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• Second named storm could follow Austen in just 48 hours - where it might strike

  20-10-2026 23:54 via Mirror - News
  
  The UK could be hit by two fierce storms within 48 hours bringing heavy rain and gusts of up to 70mph, with a danger to life warning issued for Storm Austen
  
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• Premier Ben Carroll admits driving off without paying for fuel after servo alerts police

  20-10-2026 23:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  Victoria's Premier Ben Carroll has admitted driving away from a petrol station without paying for fuel.
  
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• The world of Only Fools has gone, but its comedy genius is timeless: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Only Fools And Horses: The Lost Archive

  20-10-2026 23:48 via News | Mail Online
  
  That David Jason knows how to charm the girls.
  
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• Dramatic moment small plane smashes into overpass and crashes into traffic while trying to make emergency landing

  20-10-2026 23:47 via News | Mail Online
  
  Dashcam footage from a car on the overpass shows the plane's left wing striking a lamppost before the aircraft spun out of control and landed nose-first on the road.
  
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• Idaho mum who claimed twins died from vaccinations could face firing squad execution

  20-10-2026 23:40 via Mirror - News
  
  Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Andrea Shaw over the deaths of her 18-month-old twins, Dallas and Tyson. She denies murdering the children and is due to stand trial in January
  
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• Matt Hancock's disastrous fall from grace - ITV money grabs, Covid shambles and those awful affair pictures

  20-10-2026 23:36 via Mirror - News
  
  The Covid Inquiry's rejection of Matt Hancock's care-home 'protective ring' claim has brought renewed scrutiny of his record. We take a look back at the leaked messages, PPE controversy and the rule-breaking affair
  
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• The key to preventing memory loss in your 60s? Looking after grandchildren, study suggests

  20-10-2026 23:35 via News | Mail Online
  
  Joining sports clubs, volunteering and training in a new skill also keeps the mind sharp - but attending church or political groups makes little difference.
  
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• Girl, 3, rescued after getting head stuck in 12th-storey window

  20-10-2026 23:34 via Metro
  
  Hero bystanders supported the little girl with a chair as they waited for rescuers to get inside the 12th-floor apartment (Picture: China News)Hero bystanders prevented a little girl from falling through a 12th-floor window in China.
  The hair-raising rescue happened in Fujian, southern China, after the three-year-old girl managed to weave her way through the protective grill on the apartment block window.
  Footage shows the child, dressed in a pink pyjama, dangling through the small gap in the w
  
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• Eight Royal Navy warships 'are set to retire by 2031' - fuelling fresh fears of gaps in Britain's defences

  20-10-2026 23:33 via News | Mail Online
  
  Three offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), responsible for protecting Britain's coastline, will be withdrawn by 2028, followed by five minehunters by 2031.
  
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• 3 in 5 Jewish pupils have faced antisemitism in school as review calls for sweeping changes to protect them

  20-10-2026 23:26 via News | Mail Online
  
  The independent review into antisemitism in English schools, due to be published tomorrow, was set up after a Jewish MP was stopped from visiting pupils in Bristol.
  
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• Cruise ship passengers who packed for trip to Bahamas stunned after bad weather forces them to sail to chilly Nova Scotia instead

  20-10-2026 23:18 via News | Mail Online
  
  Unfortunately, for 5,000 passengers aboard the Oasis of the Seas, which departed New Jersey on Sunday, their tiny bikinis and straw hats aren't going to keep them very warm in Nova Scotia.
  
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• What prison crisis? £2million a year is wasted on 'finding ways to say jails are racist' - as thousands of criminals are let out due to lack of space

  20-10-2026 23:17 via News | Mail Online
  
  New figures show the department employs 20 staff at a cost of £1.7million a year in a 'disparities unit' to study diversity in jail and probation.
  
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• Katie Zacharia dons Superwoman-colored lycra exercise outfit in first sighting since she quit as White House Press Secretary after five disastrous days

  20-10-2026 23:17 via News | Mail Online
  
  On Monday, Zacharia was spotted out and about in Los Angeles, California, showing off her toned abs days after being ousted from her role as Press Secretary.
  
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• Petrol station fined me £90 after the attendant forgot to charge me for fuel. Must I pay it? DEAN DUNHAM replies

  20-10-2026 23:14 via News | Mail Online
  
  I filled my car with petrol, and bought two items of confectionery After checking with my bank it appears the attendant only charged for the confectionery.
  
