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• How Parkrun contributes £667,000,000 a year to the economy

  01-10-2024 19:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s estimated the weekly run club contributes nearly £700,000,000 per year to the economy (Picture: PA)As Parkrun prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary, researchers have discovered the run club contributes nearly £700,000,000 per year to the UK economy.Led by Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield, the study followed newly registered parkrunners for six months. They found that life satisfaction increased after doing as few as two parkruns, with t
  
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• Lorraine Kelly is releasing a song with record-breaking 90s heartthrob

  15-10-2024 14:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  Lorraine Kelly is proving she’s a woman of many talents, and is joining forces with a record-breaking 90s heartthrob.30 years after Marti Pellow’s rendition of Love Is All Around, he’s collaborating with ITV presenter to release a new charity single, alongside a choir of women who discovered they had breast cancer after watching her chat show.Lorraine, 64, said she plans to play the song, originally by The Troggs in the 60s, to her baby granddaughter Billie, who was b
  
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• Sara Sharif ‘started wearing hijab to school to hide facial injuries’

  15-10-2024 14:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  The trial for Sara Sharif’s murder began this week at the Old Bailey (Picture: PA)Sara Sharif began to wear a hijab to school to ‘conceal injuries to her face and head’, a trial at the Old Bailey heard.Urfan Sharif, 42, along with partner Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are all accused of murdering Sara at her home in Woking last year.All three deny murder as their trial at the Old Bailey began earlier this week.
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• I overhead a woman and her friend chatting – one word crushed me

  15-10-2024 14:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Each time I hear it, it thickens already thickened skin (Picture: Melissa Parker)Just a few weeks ago, I was meeting a friend for coffee and running a little late when I heard a woman on the street yell to her friend, ‘You’re such a “r****d.’  At that moment, the ground felt like it disappeared below me. By the time I processed what was said, they were gone. I felt sick – not just because the word had been spoke
  
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• Jordan North can ‘guarantee’ Strictly star is confirmed for I’m A Celebrity 2024

  15-10-2024 14:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jordan North has revealed he ‘knows’ some of the I’m A Celebrity 2024 campmates (Picture: Rex)Jordan North has declared he knows who is appearing on the upcoming season of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
  The TV and radio presenter, 34, is currently the host of Capital Breakfast, and formerly hosted shows on BBC Radio 1.In 2020, he also finished as the runner-up on the ITV reality programme.Now Jordan has claimed he’s seen the ‘list’ of stars
  
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• Tech tycoon Bob Lee's horrific last words are revealed 'after he was stabbed by glamorous girlfriend's brother'

  15-10-2024 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lee, 46, begged for help during a 911 call heard in the opening statements of the trial for his accused killer, tech consultant Nima Momeni, 40.
  
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• How Meghan Markle 'really felt' about marrying into royal family revealed by her ex-staffer

  15-10-2024 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Steve Davies was first introduced to Meghan in 2018, when he was hired by Suits broadcaster NBC to protect Meghan while she was in Toronto, Canada .
  
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• Bloke reveals why he locked his girlfriend on the balcony of a lavish Sydney hotel - before she then plunged 10 storeys to her death

  15-10-2024 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scott Minigle has revealed why he locked his partner, Jodie Lovell, on a hotel balcony shortly before she fell to her death.
  
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• Walgreens will shutter more than 1,2000 stores in bid to turn around struggling chain

  15-10-2024 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Walgreens said on Tuesday it would shut 1,200 stores over the next three years as new CEO Tim Wentworth plots a turnaround at the struggling pharmacy chain operator
  
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• Moment husband says 'I'm not bothered' as he's arrested for trying to brutally murder his wife

  15-10-2024 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Taylor (pictured), 57, went on the run with his teenage son after stabbing his partner multiple times and locking her in the family home on February 15.
  
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• Israel's Iron Dome system is running out of ammunition and a joint Hezbollah/Iran missile strike could overwhelm defences - as US warns it can't keep supplying IDF AND Ukraine

  15-10-2024 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Israel enjoys the protection of a world-class air defence system that sees no less than four different kinds of ground-to-air missile platforms combine to intercept short, medium and long-range threats
  
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• Should England's next manager be English? Row as it's revealed FA are 'in talks' with German Thomas Tuchel over top job

  15-10-2024 13:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 51-year-old has been out of the game since leaving Bayern Munich at the end of last season when they failed to win the Bundesliga - but is reportedly in talks to take over at Wembley.
  
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• Shocking moment former Georgetown women's basketball player Sydney Wilson is shot dead by cop after slashing him multiple times with knife

  15-10-2024 13:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shocking police body camera video shows the moment a Virginia woman was shot dead by an officer after she charged him with a knife.
  
