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• Free 007 First Light DLC adds Aston Martin missions and a New Game+ mode

  01-10-2026 17:16 via metro.co.uk
  
  Four new missions involve driving an Aston Martin (IO Interactive)The first substantial DLC update for 007 First Light is already out and it’s added long requested features and… a cute doggy.While Nintendo Switch 2 owners need to wait until March to even start playing 007 First Light, everyone else is currently being treated to a substantial drop of DLC.This year’s James Bond blockbuster video game has already seen a handful of post-launch updates since May, but they were min
  
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• UK supermarket launches ‘InPost-style’ lockers so you can collect shopping in seconds

  02-10-2026 18:31 via metro.co.uk
  It’s a UK supermarket first (Picture: UNP http://www.unp.co.uk)There have been some interesting technological advances in supermarkets of late, from human-sized robots roaming the aisles to the introduction of the AI smart trolley.Many supermarkets have also partnered with brands like InPost to bring delivery lockers to their stores to make customers’ lives a little easier.But Morrisons is taking this a step further with a new trial at one of its locations.The retailer has launched
  
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• Gypsy Rose Blanchard slams ‘relentless cruelty’ towards Ken Urker after partner’s death

  02-10-2026 18:18 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s partner and father of her child, died on his birthday (Picture: Facebook)Gypsy Rose Blanchard has spoken out following the death of her partner, Ken Urker, calling him her ‘soulmate’ and hitting out at those who ‘cyberbullied’ him.The 34-year-old was found dead at his home in Raceland, Louisiana, yesterday, which was his birthday.Blanchard grew worried when he didn’t respond to a happy birthday message.She later told People t
  
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• Gypsy Rose Blanchard slams ‘relentless cruelty’ in statement after partner Ken Urker’s death

  02-10-2026 18:18 via metro.co.uk
  Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s partner and father of her child, died on his birthday (Picture: Facebook)Gypsy Rose Blanchard has spoken out following the death of her partner, Ken Urker, calling him her ‘soulmate’ and hitting out at those who ‘cyberbullied’ him.The 34-year-old was found dead in bed at his home in Raceland, Louisiana, yesterday, which was his birthday.Blanchard grew worried when he didn’t respond to a happy birthday message.She later told P
  
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• Russell Findlay made the best of the dire hand he was dealt. But now there are breaks in the clouds - and he and the Scottish Conservatives have cause for optimism

  02-10-2026 18:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Whisper it, but when he takes to the stage in Birmingham on Sunday to deliver his flagship conference speech, Russell Findlay has cause for optimism.
  
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• Dad, 57, who'd just welcomed newborn triplets, murdered in case of suspected mistaken identity

  02-10-2026 18:07 via dailymail.com
  
  A father of newborn triplets was kidnapped and murdered before authorities said in a shocking new turn that he was a victim of mistaken identity.
  
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• Trump admits he’s ‘not a big drinker of water’ then dumps glass mid-speech

  02-10-2026 18:03 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 PageDonald Trump is having another normal one and decided to dump all of his drinking water on the ground while addressing a crowd.
  Comparing the small glass filled with water to the amount of fuel that could be saved using greener methods.Holding up the glass, Trump said: ‘We have more fuel than any country in the world. Now if you add Venezuela we’
  
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• Elon Musk's heartbroken baby mama Shivon Zilis reveals billionaire has ended their relationship with no warning...'I've loved him more than life itself'

  02-10-2026 18:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Shivon Zilis, an executive at Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink and the mother of four of his kids, poured her heart out in a lengthy social media post on Friday.
  
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• Sienna Miller and Dominic West: ‘We go back 20 years – it helped stick the knife in’

  02-10-2026 18:00 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 PageYou can cut the tension running through War with a knife. A great big cleaver at that.Behind every saccharine smile exchanged between Sienna Miller’s Carla Duval and Dominic West’s Morgan Henderson, you can feel an undercurrent of loathing mixed with some distorted semblance of love rippling through the screen.Luckily, in real life, the on-screen
  
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• PS6 cost will be worse than you think as memory shortage set to increase prices

  02-10-2026 17:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  A doomed console? (Metro)Sony and Microsoft’s current and future consoles are going to be even more expensive, as the memory crisis is predicted to get worse in 2027. The ongoing memory crisis has jacked up PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and Steam Machine prices over the past year, but it’s still unclear how badly it will impact the next generation. Sony and Microsoft are expected to launch their new consoles in 2027, even if all the signs suggest they
  
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• Greggs under fire over £19m dividend bonanza days after revealing jobs bloodbath

  02-10-2026 17:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Bakery chain Greggs, which this week proposed to cut more than 700 roles, is due to dish out huge sum to shareholders in move branded a ‘punch in the guts’ of workers
  
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• Danny Tommo in court again days after being told he faces Christmas behind bars

  02-10-2026 17:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  Court artist drawing of anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas, who is also known as Danny Tommo, appearing via video link at Margate Magistrates’ Court in Kent (Picture: Elizabeth Cook/PA)Danny Tommo has appeared in court charged with entering a restricted zone at a migrant processing centre in Dover.The anti-migrant activist, real name Daniel Thomas, 37, appeared via video-link wearing a grey T-shirt and rosary beads on Friday at Margate Magistrates’ Court in Kent.District Judge Will
  
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• Danny Tommo in court after entering migrant processing centre in Dover

