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• BBC boss in major TV licence fee change 'everyone pays' update

  27-09-2026 13:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Director-general Matt Brittin said 'if you move to something which every household pays, you can charge everyone less'
  
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• Gary Neville names worst Manchester United signing since Sir Alex Ferguson era

  27-09-2026 17:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  Two names stand out to Gary Neville as Manchester United’s worst post-Ferguson signings (Picture: Getty Images)Gary Neville has picked out two names as the worst Manchester United signings since the Sir Alex Ferguson era, ultimately giving one of them the unwanted label.The legendary Red Devils manager left in 2013 and there has been a lot of transfer business since then as the club has tried to rediscover the success of his reign.Plenty of that business has been somewhere between underwh
  
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• Strictly’s Shirley Ballas, 66, warned away from love interest, 36: ‘Don’t take my man’

  27-09-2026 17:14 via metro.co.uk
  
  Shirley Ballas has been spotted looking cosy with dancer Giuseppe Nonnis (Picture: Getty/Tillendove)The ex-fiancée of Shirley Ballas’s new man has warned her off their budding romance, describing it as ‘the ultimate betrayal.’Earlier this month, the Strictly Come Dancing judge, 66, was pictured with 36-year-old Italian dancer Giuseppe Nonnis, sparking rumours of an age gap romance.Candid snaps showed the pair enjoying a cosy date in the park, with Giuseppe leaning in cl
  
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• OpenAI halts training of new models amid extinction fears

  27-09-2026 17:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Picture: Andrej Ivanov / AFP via Getty Images)OpenAI has stopped training its latest artificial intelligence models after recent cases of AI agents going rogue.The tech giant said it will continue development ‘only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards’ in place.The pause comes after Australia revealed that an OpenAI agent breached the government’s national healthcare system, although no sensitive information was compromised.The company behind ChatGPT also d
  
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• Trump says RAF Fairford terror suspects were 'looking to do big damage' to US forces and says they were being 'watched' for a long time 

  27-09-2026 17:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Donald Trump has warned the five men arrested over a suspected foiled terror attack at RAF Fairford were 'looking to do big damage' to US forces.
  
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• NHS Trust removes ten staff from duty after Noah Woods' medical records accessed in data breach

  27-09-2026 17:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The deputy chief medical officer at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust apologised 'unreservedly' to the family of Noah Woods, three, for the 'extra anguish' it caused.
  
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• Embarrassed John Fetterman desperately backpedals after telling live audience 'I'm a lifelong Republican!'

  27-09-2026 16:58 via dailymail.com
  
  The Senator made the blunder while on stage at the Texas Tribute festival on Saturday.
  
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• Blushing bride Alina Habba stuns in THREE glittering wedding dresses as star-studded MAGA guests watch her marry Turkish billionaire

  27-09-2026 16:54 via dailymail.com
  
  Alina Habba, 42, stunned in her lavish wedding looks as she married Turkish billionaire Turhan Mildon at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
  
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• Weather maps show 25C October scorcher looms for 21 areas - see full list

  27-09-2026 16:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The latest weather maps forecast a blast of unusually warm weather sweeping across huge swathes of the UK on October 6, with 21 counties and areas predicted to hit highs of 23C or more
  
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• Russia builds doomsday nuclear bunker in remote mountain to launch strikes against West

  27-09-2026 16:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Hidden in the remote Ural Mountains of central Russia, the tiny village of Kytlym has an unusually busy military presence.
  
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• Bombshell Newspoll data shows One Nation charging ahead of Labor in Queensland and going strong in NSW

  27-09-2026 16:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party is on the rise, particularly in Queensland where more voters back her as prime minister than Anthony Albanese.
  
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• Andy Burnham accuses Danny Tommo of 'worst kind of hateful behaviour'

  27-09-2026 16:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham also said scenes in recent weeks of masked men dressed in black were 'unacceptable' and 'creating fear and intimidation on British streets'
  
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• Kelsey Parker shares first photos of newborn daughter after ‘most emotional’ week

  27-09-2026 16:47 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kelsey Parker welcomed baby River to the world last week (Picture: Kelsey Parker/Shutterstock)Kelsey Parker, the widow of The Wanted star Tom Parker, has shared the first set of pictures of newborn baby River.The podcaster and author shares two children with the late singer, who died in 2022 of terminal brain cancer.She is now in a relationship with tree surgeon Will Lindsay, with whom she parents Aurelia Rose and Bodhi – who were respectively two years and 12 months old when Parker died.
  
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• Labour conference: Watch speeches live after Andy Burnham sounds election battle cry to save NHS

  27-09-2026 16:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Attending his first conference as leader, the new Prime Minister is setting out his stall after saying he is more determined than ever to fix the broken social care system after the death of his beloved father
  
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• Burnham starts Labour conference as top dog – but there’s still plenty to prove

  27-09-2026 16:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham has the prime seat on stage for Labour’s conference this year (Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)This time last year, it looked like he’d blown it.
  After launching a broadside against Sir Keir Starmer’s government, Andy Burnham spent the 2025 Labour conference gradually retreating in the face of criticism from across the party.The consensus was that he had gone too far too fast, catastrophically misjudging the mood and inadvertently shoring up support for Starmer.Few p
  
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• Sadiq Khan demands Burnham launches immediate push to rejoin EU - as Cabinet minister warns Brexit 'paralysis' will 'cost' Britain

  27-09-2026 16:34 via dailymail.com
  
  Sadiq Khan said it was 'not enough' for Andy Burnham to suggest that restoring ties with Brussels could be in the next election manifesto.
  