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• 'I'm a dermatologist - common skincare error is making your complexion worse'

  15-10-2024 13:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A skin expert has urged people to not follow skincare routines online as you may be 'setting yourself up for failure' and said it's better to just keep it simple with just two products
  
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• Dog trainer reveals two vital steps owners must take in first day with new puppy

  15-10-2024 13:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Top trainer Will Atherton has revealed the best practices for looking after and training a brand-new puppy during a sweet video with his German Shepherd, Reggie
  
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• Mother of British beautician accused of £3.5million smuggling plot insists she is innocent - and is just guilty of naivety

  15-10-2024 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kim Hall (left) went to Mexico to collect two suitcases packed with cocaine and flew them into Chicago 's O'Hare airport where she was apprehended by Homeland Security.
  
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• Lord Cameron reveals he was poised to slap sanctions on 'extremist' Israeli ministers in his final days as foreign secretary and urges Labour to 'look again' at censuring members of Benjamin Netanyahu's government

  15-10-2024 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tory peer said he had been 'working up' sanctions against Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
  
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• The town that eats the most Cornish pasties in the world – and it’s not in Cornwall

  15-10-2024 13:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Cornish pasty has a home away from home in North America (Picture: Metro.co.uk)There’s a place in the world that is obsessed with Cornish pasties and it’s 5,321 miles from where you’d expect.The British pastry-based snack is normally associated with Cornwall but people in the small Mexican mining town of Mineral del Monte have been scoffing them since the 1800s.
  Mexican links with Cornwall date back to 1824, when Cornish miners emigrated to Hidalgo in search of silver and g
  
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• Heartbreak as groom-to-be is flung to his death from hot air balloon as it crashed to the ground

  15-10-2024 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Julián Andrés Martínez (pictured) was attempting to rescue people trapped inside the large balloon when he was dragged off his feet and thrown into the air.
  
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• Bets on US election surge to $12million after ban is lifted with traders predicting narrow win for Trump

  15-10-2024 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than $12million has been placed on the US election following the lifting of a ban on betting last week, with traders predicting a narrow win for Donald Trump. 
  
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• Rape investigation confirmed by Swedish prosecutors following claims that French football star Kylian Mbappe was under suspicion

  15-10-2024 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Nordic country's Prosecution Authority did not name him in a statement in which they said a criminal report had been submitted to police.
  
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• Prince William, 42, dons some VERY white trainers and pairs it with a suit as he heads to NFL event in London

  15-10-2024 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prince William was spotted wearing a very bright pair of trainers with his suit as he visited the NFL Foundation in London on Tuesday. 
  
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• Pennsylvania voters back Zelensky's controversial Air Force One trip to ammunition plant, poll finds

  15-10-2024 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pennsylvania voters don't have too many complaints about Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky visiting an ammunition plant in the state, according to an exclusive new poll.
  
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• Trending £8.50 wine has fans in frenzy after brand adopts their hilarious nickname

  15-10-2024 13:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  La Vieille Ferme, known as 'the chicken wine', has gone viral on social media for its taste and price tag – but it's not just the flavour of the drink that has people talking
  
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• Jay Slater mystery breakthrough? TV detective claims he finally knows the REAL reason why teenager left Airbnb hours before his death

  15-10-2024 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TV detective Mark Williams-Thomas has claimed he knows the real reason why tragic British teenager Jay Slater left a Tenerife Airbnb in the early hours of the morning before his death.
  
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• Fury as plans to demolish unique hotel designed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set to go ahead

  15-10-2024 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Victorian Society, a charity which fights to preserve Victorian and Edwardian architecture, warned that the demolition of the £6million Lyndhurst Park Hotel is 'not justified'.
  
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• Russell Brand flogs £180 'magical amulet' which he insists will protect fans from 'Wi-Fi and evil energies' in airports

  15-10-2024 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russell Brand has recently remade himself as Christian influencer but has been branded a 'grifter' online for his latest stunt, which sees him advertising the amulets for a whopping £180.
  
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• Campaigners' fears over gaming site that's a 'haven for paedophiles': Child safety experts urge Ofcom to act over claims Roblox exposes youngsters to 'grooming and porn'

  15-10-2024 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The popular game in which young players create or play in virtual universes has been accused by US firm Hindenburg Research of exposing children to 'grooming, pornography and violent content'.
  
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• Sara Sharif was forced to wear a hijab to 'conceal' her injuries before she was beaten to death by her father, court hears

  15-10-2024 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his 10-year-old daughter Sara to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August after subjecting the schoolgirl to weeks of brutal abuse.
  
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• Family of British beautician accused of £3.5million smuggling plot insists she is innocent - and is just guilty of naivety

  15-10-2024 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kim Hall (left) went to Mexico to collect two suitcases packed with cocaine and flew them into Chicago 's O'Hare airport where she was apprehended by Homeland Security.
  
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