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• 'Andy Burnham is right to keep notorious killers inside jails and block their early release'

  31-08-2026 06:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "Prison overcrowding is a real crisis - the answer is tougher management of the system, not letting dangerous offenders out before justice has been served."
  
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• Melbourne tradie shot dead in mystery attack as gunman remains on the run

  07-09-2026 02:33 via dailymail.com
  
  The tradie shot dead in Melbourne's north was engaged to be married within weeks, his shattered family have revealed.
  
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• Chaotic scenes as hundreds of anti-migrant protestors descend on Portsmouth and clash with riot police after some 140 asylum seekers are rescued from 'mega-dinghy' and brought ashore 

  07-09-2026 02:33 via dailymail.com
  
  Footage posted to social media showed demonstrators crowded together near Eastney beach chanting 'stop the boats' and 'enough is enough'.
  
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• Gunman on the run after shooting and killing a man at a park in Melbourne

  07-09-2026 02:20 via dailymail.com
  
  A gunman is on the run after a man was shot and killed in Melbourne's north.
  
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• Urgent hunt to find Stanley the armadillo who is on the loose in Sussex

  07-09-2026 02:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Stanley, a six-banded armadillo, absconded from Animal Magic - a company that provides educational animal handling experiences for schools and children's birthday parties.
  
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• Kind-hearted grandmother is mercilessly beaten with baseball bat by a stranger who she welcomed in after fake sob story

  07-09-2026 02:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Therese Garcia, 71, was nearly beaten to death with a metal baseball bat last month by Erik Eduardo Navarro, 26, whom she welcomed into her home after he claimed he had been robbed.
  
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• Games Inbox: When will GTA 6 be released on PC?

  07-09-2026 02:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  GTA 6 – officially, there is no PC version (Rockstar Games)The Monday letters page thinks the PC version of GTA 6 will be out sooner rather than later, as one reader looks forward to the first Zelda movie trailer.Games Inbox is a collection of our readers’ letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected]
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  I’ve seen a lot of talk this weekend of the idea that the PC version of GTA 6 will be out sooner rather t
  
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• Urgent hunt to find Stanley the armadillo that is on the loose in Sussex

  07-09-2026 02:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Stanley, a six-banded armadillo, absconded from Animal Magic - a company that provides educational animal handling experiences for schools and children's birthday parties.
  
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• Police force that told women to share toilets and changing rooms with trans officers scraps its policy after court threat

  07-09-2026 02:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Gwent Police was accused of breaching new equality guidance after declaring 'trans members of staff are entitled to use the facilities of the gender in which they present.'
  
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• The Morning Poll: Do you trust Nigel Farage after the fresh donations row?

  07-09-2026 02:01 via dailymail.com
  
  The latest Reform funding scandal has overshadowed the big policy splurges announced at the party's conference in Birmingham.
  
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• STEPHEN GLOVER: Burnham is profiting from Farage's troubles. To save Britain from Labour we MUST have a Tory and Reform pact

  07-09-2026 02:01 via dailymail.com
  
  I'm cross with Nigel Farage for presiding over so amateurish a shambles that two of his senior aides could succumb to such an obvious ambush.
  
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• Sending my children to private school means I always have to scrimp, save and make do. These are my best tips to keep the costs down... from my sibling discount trick to the school uniform saving

  07-09-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A new term begins and for those of us committed to sending our darlings to independent schools, it's back to scrimping, saving and making do.
  
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• Best new mobile games on iOS and Android – September 2026 round-up

  07-09-2026 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Lara Croft And The Temple Of Osiris – now available on mobile (Feral Interactive)A new Lara Croft game is available on mobile phones this month, along with top notch puzzle game Servant Of The Lake, and new Ball x Pit DLC.So far, there’s no indication that GTA 6 will influence the release schedules of mobile games, but with Rockstar Games’ juggernaut set to divert people’s attention away from literally everything else, including smartphones, you’ll still need to be
  
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• Labour 'chickens out' on curbing migrant rights: Mahmood vowed crackdown but nearly a year on she hasn't acted

  07-09-2026 01:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was last night accused of kowtowing to the Labour Left-wing after failing to bring forward 'urgent' immigration reforms.
  
