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• Gene Wilder dead Aged 83

  29-08-2016 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wilder's nephew said that the actor and writer died late Sunday in Stamford, Connecticut from complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• Caroline Flack’s brother found dead aged 55

  30-06-2026 14:03 via metro.co.uk
  Paul Flack has been found dead six years after Caroline Flack took her own life (Picture: Instagram)Caroline Flack’s brother has been found dead six years after the former Love Island host took her own life.Paul Flack, 55, was found unresponsive at his Sandringham Road home in Norwich on June 21 before later dying at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.A provisional post-mortem has given the cause of death as cardiac arrest due to hanging.An inquest into his death was opened at Norfolk Coron
  
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• British man uses controversial new tactic to reignite sunbed wars

  30-06-2026 14:02 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 holidaymaker has secretly sprinkled itching powder on towels left on poolside loungers by guests reserving them before sunrise.Fed up with early risers bagging the best spots and then disappearing for hours, Tom Caunce decided to take matters into his own hands during a family holiday in Majorca.The 31-year-old filmed the prank and shared the footage onlin
  
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• Boy, 11, dies of rabies 19 days after waking with bat lying on his mouth

  30-06-2026 13:57 via metro.co.uk
  Bats usually spread rabies through bites or scratches (Picture: Getty Images)An 11-year-old boy died from rabies less than three weeks after he woke up with a bat lying over his nose and mouth.The child contracted the lethal virus despite not having any apparent bite or scratch marks from the interaction, a report has shown.Nineteen days after the incident, the boy started presenting with symptoms consistent with the disease, including vomiting, facial ‘pins and needles’, and numbne
  
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• Where £80,000,000,000 a year will be spent in the UK’s Defence Investment Plan

  30-06-2026 13:55 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 PageAfter months of delay and the resignations of two defence ministers, Sir Keir Starmer has finally announced his investment plan for the British armed forces.It doesn’t include quite as much money as the Ministry of Defence was asking for – a key reason why John Healey and Al Carns stepped down – but the PM says its impact will be transforma
  
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• Coldplay’s ‘not very good’ James Bond theme song unearthed after 27 years

  30-06-2026 13:48 via metro.co.uk
  Chris Martin admitted the songs weren’t ‘very good’ (Picture: Getty)A demo recording of a Coldplay song intended for a James Bond film is set to go under the hammer after being forgotten for more than 26 years.Chris Martin previously said Coldplay wrote five potential Bond themes but never submitted them as they weren’t very good.The Fix You singer said they were eventually forced to accept defeat, and said James Bond probably wouldn’t be into their music
  
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• Lily Allen isn’t ripping you off – her show makes perfect sense

  30-06-2026 13:47 via metro.co.uk
  Criticism of Lily Allen’s West End Girl tour has been endless (Picture: Corinne Cumming)Lily Allen’s West End Girl tour has become the most divisive of the year for no reason.The main complaints include that she has no ‘real’ support act, only performs for an hour, doesn’t speak to the audience, and tickets are too expensive.
  Fans are claiming they’ve been ‘robbed’.Having seen her show twice now, once in a freezing cold and small theatre in Glasgo
  
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• Nicola Peltz drops most savage dig at Beckham family yet – aimed at sister-in-law Harper

  30-06-2026 13:33 via metro.co.uk
  
  Nicola Peltz has apparently shaded sister-in-law Harper in dedication to other sister (Picture: Instagram/Getty)Nicola Peltz appeared to take a swipe at Brooklyn Beckham’s little sister, Harper, in her new post celebrating her ‘dream sister’.The American heiress, 31, shared an emotional post celebrating her brother Will Peltz, 40, as he tied the knot with Kenya Kinski-Jones, 33.Model Kenya, the daughter of record producer Quincy Jones and actress Nastassja Kinski, has app
  
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• ‘I’d love him’ – Wayne Rooney tells England star to complete Man Utd transfer

