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Proof: UK military base suspects are all British men in their 20s, counter-terror police say

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T13:00:42Z","headline":"UK military base suspects are all British men in their 20s, counter-terror police say","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et","v":1}

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SHA-256

04e8da0f8c8a24d94491471618596cbded688e2d21b03ed8e9ba3a551677848c

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969002, mined 2026-09-28 13:30 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 13:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-04e8da0f8c8a.json prints 04e8da0f8c8a24d94491471618596cbded688e2d21b03ed8e9ba3a551677848c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-04e8da0f8c8a.json and headline-04e8da0f8c8a.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-04e8da0f8c8a.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, 1 min after it was first seen.