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• As PM urges the nation to get back to the office, 60 civil service jobs are advertised with WFH

  22-01-2022 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A total of 59 jobs across government departments have recently been listed with 'home working' as a possibility, despite Ministers insisting that workers should return to the office.
  
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• Prince Harry in 'secret talks' with Charles in attempt to heal rift, insider claims

  22-01-2022 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prince Harry has reportedly "reached out" to his dad Prince Charles in an attempt to heal their rift before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations next year
  
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• 'We'll work from home forever': Civil servants vow to fight returning to offices

  22-01-2022 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson is pushing for an end to the working-from-home culture - putting him on a collision course with senior officials, who are planning to keep a large number of their staff working from home.
  
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• Hong Kong leader defends hamster cull amid surge in Covid infections

  22-01-2022 23:48 via metro.co.uk
  
  Some 2,000 hamsters were ordered to be ‘disposed of’ (Pictures: China News Service via Getty Images)Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended a mass cull of hamsters as she warned that Covid-19 infections could be growing exponentially in a residential section of the city.Earlier this week, some 2,000 hamsters from dozens of pet shops and storage facilities were ordered to be ‘disposed of’ after an outbreak was linked to one where 11 pet rodents tested positive.Soon after, hea
  
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• ROSS CLARK: Slash stars' and bosses' bloated pay packets, scrap CBBC and axe Radio 1 Xtra

  22-01-2022 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ROSS CLARK: In fact, there is an easy way to cut £285 m from the BBC's budget: just carry on doing what it did last year when Covid stopped or delayed the making of some series.
  
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• Covid NSW, Victoria: Huge drops in hospital and ICU Covid patients, as cases fall

  22-01-2022 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NSW has recorded 20,324 new Covid-19 cases, 2,712 hospitalisations and 34 deaths, while Victoria saw 13,091 positive test results and 14 deaths.
  
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• Jacinda Ardern puts ALL of New Zealand on highest Covid alert

  22-01-2022 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jacinda Ardern has placed the whole of New Zealand under the highest Covid alert setting after just 84 new cases in the country.
  
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• More than half of TV viewers don't think BBC is worth £159 licence fee

  22-01-2022 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An exclusive Sunday People poll shows that only 29% of voters think the Corporation gives value for money while 54% said it did not.
  
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• Tory MP accuses whip of telling her she was fired because of her ‘Muslimness’

  22-01-2022 23:29 via metro.co.uk
  
  Nusrat Ghani lost her job as a transport minister in a mini reshuffle in February 2020 (Picture: UK Parliament/PA)A Tory MP has accused a Government whip of telling her that she was sacked from her ministerial post because her Muslim faith was ‘making colleagues uncomfortable’. Nusrat Ghani lost her job as a transport minister in a mini reshuffle in February 2020 following the resignation of Sajid Javid as chancellor. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Ms Ghani said that in a br
  
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• University slaps a trigger warning on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

  22-01-2022 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Now staff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for Orwell's novel on the grounds that it contains 'explicit material' which some students may find 'offensive and upsetting'.
  
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• Christian nurse is to sue Portman Clinic over course that said Bible was racist

  22-01-2022 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Gallagher, 33, a Christian from South London, is preparing legal action against the Portman Clinic in North London, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
  
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• 15-month-old baby was trapped with her mother's corpse for FIVE DAYS in a homeless shelter

  22-01-2022 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A  15-month-old baby was trapped with her mother's corpse for five days in a homeless shelter and left covered in feces and dehydrated after mom died from accidental overdose, court papers reveal.
  
