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Stephen Bear has paid a £22,305 confiscation order in full, the CPS said. (Lucy North/PA)
Celebrity News

Stephen Bear pays back £22,305 illegally earned from sharing sex tape

The 34-year-old faced nine months in prison if he did not pay the amount within three months of a confiscation order made in March this year.
4 Jun 2024
Stephen Baxter, 61, and his 64-year-old wife Carol who were murdered by Luke D’Wit (Essex Police/ PA)
Crime

Fentanyl double murderer may have been driven by desire to control, says judge

Prosecutors said D’Wit created a fake will on his phone the day after the Baxters were found dead.
22 Mar 2024
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Crime

IT worker jailed for life for fentanyl murders of married couple

Luke D’Wit will serve a minimum of 37 years for poisoning Stephen and Carol Baxter with fentanyl last year in Essex

22 Mar 2024
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Crime

IT worker to be sentenced for fentanyl murders of married couple

Luke D’Wit, who befriended and worked for Stephen and Carol Baxter, later changed their will to make him a director of their shower mat company

22 Mar 2024
Luke D’Wit, 34, who has been found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court of the murders of married couple Stephen and Carol Baxter who were poisoned with fentanyl in West Mersea in Essex (Essex Police/PA)
Crime

Fentanyl murderer would have killed again had he not been caught – detective

Luke D’Wit, 34, befriended and worked for Stephen and Carol Baxter before he killed them.
20 Mar 2024
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Crime

IT worker found guilty of murdering married couple with fentanyl

Luke D’Wit later created a fake will making him a director of Stephen and Carol Baxter’s company.

20 Mar 2024
Luke D’Wit was standing trial at Chelmsford Crown Court (Essex Police/PA)
Crime

Jury retires in trial of man accused of murdering married couple with fentanyl

Luke D’Wit, 34, is accused of poisoning Stephen Baxter, 61, and his 64-year-old wife Carol, and rewriting their will.
18 Mar 2024
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Crime

Video captures horror moment drink driver caused motorway crash

Nilen Chauhan, 27, was driving a VW Polo when he hit the back of a Mitsubishi L200, flipping the other vehicle over on the A14 in Cambridgeshire

12 Mar 2024
A property in Lady’s Drove, Emneth, Norfolk, is sealed off by police after a woman was found dead (Sam Russell/ PA)
Crime

Woman shot herself days after resigning from Barclays job, inquest told

Norfolk’s senior coroner Jacqueline Lake recorded a narrative conclusion.
11 Mar 2024
The Royal Burial Ground at Sutton Hoo (Alamy/PA)
Celebrity News

Archaeologists to explore ‘geophysical mysteries’ in new dig at Sutton Hoo

The National Trust is working with Time Team on the two-year research project.
8 Mar 2024
Pebbles the cat on campus at the University of Essex in Colchester. (University of Essex/ PA)
UK

Pebbles the campus cat honoured with statue at his chosen university

Pebbles has lived at the University of Essex for more than 14 years.
6 Mar 2024
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UK

Gold ring discovered by metal detectorist expected to fetch £14,000

Retired carpenter Alan Rumsby unearthed the jewellery in Norfolk

29 Feb 2024
Ed Sheeran surprised his parents with a private viewing of the Louvre (Ian West/ PA)
Celebrity News

Ed Sheeran’s ‘thank you’ to parents with private viewing at famous art gallery

The pop star’s father described it as an ‘unforgettable experience’.
29 Feb 2024
Some of the estimated 2,500 Atlantic grey seals on Horsey Beach in Norfolk, where they gather every year to moult their winter fur (Joe Giddens/PA)
UK

Seals gather to moult their worn-out winter fur on stretch of Norfolk beach

It takes roughly six weeks to complete, with seals ridding themselves of dead hair by scratching and rubbing against the sand or rocks.
29 Feb 2024
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Crime

Two 'people smugglers' arrested in Finsbury Park raids

The men, both Albanian nationals, arrested on Monday morning are suspected to be part of a group booking people onto UK-bound flights using fake travel documents

28 Feb 2024
Mattheus Vieira, 11, died of sepsis at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in April 2022 (Family photo/ PA)
Crime

Autistic boy, 11, died of sepsis that was not spotted in time – inquest

Mattheus Viera was described as ‘difficult to examine’, the hearing was told.
27 Feb 2024
The archive of the public art project Poems on the Underground has been donated to Cambridge University Library (Cambridge University Library/ PA)
UK

Poems On The Underground archive donated to Cambridge University Library

The archive includes correspondence from famous literary figures such as Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Louise Gluck and Philip Larkin.
26 Feb 2024
Iliyana Matasheva inspects house plants growing at Bury Lane Farm (Joe Giddens/PA)
Business News

Demand for houseplants has continued to soar since lockdown, says UK supermarket

One of Tesco’s suppliers has switched its indoor facilities to purely producing house plants as a result.
25 Feb 2024
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Crime

XL Bully dogs inflicted ‘unsurvivable’ bite wounds on grandmother

Police discovered Esther Martin unresponsive inside a property in Jaywick, Essex with ‘two large dogs’

22 Feb 2024
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UK

Anglo-Saxon coins found by metal detectorists sell for £325,000

The coins, discovered near Braintree in Essex, were thought to have been buried in 1066

22 Feb 2024
The Ancient of Days. Frontispiece to ‘Europe A Prophecy’ (Handout/PA)
UK

William Blake’s artwork to be displayed in new exhibition

The show will explore Blake’s connections with the work of his peers.
21 Feb 2024