Tag: UK news
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Royal Mint sends David Bowie coin into space and back
Commemorative coin ascended to 35,656 metres and will be offered as competition prize
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UK house prices see strongest five-monthly gain since 2004
Values are up 6.5% since June, with cost of average home rising by £3,000, says Halifax
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‘Toxic dispute’ over Zaha Hadid’s £100m estate finally settled
Court case at end of four-year feud hears contested allegations of financial mismanagement and ‘clandestine relationships’ between practice principal and junior staff
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An MDF bookcase for £12,000? The jolting genius of design superstudio Memphis
The high-voltage style, comic-strip colours and eye-watering price tags of this Italian collective changed the world of design – what better place for an exhibition than modernist Milton Keynes?
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Launch of celebrity candles lights up – and cashes in – on lockdown gloom
It started with Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle; now Alicia Keys, Anthony Hopkins and Drake have joined the trend
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Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to be world’s second-richest person
Further rise in Tesla share price pushes entrepreneur past Microsoft co-founder