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• Man charged with murder of pensioner, 86, in home attack appears in court

  22-01-2022 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vasile Culea, 33, has been charged with murder and attempted murder after 86-year-old Freda Walker was found dead in her home in Bolsover, Derbyshire, with her husband also suffering life-threatening injuries
  
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• Space helicopter grounded on Mars for first time in history as dust cloud covers planet

  22-01-2022 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NASA was forced to ground the 19th flight of its Ingenuity helicopter when a massive dust cloud stretched across the northern and southern hemispheres of the red planet
  
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• Granddad, 63, who didn't want to bother GP ends up fighting for life against sepsis

  22-01-2022 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Kew was ill for around a week before he finally had to call 111 who sent an ambulance in time to save his life as he struggled to breathe
  
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• Tory MP claims she was sacked as her 'Muslimness was raised as an issue' in No10 meeting

  22-01-2022 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nusrat Ghani, MP for Wealden, claims a whip told her her "Muslimness was raised as an issue" during a meeting at Downing Street. She was sacked as a transport minister in February 2020
  
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• Pork Pie Plotters courted by Rishi Sunak

  22-01-2022 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The attempted putsch against Boris Johnson by Tory MPs angered by the Partygate row has renewed suspicions between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
  
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• ‘His voice became my constant companion’ – how Dan Johnson kept his dad’s memory alive

  22-01-2022 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dan Johnson's project capturing his father's voice made him consider the importance of preserving memories.
  
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• Casualty spoilers: Faith is robbed by Angus – but will he return?

  22-01-2022 23:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Faith has no idea (Pictures: BBC)Faith (Kirsty Mitchell) ended up in a scary situation in tonight’s Casualty, when a man she picked up in a club went a little weird as soon as she got him home.When Faith caught sight of a photo of Lev and the kids as she was about to lead the man, Angus (Jack Ashton), upstairs to bed, she changed her mind. She wasn’t ready to take that next step in moving on from her late husband.Angus didn’t take this well and got angry and nasty. He said he w
  
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• Home Office 'will not back down' in extraordinary legal battle over Prince Harry's security

  22-01-2022 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Sussex, who lives in California and pays for a private security team, is seeking a Judicial Review against the Home Office, questioning a decision to remove his protection in the UK.
  
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• Covid NSW: Dominic Perrottet expected to extend mask mandate and other restrictions amid high cases

  22-01-2022 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dominic Perrottet is expected to extend a raft of Covid restrictions including indoor mask mandates and rules in pubs and clubs.
  
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• ROSS CLARK: Slash bloated pay and axe Radio 1 Xtra...How the Beeb can save £285m at a stroke 

  22-01-2022 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ROSS CLARK: In fact, there is an easy way to cut £285 m from the BBC's budget: just carry on doing what it did last year when Covid stopped or delayed the making of some series.
  
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• How Radio 4's JUSTIN WEBB discovered that news was in his blood

  22-01-2022 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JUSTIN WEBB: I didn't find out who my biological father was until I was about eight years old. His name was Peter Woods. The revelation came about in the most startling way via our black-and-white TV.
  
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• 'Take bias seriously', MPs tell BBC boss

  22-01-2022 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tory MPs have accused the BBC's Director General Tim Davie of seeking to underplay concerns about the Corporation's impartiality in an interview with BBC Radio 4 last week.
  
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• Jack Grealish confronted Oriol Romeu in the tunnel after Manchester City’s draw with Southampton

  22-01-2022 23:02 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jack Grealish clashed with Oriol Romeu (AMA/Getty)Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl revealed that Jack Grealish confronted Oriol Romeu in the tunnel after Manchester City’s 1-1 draw on Saturday.The Premier League leaders were held to a point at St Mary’s as Kyle Walker-Peters’ opener for Southampton was cancelled out by Aymeric Laporte’s header in the 65th-minute.Grealish, meanwhile, was furious with Romeu following a challenge in the second half.The pair had to b
  
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• Queen plans return to Philip's cottage sanctuary at Sandringham

  22-01-2022 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Queen has stayed in the cottage, Wood Farm, before, but it will be the first time since Philip died and thus very fitting that she should return now. When he retired, it was the place he called home.
  
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• PMs have triumphed after being in the Last Chance Saloon. Boris has to be given the same opportunity

  22-01-2022 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ANDREW ROBERTS: Boris Johnson is clearly drinking in the Last Chance Saloon - an unfortunate metaphor in this case - but historically that has not been a bad place to be.
  
