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London taxi driver’s £40 painting linked to 19th-century Amritsar sells for £75,000 at auction (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A painting bought for just £40 at a car boot sale in Britain turned out to be a remarkable piece of Indian art nearly three decades later. According to Antiques Trade Gazette, which documented the discovery in…

Jignesh Patel (left), Rahil Patel (right). Two Indian-origin pharmacists have been jailed for six years each in the UK after using fake prescriptions to obtain medicines worth around £1.3 million from the National Health Service (NHS), which prosecutors said were intended for resale in Europe, Daily Mail reported.Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42, were…

Residents of two landmark 1960s housing estates in south London may finally be able to remain in their homes after more than 12 years of uncertainty. Lambeth Council has proposed removing Central Hill in Crystal Palace and Cressingham Gardens beside Brockwell Park from its demolition and redevelopment programme, choosing instead to retain, repair and improve…

Andy’s Man Club marks ten years of support with a commemorative mural celebrating its community and volunteers. In a world where men are often expected to keep their struggles to themselves, nine people gathered in Halifax in 2016 around an idea that was as ordinary as it was important. A decade later, that small meeting…

A medal from one of English rugby’s most celebrated nights has changed hands for £54,000, while a pair of shorts associated with football icon Eric Cantona and other sporting keepsakes attracted collectors at an auction in England. The sale, held by sports memorabilia specialist Budds on October 13, featured 332 lots spanning rugby, football, cricket,…

A 1907 masterpiece by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, looted from a Dutch-Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, sold at a London auction earlier this week for £31.56 million (about $42 million, including fees), The New York Times reported. The painting, Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life), was returned to the family’s heirs…

The appearance of the figures is unusual enough to make some motorists look twice (Representational photo) A group of villagers in England has spent four months making something they hope will persuade speeding motorists to slow down: life-sized knitted traffic officers and fake speed cameras. The unusual road safety campaign began after numerous accidents were…

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…

A 62-year-old London resident who moved to Britain from Barbados 50 years ago remains caught in legal uncertainty as the Home Office continues trying to deport him because of a past criminal conviction. Tony Hall arrived in the UK in 1976, aged 12, to join his family. Despite living in the country for 50 years,…

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…