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The Russian-Jewish billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, has flown to Tel Aviv after being found eligible for Israeli citizenship. Immigration officials told the BBC that he was interviewed last week at the Israeli embassy in Moscow. He has faced delays in renewing his UK visa. His spokesman would not comment on reports citizenship had been granted. Mr Abramovich, 51, would be the richest person in Israel. His UK investor visa reportedly expired some weeks ago but the British government has refused to comment on his individual case. The delay in issuing him a new one comes amid increased diplomatic tensions between London and Moscow after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in southern England. Mr Abramovich did not attend the FA cu...

Clifford, sentenced to eight years in prison in 2014, collapsed at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire, says MoJ spokeswoman Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford, who was serving a jail sentence for sex offences, has died in hospital aged 74, the Ministry of Justice has said. Clifford had a cardiac arrest in hospital on Friday, his daughter said. The previous day, he had collapsed in his cell at Littlehey prison in Cambridgeshire, where he was serving an eight-year prison sentence for historical sex offences. On Sunday, a Prison Service spokeswoman confirmed he had died. “HMP Littlehey prisoner Maxwell Clifford died in hospital on 10 December 2017. As with all deaths in custody, there will be an investigation by the independent prisons and probation ombudsman. Our condolences are w...

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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich ‘eligible to be Israeli citizen’

Max Clifford, jailed former publicist, dies aged 74