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• Russell Brand 'raped young fan at his £2.3million Hampstead mansion after handpicking her out of line-up at gig and promising to "help" her following a break-up', court told

  20-10-2026 23:12 via News | Mail Online
  
  Comedian Russell Brand, 51, is accused of preying on a 21-year-old after luring the fan to his Hampstead mansion, promising to 'help' her after a break-up.
  
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• Dramatic moment plane smashes into overpass and crashes into traffic while trying to make emergency landing

  20-10-2026 23:11 via News | Mail Online
  
  Dashcam footage from a car on the overpass shows the plane's left wing striking a lamppost before the aircraft spun out of control and landed nose-first on the road.
  
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• Three Detroit teens shoot woman who scolded them for trying to open car doors

  20-10-2026 23:04 via News | Mail Online
  
  The woman was hit in the chest and the windshield of her car was damaged.
  
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• Man charged with murder of Alisha Samuels, 26, in Manchester as police issue update

  20-10-2026 23:04 via Mirror - News
  
  Alisha Samuels, 26, was found with fatal stab wounds in the Newton Heath area of Manchester after locals reported hearing a disturbance outside in the early hours
  
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• Swerve NS&I's new bond deal unless Green saving is your aim: SYLVIA MORRIS

  20-10-2026 23:00 via News | Mail Online
  
  NS&I raised the rate on its fixed three-year Green Savings Bonds yesterday to 4.73%. New savers or those renewing existing three-year bonds will earn this rate.
  
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• Summer gets devastating news in Coronation Street and her response will raise your eyebrows

  20-10-2026 23:00 via Metro
  
  Summer Spellman gets bad news (Picture: ITV)Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibby) was caught off guard in Coronation Street earlier this month when she discovered that love interest Marco Rhodes (William Teasdale) had been arrested for his involvement in a robbery.This wasn’t Marco’s first brush with the law, and his confession to Summer that he had a criminal record for drug use left her with a sour taste in her mouth.However, she was able to move past his history and the pair grew close
  
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• Kat and Cindy’s almighty clash in EastEnders amid guilt over Zoe revelation

  20-10-2026 23:00 via Metro
  
  Kat Slater and Cindy Beale are caught in a dramatic showdown (Picture: BBC/ Metro/ getty)Life for the Slaters in EastEnders hasn’t been the same since Zoe’s tragic, unexpected death last month.Viewers will recall that Zoe suffered a head injury during a dispute with the man selling Charlie Slater’s cab, which later resulted in her death.It recently transpired that the last person to see Zoe alive was none other than Max Branning (Jake Wood).Sensing something was wrong, Zoe beg
  
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• Woke Minneapolis restaurant that had no prices and fed people for free is closing down, surprising no one

  20-10-2026 22:58 via News | Mail Online
  
  After nearly 16 years in business, a woke restaurant owner has been forced to close his doors, despite having spent six months feeding customers for free in an unusual act of generosity.
  
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• Outraged parents say disabled son's school made him clean the cafeteria while other students enjoyed their food

  20-10-2026 22:55 via News | Mail Online
  
  Jeremiah and Felicia Sams said their son's high school in South Carolina informed them the activities were part of an 'employability class.'
  
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• Teachers could be told not to wear Palestine badges as review finds 3 in 5 Jewish pupils have faced antisemitism at school

  20-10-2026 22:54 via News | Mail Online
  
  A Government-commissioned review into antisemitism in English schools, due to be published tomorrow, is expected to call for more measures to protect Jewish students.
  
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• Terrifying nightmare as stranger in Biden mask eats banana on Texas family's doorbell camera, before observers discover intruders disturbing hidden message

  20-10-2026 22:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  The police chief said the individual's 'choice of attire and snack may have raised a few eyebrows' as he addressed whether the person had violated the law.
  
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• 'Narcissistic' engineer raped and murdered his girlfriend, 37, when she decided to end their relationship, court told

  20-10-2026 22:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  Stephen Sexton, 39, is on trial charged with the rape, coercive control and murder of Joanna Derkacz, 37, at their home in Waterlooville, Hampshire, on December 28, 2023.
  