  30-06-2026 13:29 via metro.co.uk
  
  Harry Kane should snub Barcelona and consider Manchester United, says Wayne Rooney (Picture: Getty)Wayne Rooney has urged Harry Kane to turn down interest from Barcelona and complete a move to Manchester United to break Alan Shearer’s goalscoring record in the Premier League.Kane has taken German football by storm since leaving Tottenham to join Bayern Munich back in 2023, scoring 146 goals in 147 appearances and helping the club win back-to-back titles in the Bundesliga.However, there is
  
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• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 advert shows Xbox’s embarrassing Game Pass U-turn

  30-06-2026 13:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Day one Call Of Duty games on Xbox Game Pass lasted only two years (Activision)An advert for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has a disclaimer for the ages, as Microsoft tries to reverse a message around Xbox Game Pass. After Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in 2023, the company announced it would launch new Call Of Duty titles, starting with 2024’s Black Ops 6, day one on Xbox Game Pass. It was an attempt to give the subscription service a growth spurt, at a ti
  
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• Attention commoners, you’ve probably been saying Waitrose incorrectly

  30-06-2026 13:21 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s a British staple – but do you know how to properly pronounce it? (Picture: Shutterstock / cornfield)Waitrose is known the UK over for being the fanciest of supermarkets.An indicator that you’re in a town where locals have cash to burn, when you’re pushing a trolley through those hallowed aisles, you may feel a little out of place.So, to make sure you’re fitting in with the well-to-do, there’s one thing you simply must do: pronounce ‘Waitrose’
  
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• A giant picnic with 500 cakes is taking place in London — with unlimited slices

  30-06-2026 13:16 via metro.co.uk
  
  Cake Picnic sees hundreds of people come together to enjoy cake (Picture: Cake Picnic/Gary Sexton)Two years ago, Elisa Sunga woke up one morning craving cake. ‘I wanted to lounge in the park and eat a lot of cake, but I didn’t want to bake it all myself,’ she tells Metro.‘I had a full-time job at Google, so I couldn’t just get up and make a load of cakes, as baking is such an involved project that takes hours, sometimes even days.’So, the 35-year-old fro
  
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• Coronation Street’s dark male newcomer trend continues as star warns of violence

  30-06-2026 13:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  Idris is no angel (Picture: ITV/Metro)Admittedly, Coronation Street never promised us that Idris Nazir (Junade Khan) was going to be an angel.Arriving on the cobbles, he reunited with his cousin Alya Nazir (Sair Khan), treaded all over the toes of her boyfriend Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson), made Leanne Battersby’s (Jane Danson) – and Tracy Barlow’s (Kate Ford) – mouth water, and subtly impressed Brody Michaelis (Ryan Mulvey).Not too dark, right?He then
  
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• Zoe Ball joins Greatest Hits Radio: Ex-Radio 2 colleagues Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo announce her arrival in Traitors-inspired trailer after she left BBC breakfast show

  30-06-2026 13:12 via dailymail.com
  
  The veteran DJ, 55, will host weekday afternoons on Greatest Hits Radio later this year, in another major blow to the Beeb.
  
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• Finance worker, 25, collapsed and died after his body soared to 40C during London half marathon, inquest hears

  30-06-2026 13:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Kory Russell died from heat exhaustion after running the Royal Parks Half Marathon, finishing in front of the Royal Albert Hall.
  
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• Petrol station wars escalate across Russia with desperate drivers coming to blows over dwindling supplies - as Ukraine hammers Putin's oil facilities

  30-06-2026 13:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities and logistics chains have disrupted fuel supplies, leaving long queues at gas stations and sparking tensions between drivers.
  
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• E.coli levels reach dangerous levels in River Thames after sewage spill in heatwave

  30-06-2026 13:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Fulham Reach Boat Club recorded 58,000 colony-forming units (cfu) in 100ml of water, which is believed to have been caused by a spill at Fulham Reach (Picture: River Action/PA Wire)The E. coli levels in the River Thames have measured at more than 60 times the threshold for safe swimming as people look to cool off in the heat.
  Fulham Reach Boat Club recorded 58,000 colony-forming units (cfu) in 100ml of water, which is believed to have been caused by a spill at Fulham Reach.Levels are graded as
  
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• Four Germany players refused to take penalties in World Cup shootout defeat

