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Proof: Five men arrested near UK base to be released on bail, police say

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T15:22:02Z","headline":"Five men arrested near UK base to be released on bail, police say","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/sep/28/raf-fairford-counter-terror-police-suspected-bomb-plot-iran-link-investigated-latest-news-updates","v":1}

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1fdb7958044ae20ad05873b74153bfbe50d749e6dba70d8c46c9da0e8d778031

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969020, mined 2026-09-28 15:47 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 15:28 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 14:18 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-1fdb7958044a.json prints 1fdb7958044ae20ad05873b74153bfbe50d749e6dba70d8c46c9da0e8d778031. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-1fdb7958044a.json and headline-1fdb7958044a.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-1fdb7958044a.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.