Briton to sue local council for £1bn after ex binned Bitcoin hard drive worth £275m

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A man is set to start legal proceedings against his local council after they reportedly refused to let him dig for a hard drive worth £275million. James Howells has been locked in a row with Newport City Council over a lost hard drive. The hard drive that contained 8,000 Bitcoin was accidentally thrown out by James Howells’ ex-girlfriend. Howells has been battling for a decade for permission to dig up the Newport City Council landfill site on Docks Way to find the hard drive and access his cryptocurrency Despite a decade-long campaign, the council has repeatedly refused Howells’ requests to ac…