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• 'Here are the common-sense solutions to turn the tide on needless drownings'

  25-07-2026 08:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Royal Life Saving Society's Pete Kennedy says new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has the chance to turn local water safety success in Manchester into his national mission
  
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• Now Nicola Sturgeon embraces London life as she relaxes on her friend's £150k houseboat... on the Grand UNION Canal!

  19-09-2026 17:53 via dailymail.com
  
  As a lifelong agitator for independence from the UK, there was uproar and more than a few raised eyebrows when Nicola Sturgeon decided to quit her beloved Scotland to live in England...
  
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• Scots millionaire Duncan Bannatyne and his wife enjoy life aboard superyacht named after her

  19-09-2026 17:52 via dailymail.com
  
  He has previously revealed that when he met Nigora Whitehorn - in the dental surgery where she worked - he fell 'madly in love'.
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury is accused of condoning repression of Muslim women after she is pictured with covered wife of Islamic cleric who honoured Osama bin Laden

  19-09-2026 17:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally has been accused of sending a 'deeply troubling message' by posing next to the fully-covered wife of Islamic cleric Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi.
  
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• Public sector staff at £37million forestry quango bicker with bosses... over the size of their kitchen!

  19-09-2026 17:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Staff at a controversial quango are bickering with bosses over thesize of their kitchen.
  
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• Criminals to be locked up in 'prefab prisons' at Scotland's open jail Castle Huntly amid overcrowding crisis

  19-09-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Criminals could soon be locked up in 'prefab prisons' in a bid to tackle the overcrowding crisis in Scotland's jails.
  
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• Firefighters could be sent to treat heart attack patients in a radical shake up of duties

  19-09-2026 17:48 via dailymail.com
  
  Firefighters could soon be despatched to treat people suffering life-threatening injuries and cardiac arrests - as part of a radical shake-up of emergency services in Scotland.
  
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• That's a bit rich! Sturgeon 'sells her soul' as she defends the United Kingdom in Sky TV drama

  19-09-2026 17:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of 'selling her soul' as her role in a new reality TV show sees her passionately defend the 'security of the United Kingdom.'
  
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• Netflix viewers rush to binge haunting series about one of Britain’s most horrific unsolved murders

  19-09-2026 17:47 via metro.co.uk
  
  The series reveals numerous police blunders in the initial investigation in 1981 (Picture: ITV/Ryan McNamara)ITV’s two-part documentary about an unsolved murder from 40 years ago is the latest true crime offering to hit the Netflix TV top 10.The Real Unforgotten – whose title, perhaps unnecessarily, refers to ITV’s hit crime drama – retreads the chilling murder case of Carol Morgan, attempting to mount a fresh investigation into her death. The series reveals numerou
  
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• Teen gang jailed for stabbing 17-year-old boy to death outside McDonald's then posting pictures of bloodied hands and knives online

  19-09-2026 17:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Two teenagers have been jailed over the killing of a 17-year-old boy after stabbing him outside a McDonald's restaurant in London and sharing pictures of their bloodied hands online. 
  
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• ‘I didn’t like it’ – Roberto De Zerbi slams £85m Tottenham star after Villa defeat

  19-09-2026 17:40 via metro.co.uk
  
  De Zerbi ‘didn’t like the performance’ (Picture: REUTERS)Roberto De Zerbi has criticised the performance of Mateus Fernandes after Tottenham slumped to a 3-2 defeat against Aston Villa.Spurs are still without a win this season with Villa securing their first of the campaign. Unai Emery’s side led 3-0 in north London with Tottenham scoring their first goals of the season through Conor Gallagher and Jan van Hecke but the late flurry came too little too late.Fernandes, an &
  
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• Manchester United squad vs Fulham: Carlos Baleba and Luke Shaw in; Benjamin Sesko missing

  19-09-2026 17:34 via metro.co.uk
  
  Carlos Beleba has travelled with Manchester United’s squad for their game against Fulham (Eamonn & James Clarke)Carlos Baleba, Luke Shaw and Matthijs de Ligt have been included in Manchester United’s travelling squad for their Premier League game against Fulham on Sunday but Benjamin Sesko has missed out.Michael Carrick’s side departed for London on Saturday afternoon ahead of their match at Craven Cottage on Sunday.Sesko, who started in the 3-2 defeat to Brighton in the C
  
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• Jarrod Bowen's alternative marriage offer and saucy chant about Dani Dyer

  19-09-2026 17:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Ham legend Jarrod Bowen had an unusual marriage request shortly before tying the knot with Strictly Come Dancing star Dani Dyer
  
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• Man dies after falling from building in Liverpool city centre with police referred to watchdog

  19-09-2026 17:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man has died after falling from a building in Liverpool city centre- this is a breaking story
  
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• Converse forced to apologise for ‘atrociously racist’ ad likened to KKK imagery

  19-09-2026 17:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Converse has been heavily criticised for its imagery in a new ad campaign (Picture: Converse)Converse has issued an apology after widespread backlash to its latest ad campaign, with the imagery compared to that of the Ku Klux Klan.The trainer brand was thrust into controversy after images were released from the global Chuck 70 X campaign, featuring K-pop star Karina of the girl group Aespa.Photos showed her holding a pair of black sneakers, standing in the centre of an illuminated star that rep
  
