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The bomb hunters scouring UK waters for unexploded weapons
Hundreds of thousands of unexploded bombs and mines carpet the seabed off the UK’s coast. Many are known about and mapped, but plenty more are…
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The tower block scaffolding that became ‘a ladder for cat burglars’
Lone parent Leoni Ward was fast asleep in her tower block flat when a neighbour spotted a person dressed in dark clothing pushing at her…
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How were the 39 people killed in the Essex lorry case identified?
Four years ago, the bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were found in an airtight container on the back of a lorry. For the first time, those…
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The leafy street in Leigh-on-Sea that 80 sham firms call home
If you believed the paperwork, Henry Drive in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, would be a thriving business metropolis specialising in the wholesale clothing market with entrepreneurs from…
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The cemetery where iron crosses mark people with disabilities
In a small village cemetery, 34 tiny iron crosses poke up through the soil. Many are twisted and a few are missing completely. On some,…
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How many other Hemsbys are waiting to happen?
Coastal erosion claimed three homes in Hemsby last weekend and a further two properties in the village are deemed at serious risk. Are there other…
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The place where one in ten homes is largely unused
“I will never be able to buy my own home here,” says Polly Robins, a third-generation resident of Wells-next-the-Sea, a North Norfolk town sitting in…
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Inside the floating polar research laboratory
The vessel the public once hoped to name Boaty McBoatface is poised to return to Antarctica after making its first voyage to the continent a…
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“What were her last words? Did she ask for us?”
For years, Jack Sepple and Ashley Wadsworth were modern-day pen pals who used the internet to bridge the 4,500-mile (7,242km) distance between them. But just…
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The waitress. And cleaner. And carer. And mother
Each page of the calendar on Rebecca Kellaway’s living room wall is full of highlighted entries – some for her, some for her 10-year-old daughter.…