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• Boy, one, fighting for his life after horror 'fall from window' in Gillingham

  27-07-2026 14:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is understood the fall was from a flat above a shop in the Kent town
  
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• Domestic abuse charity voices concern over Reform social housing plan

  25-08-2026 18:14 via metro.co.uk
  
  Richard Tice and Lee Anderson announcing the new policy (Picture: Zeynep Demir/Anadolu via Getty Images)A domestic abuse charity has said it is ‘very concerned’ about proposals from Reform UK to prioritise married couples for social housing, fearing it could mean more women stay with abusive partners.Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and welfare spokesman Lee Anderson set out the policy at a press conference on Monday morning.
  It would mean employed British-born people under 35 will
  
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• House ‘rammed’ moments before A66 crash belonged to victim’s dad

  25-08-2026 18:03 via metro.co.uk
  
  Cole Worthy, 17, is one of the five young men who died inside the Volkswagen Passat driven wrong way down the A66 (Picture: Facebook)A house damaged by a car shortly before the deadly A66 crash belonged to the father of one of the teenage victims.Five young men and two police officers were killed after a Volkswagen Passat, which was driving on the wrong side of the A-road, crashed into the police vehicle in Middlesbrough on Saturday.Cole Worthy, 17, died alongside four others in the collision,
  
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• Trump's CIA chief John Ratcliffe makes surprise trip to Moscow for secret meeting amid grim fears for Poland

  25-08-2026 17:59 via dailymail.com
  
  A US Air Force transport jet made a highly unusual landing in Moscow on Tuesday, sparking a frenzy of theories about its mysterious mission.
  
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• 89-year-old hit with fine after leaving car park because he couldn't get parking app on his 20-year-old Nokia

  25-08-2026 17:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Roland Nice spent eight minutes in the car park in Haverhill, Suffolk, after discovering he was not allowed to pay in cash.
  
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• Lawyers for Anna Kepner's stepbrother make desperate bid to delay murder trial as they grapple with 'unique and very unfortunate' evidence into Carnival cruise death

  25-08-2026 17:54 via dailymail.com
  
  Lawyers for Timothy Hudson, 16, petitioned to delay his trial due to the 'unique' family dynamic that prevented access to evidence, as he stands accused in his stepsister's brutal death.
  
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• Barcelona fire LIVE: 'Explosion' heard as blaze burns 25 hectares and residents told 'stay indoors'

  25-08-2026 17:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A huge fire has broken out in Barcelona, with smoke visible from a Ryanair flight amid unconfirmed reports of an explosion
  
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• Former Fox anchor ADMITS to stabbing her mom, 80, to death in bed with four kitchen knives and a cheese grater

  25-08-2026 17:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Angelynn Mock, a former Fox anchor, has admitted to stabbing her mother to death on Halloween last year. She called 911 and was found with blood on her hands when police arrived.
  
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• Should Brits get their licences taken away for dangerous driving videos? Take our poll and have your say

  25-08-2026 17:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As a ghoulish social media trend sees young motorists risk everything on the road for likes, but should those who upload dangerous driving videos face serious penalties?
  
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• Pregnant women being offered classes on how to give birth in a car after local maternity ward closes

  25-08-2026 17:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Pregnant women are being offered classes on how to give birth in a car after the sudden closure of a local maternity ward.
  
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• 'Bubbly' young woman, 27, killed when Tesla rammed into a Westfield cafe is identified

  25-08-2026 17:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Jennifer Keen, 27, was on her lunch break from the call centre where she worked just 100m down the road.
  
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• Canada fires back at Trump with $20BILLION 'dollar-for-dollar' tariff strike as trade war intensifies after Lake Ontario threat

  25-08-2026 17:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Canada has enacted a set of 'dollar for dollar' retaliatory tariffs against the US after President Donald Trump threatened it with a staggering 50 percent duty on Monday.
  
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• TV star ‘forced to get vasectomy’ after challenging fans to increase Instagram likes

  25-08-2026 17:41 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page10 years ago Nathan Massey and Cara De La Hoyde went on the second season of ITV’s Love Island, not knowing what was in store.
  They won the show, got pregnant, broke up, got back together, and are married with two children.
  Freddie-George was born in December 2017, and Delilah was born three years later in July 2020.
  But now, they don’t want any
  
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• Meghan Markle 'remains in talks' to join Guy Ritchie's hit Netflix show The Gentlemen, sources claim - despite reports offer had been 'withdrawn due to backlash'

  25-08-2026 17:38 via dailymail.com
  
  People magazine, which has close links to the Sussexes, has reported that Meghan Markle 'remains in talks despite recent reports to the contrary, though no deal has been finalised'.
  