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• Trump favorite Laura Loomer goes to war with his own DOJ as allegations fly around her close connection to legal group netting millions in taxpayer cash

  20-10-2026 22:50 via News | Mail Online
  
  Laura Loomer has secretly been working for a law firm that's representing a large share of residents affected by the contaminated water supply at the Camp Lejeune military base, sources told the Daily Mail.
  
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• Child prodigy lauded for her portrait of Jesus who experienced spiritual visions reveals what God showed her about the future

  20-10-2026 22:50 via News | Mail Online
  
  Akiane Kramarik, 32, sat down with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity to discuss her self-proclaimed gift of having visons of the future.
  
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• Nightmarish 'extreme surgery errors' plague Texas hospitals including one woman sterilized by accident, another whose cancer wasn't removed and a third with needle left inside her

  20-10-2026 22:48 via News | Mail Online
  
  Texas hospitals have been rocked by a wave of 'extreme surgical errors,' yet victims face strict state-imposed limits on the damages they can recover, a bombshell report revealed.
  
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• Trump snaps at reporter in Oval Office skirmish: 'What's wrong with you?'

  20-10-2026 22:42 via News | Mail Online
  
  President Donald Trump unleashed fury at a reporter in the Oval Office, deriding the journalist as a 'sick person' after repeatedly getting peppered with questions.
  
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• Drunk teenager killed two after driving her SUV the wrong way down freeway with no headlights, cops say

  20-10-2026 22:42 via News | Mail Online
  
  A teenager has been arrested after allegedly killing two people while drunkenly driving her SUV in the wrong direction down a dark North Carolina freeway with no headlights.
  
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• Brit tourist, 34, plunges from cliff at Algarve beach as emergency crews swarm scene

  20-10-2026 22:40 via Mirror - News
  
  A 34-year-old British man has been rushed to hospital with "serious injuries" after falling 30ft from a cliff close to Amado Beach near to the town of Aljezur in the Algarve, Portugal
  
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• Paul Merson raises doubt over future of £60m Arsenal star

  20-10-2026 22:24 via Metro
  
  Arsenal legend Paul Merson (Picture: Sky Sports)Paul Merson has questioned whether Eberechi Eze will make it at Arsenal following his disappointing start to the season.Eze joined the Gunners in a £60m move from Crystal Palace in the summer of 2025 and helped Arsenal win the Premier League and reach the Champions League final in his first season at the Emirates Stadium.The competition at Arsenal only increased over the summer as Mikel Arteta welcomed central midfielder Bruno Guimaraes and
  
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• Alarm in 10 states as secret group of security officials warns Trump could send troops and ICE to polling stations

  20-10-2026 22:22 via News | Mail Online
  
  The group has met with individuals from 10 states in recent months, according to the report - all of whom are concerned about meddling from the Trump administration.
  
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• Kate Middleton dazzles in tiara as royals host glittering banquet after Harry reconciliation plea

  20-10-2026 22:20 via Mirror - News
  
  King Charles was joined by several members of the Royal Family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales as they hosted the Sultan of Oman at a state banquet at Windsor Castle tonight
  
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• Chelsea rejected Manchester United transfer approach for ‘untouchable’ star

  20-10-2026 22:19 via Metro
  
  Chelsea defender Josh Acheampong (Picture: Getty)Manchester United made an approach to sign Chelsea defender Josh Acheampong in the summer but were knocked back by their Premier League rivals.Acheampong, 20, is regarded as one of the most highly-rated young players in the world, having made over 50 appearances for boyhood club Chelsea.The versatile defender joined Chelsea’s academy at the age of eight and made his first-team debut in May 2024, four months after signing his first professio
  
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• Moment three-year-old girl dangles from 12th-storey after climbing out window - with quick-thinking neighbours jumping into action

  20-10-2026 22:17 via News | Mail Online
  
  This is the terrifying moment a three-year-old girl was left dangling from the window of a high-rise building, while her head became trapped between the safety bars, in Fujian, China, on Saturday.
  
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• Mother of Nottingham attacks victim warns killer could be eligible for release next year

  20-10-2026 22:08 via News | Mail Online
  
  But Emma Webber, whose son Barnaby was killed by Valdo Calocane in June 2023, declared he would be freed 'over my dead body'.
  
