,” the revised complaint says. For example, he wrote, “in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, ‘”The Apprentice” represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the [Z]eitgeist of our time. According to the lawsuit, Trump is demanding “not less than $10 billion” on two counts of defamation, for at least $20 billion total.

According to a new Hotels.com Business Trip Report released today, 86%1 of Gen Z and 72% of Millennials say work trips are a chance to upgrade their lifestyles. The survey polled 2,000 British adults who travel for work and found that younger road warriors are pros at making their work trips work harder. New York tops the list of dream business trip destinations for Gen Zers and Millennials. And 45% of Gen Z business travellers say they make work travel choices based on maximising rewards. For 55% of business travellers, the chance to visit a destination they wouldn’t otherwise see is one of the biggest perks.

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Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry (Images/Agencies)What kicked this off? How did MI5 characterize the threat and the collapsed case? What do Cash and Berry say? How does this fit into UK law and policy? Some legal figures disagreed; former DPP Ken Macdonald said, “These statements were more than adequate to proceed with a prosecution in my view,” Reuters reported.The government released multiple statements from Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Collins.

After a federal judge tossed Donald Trump’s $15bn defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, book publisher Penguin Random House and two Times reporters last month, the US president filed a 40-page amended complaint on Thursday. US district court judge Steven Merryday in Florida gave Trump 28 days to refile and amend the action he threw out on 19 September. All but Schmidt are still named in the amended complaint. The amended complaint includes an itemized list of dozens of allegations tied to specific publications and statements. “Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes 85 pages,” Merryday wrote.

Ocean Outdoor reveals winners of 2025 Digital Creative CompetitionWinners showcase the potential of digital out of home. by Beau Jackson

At 2.54am on October 12, 1984, a 105lb gelignite bomb — hidden behind a bath panel three weeks earlier — exploded in room 629 of Brighton’s Grand Hotel. A £16.2 million revampHappily, the historic hotel’s most recent refurbishment — to the tune of £16.2 million — comes with no such grim backstory. All of which is most welcome since, as my friend Naomi and I pondered over postprandial negronis in the hotel’s lobby bar last weekend, for such a beloved seaside resort — and the traditional dirty weekend destination — Brighton has a peculiar dearth of great hotels. There is sailing and there are sound baths; nightclubs, crochet clubs and running clubs; theatre, tarot, tantra and endless triathlons. In spite of its name and size, though, little about the hotel is grand, nor pretentious or pompous.

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