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The owners of a Black Country pub which was gutted by fire and then demolished two days later experienced another huge fire on land they owned [exactly five years and one day earlier].

The Crooked House, near Dudley, had recently been sold to its new owners.

The cause of a previous blaze at Finmere landfill, Buckinghamshire, in August 2018 was never established.

Adam Taylor is director of AT Contracting and Plant Hire Ltd, which, according to Land Registry documents, owns the Finmere site.

His wife, Carly, controls the company ATE Farms Limited, which bought the "wonky" Black Country landmark in July.

Mrs Taylor also currently controls AT Contracting and Plant Hire Ltd, which the BBC understands rented a digger a week before flames engulfed The Crooked House on 5 August.

Anne Frank nursery in Germany planning to rename itself in diversity and inclusion push

A kindergarten in Germany named after Anne Frank wants to rename itself something more inclusive.

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The new proposed name is 'World Explorers', although no final decision has been made yet on whether the name will change at all.

[Northern]Supermarket chain Booths is axing almost all self-service tills in its stores in what it says is a response to customer demand.

The firm, which has 16 stores in Lancashire as well as outlets in Yorkshire and Cheshire, said the policy was driven by customer feedback.

Booths is believed to be the first UK supermarket to move away from using self-service tills, which have become increasingly common in recent years.

"We believe colleagues serving customers delivers a better customer experience and therefore we have taken the decision to remove self-checkouts in the majority of our stores," the company said.

Speaking to BBC Radio Lancashire, Booths managing director Nigel Murray, said: "Our customers have told us this over time, that the self-scan machines that we've got in our stores they can be slow, they can be unreliable, they're obviously impersonal.