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• Labour's Left ask why Christian Wakeford is welcome, but Starmer won't let Jeremy Corbyn back in 

  22-01-2022 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Labour Left-wingers are this week poised to mount a challenge to Sir Keir Starmer's authority by bidding to restore the party whip to Jeremy Corbyn following the welcoming of Christian Wakeford.
  
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• Uighur Muslim incarcerated at Beijing 'reeducation camp' relives chilling ordeal

  22-01-2022 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Like more than one million other Uighurs, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was imprisoned in a Chinese 're-education' camp in Xinjiang. She survived three years but feared she would never see her family again.
  
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• If fascism couldn't cancel writers like my father Norman Mailer, why can the woke warriors?

  22-01-2022 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MICHAEL MAILER: Recently a story about my father, (pictured left with Michael Mailer and Norris Church Mailer in 1985 in NYC) the writer Norman Mailer, getting 'cancelled' tore across the internet.
  
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• Emmerdale spoilers: Mack reveals tragic death to Charity

  22-01-2022 23:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ryan tells Mack his secret (Picture: ITV)Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) will reveal news about a recent death to Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) in Emmerdale, but it creates further problems for their relationship.As Charity heads off for an afternoon with Moses, Johnny and Vanessa (Michelle Hardwick), Ryan (James Moore) receives multiple phone calls.Eventually, he answers and it’s clear he’s been told some terrible news.Ryan attempts to contact Charity, but she rejects the call.Wanting
  
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• EastEnders spoilers: Gray’s evil control of Chelsea worsens

  22-01-2022 23:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Gray continues to isolate Chelsea from her family (Picture: BBC)Even though Chelsea (Zaraah Abrahams) is now fully aware of how evil EastEnders’ serial killer Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith) is, she’s more under his control than ever as she tries desperately to find a way out of the situation.
  But things are set to get a whole lot worse for her in upcoming episodes as he doubles down on his manipulation of his new wife.Chelsea has already discovered that Gray has installed cameras
  
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• DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Want to lose a stone in 21 days and stop craving chocolate? Eat MORE protein 

  22-01-2022 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Eat too little protein, they say, and you'll be tormented by cravings and likely to over-indulge in all the wrong foods.
  
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• Coronation Street spoilers: Tim’s fate revealed amid heart bypass

  22-01-2022 23:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tim’s operation approaches (Picture: ITV)Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) has been struggling with the news that he has to have a triple heart bypass on Coronation Street.Terrified to confide in wife Sally (Sally Dynevor) and daughter Faye (Ellie Leach), he’s been trying to deal with his fears on his own and with the help of Aggie (Lorna Laidlaw). His secretive and strange behaviour has led to Sally getting the wrong end of the stick and becoming convinced that Tim was having an affair.Sal
  
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• Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is learning Russian in prison 'for her own sanity'

  22-01-2022 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, is learning Russian for 'her sanity' while in solitary confinement at New York's Metropolitan Detention Centre.
  
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• Only Fools and Horses star Nicholas Lyndhurst ‘retiring from acting’ following son Archie’s tragic death

  22-01-2022 22:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  A close friend of 20 years says he’s done with acting (Picture: Getty/Lucy Lyndhurst/Instagram/BBC)Only Fools and Horses icon Nicholas Lyndhurst is reportedly retiring from acting following the death of his son, Archie.The actor, 60, lost his son in September 2020 to a brain tumour.Archie was 19-years-old when he died, after which dad Nicholas stayed out of the limelight.Writer and close friend of the actor, Laurence Marks, has suggested that his pal of 20 years won’t return to actin
  
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• Only Fools and Horses star Nicholas Lyndhurst not retiring from acting amid rumours following son Archie’s death

  22-01-2022 22:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  A close friend of 20 years claimed he was done with acting (Picture: Getty/Lucy Lyndhurst/Instagram/BBC)Only Fools and Horses icon Nicholas Lyndhurst is not retiring from acting despite rumours, following the death of his son Archie.The actor, 60, lost his son in September 2020 to a brain tumour.Archie was 19-years-old when he died, after which dad Nicholas stayed out of the limelight.Writer and friend of the actor, Laurence Marks, recently suggested that his pal of 20 years won’t return t
  
