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Britain's £10 TRILLION price tag: Value of entire UK includes £1.9trn of housing and £138bn of trains and buses, ONS figures reveal

Britain would have a price tag of more than £10trillion if the entire country and everything in it went up for sale, official figures have revealed. The astonishing sum of £10,049,743,000,000 was calculated by the Office for National Statistics.  The figure includes the value of all buildings, land, machinery, roads, the shares we own and the money in our bank accounts. Britain would have a price tag of more than £10trillion if the entire country and everything in it went up for sale, official figures have revealed File The country’s housing stock was calculated to be worth £1.9trillion alone, while non-residential buildings added up to £880billion.  Structures including bridges were put at £663billion, while money in circulation and in bank accounts ran to £7.5trillion.  Meanwhile, transport equipment, including trains and buses, were valued at £138billion. However, the pandemic is not accounted for as the figure is the value of the UK at the end of 2019. Huge levels of Covid-related

Mob rule on Fifth Ave: Boy, 15, is arrested for smashing BMW's windshield with his bike as his 25-strong gang stop random SUV in Manhattan and try to drag elderly mother, 74, and son from battered vehicle

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a gang of 25 teenagers launched a brazen attack on a luxury SUV while the driver and his terrified 74-year-old mother sat inside fearing they would be killed.  Horrifying video shows a gang on bicycles smashing up Max Torgovnick's BMW on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in broad daylight on Tuesday. Torgovnick, who hails from the Upper East Side, was behind the wheel when the mob started leaping on the vehicle and stomping on its windshield as his elderly mother wept beside him and screamed 'They are going to kill us'. The 15-year-old boy, who is not being identified because he is a minor, is being charged as a juvenile over the attack.  A second teen has also been identified and is now being sought by police, the New York Post reports.  The fact that the attack was carried out against random residents on a busy Manhattan street in broad daylight has left locals shaken. They say it is evidence that Big Apple officials are failing to pro

Mitch McConnell blasts $2,000 COVID checks as 'socialism for rich people' and says money would end up in hands of 'high-earning households' as he blocks vote AGAIN - and has a dig at 'very wrong' Bernie

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell killed yet another Democratic effort to pass a stand alone bill that would increase stimulus checks to $2,000.  In the opening minutes of the Senate's New Year's Eve session, McConnell objected after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to get a vote yet again.  While President Donald Trump has pushed for the $2000 amount, McConnell characterized the checks as Congress giving 'cash to high-earning households' and said lawmakers needed to focus on 'targeted relief' to Americans suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic.  'Experts from across the political spectrum agree that our colleague from Vermont is dead wrong on this,' McConnell said, aiming the comments at Sen. Bernie Sanders. 'Socialism for rich people is a terrible way to help the American families that are actually struggling.'  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell crushed yet another Democratic effort to get a vote on a stand alone bill to incre

Dollar suffers its worst yearly loss since 2017 as unprecedented Federal Reserve stimulus spurs fears of higher inflation and boosts gold

The dollar posted its biggest yearly loss since 2017 on Thursday, capping off a manic year that saw the currency soar as a pandemic safe-haven in March, before dropping on unprecedented Federal Reserve stimulus. The greenback soared to a three-year high of 102.99 against a basket of currencies in March, before ending the year at 89.96, down 6.77 percent on the year and 12.65 percent from its March high. An improving global economic outlook as COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out, rock-bottom U.S. interest rates and ongoing Fed bond purchases have dented the dollar's appeal. Expectations of additional fiscal stimulus and rising fiscal and current account deficits are additional headwinds that are likely to hurt the U.S. currency over the coming year. The dollar posted its biggest yearly loss since 2017 on Thursday, amid unprecedented fiscal stimulus from the Federal Reserve. Pictured, USD notes are bundled at the US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC Meanw

New Year's Day horror as a man is brutally stabbed in the stomach and left in the middle of a suburban road

A 29-year-old man has been found laying in the middle of the road with stab wounds to his stomach. Emergency services were called to a street in Belmore, south west Sydney, at 1.10am on New Year's Day.  NSW Ambulance and police arrived to find the man in the middle of the residential road. A 29-year-old man has been found laying in the middle of the road with stab wounds to his stomach He was taken to St George Hospital in a critical condition.  Another man, also 29, was arrested and is helping police with their investigation. Officers have established a crime scene. Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000. Emergency services were called to a street in Belmore, south-west Sydney, at 1.10am on New Year's Day (pictured, google view of the street)

Bodycam footage from Andre Hill's deadly shooting shows cops cuff him as he lay dying and leave him for 13 minutes before performing CPR - as female cop says she thought he posed NO threat

Police in Ohio released body cam footage showing several officers failing to render aid to an unarmed black man who was shot by one of the officers for more than 13 minutes before he eventually died on the floor of a garage. The video from several Columbus officers show that Andre Hill, a 47-year-old black man who later died after being shot on December 22 by Officer Adam Coy, who is white, was still alive and laying on a garage floor by himself while officers were securing the area. Hill was still alive and laying on a garage floor while officers were securing the surrounding area. Roughly five minutes after Hill was shot, one officer could be heard saying: ‘Let’s cuff him up. He’s still moving.’ Police in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday released bodycam footage showing an unarmed black man, Andre Hill , 47, after he was fatally shot by an officer  The footage shows officers handcuffing a wounded Hill as he lay on the garage floor bleeding to death It took officers more than 13 minutes

EXCLUSIVE - Strolling free: Couple 'who had their adopted son, 11, killed for £150,000 insurance payout'

Walking home from a spot of Christmas shopping, former Heathrow Airport workers Arti Dhir and Kaval Raijada looked like they hadn’t a care in the world. Free to do as they please, the couple can pop from their West London council flat to the post office or gym without so much as raising an eyebrow. Yet, remarkably, the pair are the prime suspects in a horrific plot to murder their 11-year-old adopted son in India for a £150,000 insurance payout – and have repeatedly managed to evade justice. Dhir, 55, and Raijada, 31, have been the subject of extradition requests from the Indian government to return and stand trial for their alleged roles in the murders of little Gopal Sejani and his brother-in-law Harsukhbhai Kardani, who was killed attempting to save the child. Walking home from a spot of Christmas shopping, former Heathrow Airport workers Arti Dhir and Kaval Raijada looked like they hadn’t a care in the world But they have avoided extradition from Britain on the controversial ground