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Proof: Five men arrested near military base on suspicion of terror offences were UK nationals from London, police say

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T11:52:29Z","headline":"Five men arrested near military base on suspicion of terror offences were UK nationals from London, 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

2418ab8d936c27fc4f73624d94b588be5ec26750d77195972c8730d6d5fc1323

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968990, mined 2026-09-28 12:22 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 12:13 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: Save Page Now answered HTTP 502 with no JSON.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-2418ab8d936c.json prints 2418ab8d936c27fc4f73624d94b588be5ec26750d77195972c8730d6d5fc1323. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-2418ab8d936c.json and headline-2418ab8d936c.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-2418ab8d936c.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, 5 min after it was first seen.