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Proof: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near UK airbase used by US forces

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T21:00:20Z","headline":"Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near UK airbase used by US forces","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqrm99mm9l84o","v":1}

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7bfd8a8e4c79b05856fb876f8ebbb70cff6aa1c9d5174bfc34658fcf91ce3b2d

OpenTimestamps

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

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 00:57 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 01:03 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7bfd8a8e4c79.json prints 7bfd8a8e4c79b05856fb876f8ebbb70cff6aa1c9d5174bfc34658fcf91ce3b2d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7bfd8a8e4c79.json and headline-7bfd8a8e4c79.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-7bfd8a8e4c79.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, 17 min after it was first seen.