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• Britain's £100m boost to Ukraine as it suffers latest Kremlin horror attack

  08-09-2026 16:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed fresh attacks on Ukraine even as US envoys left Kyiv while the UK has pledged another £100m in support - along with defence and deadly weapons
  
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• ITV’s savage sacking of Sir Tom Jones won’t save The Voice UK

  08-09-2026 18:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sir Tom Jones has given the show credibility (Picture: WireImage)‘There’s never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who is good at his job,’ wrote Sir Tom Jones, confirming his exit from The Voice UK after the end of the current series because, according to him, ITV has shown him the door.In a refreshingly candid statement that was light on corporate speak and heavy on justifiable anger, one of the world’s greatest living legends let rip at the channel.His evident heartbr
  
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• Flights at UK airports grounded by air traffic control 'technical failure' that's cancelled 300 flights and will last for hours

  08-09-2026 18:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Passengers at several airports across the country, including Luton, Manchester and Newcastle, have also reported delays.
  
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• Jewish voters turn on top Democrats as anti-Semitism worries become major flash point in crucial Senate races

  08-09-2026 18:12 via dailymail.com
  
  A gaping hole is emerging in the Democratic coalition ahead of the midterm elections in November.
  
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• Police admit getting intelligence about masked Dover protests – but it wasn’t fully assessed

  08-09-2026 18:11 via metro.co.uk
  
  Maz Garside said she told police that masked men were planning to descend on DoverA woman has said she warned police about the masked mass protest in Dover days before it happened, despite officers calling it ‘spontaneous’.Kent Police has been criticised for its ‘slow response’ after hundreds of masked protestors in balaclavas wearing all-black halted traffic at the port on Saturday.The force defended their handling of the ‘spontaneous protest’, but Metro has
  
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• Heathrow and Gatwick ground planes: Your rights if your flight is delayed or cancelled

  08-09-2026 18:11 via metro.co.uk
  
  Flights across the UK are facing disruption (Picture: Ceri Breeze/Getty Images)Flights from airports in the UK and Ireland have been delayed and cancelled, due to a technical problem affecting air traffic control.Gatwick Airport and London Heathrow are some of the worst hit, with both hubs forced to halt all departures.Stansted and London City are also facing issues, while flights from other UK airports, including East Midlands, Manchester and Birmingham have also been disrupted.The Nation
  
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• Urgent hunt for violent man on the run in London... for the THIRD time

  08-09-2026 18:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Balasankar Narayanan, 46, ran off in South Park , east London, last Thursday while on escorted leave from a care facility in Ilford.
  
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• Iran claims dramatic capture of US submarine near the Strait of Hormuz

  08-09-2026 18:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Islamic Revolutionary Guard says it has captured a 'modern and smart' unmanned submarine at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz
  
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• Blind drink driver who travelled 150 miles using lorry lights as his guide spared jail after blaming mental 'breakdown'

  08-09-2026 18:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Anthony Hall, 50, who attended court wearing dark glasses and with a white stick, took his partner's Vauxhall from their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire after downing bottles of wine.
  
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• Ballon d'Or 2026: Harry Kane and Man Utd star nominated as 30-man player list confirmed

  08-09-2026 18:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The list of nominees for the 2026 Ballon d'Or have been announced. Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham are both among those on the 30-player shortlist this time around
  
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• Family of toddler who died from sepsis after doctors 'misdiagnosed him with constipation' win NHS payout

  08-09-2026 18:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hudson Cole Perrins, two, was brought to hospital where doctors diagnosed him with contipation, tragically just four days later the tot died from multiple organ failure and sepsis caused by a UTI
  
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• Lib Dem MP uses a mic in the Commons after suffering same nerve injury as BBC's Nick Robinson

  08-09-2026 17:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Anna Sabine, who is her party's culture, media and sport spokesman, spoke into the device as she responded to a Government minister's statement on online safety.
  
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• He jokes about rape, praises Chairman Mao and even insisted America deserved 9/11 - but despite all this, Twitch troll Hasan Piker is a  darling of Trinity's woke debating society... and his Irish connections go far deeper than you'd expect...

  08-09-2026 17:58 via dailymail.com
  
  The Turkish-American Twitch streamer joined a roster that includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Desmond Tutu, Joe Biden , Nancy Pelosi , Jane Goodall, and Martin Scorsese .
  
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• Florida man thought he had the right to vote for Trump in 2024. Now he's facing two felonies and time behind bars

  08-09-2026 17:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Jared Janacek, 33, didn't realize he was still subject to a Florida law restricting convicted felons like him from voting.
  
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• Father, 44, dies in hospital days after fatal plane crash that killed his wife and two sons - leaving their other children orphaned

  08-09-2026 17:51 via dailymail.com
  
  A California father, 44, passed away in the hospital from severe injuries following Saturday's plane crash in Fresno County. He was the only remaining survivor of the tragic incident.
  
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• Tech giants threatened with new law forcing them to act on nudity and child safety

  08-09-2026 17:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Digital Minister Lisa Nandy announced Apple and Google had been given a three-month ultimatum in June to either detect and block nude images for children or face legislation forcing them to act
  
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• Pro-Palestine activists found guilty of criminal damage after targeting Picasso masterpiece 'Motherhood' in National Gallery and hurling red paint on floor are spared jail

  08-09-2026 17:45 via dailymail.com
  
  NHS worker Jai Halai, 25, and politics student Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, plastered a poster of a Gazan mother and child over the 125-year-old painting on October 9 2024.
  
