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Discount giant Pepco is actively exploring the sale of its struggling Poundland retail chain for "effectively a pound" due to the substantial costs associated with its turnaround under new ownership, with an exit anticipated before the end of its financial year in September 2025.

A delinquent duck has been reprimanded by police after being caught on a speed camera for the second time in seven years. The small Swiss town of Koeniz previously made international headlines in 2018 after a wild duck was caught on camera exceeding a 20mph speed limit.

A striking Jacobean-style mansion in Anglesey, north Wales, is up for auction with a guide price of just £288,000 – but prospective buyers won’t be able to set foot inside before placing a bid.

An original issue of the Magna Carta, long mistaken for a copy and sold in the 1940s for what one historian described as a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified at Harvard Law School Library. The document was acquired in 1946 from a London bookseller for just $27.50, before its tr

A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over "a tap and a pipe that doesn't matter".

An optician's shop called the "Spex Pistols" has been forced to rebrand following legal action from the punk band that inspired their name. The store in Dundee has changed its name and logo after more than 15 years, The Courier reports.

Scots bosses have been urged to let their workers knock off early this Thursday – but only if the mercury hits a sizzling 20°C. Beer legends Innis & Gunn have launched the "3pm pledge" – a sunshine-soaked initiative urging employers to let their hard-grafting teams down tools at

A jersey worn by the late Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant during his NBA debut season has sold for $7 million at a Sotheby's auction.

A woman decided to divorce her husband after asking ChatGPT to interpret the meaning of her coffee grounds and being told they indicated he cheated on her. The unnamed woman from Greece was apparently taking part in an online trend of asking the AI-powered chatbot to act as a fortune teller, her baf

Thousands of high-value Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from the Nike-backed CloneX RTFKT collection temporarily disappeared from the internet, replaced by a service restriction notice from Cloudflare. The incident, attributed to a service migration to a free account, has reignited concerns about the per

A woman who was compared to Darth Vader at work has won nearly £30,000 from an employment tribunal. The NHS blood donation worker had temporarily left a room when her colleagues decided to take a personality quiz which would tell them what Star Wars character they were, the tribunal heard.

Rebekah Vardy has been ordered to pay over £1.4 million in legal costs following her defeat in the "Wagatha Christie" court case. Mrs Vardy unsuccessfully sued Coleen Rooney after she publicly accused her of leaking details about her personal life to The Sun.

An $8.8 billion plan has been revealed to establish the Maldives as the premier global business and financial hub for financial institutions, fintech pioneers, and digital Nomads through an integrated, mixed-use urban district.

A man has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds in costs after losing an appeal over a £200 fine for his noisy cockerel. Neighbours of 80-year-old Hampshire man Harold Brown complained of being woken up at 5am by his cockerel crowing, the BBC reports.

An enormous anti-Trump protest artwork has been etched into the beach next to the US president's Turnberry golf course. The sand art, measuring 55 metres by 40 metres, was created by Greenpeace UK to mark 100 days of Donald Trump's second stint in the White House.