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• Joey Essex’s home ‘ransacked by thieves’ while former Towie star was out with friends

  22-01-2022 22:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s claimed that Joey was out with friends at the time (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)Joey Essex’s home has reportedly been ransacked by thieves while the reality star was out with friends. According to reports, the former Towie star, 31, was out with friends when burglars targeted his £3million home in Essex, arriving home to find an upstairs window open. Joey phoned police after returning home in the early hours, with police confirming to The Sun that they were
  
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• Muslim MP says a party whip told her she was fired as colleagues were 'uncomfortable' with her faith

  22-01-2022 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nusrat Ghani, the Tory MP for Wealden in East Sussex, was sacked as transport minister in February 2020 as part of a mini-cabinet reshuffle.
  
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• The Masked Singer UK: Is Firework Lacey Turner? All clues and theories pointing to EastEnders star

  22-01-2022 22:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Do you think the Stacey Slater star is under the mask? (Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire/ITV)The Masked Singer UK fans have been racking their brains trying to figure out who Firework could be – with many drawing the conclusion that it could be EastEnders star Lacey Turner.On the latest episode of the ITV series tonight, Poodle became the fifth contestant to be eliminated, as Tom Chaplin, the lead singer of Keane was unmasked.Earlier, Firework took to the stage in an enthusiastic fashion, wo
  
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• Unvaccinated Texas mom-of-six, 27, dies of COVID less than two weeks after emergency C-section birth

  22-01-2022 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-six Crystal Hernandez of Pasadena, 27, succumbed to COVID-19 on January 15, two weeks after an emergency C-section to deliver her son Koda, who she was never able to hold.
  
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• MP demands inquiry into benefits system that drives veterans to suicide and self-harm

  22-01-2022 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The service was set up to assess compensation and pension claims but last week the Sunday People revealed 40k wounded serving or former members of the armed forces had claims rejected
  
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• Muslim doctor behind pig heart transplant faces backlash from family over use of 'forbidden animal'

  22-01-2022 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  His family asked him 'why are you using this animal?' and questioned why another species wasn't an option. The doctor sought religious counsel from multiple scholars before conducting the transplant.
  
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• MoD ready to airlift up to 1,000 Brits from Ukraine as Russian invasion fears grow

  22-01-2022 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plans emerged as Russian President Vladimir Putin now has more than 100,000 troops on the border along with tanks, artillery and rocket launchers
  
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• Families go without power and heating as they can't afford to top up pre-pay meters

  22-01-2022 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the cost of living crisis continues, it's feared twenty families a day are “self-disconnecting” after running out of credit, according to Citizens Advice
  
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• Brits 'will need help to escape' Ukraine if Russia invades after West's 'green light'

  22-01-2022 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plans emerged as Russian President Vladimir Putin now has more than 100,000 troops on the border along with tanks, artillery and rocket launchers
  
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• Dad brutally killed in Thailand knife attack for 'playing loud music' named

  22-01-2022 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marcus Evans' devastated partner paid tribute to him in a heartbreaking social media post hours after he was killed in the Muang district of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, this morning
  
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• Brit dad killed in Thailand 'had drinks with attacker' before horror knifing

  22-01-2022 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marcus Evans' devastated partner paid tribute to him in a heartbreaking social media post hours after he was killed in the Muang district of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, this morning
  
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• 'Poor people will starve to death as cost of living crisis will cost lives'

  22-01-2022 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson has failed the public so many times already but we all face a tough 2022 as everyone's bills are set to skyrocket - with the least well off hit hardest
  
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• Six leadership hopefuls circling Boris Johnson as MPs bid to avoid 'disaster' Liz Truss

  22-01-2022 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, Tom Tugenhat and foreign secretary Liz Truss are among the frontrunners who could replace Boris Johnson
  
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