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• Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake release date announced but there’s one big controversy

  08-09-2026 17:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time – is it everything you hoped for? (Nintendo)The remake of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time has got its first trailer, and it looks amazing, with an almost 1:1 recreation of the original using modern graphics.Most things Nintendo does are hard to explain but why they’ve been so secretive about Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, considering it’s a remake of a 28-year-old N64 game, is a mystery. They pulled the curtain back on Tuesday afternoon thoug
  
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• UK weather maps turn red hot as 26C September scorcher looms - see 18 warmest counties

  08-09-2026 17:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  September is set to get warmer as weather maps, issued for Netweather by Metdesk, show temperatures are expected to climb to 26C in some places, including Leicestershire in the Midlands and Surrey in the south
  
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• Trinity College's elite debating society honoured an online troll who makes jokes about rape, said America deserved 9/11 and has had to deny that he electric shocked his own dog... So why are Kneecap pals with him?

  08-09-2026 17:43 via dailymail.com
  
  The Turkish-American Twitch streamer joined a roster that includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Desmond Tutu, Joe Biden , Nancy Pelosi , Jane Goodall, and Martin Scorsese .
  
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• Around 200 flights cancelled after air traffic control 'technical failure' - with passengers facing hours of delays as departures are grounded at major airports across the UK

  08-09-2026 17:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Passengers at several airports across the country, including Luton, Manchester and Newcastle, have also reported delays.
  
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• Man registered blind drove 150 miles at night after 'sharing four bottles of wine'

  08-09-2026 17:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anthony Hall, 50, from Huddersfield, who has never had a driver's licence and is registered blind, was spotted by police 'weaving around' on the M6
  
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• Brit, 24, is 'instantly paralysed' after breaking his neck in belly flop into Turkish hotel pool as 'wrong insurance' leaves him with £50k bill

  08-09-2026 17:37 via dailymail.com
  
  A young British holidaymaker has been 'instantly paralysed' after breaking his neck while 'belly flopping' in the pool while on holiday with his girlfriend.
  
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• Top Gear fans reveal true feelings about BBC reboot bringing back iconic part of show

  08-09-2026 17:35 via metro.co.uk
  
  The BBC have confirmed that Top Gear will return (Picture: BBC)The BBC has confirmed that Top Gear will be back on the road sooner rather than later.Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival earlier this month, Ed Havard, the BBC’s director of entertainment, told audiences: ‘Top Gear is coming back.’However, he wouldn’t confirm any of the rumours that comedian Jimmy Carr and Traitors star Joe Marler were being lined up to present the rebooted show.
  Still, one of the icons fr
  
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• Its job is to protect children online, and its 300 employees have the powers to do just that. Yet as a report shows kids as young as FIVE are still exposed to sexual predators every day - the regulator hasn't implemented this BASIC safeguard...

  08-09-2026 17:32 via dailymail.com
  
  AI Minister Niamh Smyth this weekend revealed she is seeking an 'urgent meeting' with Coimisiún na Meán (CnM) amid growing political anger over its failure to clamp down on social media companies.
  
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• Computer game developer who stole 'gold pieces' from players' online accounts is convicted of theft after legal battle over whether virtual money is property

  08-09-2026 17:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Andrew Lakeman, 32, was employed by British gaming giant Jagex when he obtained access to 68 player accounts in the company's award-winning role-playing game, Old School Runescape.
  
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• Police warned against identifying casualties visually after agonising mix-up left wrong family grieving after fatal 86mph smash

  08-09-2026 17:23 via dailymail.com
  
  The parents of Joshua Johnson, 18, spent three weeks at the bedside of the boy who they wrongly believed was their unconscious son following the high speed smash in December 2025.
  
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• Vladimir Putin's plan to hit back at UK 'in two key attacks' - and who would carry out mission

  08-09-2026 17:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A security course has reportedly claimed a Russian attack on British infrastructure was 'inevitable' and revealed the two ways Moscow could carry out a strike
  
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• Andrew Scott performs filthy act in NSFW trailer and fans are going feral

  08-09-2026 17:22 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 PageAndrew Scott has outdone his famous Fleabag ‘kneel’ scene with six words we suspect Channel 4 didn’t expect to become its next great marketing slogan.The Fleabag and All of Us Strangers star, 49, appears in the trailer for upcoming comedy It Gets Worse, where he informs Leo Reich in what can only be described as a gravelly purr: ‘You&
  
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• Zoo worker dragged into death roll and killed by crocodile after staff were filmed ‘taunting them’

  08-09-2026 17:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Staff had previously been filmed getting dangerously close to crocodiles at the park (Pictures: Facebook/amazingpng1975/Getty Images)A wildlife park worker died after being mauled by a crocodile that reportedly refused to release him for an hour as colleagues, visitors and police desperately tried to save him.The handler was feeding the animal at Adventure Park in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday afternoon when it clamped its jaws around his legs.
  Footage captured the crocodile dragg
  
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