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• Twitchers cause traffic chaos as they flock to village to catch sight of rare bird

  26-10-2026 23:51 via News | Mail Online
  
  Hundreds of birdwatchers raced to catch sight of the rare Northern Nutcracker in Mundesley, Norfolk, over the weekend, a species not seen in the area for almost 60 years.
  
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• Reform vows £80billion of savings by 2030 in its 'alternative' budget

  26-10-2026 23:51 via News | Mail Online
  
  Robert Jenrick presented 64 measures the party will implement in its 'rival red book' to create jobs and promote growth ahead of Labour announcing its own Budget on Wednesday.
  
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• Powerboat racer's wife tells of how she filmed high-speed crash into houseboat that killed him

  26-10-2026 23:45 via News | Mail Online
  
  Tech boss Brett Duncan, 51, died from head injuries after his boat failed to turn around a buoy and crashed into the steel-framed vessel which was moored nearby.
  
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• Musicians travel the world in record time to play on each continent within 100 days

  26-10-2026 23:40 via Mirror - News
  
  Pianist Stefan Doniga and violinist Diana Jipa have set a new Guinness World Record after completing a round-the-world tour in under 100 days - ending their trip in Antarctica
  
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• Serial killer cannibal ‘who killed and ate 38 people’ to be executed

  26-10-2026 23:37 via Metro
  
  A suspected serial killer accused of murdering and cannibalising 38 people across Uganda in a 15-year spree now faces execution.Mujurizi Moses could be Uganda’s most notorious serial killer suspect, accused of bursting through the walls of homes and butchering entire families with a machete.In a statement on Monday, Uganda’s highest police officer, Muhoozi Kainerugaba announced his arrest releasing a picture of the suspect with a bloody lip.‘I am glad to inform our fellow citizens that th
  
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• Heartbreak as grandparents die in horror crash - 'Only wish they had more time'

  26-10-2026 23:37 via Mirror - News
  
  Karen and David Cozens were in a Mazda Bongo campervan when they collided with a Volvo lorry on the A358 in Combe Florey in Somerset
  
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• Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton update: Witness who claims to have seen star in 'pedophilia' chatroom has still not been contacted by FBI

  26-10-2026 23:33 via News | Mail Online
  
  TMZ reports the LAPD told the witness she would be hearing from the FBI but has yet to hear anything from the agency.
  
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• Cash-strapped MoD blows £3million on 'diversity': Labour should put frontline soldiers first, say critics

  26-10-2026 23:31 via News | Mail Online
  
  Despite Labour scrabbling to find more cash for defence, as many as 53 staff have been employed at the MoD to champion DEI under its watch.
  
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• Record 6,000 children are referred to Prevent as obsession with violence and extremism surges

  26-10-2026 23:27 via News | Mail Online
  
  Official police figures show 6,085 under-18s were scrutinised by the Prevent scheme in 2025 year after concerns were raised about their obsession with violence and extremism.
  
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• British experts design cheap AI missiles 'that can create mini "Iron Domes" to protect towns and cities from Putin attack'

  26-10-2026 23:25 via News | Mail Online
  
  The platform has been built in a matter of months to counter Vladimir Putin's most advanced jet-powered drones and cruise missiles, which have caused mayhem in Ukraine in recent weeks.
  
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• Seething Trump brands Obama a 'lousy president' who's 'not smart at all' after Cheesecake Factory jab at White House

  26-10-2026 23:22 via News | Mail Online
  
  Hitting back at Barack Obama's weekend gibe comparing the refurbished White House to a chain restaurant, President Donald Trump insisted Monday that Obama was a lousy president.
  
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• Drivers racing at 90mph jailed after killing mum walking daughter to school

  26-10-2026 23:22 via Metro
  
  Justyna and Lena were killed as they walked to school in Leeds (Picture: West Yorkshire Police)Two men have been jailed for a total of 28 years after racing high-powered cars, killing a mum and her four-year-old daughter instantly as they walked to school.Jasskamal Riyat, 37, and Hardeep Bhachu, 29, were racing along a busy road in Leeds, West Yorkshire, when Bhachu’s Audi TT RS lost control at almost 90mph and mounted the pavement.Justyna Hulboj, 27, and Lena Czepczor, four, were killed as t
  
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• Major UK frozen food maker plunges into liquidation - supplied 1,000 stores

  26-10-2026 23:17 via Mirror - News
  
  Quality Bites, which was stocked in more than 1,000 independent supermarkets across the UK, has closed following 13 years of trading.
  
