Rebecca Patterson, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Bloomberg Open Interest with a reality check on Bitcoin — why it’s still a speculative bet and definitely not the inflation or dollar hedge some want it to be. She warns the real contagion risk isn’t gone and the bigger crypto gets, the...

ByMiya Chahal East Midlands 4 December 2025, 05:51 GMT A first-time buyer said he felt betrayed after finding what he suspects were the remains of a cannabis farm in the loft of his new home. Joe Edgson described finding piles of soil, black mould covering the roof, and cannabis leaves shortly after moving into his...

East Alton traffic stop finds cannabis in plain view; 77g seized, 0.7g cocaine found