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Proof: Dozens of residents to be displaced overnight as counter-terror police continue RAF Fairford probe

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T17:51:13Z","headline":"Dozens of residents to be displaced overnight as counter-terror police continue RAF Fairford probe","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et","v":1}

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SHA-256

248917eadddb3a7760143b8dd8664d07c9d3d9358f7ea975b6132c67681d9002

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:45 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:28 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-248917eadddb.json prints 248917eadddb3a7760143b8dd8664d07c9d3d9358f7ea975b6132c67681d9002. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-248917eadddb.json and headline-248917eadddb.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-248917eadddb.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 3 h 25 min after it was first seen.