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Belgravia townhouse once home to exiled Greek princess for sale ‘for the first time in a generation’ at £39.5 million

The palatial Eaton Square townhouse was once home to Prince Philip’s cousin, Princess Katherine of Greece, who lived in London as Lady Katherine Brandram

Evening Standard

Greek parties bleed votes between a train disaster and election

Dozens were killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train in Greece’s worst-ever train accident.

Al Jazeera

Greek intelligence allegedly uses Predator spyware to wiretap Facebook security staffer

A former Facebook employee in Greece, a US national, was allegedly placed under a wiretap by the country’s national intelligence service through Predator spyware. Artemis Seaford worked for Facebook between 2020 and 2022 as a trust and safety manager in Greece. She became suspicious of a potential hack after spotting…

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Leeds 'monster wrap' takeaway's 'stressful' journey with '65-foot queues'

A Greek married couple opened Pitta Fan in Oakwood and underestimated how popular they'd become

Leeds Live

Eighty years on, Thessaloniki Holocaust survivor recalls cart of trampled bodies

Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah was nearly four when she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany with her parents in 1943. She would spend the next two years of her childhood there and witness events that would stay with her forever.

Reuters

Greece raises minimum wage to pre-bailout levels

Greece has announced an increase in the minimum wage that will restore pay to levels existing before sweeping cuts were imposed more than a decade ago during an international bailout

The Independent UK

'Miserable' mum divorced husband after realising she had to transform life while on girls' holiday

Stephanie Hanson took a trip to Greece with her friends to celebrate her 40th birthday but when she returned home she realised she was no longer in love with her husband of 10 years.

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Inventor of 'the most painful torture device' in history was its first victim

The Brazen Bull, a hollowed out bronze bovine sculpture, was created in Ancient Greece in the 6th Century BC by a man called Perilaus, who gifted it to a cruel tyrant called Phalaris

Daily Mirror

Toyota confident it will be competitive on rough gravel in Mexico WRC

The reigning world champion squad has been working to solve its pace deficit on rough gravel which was highlighted in Sardinia and Greece last yearm, the only events a Toyota failed to score a podium in 2022.

Motorsport

Protesters clash with riot police in Greece during strike over deadly train disaster

Protesters threw petrol bombs at a police cordon near the Greek parliament

Evening Standard

Toyota confident of rough gravel improvements for Mexico WRC round

The reigning world champion squad has been working to solve its pace deficit on rough gravel which was highlighted last year in Sardinia and Greece, the only events a Toyota failed to score a podium in 2022.

Autosport

Greek unions stage general strike over rail deaths

A general strike in Greece called in response to a rail disaster last month has grounded flights and extensively disrupted services with protests in cities across Greece planned

The Independent UK

Greek strike over deadly train crash to halt transport

Flights to and from Greece will be grounded and ships will remain docked at ports on Thursday, as Greek workers walk off the job to protest over the country's deadliest train crash on record which killed 57 people on Feb. 28.

Reuters

Giorgos Giakoumakis earns Greece call up as Gus Poyet's Celtic exit promise rings true

The Greek hitman left Glasgow last month to sign for Atlanta United in the MLS and has played 60 minutes of football

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The Independent UK

Greek archaeologists protest holiday island assault

State-employed archaeologists in Greece have launched strike action to protest an assault on an archaeologist on the island of Mykonos

ABC News

Captain Ron Gertler takes backpackers on yacht voyage from Whitsundays to Greek Islands

Six strangers, a treasure hunting yacht, and a snap decision. Why Ron Gertler is taking these backpackers from the Whitsundays to Greece.

Daily Record

Glasgow student killed in horror train crash in Greece as tributes paid to popular singer

Elisavet Chatzivasileiou, who graduated from the Glasgow arts school in July 2021, died alongside 56 others when a passenger service collided with a freight train last month.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow graduate killed in Greek railway tragedy was 'popular and promising' singer

Elisavet Chatzivasileiou was one of the victims of a horrific train crash in Greece which took the lives of around 57 people. She graduated from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in July, 2021.

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The Independent UK

Calm after quake: Greek PM says tension with Turkey easing

Greece’s prime minister says the earthquake in Turkey and a recent train crash in Greece have helped to de-escalate tensions between the two neighboring countries

The Independent UK

UK won’t return Elgin marbles to Greece, says Rishi Sunak

Collection at the British Museum is protected by law

Wales Online

There's no plan to change law stopping Elgin Marbles from returning to Greece, says PM

The 1963 British Museum Act stops the institution from giving away items in its collection. Rishi Sunak has said he has no intention of changing the law to allow the sculptures to be returned.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UK PM Sunak Rules Out Law Change for Return of Parthenon Marbles

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out changing a law which prohibits the British Museum handing the Parthenon marbles permanently back to Greece. Sunak said there are no plans to amend the legislation, which states the museum can only dispose of objects within its collection in limited circumstances. However, the…

The Guardian - UK

No plans to return Parthenon marbles to Greece, says Rishi Sunak

PM says British Museum collection is funded by taxpayers and protected by law

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak rules out returning Elgin Marbles in latest blow to Greece's long dispute

Greece has been disappointed once again after the Prime Minister refused a law change which would return the Elgin Marbles after they were taken from Athens' Parthenon Temple in the 19th century

The Independent UK

No plans to change law blocking Elgin Marbles from being given to Greece – Sunak

Athens has long demanded the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, which were removed from Greece by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century.

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