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• Man stabbed to death in middle of day outside London council HQ

  25-08-2026 17:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Eyewitness reports of a stabbing incident in the library of Brent Civic Centre Library near Wembley Stadium.(Picture: Ray Tang/LNP)A man has been stabbed to death just yards away from a council headquarters close to Wembley Stadium.The knife attack took place just outside Brent Civic Centre at 2.25pm on Tuesday.Council workers were reportedly evacuated from their offices, as well as people from the library.A London Ambulance spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 2:25pm to reports of a sta
  
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• Fox breaks into MP’s office and rummages through cabinet

  25-08-2026 17:29 via metro.co.uk
  
  The fox appears equally surprised to see an MP in there (Picture: George Freeman)A Conservative MP was stunned to find an unexpected visitor rifling through the paperwork in his parliamentary office on Monday morning.Luckily for George Freeman, though, this was no Watergate-style break-in from political opponents or a crafty piece of subterfuge from a foreign spy.It was a fox.
  Freeman will be relieved to hear foxes are unable to read, while the fox may be disappointed to hear Freeman has not he
  
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• Inside deadly driving trend on TikTok - 'this and die at 20' and lives for likes

  25-08-2026 17:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. EXCLUSIVE: As 12 people die in just seven days in similar wrong-way crashes, The Mirror explores the dangerous trends sweeping social media
  
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• Trump's CIA chief John Ratcliffe makes surprise trip to Moscow for secret meeting after US jet landing sparked frenzy

  25-08-2026 17:26 via dailymail.com
  
  A US Air Force transport jet made a highly unusual landing in Moscow on Tuesday, sparking a frenzy of theories about its mysterious mission.
  
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• The child sex monster hidden in plain sight in the halls of power for seven years: How a court blunder concealed a senior Labor insider

  25-08-2026 17:24 via dailymail.com
  
  A bureaucratic blunder kept the identity of a senior Labor insider secret for years while his prosecution repeatedly stalled. The full story can now be told.
  
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• Stalker with 'sexual interest' in Billie Piper who wrote her 18-page love letter is jailed for posting AI-generated images of her online

  25-08-2026 17:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Philip Jerome, who appeared in court on his 49th birthday on Tuesday, made 11 posts of the Doctor Who star on social media platform X, including 'cartoon' AI-generated images of her.
  
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• GTA 6 leaks continue as culprit asks fans to ‘stop the hate’ over crypto scheme

  25-08-2026 17:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  The leaks will continue until morale improves (Rockstar)At least three more clips of GTA 6 gameplay have surfaced online in the last 24 hours, while the culprit insists the leaks remain free despite asking for crypto donations.It has been almost a week since gameplay footage of GTA 6 began to leak ahead of a planned Netflix preview and despite Rockstar’s efforts to take down the videos, new ones keep popping up on a daily basis.At first, there was suspicion that the footage had been stole
  
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• Mum of Yorkshire man who died on Ukrainian front lines says he lied about where he was going

  25-08-2026 17:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Bradley Townsend, 33, was killed in a drone strike while fighting in Ukraine (Picture: east2west news)The mum of the first British man to die while fighting for Russia lied about where he was going.
  Bradley Townsend, 33, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was killed in a drone strike while fighting on the front line in Lyman, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on June 10.The fisherman’s mum, Maureen, has said that he had no previous military experience and kept his decision to join Russian f
  
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• The ‘lively’ London commuter hotspot first-time buyers are flocking to

  25-08-2026 17:11 via metro.co.uk
  
  Dartford is located around 17 miles southeast of London (Picture: Getty Images)While London’s seemingly-endless house price growth has stalled recently, getting on the ladder there is still a distant dream for many.As such, many would-be homeowners are looking to the city’s commuter belt — and it seems one spot is proving especially popular.Using the latest ONS data, HouseBuyers4u compared first-time buyer mortgage sales against total housing stock across local autho
  
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• Chelsea told they must upgrade ‘weak point’ before transfer deadline

  25-08-2026 17:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Chelsea are facing calls to replace Robert Sanchez before the transfer deadline (Picture: EPA)Former Arsenal and England striker Alan Smith says Chelsea must find a quality replacement for Robert Sanchez if they are to challenge for the Premier League title this season.Sanchez’s position as Chelsea’s number one has been called into question on numerous occasions throughout his error-strewn three-year stay at Stamford Bridge and these doubts rose to the surface once again on Monday n
  
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• White prisoners 'being forced to convert to Islam by Muslim gangs': Calls for 'urgent' investigation

  25-08-2026 17:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Ministry of Justice (MOJ) figures reveal that one in five Muslims in prisons in England and Wales is white, compared to just 5.8 per cent in the general population.
  
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• One dead after stabbing at council building near Wembley Stadium

  25-08-2026 17:07 via dailymail.com
  
  London Ambulance Service (LAS) confirmed air ambulance crews were among the emergency response following reports of the stabbing in London.
  
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• Couple are mercilessly rammed down by speeding G-Wagon stolen by four teens who led police on hours-long chase, cops say

  25-08-2026 17:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Alice Stilwell, 67, and long-term partner, Robert Barr Jr, 54, died Saturday in Mays Landing, about 18 miles from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  
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• ‘I would never:’ Hikers divided over queues on Wales’ highest mountain

  25-08-2026 17:04 via metro.co.uk
  
  Whether it’s Wimbledon or a monarch lying in state, Brits love to queue; and heaven forbid anyone doesn’t understand how the system works! (Picture: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)Queuing: it’s what the British are renowned for doing — and doing very well. Better than anyone else in the world, if reputation is to be believed.But even for the best in the business, it doesn’t always come naturally, as recent events in Wales reveal.In case you’ve missed it, it&rsqu
  
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• Woke Boston mayor goes on fever-pitched hunt to track down and threaten business owners renting parking spots to ICE agents in her city: 'This is unhinged'

  25-08-2026 17:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security said the Democratic mayor was 'hunting down private property owners and threatening them for working with ICE.'
  
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• Person dies after broad daylight 'stabbing' at council HQ in Wembley

  25-08-2026 17:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emergency crews including the air ambulance rushed to Engineers Way in Wembley after reports of a stabbing at Brent Civic Centre.
  
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