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• Burnham ‘exploring every option’ to block early release of PC Harper’s killers

  08-08-2026 16:16 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Government has so far resisted pressure to exempt Jessie Cole (left) and Albert Bowers (right) from its early release scheme (Picture: Thames Valley Police/PA)Prime Minister Andy Burnham is ‘exploring every option’ to block the early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers, according to reports.The Government has so far resisted pressure to exempt Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers from its early release scheme.Some 5,000 criminals are due to be let out early to free up places in
  
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• Fulham forward Rodrigo Muniz names Man Utd star he ‘hates’ playing

  05-10-2026 15:18 via metro.co.uk
  Rodrigo Muniz ‘hates’ facing Manchester United centre-half Harry Maguire (Picture: Score 90)Fulham star Rodrigo Muniz has picked out Harry Maguire as his toughest opponent in the Premier League, admitting he ‘hates’ coming up against the Manchester United centre-back.Muniz arrived at Craven Cottage from Flamengo back in 2021 and is enjoying his fifth season with the club this term having spent his second year on loan at Middlesbrough.In that time, Muniz has racked up 29
  
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• Yoga guru ‘placed his hands’ on students’ breasts for ‘purification therapy’

  05-10-2026 15:16 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 PageA yoga teacher has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing and beating students at a Hindu sect in northern Italy.Bruno Antonio Malatesta recruited vulnerable people as young as 11 for his courses in self defence and meditation at his Fiore della Pace (Flower of Peace) foundation.The ‘students’ were said to be forced to shave their heads a
  
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• Failed asylum seeker is jailed for minimum of 20 years after trying to break into London's Israeli embassy to launch knife attack

  05-10-2026 15:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Kuwait-born Abdullah Albadri, 34, was tackled by armed police after he leapt up an embassy fence armed with two four-inch knives.
  
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• Inside Russia's 'plague zone': Putin's five lockdown areas amd 'pneumonic plague outbreak' as countries tighten border controls

  05-10-2026 15:04 via dailymail.com
  
  A map shows the areas which have initiated lockdowns following the outbreak of a plague in Russia.
  
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• Healthy meal company Foxes Den drops former The Bachelor star Sam Wood after domestic assault charge

  05-10-2026 15:04 via dailymail.com
  
  The Melbourne-based fitness influencer was arrested after police received reports of alleged domestic violence at a Noosa property on Saturday night.
  
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• Girl, 12, killed in crossfire after ‘parking space row’ turns deadly

  05-10-2026 15:03 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 PageA 12-year-old girl was fatally shot after an escalated disagreement over a car park space.The child was killed shortly after 6pm EDT (11pm BST) on Saturday, having become caught in the crossfire of two men police say were allegedly arguing over parking their cars at a park where children were playing American football.Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Wo
  
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• Coalition set to announce revamped migration plan to fend off One Nation

  05-10-2026 15:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Opposition leader Angus Taylor is expected to take a new immigration policy to the Coalition partyroom on Tuesday.
  
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• If Richard E Grant exits Celebrity Traitors this lethal player could change the game

  05-10-2026 15:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  This week we’ll see our first banishment – are Richard’s days numbered? (Picture: BBC)Warning: spoilers ahead for the first two episodes of Celebrity Traitors season 2.Across the nation, every Celebrity Traitors fan appears to be in agreement over one thing – the writing’s on the wall for Richard E Grant.Poor gleeful, mischievous, conniving but blundering Richard, who blurted out that he was a Traitor minutes after being chosen by Claudia Winkleman, is the obvious
  
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• RAF Fairford is safe, No10 insists after US pulls out fighter jets over 'terror plot'

  05-10-2026 14:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham's official spokesman insisted on Monday that RAF Fairford is safe after the US withdrew at least 10 B-1 bombers following reports of fresh security planes
  
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• Leeds Bradford airport to 'shut down' for two days as workers strike - all flights disrupted

  05-10-2026 14:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Staff at Leeds Bradford Airport - which serves around 4 million customers each year - will walk out following a dispute over pay, forcing the site to close for days
  
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• Tesco meal deal update confirmed in new Monday announcement for food shoppers

  05-10-2026 14:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shoppers don't have too long to wait to get their hands on the new food and drink options
  
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• I’m a cancer doctor — these are the 3 symptoms most commonly-overlooked

  05-10-2026 14:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  Early warning signs of cancer are often overlooked (Picture: Getty)When your health feels slightly ‘off’ for weeks on end, it’s easy to put it down to stress, getting older or a lingering bug.But according to Dr Jiri Kubes, radiation oncologist and medical director at the Proton Therapy Center in Prague, this can mean potential signs of cancer are missed.Cases of the disease are on the rise, with more than 403,000 people now diagnosed with cancer each year; equal to around 1,1
  
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• UK areas where population is shrinking as growth slows to lowest in 30 years - check your neighbourhood

  05-10-2026 14:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than one in four council areas recorded a population decline over the last year - use our interactive map to see whether the population is rising or falling where you live
  
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• Giant Qing porcelain dish worth £30,000 that was made for Beijing's Forbidden City is found under family's sofa in north London home

  05-10-2026 14:54 via dailymail.com
  
  The rare imperial relic was brought to Britain by Chinese immigrant Wing Lung Goo in the early 20th century and has been passed down generations of his family.
  