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• The residents fighting back against traveller land grabs: Villagers descend on council offices to demand eviction from Essex field - days after another site was cleared following protest

  07-09-2026 01:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Enraged villagers descended on Uttlesford District Council demanding answers as to why an illegal traveller site in Willows Green, near Felsted, Essex, has remained for months.
  
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• Traditional 200-year-old torchlit procession through ancient town is banned due to wildfire fears - with residents told to bring fairy lights instead

  07-09-2026 01:51 via dailymail.com
  
  The historic event in Uckfield, East Sussex - an ancient town which dates back to 1220 - has been axed due to concerns over fires breaking out after weeks of dry weather.
  
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• Zoe Ball to reunite with veteran BBC colleagues at Greatest Hits today after quitting £520k-a-year gig following loss of her mother, perimenopausal anxiety and Strictly job rejection

  07-09-2026 01:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Zoe is making her grand return to radio after leaving BBC Radio 2 at the height of her success, quitting the Breakfast Show in 2024 and her afternoon show a year later.
  
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• From duke to drug baron: The real-life Gentlemen-style manor houses turned into crime dens after their cash-strapped owners were forced to sell up

  07-09-2026 01:50 via dailymail.com
  
  The show sees the new Duke of Halstead, played by Theo James, unwittingly inherit a vast underground cannabis farm hidden beneath his family's cash-strapped country estate.
  
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• JK Rowling keeps the name of her £112million superyacht under wraps amid fears it will attract pro-transgender activists

  07-09-2026 01:49 via dailymail.com
  
  It appears JK Rowling is erring on the side of caution by covering up the name of her £112million superyacht during a trip to Los Angeles.
  
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• Karmelo Anthony asks donors to fork over more for defense after killer's family spent 500k on new home

  07-09-2026 01:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Anthony was convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf earlier this year, but his family and legal team are asking for more donations so they can appeal.
  
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• My teenage son won't get a job and keeps asking me for money: Barefoot Investor unleashes

  07-09-2026 01:32 via dailymail.com
  
  Barefoot Investor Scott Pape has unleashed.
  
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• Pauline Hanson announces radical superannuation plan to let millions of workers turn their super into pay

  07-09-2026 01:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The bold One Nation proposal would allow renters and mortgage holders take three per cent of their future super as wages for up to three years.
  
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• Gunman on the run after shooting and killing a man outside a home in Melbourne

  07-09-2026 01:13 via dailymail.com
  
  A gunman is on the run after a man was shot and killed in Melbourne's north.
  
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• Six in 10 people support return of assisting dying bill to Parliament ahead of MPs' vote

  07-09-2026 01:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Six in 10 people support the return of the assisted dying Bill to Parliament, but a third of the public feel the law should only be changed if there is more funding for end-of-life care alongside it, according to new polling
  
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• John Healey vows 'next chapter of Britain's growth story' with new £150million fund for North

  07-09-2026 01:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Healey has vowed the 'next chapter of Britain’s growth story will be written in more places across the country' as he looks ahead to next month's crucial Budget
  
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• Solicitor hailed by Law Society for rags-to-riches story is struck off for tricking nurses out of tens of thousands of pounds

  07-09-2026 01:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Julie Condliffe, 48, whose firm specialised in helping people to buy or sell property at auction, led the three nurses to believe they were buying the home in the north east as an investment.
  
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• Sickle cell breakthrough transformed patients' lives - but thousands more blood donors needed urgently

  07-09-2026 01:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On Sickle Cell Awareness Month, patients revealed how donated blood has transformed their lives - as the NHS urges thousands more donors to donate
  
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• Gunman on the run after a  shooting and killing a man outside a home in Melbourne

  07-09-2026 01:06 via dailymail.com
  
  A gunman is on the run after a man was shot and killed in Melbourne's north.
  
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• 'Doctors found our newborn son had a nail infection - hours later we were facing every parent's worst nightmare'

  07-09-2026 01:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sam Sharp's son Joey was just 11 days old when a hospital visit for a nail infection led to the discovery of a childhood brain tumour in Midlothian
  
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• Asking questions just so you can talk next? You're a 'boomerasker'

  07-09-2026 01:06 via dailymail.com
  
  These are people who ask a question, briefly listen to the other person's response, and then answer the question themselves, bringing the conversation back to them like a 'boomerang'.
  
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