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• All My Children star Alan Dysert dead at 75 after 'incurable cancer' diagnosis

  26-10-2026 23:16 via News | Mail Online
  
  Dysert's wife Michelle made the sad announcement on his Facebook page on Sunday along with a lengthy, but emotional tribute.
  
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• Inside America's 'Arab Capital' where families are divided as state that flipped for Trump could now snub one of their own amid growing fury with Abdul El-Sayed

  26-10-2026 23:15 via News | Mail Online
  
  Bret Abdullah and his brother used to go walking together along the tee-lined streets of Dearborn, Michigan. But now they stand on opposite sides of the political divide.
  
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• Secrets of Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt's A-list wedding bonanza, with GOP stars galore and sexagenarian guest's comical photoshop fail

  26-10-2026 23:09 via News | Mail Online
  
  The event over the weekend was a who's who of the conservative world, with President Trump and members of the first family attending a rehearsal dinner for the couple inside Mar-a-Lago.
  
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• Met Office urges families in 33 areas to gather torches and batteries on Tuesday

  26-10-2026 22:52 via Mirror - News
  
  The Met Office has issued an 18-hour yellow wind warning for nearly all of Scotland from 3am until 9pm on Tuesday, with powerful gusts and spells of rain likely to cause disruption
  
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• D-Day looms for mushroom killer Erin Patterson as appeal judges decide her fate. It could see her walk free - or locked in jail forever

  26-10-2026 22:51 via News | Mail Online
  
  Supreme Court of Victoria Justice Christopher Beale sentenced Erin Patterson to life in prison on September 8, 2025, but set a non-parole period of 33 years.
  
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• Adelaide rattled as magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes - with residents reporting shaking homes

  26-10-2026 22:46 via News | Mail Online
  
  A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck off South Australia's coast on Tuesday morning, with dozens of people in Adelaide reporting they felt the tremor.
  
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• Full list of UK schools closed on Tuesday as Met Office issues fresh weather alert

  26-10-2026 22:45 via Mirror - News
  
  A yellow warning for wind will cover all of Scotland and parts of County Antrim and County Londonderry in Northern Ireland for 18 hours
  
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• Former FBI director James Comey charged for the third time as he's accused of leaking national defense information

  26-10-2026 22:36 via News | Mail Online
  
  The charges come on the same day a judge ruled that DOJ illegally fired Comey's daughter.
  
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• Drunk man said he ‘hates black people’ before launching sexual assault on flight

  26-10-2026 22:31 via Metro
  
  Orlando Morris inappropriately touched a person on a flight (Picture: BPM Media)A drunk man racially abused a woman before sexually assaulting a person on a flight to Stansted Airport.Orlando Morris told a fellow passenger that he ‘hates’ black people and then inappropriately touched a person.Police met the flight when it arrived at Stansted Airport on December 31 last year.The 33-year-old was detained by officers but was taken to the floor after spitting into the face of an officer.A Magis
  
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• Lesbian bar in Massachusetts that sparked wild outrage in woke Covid mask war announces it's closing for good

  26-10-2026 22:30 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Last Ditch Bar, which serves the queer community in Greenfield, announced on social media Monday that it is ending its regular hours and looking for someone to take over the business.
  
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• James Comey charged for a third time

  26-10-2026 22:27 via News | Mail Online
  
  The charges come on the same day a judge ruled that DOJ illegally fired Comey's daughter.
  