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• Controversial Grand Designs modernist glass mansion which Kevin McCloud likened to a 'university research centre' is on sale for £5m

  27-09-2026 16:33 via dailymail.com
  
  The six-bedroom detached house over 6,949 sq ft thaton a gated estate near Orpington in Kent and featured on the popular Channel 4 show back in 2011 is on the market.
  
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• Yours for just £2million, shame about the views: Historic English estate once owned by Oliver Cromwell's family is going for a song. But is the price tag due to the specter of a huge data centre on the horizon?

  27-09-2026 16:32 via dailymail.com
  
  The huge data shed will measure 61ft tall at its highest point and 600ft long, which opponents say could hold at least two jumbo jets.
  
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• Libertarian utopia or tech bro nightmare? Inside the private city where billionaires are free to try and live forever, play God... all while paying one per cent tax

  27-09-2026 16:31 via dailymail.com
  
  The Caribbean island of Roatan attracts tourists by offering world class diving. But visitors will discover another, rather more controversial feature of the Honduran island that has put it on the map.
  
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• ‘Flu like’ symptom people get when they stop taking Mounjaro, Wegovy

  27-09-2026 16:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Millions of people have turned to weight-loss jabs, but stopping treatment can bring changes to your health
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2026 - live: Fans spot contestant's 'shocked' face as they get low score

  27-09-2026 16:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Strictly has returned but with a sparkly makeover. While the glamour and glitter remained the reaction to the new style has been a mix of standing ovations and sour faces, just like Craig's when he raises a 'two' paddle
  
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• Four Americans on vacation in Athens are killed in massive explosion as bodies are pulled from the rubble

  27-09-2026 16:25 via dailymail.com
  
  Four Americans on vacation in Athens were reported as those among the six people killed in a deadly explosion in Greece that collapsed a residential building.
  
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• 'Designer bags... Europe trips': Inside the leaked CommBank staff dossier against execs after CEO's $250k 'people and leadership' bonus - as pay stalls and 1,000 jobs vanish

  27-09-2026 16:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Inside the file are extraordinary claims about Europe trips, designer bags and golf days as workers go scorched earth on pay stagnation, job cuts and eye-watering executive bonuses.
  
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• BBC expert on starting with £100 and saving £1 million - retiring in 5 years scheme

  27-09-2026 16:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A pair managed to retire in just 5 years - turning £100 into a million - BBC expert says it's 'front and centre for lots of people'
  
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• UK's 'one in, one out' migrant deal with France 'could be springboard for EU agreement'

  27-09-2026 16:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  France has indicated it wants to walk away from the 'one in, one out' migrant deal with the UK when it expires on October 1 - saying Britain must reach a wider deal with the EU
  
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• Deadly nor'easter turns streets to rivers as 65mph winds and torrential rainfall wreaks havoc while flights are urgently stopped... and there's even more destruction to come

  27-09-2026 16:10 via dailymail.com
  
  The intense nor'easter continues to batter the East Coast on Sunday. At least one person has died and another is missing. Four others, including young children, were injured in the storm.
  
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• 6 signs your Sunday scaries are actually telling you to quit your job

  27-09-2026 16:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Talk yourself through the problem (Picture: Shutterstock / MAYA LAB)It’s 3pm on a Sunday, and suddenly the dread settles in.
  You start mentally running through your inbox, as you find yourself wishing for just one more day of freedom before returning to the office.As coach and workplace expert, Hannah Stalton explains: ‘It’s really common to feel a bit fed up on a Sunday when the weekend is nearly over.‘But ruminating and obsessively worrying about work and the week ahea
  
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• British man, 58, found dead near holiday resort in Portugal

  27-09-2026 15:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  A British man was pulled unconscious from the sea in Praia do Pintadinho on the Portuguese AlgarveThe body of a British man has been pulled from the water near a holiday resort in southern Portugal.The man, who has not been publicly named, was found unconscious in the water near Praia do Pintadinho, a beach near Portimão in the Algarve.Two lifeguards attempted to perform CPR on the 58-year-old before emergency services arrived on the scene.In a statement, Portugal’s National Mariti
  
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• Incredible relic from legendary shipwreck lost for more than 140 YEARS washes ashore during powerful nor'easter

  27-09-2026 15:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Fragments of a three-masted schooner that sank in December 1884 are believed to have been discovered on the shores of Nantucket on Saturday.
  
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• 'We're not bringing back stupid' insists Lucy Powell as she defends Labour's education reforms - and dubs her Whitehall team the 'Department for Hope'

  27-09-2026 15:47 via dailymail.com
  
  In a speech to her party's annual conference in Liverpool, the Education Secretary hit back at Tory claims she is 'dumbing down' the country's schools.
  
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