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• General Election 2015: Keep Lib Dems in coalition, says green industry

  25-04-2015 22:00
  
  The Liberal Democrats must play a part in the next government, however it is constituted, to ensure the fight is maintained against climate change, 20 figures from the renewable energy industry and businesses say in a letter to The Independent on Sunday.
  
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• The Dingles rocked by grief in Emmerdale as one of their own dies

  29-07-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Another sad goodbye (Picture: ITV)The Dingles’ difficult year is about to be capped off with a sad goodbye in Emmerdale.Cancer has ravaged the family, with Faith having succumbed to the disease in recent years, Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) surviving breast cancer with a double mastectomy, and Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) learning he has prostate cancer that has spread.Cain’s own experience has been a particularly difficult one, with surgery promising permanent side effects, including d
  
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• Five: ‘Our nutsacks would have ended up on TikTok if it existed in the 90s’

  29-07-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Robbie Williams reunited Five’s original members on stage for the first time in 25 years (Picture: Five/Instagram)When Five first burst onto the scene in the late 90s, their playful humour and cheeky charm set them apart in an era of squeaky-clean boy bands.And as Metro catches up with Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, Sean Conlon, Abz Love and J Brown ahead of their performance at Brighton’s Pride on the Park, it’s clear very little has changed. Their chemistry
  
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• EastEnders legend stages return amid Denise cancer ordeal sparking emotional reunion

  29-07-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Patrick Trueman is back (Picture: BBC)There’s an emotional reunion for EastEnders’ Denise Fox (Diane Parish) and Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker) next week as he returns to Walford amid her cancer battle. Back in May, Patrick left the Square to spend some time with his grandchildren up in Scotland after he received a call from ex-daughter-in-law Sophie, who said that the kids weren’t coping well in the wake of their dad Anthony Trueman’s (Nicholas Bailey) death.Patr
  
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• Driverless ‘pods’ could soon be used on Hammersmith Bridge instead of cars

  29-07-2026 08:00 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 could soon be getting to work or home on a ‘driverless pod’, if a non-profit gets its way.
  Hammersmith Bridge in west London has been closed to motor vehicles – including buses – since structural cracks were spotted in 2019. And the bridge may stay shut to cars and lorries for quite some time, if recent reports from the counc
  
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• Best linen shirts, trousers and shorts for men from M&S, Uniqlo and Charles Tyrwhitt

  29-07-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  This breathable material will keep the sweaty pits away… at least for 5 mins. (Picture: Metro/Getty)
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  Men tend to run hot at the best of times, but throw in the soaring summer temperatures we’ve been experiencing across the UK and getting dressed suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.
  While stripping back the layers is
  
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• Asha offers support to Sienna in Coronation Street amid terminal illness revelation

  29-07-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Can Asha support Sienna? (Picture: Danielle Baguley/ITV)Asha Alahan (Tanisha Gorey) had a pretty rough 2025 in Coronation Street.After losing her treasured twin brother, Aadi Alahan (Adam Hussain), when he set off for a fresh start in India, she began to suffer with her mental health while training as a paramedic.A special episode dedicated to her experience showed her faced with a death, an injured elderly patient and a vile racist attack, the combination of which left her suffe
  
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• All Coronation Street spoilers for next week as departing character meets ‘final end’

  29-07-2026 08:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Vengeance, violence and a very scary look into the future (Picture: ITV/Metro)There’s a dark disappearance, a brutal assault and a discovery which could prove damning next week in Coronation Street.Unable to match Ross Wilkes (Ian Burfield), defeated by his manipulations and disowned by her loved ones, Cassie Plummer (Claire Sweeney) prepares to leave Weatherfield under a dark cloud, but when the man who paid for sex and impregnated her as a child catches up with her before she leave
  
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• Twisted Apalachee High School shooter and mom LAUGHED on jailhouse calls as he asked: 'Have you made a shrine for me yet?'

  29-07-2026 07:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Prosecutors played recordings of phone conversations Gray had with his mother, Marcee Gray, from a youth detention center in the months after the shooting.
  
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• Emergency as police officer is stabbed in the neck and knifeman is shot in the leg in Elizabeth East

  29-07-2026 07:58 via dailymail.com
  
  The female officer had been responding to reports of a man armed with a knife on Main North Road, in Elizabeth East, on Wednesday.
  
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• Careless dad was filming Instagram story and shopping on Amazon in seconds before crash that killed son, cops say

  29-07-2026 07:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Austin Summers, 31, is facing one charge of vehicular manslaughter and two counts of injury to a child in connection with the November 25 crash on Interstate 84.
  
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• GoPro captures terrifying moment shark attacks influencer - 'wrong place, wrong time'

  29-07-2026 07:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The diver has admitted he was in the shark's 'environment hunting its food' - he was filming at the time of the incident, which he says could have been a lot worse
  
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• Off-duty cop and his girlfriend are killed after drunk Jeep driver smashed into their Harley-Davidson

  29-07-2026 07:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Melissa Ramirez, 27, was arrested in connection with the crash that killed Bridgeport Police Officer Cooper Whiteside, 38, and his girlfriend, Brittany Anne Islami, 34.
  
