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NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 17: People queue for a bus in the town centre on January 17, 2023 in Northampton, England. Over 17,000 High Street shops closed for good across the UK in 2022 with a loss of 150,000 jobs making 2022 the worst year for retail in five years. Whilst the Northampton shopping area has been victim to this trend it is also seeing a surge in independent, sole-trader stores opening in place of the retail chains in demise. During 2022 and early 2023, 44 new retail businesses. opened in the evolving high street. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 24: A homeless person lies in a sleeping bag on a pavement on October 24, 2024 in London, England. Data released earlier this year revealed that the number of people rough sleeping in London between January to March 2024 rose by 33 percent to 4118 year on year. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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Husband 'casually walked off' after slashing wife's throat in front of their baby in the street

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Play Video Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg talks to journalists upon her arrival to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport, as she left Israel on a flight to Sweden via , after she was detained along with other activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid boat, on June 10, 2025. Thunberg departed Israel on a flight from Tel Aviv to Sweden (via ). Of the 12 people on board the Madleen carrying food and supplies for Gaza, five French activists were taken into custody after they refused to leave Israel voluntarily. (Photo by Hugo MATHY / AFP) (Photo by HUGO MATHY/AFP via Getty Images)

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(FILES) This handout photograph released by EDF Energy on December 15, 2023, shows engineering teams using the world's largest crane Big Carl to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C's first reactor building at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwater in southwest England. The Hinkley Point C nuclear plant under construction in southwest England could be delayed by up to four years and cost as much as ??8 billion ($10.1 billion) more than planned, French state energy firm EDF said January 23, 2024. (Photo by Handout / EDF ENGERY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/EDF ENGERY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Play Video A court sketch drawn from a video link shows Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, appearing as a witness for her own defense, at the Latrobe Valley Magistrates' Court in Morwell, Australia, June 2, 2025. AAP/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NEW ZEALAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NEW ZEALAND. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN AUSTRALIA.

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