  30-06-2026 13:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Julian Nagelsmann presided over Germany’s World Cup demise (Picture: Getty)Germany is still reeling from its first ever World Cup penalty shootout defeat, but there is an extra layer of embarrassment to contend with for a nation that has prided itself on its spot kick expertise.
  Defeat against Paraguay underpinned what was a branded a ‘disaster’ of a campaign by Kai Havertz who was one of three players to fluff their lines from 12 yards.
  Germany had won six straight major tour
  
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• Four Germany players refused to take penalties in World Cup penalty shootout defeat

  30-06-2026 13:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Julian Nagelsmann presided over Germany’s World Cup demise (Picture: Getty)Germany is still reeling from its first ever World Cup penalty shootout defeat, but there is an extra layer of embarrassment to contend with for a nation that has prided itself on its spot kick expertise.
  Defeat against Paraguay underpinned what was a branded a ‘disaster’ of a campaign by Kai Havertz who was one of three players to fluff their lines from 12 yards.
  Germany had won six straight major tour
  
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• 'Speeding' and unlicensed lorry driver who crushed British holidaymaker with 29-tonne truck in Barbados port escapes prosecution because it was not a public road, inquest hears

  30-06-2026 13:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Holidaymaker Janet Purkess, 87, from Lyndhurst, had just stepped off the Saga Sapphire cruise ship in Bridgetown, Barbados, when she was crushed to death by a 29-tonne HGV.
  
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• POLL OF THE DAY: Can Andy Burnham revive Britain's 1970s 'working-class aspiration', as he claims?

  30-06-2026 13:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Would-be prime minister Andy Burnham set out a Left-wing manifesto, including a new wave of council-house building, a focus on factory jobs and state control of the utilities.
  
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• Pictured: Ukrainian oligarch's wife 'whose legs were blown off in bomb blast' as couple and their son are placed under guard by French special forces in hospital

  30-06-2026 13:02 via dailymail.com
  
  The wife of a Ukrainian oligarch who was seriously injured in a bomb attack in Monaco has been pictured for the first time. 
  
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• Psychic TV poet 'The Cockney Bard' loses inheritance fight with younger sister and her daughter after he and three other siblings were cut out of father's £450K will

  30-06-2026 13:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Terrance Pammen left his entire £451,840 estate - primarily a house in Stratford, east London - to Tracy and Paige Pammen, despite having five children.
  
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• Lame ducks Starmer and Reeves congratulate each other on shambolic £15bn defence plan... but PM faces Trump anger at Nato as boost is barely HALF what military wanted

  30-06-2026 13:00 via dailymail.com
  
  After months of bitter wrangling in Whitehall, the outgoing PM is unveiling a package including a £5billion drone 'transformation'.
  
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• Ukrainian beauty queen sparks fury in her homeland over lavish £4m Cannes wedding with private Ricky Martin show... while Kyiv begs around the world for war funds

  30-06-2026 12:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Nika Kuznetsova, from Kharkiv , married billionaire Georgian businessman, Nika Lomia, at the Château de la Croix des Gardes in Cannes in April.
  
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• M25 RECAP: Anticlockwise delays at Junction 27 caused miles of queues

  30-06-2026 12:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two out of three lanes were closed for emergency road surface repairs, leading to 11 miles of congestion, as drivers were asked to delay their journeys
  
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• 'Cancellations and delays possible' during July 5 EasyJet strike in country

  30-06-2026 12:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pilots and cabin crew are set to strike on Sunday, with passengers facing cancellations and delays
  
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• Shamed Andrew spotted sneaking out on rare public outing to join Edward and Sophie at horse trials

  30-06-2026 12:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who rarely leaves his new home on the Sandringham estate, was spotted breaking cover to attend the Sandringham Horse Driving Trials, which was also attended by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh
  
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• 'Rush' to maximise HMRC allowance before April 2027 cut

  30-06-2026 12:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Savers have been piling billions into Cash ISAs in recent months
  
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• Monaco explosion live: Security forces guard Ukrainian oligarch and wife in hospital after bomb blast

  30-06-2026 12:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaev, 58, and his wife are fighting for their lives after a bomb blast ripped through the La Rousse district of Monaco
  
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