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• Doctor's alert as 'desperate' people take medication not prescribed to them

  29-07-2026 07:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New research has been published
  
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• UK travel company collapses into liquidation after 22 years with no further trips

  29-07-2026 07:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Ilford based travel company plunged into liquidation last week after organising thousands of pilgrims for over 22 years as the travel industry faces uncertainty
  
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• Australia Post to hike prices: How much more you will pay to send a letter

  29-07-2026 07:28 via dailymail.com
  
  Australia Post will go ahead with a proposed price hike on basic postage rates after the consumer watchdog ruled on Wednesday that it would not intervene.
  
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• Dr Jihad's close ties with Australia's last ISIS bride - after he married into caliphate family with notorious sister-in-law accused of stealing kids

  29-07-2026 07:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Tareq Kamleh, who left Australia in 2015 under the guise he was heading to Melbourne for a holiday, became Islamic State's poster boy.
  
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• Landslide kills at least one person at Solomon Islands gold mine, police say

  29-07-2026 07:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On Monday July 27 a landslide struck the open pit mine on Guadalcanal, the largest island of the South Pacific nation - a man's body has now been recovered from the site
  
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• Japan earthquake live: Death toll climbs to 13 as rescue efforts continue

  29-07-2026 07:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Multiple people have died while more are missing after a shopping centre collapsed following a huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake on the Japanese island of Kyushu
  
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• What is the buck moon and can it be seen in the UK today?

  29-07-2026 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The buck moon is named after the male deer that shed and regrow their antlers in July. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)The buck moon will rise today as the eighth full moon of 2026.
  July’s full moon is usually the seventh of the year, but because of May’s second full moon – known as the rare blue moon – tonight’s is our seventh.Last month, stargazers were treated to the strawberry moon, which, despite its name, doesn’t actually appear p
  
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• Pickpocket hunter hits back after London mayor said he did not help fight crime

  29-07-2026 07:00 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 PageLondon’s resident pickpocket hunter has hit back at Sadiq Khan who said the work of vigilantes has done nothing to help lower crime in the capital.Diego Galdino said he was ‘disappointed but not surprised’ the Mayor of London did not recognise his crime-fighting skills while revealing offences including theft have dropped dramatically by 14
  
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• Major unions boycott Labour Women’s Conference over trans ban

  29-07-2026 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Labour Women’s Conference has been thrown into chaos after some of the party’s largest unions said they weren’t attending (Picture: In Pictures via Getty Images)Major Labour unions will boycott the party’s women’s conference this year in protest at the exclusion of trans women, Metro can reveal.Unison, Aslef, Usdaw, and the Musicians’ Union will not attend Labour Women’s Conference in September over the decision to ban trans women from formal proceeding
  
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• I’ve visited the Algarve 20 times — there’s 4 places I keep going back to

  29-07-2026 07:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Some Algarve towns, like Ferragudo, still feel authentic (Picture: Getty Images)I can’t remember the first time I went to The Algarve, but I know I’ve always loved it.As a kid, I’d visit almost every summer, and over the years I’ve notched up more than 20 trips to this beautiful part of Portugal.Sunshine and a pool is always an easy recipe for the perfect holiday, and as I got older, Portuguese seafood dishes became my favourite meals and the tiled mosaics adorning the s
  
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• Hiker IMPALES himself in freak accident on side of a mountain - then walked 10 more miles to avoid getting ambulance bill

  29-07-2026 06:40 via dailymail.com
  
  David Cifaldi was scaling Granite Peak with two friends on July 20 when he lost his footing on the rocky terrain and fell onto his trekking pole.
  
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• Tragedy as boy, 15, crushed to death by falling tree during hike at holiday camp

  29-07-2026 06:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A teenage boy has tragically died after an incident at YMCA Camp Widjiwagan near Nashville, Tennessee, - the 15-year-old's death has been reproted as 'accidental'
  
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• Public housing tenant under fire after his three savage dogs maul two people in separate attacks: 'Put them down'

  29-07-2026 06:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Serious warnings about three aggressive dogs allegedly owned by a public housing tenant were repeatedly ignored before two people were brutally mauled.
  
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• Florida carries out 'incredibly rare' double execution including former cop who killed 11-year-old girl in 1980s

  29-07-2026 06:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Officials in Florida on Tuesday took the 'incredibly rare' step of executing two separate death row inmates - a former cop and an 80-year-old man - in a single day.
  
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• Chris Watts' mistress breaks her eight-year silence in explosive The Trial USA podcast: Hear her chilling side of the story

  29-07-2026 06:09 via dailymail.com
  
  Reporter Luke Kenton discusses his bombshell interview with Amanda McMahon, one of several women Chris Watts pursued before murdering his wife and children.
  
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• Australians hit with fresh cost of living blow as Albanese govt swings the axe on fuel excise tax break

  29-07-2026 06:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Another cost of living blow for Australians.
  
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• Political powerbroker breaks silence over affair allegations: 'I'm a devoted husband to a beautiful woman'

  29-07-2026 06:03 via dailymail.com
  
  In his second day in the Independent Commission Against Corruption witness box, Dylan Whitelaw admitted there could be a connection between the detrimental dossier and Jean Nassif.
  
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