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Officers investigating a video showing a model of Grenfell Tower being burned on a bonfire have searched a garden in London.

Five men aged between 19 and 55 have been arrested over the ‘offensive’ video after handing themselves into police.

The video, in which the group can be heard laughing as the model burns, emerged on Monday and was met with public outcry.

New Look could close as many as 100 stores putting as many as 800 jobs at risk.

The closures include the 60 stores marked to shut down under a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) approved in March.

The embattled company has launched a new strategy in recent months which has so far yielded higher profits, but sales continue to decline.

A sailor who reported his new wife missing from their sinking catamaran has pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.

Lewis Bennett and Isabella Hellmann had been married for three months when she went missing off the coast of Cuba in 2017.

The court heard Bennett – a dual British-Australian national – did not search for his wife with either the catamaran or the attached dinghy, nor did he immediately activate any emergency equipment or raise the alarm.

What is the strange cigar-shaped object (Picture ESA)

A cigar-shaped object that flew through our solar system last year could be an alien spacecraft, researchers from Harvard University have said.

Scientists have been trying to identify the flat, 1,312ft object – named Oumuamua – since it was spotted by a telescope in Hawaii in October 2017.

They have now acknowledged that it is possible the object is of an ‘artificial origin’.


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