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• Incredible moment 'angel mom' confronts illegal migrant trucker who killed her newlywed son and his wife

  26-10-2026 22:23 via News | Mail Online
  
  A grieving mother came face-to-face with the illegal immigrant truck driver accused of killing her newlywed son and his wife in a horrific highway crash.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes' prison secrets revealed by her jail bestie after bombshell documentary: Her private traumas and 'diet' woes laid bare in detailed account of life behind bars

  26-10-2026 22:19 via News | Mail Online
  
  Just two months before Carissa Pollard arrived at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, another woman convicted of fraud turned herself in: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
  
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• Historic 18th-century house on street that 'inspired Harry Potter's Diagon Alley' goes on the market for £1.6million

  26-10-2026 22:16 via News | Mail Online
  
  The magical property on Goodwin's Court in Covent Garden, London, is steeped in history having been built after the Great Fire of London more than three centuries ago.
  
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• ‘Singing’ man living in sewer has been chasing local kids

  26-10-2026 22:15 via Metro
  
  A mother told a man living in the sewer to ‘leave my f***ing kids alone’.The unidentified man has been warned by police after claims he harassed children and chased them around Baltimore.Mother Unique Wiggins confronted the man, believed to be homeless, after her daughter said she had been ‘scared’ by a man living in the sewer.‘I walk over to the little manhole sewer thing, and I hear somebody singing, and I think, “This is unbelievable.’ So I’m like, “Yo, yo, you,” and he’
  
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• Group of schoolkids used teacher's phone to frantically call 911 while she jumped into lake to help drowning classmate, 10, before they both drowned

  26-10-2026 22:12 via News | Mail Online
  
  Fifth-grade teacher Hannah Jorgensen ran in after her student, Ahmed Osman, 10, after he fell into a lake on September 22 in Iowa and told the other 13 children to call for help.
  
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• Grandfather's tears at funeral of baby 'stabbed 15 times' and found dead in outhouse

  26-10-2026 22:12 via Mirror - News
  
  Tiny Maria Skopova was found with 33 wounds on the day of her birth in Holywell Heights, Sheffield - her mother is one of four people charged with her murder
  
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• Jaw-dropping new photos reveal most detailed look yet at Taylor Swift's wedding: Inside the reception... her scrapped carousel plans... and how they hid elaborate planning for months

  26-10-2026 22:09 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Daily Mail has exclusively obtained never-before-seen images of the biggest celebrity wedding of the century.
  
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• Dog walker badly injured after being pushed to the ground by mother bear that got on top of her and started attacking

  26-10-2026 22:06 via News | Mail Online
  
  A woman was walking her dog on a leash early Sunday morning just outside her home in Snohomish County, Washington, when a female black bear attackedher.
  
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• I'm an insurance expert and these are the companies Australians should never use and their dirty tricks including Budget Direct, Qantas and Coles

  26-10-2026 22:04 via News | Mail Online
  
  An insurance insider reveals the companies he would never trust with his own money and the claims practices he says leave Australians stressed and out of pocket when disaster strikes.
  
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• Mystery as Hawaii pageant queen who was famous for her hula dancing dies in hospital aged just 45

  26-10-2026 21:57 via News | Mail Online
  
  Friends and family paid tribute to the woman as they remembered her as a devoted mother, beloved sister and gifted hula dancer.
  
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• Jacinda Ardern lands top University of Sydney job teaching 'empathetic leadership' - after moving to Sydney's northern beaches

  26-10-2026 21:55 via News | Mail Online
  
  Jacinda Ardern has taken up a top job after moving to Australia.
  
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• Foster son accused of poisoning and burying cancer-stricken attorney mom to steal her fortune

  26-10-2026 21:54 via News | Mail Online
  
  Cedric Von Ferdinand, 34, allegedly moved back home to his cancer-stricken foster mother Nadine Jett, 65, to poison her and steal her fortune in a 'despicable' scheme, prosecutors say.
  
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• Moment Andy Burnham dances to Livin' La Vida Loca at charity event for Rob Burrow centre for MND - after admitting he gets 'clang of anxiety' thinking about it

  26-10-2026 21:47 via News | Mail Online
  
  Footage from 2024 shows the Prime Minister giving a wooden performance to Ricky Martin's hit song Livin' La Vida Loca.
  