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• Zinedine Zidane thinks Chelsea star is ‘not good enough’ after France snub

  05-10-2026 14:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  Zinedine Zidane is unimpressed with one Chelsea and France player (Photo: Getty)Zinedine Zidane did not call up a Chelsea star to his first France squad because he is ‘not defensively good enough’, according to reports.Zidane has made an unbeaten start to life in the Les Bleus dugout after replacing Didier Deschamps following their fourth-place finish at the 2026 World Cup.Despite losing captain Kylian Mbappe to injury, France beat Turkey and Belgium 1-0 before drawing 1-1 with Ital
  
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• Crumbling theme park left to rot now looks like a scene from the Last of Us

  05-10-2026 14:45 via metro.co.uk
  
  Most of the park’s buildings are covered in overgrowth (Picture: SWNS)Eerie photos have shown the crumbling remains of a theme park left to rot for a decade as a £70million redevelopment plan flounders.Pleasure Island in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, was a favourite destination for families and thrillseekers before it shut for good in October 2016.Ten years after its closure, the 57-acre site and crumbling buildings have been reclaimed by nature – and are more akin to a scene fro
  
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• Attacker who kicked man in front of oncoming van at random is set to be released early from prison after serving just a few MONTHS of 11-year sentence

  05-10-2026 14:43 via dailymail.com
  
  James Hatcher, 41, was walking home when he was kicked in front of a moving van by Salman Kamraman Karim, who he did not know.
  
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• Refugee given three scholarships to complete university in Australia before saying she would renounce her citizenship asks for $150,000 in donations so she can 'recover' until she leaves the country next year

  05-10-2026 14:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Outspoken refugee advocate Nyadol Nyuon has started a fundraiser seeking $150,000 to 'recover' while planning her move out of Australia in 2027.
  
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• Hollywood legend responds after Michael Douglas admits they had affair while he was married

  05-10-2026 14:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kathleen Turner has spoken out after Michael Douglas revealed they had an affair decades ago (Picture: Getty)Kathleen Turner has responded after Michael Douglas revealed the pair were secretly lovers while filming Romancing the Stone – four decades after they repeatedly denied anything happened.Douglas, 82, has blown apart the long-standing official version of events in his new memoir, One Helluva Ride, admitting that the famous chemistry between the Hollywood stars wasn’t entirely
  
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• Tributes paid to young dad, 23, killed in trench collapse at work in Northern Ireland

  05-10-2026 14:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joseph Hobbs, 23, from Glasgow, died alongside his friend and colleague Mark Glover, 38, when a trench collapsed while working in the Ballygowan Road area of County Down, Northern Ireland
  
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• Spanish protestors fed up of tourists threaten to ‘bring the country to a standstill’

  05-10-2026 14:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mass tourism has been a divisive conversation in Southern Europe for a few years now (Picture: Getty)Protestors in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia have swarmed the streets, demanding greater protections for tenants amid Spain’s ongoing housing crisis.Across 50 coordinated marches on Saturday October 3, organisers reported that 500,000 people came out in support — many of whom held up signs that read ‘right to a roof’, while others chanted ‘your profits, our misery&
  
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• Police lock down ENTIRE town to stop anti-migrant unrest as 12 protesters arrested after nearly 150 small-boat arrivals use 'new route' to land at historic naval port

  05-10-2026 14:36 via dailymail.com
  
  A large dinghy was spotted heading towards Britain from near Utah Beach in Normandy on Sunday morning.
  
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• Downing Street insists RAF Fairford is safe despite the US withdrawing its bombers over security concerns following 'terror plot' arrests

  05-10-2026 14:35 via dailymail.com
  
  The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that aircraft which were being stationed at the Gloucestershire base had been 'redeployed to their home stations in the United States'.
  
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• Six presumed dead after Latitude air ambulance plunges 13,000ft before vanishing off US coast

  05-10-2026 14:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Haunting final transmissions revealed the pilot declared an emergency amid reports of an "electrical issue" before communication with the medical flight was lost
  
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• Cancel your Monday night plans to binge all 6 episodes of Channel 4’s ‘devastating’ crime drama

  05-10-2026 14:30 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 PageIf you are a fiend for twisty crime dramas, then this new Channel 4 show has your name written all over it.Nothing quite beats a gritty six-part series helmed by a British TV legend, and new drama Pierre promises all that and more, with Homeland and Sherwood star David Harewood playing our titular lawyer.The ‘gripping’ show follows the West Londo
  
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• Tories and Labour go to war with spoof Bayeux Tapestry mock-ups

  05-10-2026 14:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Conservatives used their fake Bayeux Tapestry to stitch up a narrative of party leader Kemi Badenoch as a conquering hero, and taking aim at Labour and Reform
  
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• Hampshire Police chief constable 'had affairs with two female inspectors and made one delete messages revealing fling' misconduct panel told

  05-10-2026 14:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Scott Chilton, 52, was a married superintendent when he is said to have had a relationship with the female sergeant with some of the sexual activity having 'occurred whilst he was on duty'.
  
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• Seattle woman flails wildly on sidewalk and speaks gibberish in video that has shocked America... but there hasn't been a peep out of woke socialist mayor

  05-10-2026 14:25 via dailymail.com
  
  The homeless woman was seen in footage from Jonathan Choe flying into a frenzy in Seattle's Chinatown district, which the journalist said was 'like a scene out of a horror movie.'
  
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• Shocking moment man falls in front of van after being kicked - as his attacker could be released early from prison

  05-10-2026 14:23 via dailymail.com
  
  James Hatcher, 41, was walking home when he was kicked in front of a moving van by Salman Kamraman Karim, who he did not know.
  
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