  02-10-2026 17:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  Court artist drawing of anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas, who is also known as Danny Tommo, appearing via video link at Margate Magistrates’ Court in Kent (Picture: Elizabeth Cook/PA)Danny Tommo has appeared in court charged with entering a restricted zone at a migrant processing centre in Dover.The anti-migrant activist, real name Daniel Thomas, 37, appeared via video-link wearing a grey T-shirt and rosary beads on Friday at Margate Magistrates’ Court in Kent.District Judge Will
  
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• New bodycam footage shows cop say ‘it’s f***ing him’ when finding Luigi Mangione

  02-10-2026 17:48 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 PageBody camera footage has been released of the moment alleged United Healthcare killer Luigi Mangione was arrested in McDonald’s.Police had launched a five-day manhunt before finding Mangione in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.‘It’s f–king him, dude,’ one cop said as they discovered a magazine of bullets in his backpac
  
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• Sloppy work, high billing, disorganised and indecisive... Legal500 accidentally publishes terrible reviews of top barristers

  02-10-2026 17:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Top barristers are used to being told they are wonderful at their jobs. But they got a shock earlier this week when a computer error meant reviews describing them as 'sloppy' were released.
  
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• Newcastle University evacuation live: Police set up huge cordon as students forced to leave

  02-10-2026 17:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A huge emergency response is under way in Newcastle city centre - a number of Newcastle University buildings have been evacuated
  
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• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host baffled by ‘impossible’ keyboard question

  02-10-2026 17:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Even the host, Gunther Jauch, was stumped (Picture: RTL)Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has certainly dished up its fair share of difficult questions since it first hit the airwaves in 1998.The long-running series might have been adapted in over 130 countries but the premise is always the same: correctly answer a series of 15 questions for the chance to win the life-changing sum of money.
  It’s a feat which thousands have tried but only a handful have succeeded in doing.But in order to even
  
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• Algerian asylum seeker who stole 13 designer handbags from John Lewis after spitting on security guard is jailed for two years

  02-10-2026 17:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Kheirddine Fatmi, 35, of Wood Green, gave the guard a shove and spat on his bare arm at the West End store in London on October 30.
  
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• Heartbroken families of girl and boy, both 16, pay tribute to teens killed when car plunged into River Wear

  02-10-2026 17:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Luke Etheridge and Zara Shaw, both 16, died alongside 17-year-old Jackson Duke on Tuesday afternoon after the black Audi A3 went into the River Wear in Sunderland.
  
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• Alison Hammond shares video from her hospital bed and says her heart is being checked out after she was seen clutching her chest and rushed off air live on This Morning

  02-10-2026 17:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Alison Hammond was taken to hospital after clutching her chest and suddenly falling ill live on air on This Morning on Friday. 
  
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• Ex-priest who ran rave-inspired 'cult' group guilty of rape and sexual assault

  02-10-2026 17:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former priest Christopher Brain, who sexually abused women while leader of Christian movement the Nine O’Clock Service, has been found guilty of rape and four indecent assaults
  
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• Visiting 5,280ft high 'Toy Story' city in the clouds made me rethink this country

  02-10-2026 17:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul McAuley took a trip to a US city known for its altitude, passion for the natural world, and mad passion for sports, finding a lot of difference with the UK and a lot of things to love
  
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• Excruciating $1,000 cost of filling truck with diesel pushes drivers to the brink as Trump's hated Iran war triggers fuel price spike

  02-10-2026 17:21 via dailymail.com
  
  One of the many side effects of President Donald Trump's stance on the war with Iran is the skyrocketing gas prices in America that is effecting everyday businesses.
  
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• Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd 'rang 999 to help woman who feared she would be killed in flat above his'

  02-10-2026 17:19 via dailymail.com
  
  The 37-year-old Golden Globe winner (pictured) told Glasgow Sheriff Court he saw a 'flurry of arms' as Xiaoma Zhang was allegedly attacked by 22-year-old Lucas Bains.
  
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• Zack Polanski demands new rent controls - but row opens up Green split

  02-10-2026 17:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Zack Polanski argued that a win for his party in Holborn and St Pancras would serve to drag the Labour government to the left as he demanded a new triple-lock style rent control
  
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• The ‘uncomfortable’ orgasm side effect plaguing women during sex

  02-10-2026 17:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  Women are talking about one bizarre side effect of a strong orgasm (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)An intense orgasm can have some fun side effects: your thighs might be left shaking afterwards, or your skin sensitive to the touch.But there’s lesser-known result of climaxing that some women aren’t enjoying quite so much, and that’s post-orgasm cramping.Traditionally, people with vaginas associate this type of pain with periods, or during the point of the cycle when the ovar
  
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• Trump scores release of 'massive amount' of Europe's oil in scramble to bring down gas prices ahead of the midterms

  02-10-2026 17:08 via dailymail.com
  
  President Donald Trump charmed European allies into releasing 'massive' stockpiles of oil just before the midterms as the global fuel crunch pinches budgets and frustrates voters.
  
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• Napoleon's code is cracked after 217 years: Scientist uses AI to read a mysterious letter written by the Emperor in 1809

  02-10-2026 17:07 via dailymail.com
  
  A mysterious letter written by Napoleon Bonapartehas been decoded for the first time in more than 200 years.
  
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• Man who witnessed Christa Pike's botched execution heard strange sound when curtain closed

  02-10-2026 17:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Christa Pike survived two full syringes of the lethal injection during her botched execution in Tennessee and is now in a critical condition in hospital
  
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• 'I saw Christa Pike's attempted execution - one moment showed things were going wrong'

  02-10-2026 17:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Christa Pike survived two full syringes of the lethal injection during her botched execution in Tennessee and is now in a critical condition in hospital
  
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