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• Viral COVID-conscious lesbian bar announces closure after online drama

  26-10-2026 21:33 via Metro
  
  The Massachusetts bar opened in 2025 (Picture: Last Ditch Bar Instagram)A Lesbian bar which went viral after announcing it would offer one night for patrons not to wear an N-95 mask has ‘soft launched’ its closure.The Last Ditch bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, only opened its doors last year, long after the COVID pandemic first hit the world. The bar had one very strict rule: patrons must wear face masks.The bar found itself embroiled in a viral dispute over a teeny, tiny change in policy
  
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• Army officer 'killed by reversing armoured vehicle' in training exercise horror

  26-10-2026 21:29 via Mirror - News
  
  Second Lieutenant Max George, from County Durham, was part of 5 Rifles when he was killed during a training exercise at Salisbury Plain
  
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• Army officer, 26, 'killed by reversing armoured vehicle' in training exercise horror

  26-10-2026 21:29 via Mirror - News
  
  Second Lieutenant Max George, from County Durham, was part of 5 Rifles when he was killed during a training exercise at Salisbury Plain
  
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• Meghan Markle to host next series of Junior MasterChef in Australia

  26-10-2026 21:28 via Mirror - News
  
  The Duchess of Sussex will star as a host on the next series of Junior Masterchef, reports in Australia say, following her appearance as a guest judge earlier this year
  
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• Terrifying secret clauses inside Anthropic's own IPO filings reveal how AI tech may destroy the world

  26-10-2026 21:23 via News | Mail Online
  
  The AI company is poised to have the biggest ever initial public offering on Wall Street after filing to go public on Monday, with a valuation tipped to reach up to $2 trillion.
  
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• Moment carer is caught on secret camera stealing £8,000 of jewellery from pensioner: Thief is jailed for three years

  26-10-2026 21:23 via News | Mail Online
  
  Shocking footage captured by a secret camera showed Lara Jones, 50, rummaging through the pensioner's drawers in search of expensive items.
  
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• United flight heading to Newark forced to turn back to Las Vegas after flight attendant allegedly saw passenger texting about plans to hijack the plane

  26-10-2026 21:21 via News | Mail Online
  
  A United Airlines flight bound for Newark was forced to turn back to Las Vegas after a flight attendant allegedly spotted a passenger text claiming he planned to hijack the plane.
  
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• Trump offers staggering $1 million reward to Americans who expose voter fraud in bombshell move days before midterms

  26-10-2026 21:18 via News | Mail Online
  
  President Trump is cracking down on 'voter fraud' this midterm season, and he's willing to pay big bucks to those willing to help rat out cheaters.
  
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• Paul Scholes names Man Utd managerial candidate ‘streets ahead’ of the rest

  26-10-2026 21:16 via Metro
  
  Paul Scholes has a preferred candidate for Manchester United manager (Picture: The Good, The Bad and The Football)Paul Scholes says there is one manager ‘streets ahead’ of other candidates when it comes to replacing Michael Carrick at Manchester United.Carrick remains in charge of the Red Devils, but after a nightmare start to the season he is not expected to last much longer in the job.A 3-0 defeat to Bournemouth at Old Trafford on Sunday made it eight matches without a win and one victory
  
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• DARREN LEWIS: 'I despair for our moral compass when police view Black babies as dangerous threats'

  26-10-2026 21:16 via Mirror - News
  
  From a one-year-old shot dead in his mother’s arms to boys handcuffed face-down on London streets, writing this column leaves me wondering how much longer we can let this brutality destroy our children
  
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• UK bride gets 'potentially deadly' wedding cake - then maker refuses refund

  26-10-2026 21:05 via Mirror - News
  
  The problem was spotted after kitchen staff at the wedding venue in Cornwall realised there were pieces of plastic between layers of icing
  
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• Funeral held for newborn baby girl who was 'stabbed 15 times and dumped on washing machine by mother and her boyfriend's family'

  26-10-2026 21:05 via News | Mail Online
  
  Maria Skopova was found dead at a home in Holywell Heights, Sheffield, the same day she was born on August 30 having suffered 33 wounds.
  
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• Will the public change its mind about Meghan?

  26-10-2026 21:03 via BBC News
  
  This complicated - and developing - story could prove to be a turning point for Meghan.
  
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