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• Jailed Gary to suffer serious injuries in harrowing Coronation Street prison plot

  20-10-2026 22:00 via Metro
  
  ‘It’s a tricky one.’  Well, Coronation Street actor Mikey North is certainly not exaggerating when he takes us through the aftermath of alter-ego Gary Windass being banged up for eight months. Not ideal at all for the unfortunate lad.  Mikey acknowledges that Gary is more hardened than most, given he has already done a stint in the cells, so surely the best thing is to just keep his head down, right?  Well, that’s certainly the plan – b
  
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• Trump favorite Laura Loomer goes to war with his own DOJ as allegations fly around her close connection to legal group netting billions in taxpayer cash

  20-10-2026 21:56 via News | Mail Online
  
  Laura Loomer has secretly been working for a law firm that's representing a large share of residents affected by the contaminated water supply at the Camp Lejeune military base, sources told the Daily Mail.
  
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• Helen Haines' alleged attacker to face court today - as the MP fights for life in hospital

  20-10-2026 21:56 via News | Mail Online
  
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• 1.6million tumble dryers in UK homes could have potentially fatal defects, coroner warns after house fire killed father and nine-year-old daughter

  20-10-2026 21:54 via News | Mail Online
  
  Senior coroner Martin Fleming warned there are more than 1.6million Hoover tumble dryers in UK homes that have potentially fatal defects.
  
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• Trump pours $100 million in eleventh-hour scramble to try and save the doomed Republican majority after internal fury

  20-10-2026 21:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  President Trump is vowing to pour hundreds of millions more into an already multibillion-dollar midterm election battle.
  
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• Sex offender ‘exposes himself at station’ weeks after being released from prison

  20-10-2026 21:51 via Metro
  
  Convicted sex offender Paul Southern targeted passengers and railway staff at a busy station ‘for his own gain’ (Picture: British Transport Police)A brazen sex offender exposed himself in front of commuters just three weeks after being released from prison.
  Paul Southern, 47, of no fixed abode, was sent back to jail after being caught red-handed at Newcastle Central station.
  He went into the train station on the evening of Tuesday, August 18 and sat down on a bench, Newcastle Crown
  
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• Richard E Grant hits back at ‘categorically false’ claim he faked Celebrity Traitors blunder

  20-10-2026 21:47 via Metro
  
  Richard E Grant has taken to his Instagram Stories to quash the claim (Picture: BBC)Richard E Grant has firmly denied a claim that he staged his now infamous Celebrity Traitors slip-up in order to get out of filming obligations.The actor, 69, kicked this series of the BBC parlour game off by outing himself as a Traitor to the rest of his castle mates.‘That may be the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life,’ the actor said to the BBC cameras in the diary room afterwards. Indeed,
  
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• Furious Trump blasts reporter at White House press conference - 'I'm not playing'

  20-10-2026 21:47 via Mirror - News
  
  Donald Trump has furiously snapped at a reporter while taking questions at the White House, telling them: 'You had better be careful!'
  
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• 'Concerned' organisers to ramp up security for Harry Potter series premiere after trans rights activists targeted theatre show over JK Rowling's controversial comments

  20-10-2026 21:30 via News | Mail Online
  
  Organisers are planning to have extra security at the event, both inside the venue and at the entrance, to ensure it runs smoothly and everyone is kept safe.
  
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• Charity sinks to another new low in Emmerdale

  20-10-2026 21:25 via Metro
  
  Charity made another mistake (Picture: ITV)Last week, Emmerdale’s Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) successfully sourced 100k from Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) after sabotaging a game of poker.Overjoyed that he had beaten a Tate and now had enough money to open The Hide, Robert took his family to the pub to celebrate.For some reason, Robert thought it was wise to hide the bag of money in the corner of a pub sofa. Far too focused on enjoying drinks with the likes of Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) and Se
  
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• Female Midwest school principal, 32, arrested over alleged sexual misconduct with student after an anonymous tip

  20-10-2026 21:21 via News | Mail Online
  
  Kaitlyn Hintz, the 32-year-old associate principal at Bonduel Middle/High School, was arrested Monday after the school district received a tip.
  
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• Teachers to be banned from wearing Palestine badges as review finds 3 in 5 Jewish pupils have faced antisemitism at school

  20-10-2026 21:18 via News | Mail Online
  
  A Government-commissioned review into antisemitism in English schools is expected to call for radical changes to protect Jewish students.
  
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