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• Carer raped bedbound elderly woman then claimed she attacked him

  19-09-2026 17:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Fazli Qadeer, 25, was jailed for the horrific attack Bristol Crown Court (Picture: Shutterstock)A carer has been jailed after raping an ‘extremely vulnerable’ woman in her 70s – and then accusing her of attacking him.Fazli Qadeer, 25, from Peshawar, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, was handed a prison sentence for the attack on the bedbound woman.The carer, who has a student visa to the UK, reportedly joined his brother in Bristol for university last year and became a carer t
  
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• Donald Trump's wild week as he bans media from White House and brags over Greenland 'deal'

  19-09-2026 17:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump is an old man backed into a corner, and he's grasping for anything he can control
  
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• Business rates could be cut for thousands of small firms in Budget help for Britain's struggling High Streets

  19-09-2026 17:11 via dailymail.com
  
  The Chancellor John Healey is said to be considering possible changes to business rates relief which could exempt some businesses from the tax altogether.
  
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• Millwall vs West Ham LIVE: Six arrests after spitting incident and red card in heated clash

  19-09-2026 17:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Millwall and West Ham went head-to-head in their first match for 14 years, as they played out a feisty encounter at The Den with a number of measures taken by authorities
  
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• Britain's top planning barrister is locked in row with furious neighbours after putting up rooftop pergola at £3m London townhouse without planning permission

  19-09-2026 17:10 via dailymail.com
  
  Lord Charles Banner and his wife, the high-flying lawyer Tetyana Nesterchuk, have found themselves at the centre of a bitter dispute in one of South Kensington's most exclusive addresses.
  
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• Danny O’Donoghue offers former Ed Sheeran support act to open for The Script instead

  19-09-2026 17:04 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 PageDanny O’Donoghue has declared his support for ‘free speech’ and extended an invitation to a support act who dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour.The A Team hitmaker has been at the centre of a social media storm this week after rapper Macklemore was removed from his Loop Tour over his ‘free Palestine’ speeches.Macklemore, real
  
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• Missouri woman accused of making death threats against Austin Metcalf's grieving family hit with federal charges

  19-09-2026 16:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Sharifa Nicole Henderson, 34, is facing federal charges for allegedly making a series of chilling death threats against the family of murdered Texas teenager Austin Metcalf.
  
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• M60 traffic live: Motorway blocked after two crashes cause four-mile tailbacks

  19-09-2026 16:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Drivers face long delays on the M60 in Greater Manchester after two crashes caused closures on both the clockwise and anticlockwise carriageways
  
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• New York woman swallowed into cesspool on her birthday narrowly escapes being buried alive

  19-09-2026 16:47 via dailymail.com
  
  A Long Island woman narrowly escaped being buried alive when she was swallowed into an eight-foot-deep cesspool hole in her backyard on her birthday.
  
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• Nine EU countries can pause EES rollout for the rest of 2026 — here’s why

  19-09-2026 16:38 via metro.co.uk
  
  The roll-out of the entry and exit system (EES) hasn’t exactly been smooth (Picture: Getty Images)The EU has allowed multiple countries in the Schengen Zone to pause rolling out the entry and exit system (EES) in full.At least nine countries can now wait until the necessary technology required to complete facial and fingerprint scans is up to scratch.These countries include France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland.
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• Meet America's bravest boyfriend: Notorious widow shacks up with wealthy Texas exec... as her mother's murder hit on ex-husband is revealed in true crime documentary

  19-09-2026 16:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Dan Markel was gunned down outside his Tallahassee, Florida , home in 2014 while locked in a bitter custody battle for his two sons with his ex-wife Wendi Adelson.
  
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• 'Show-off' UberEats driver 'drifting' around ring road killed pedestrian

  19-09-2026 16:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Saleh Mahmoud Taha Hassan, 20, had been 'drifting and skidding' around Sutton Coldfield when he lost control of his Toyota Corolla and ploughed into Natasha Thorp and Cerys Cartwright
  
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• Zack Polanski has been hitting Duolingo again! Green Party leader issues new election message in Bengali after being mocked for his attempts at Urdu and French

  19-09-2026 16:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Green Party leader Zack Polanski has pleaded for votes in Bengali - just days after he was mocked for  trying to persuade the electorate in Urdu and French.
  
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• Banker stabbed to death by partner told colleague she ‘wasn’t coping’ with break-up

  19-09-2026 16:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Joanna Cierpka, 51 (pictured) denied murdering her partner Henrik Slotsaa after he told her he had met someone at work (Picture: Central News)A banker murdered by his partner offered her £70,000 and a plot of land in Greece in a split up deal, a court has heard.Henrik Slotsaa had admitted to his partner Joanna Cierpka on her birthday that he had met someone else he ‘liked’.Mr Slotsaa, 52, had offered Cierpka, 51, a financial settlement for a breakup, months before his body was
  
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• Family of woman who was killed after she was kicked out of an Uber awarded $40 million

  19-09-2026 16:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, got into an Uber with her friend after a night out in Orange County, according to her parents, Carol Normandin and Ken Parker.
  
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