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• 'I added 5 self-care steps into my routine and it's transformed my life'

  24-07-2026 08:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's often difficult to find the time to look after our own mental health and wellbeing, but for one woman there are five 'hacks' we can apply to care for ourselves during our everyday routines
  
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• Lindsay Clancy's chilling final words to her children revealed at trial

  21-08-2026 21:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Avram Mack, the psychiatrist who evaluated Lindsay Clancy for the state in April 2026, testified about the horrifying events in the hours leading up to the 2023 killings.
  
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• Paramedic who told stroke patient 'Jesus isn't coming to help you' and forced her to crawl downstairs with brain bleed is struck off

  21-08-2026 21:10 via dailymail.com
  
  NHS paramedic and Army reservist Rachel Lemonofides has been struck off after telling a stroke patient that 'Jesus and Jehovah are not coming to help you'.
  
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• Police launch probe after man, 52, is found dead in custody

  21-08-2026 21:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Officers found the man unresponsive in his cell at the Windmill Road custody suite in Croydon at 12:30am on Friday after he became unwell.
  
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• Atletico Madrid send message to Julian Alvarez after Arsenal transfer approach

  21-08-2026 20:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Julian Alvarez has been badly advised, says Atletico Madrid’s CEO (DeFodi via Getty)Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin insists the club will not sell Julian Alvarez to Arsenal or Barcelona and believes the Argentine forward has been badly advised during the summer transfer window.Arsenal have made a fresh approach to sign Alvarez and have indicated that they would be willing to pay in excess of £100 million for the 26-year-old.However, Alvarez’s preference is to join B
  
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• Supreme Court issues bombshell ruling on Trump's sprawling White House ballroom

  21-08-2026 20:42 via dailymail.com
  
  The Supreme Court has made a major decision on Donald Trump's ballroom.
  
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• Midwestern man, 20, died unexpectedly after collapsing during hike with friends

  21-08-2026 20:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Benjamin Speidel, 20, was hiking in a group along the Bridle Trail near Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas around 7.40pm Saturday when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.
  
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• Widow banned from entering US for fisherman husband's funeral after he died in boating accident

  21-08-2026 20:40 via dailymail.com
  
  A windowed Mexican immigrant has been banned from entering the US to attend her late husband's funeral after he died in a boating accident.
  
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• Map shows UK areas most at risk of flooding as El Nino to bring 'unprecedented' storms

  21-08-2026 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The strongest El Nino 'in centuries' is set to batter Britain with storms in the months ahead, meteorologists have warned, as the nation faces high flood risks this autumn and winter
  
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• Mystery as retired spy general with links to Russia’s Defence Ministry found shot dead

  21-08-2026 20:21 via metro.co.uk
  
  Major-General Igor Laptev’s body was found at his apartmentA retired Russian spy general who ran a company supplying secure communications to Vladimir Putin’s Defence and Interior ministries has been found dead in Moscow.Major-General Igor Laptev’s body was discovered in his study at his apartment on Verkhnyaya Krasnoselskaya Street on August 20.The 83-year-old had a gunshot wound to the head, according to reports in Russia.As reported by pro-Kremlin newspaper Moskovsky Komsom
  
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• Cyclist killed in 'random unprovoked attack' while on bike ride was 'much-loved son'

  21-08-2026 20:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man and a woman are in custody after George Glover was attacked in Leicester
  
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• 'Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's return to the UK poses one key question - why now?'

  21-08-2026 20:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  OPINION: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's planned return the UK after years spent criticising the royal family and Harry fearing for the safety of his wife and children, creates more questions than answers
  
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• Meghan Markle 'is in talks to star in Guy Ritchie's Netflix show The Gentlemen' when she and Harry return to the UK after six years

  21-08-2026 20:10 via dailymail.com
  
  The Duchess of Sussex is rumoured to be making a return to showbusiness after it was revealed she and Prince Harry will be moving back to the UK later this month.
  
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• Cheerleader Laken Snelling's chilling courtroom revelation about how she killed newborn baby as she pleads guilty to his manslaughter

  21-08-2026 20:09 via dailymail.com
  
  Laken Snelling, 22, initially pleaded not guilty after being indicted on several charges after being arrested last August.
  
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• Two teens seriously injured after sword attack on first day back at school

  21-08-2026 19:50 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 PageTwo teenagers have been left with severe injuries after being attacked by a man with a sword at a Swedish high school.The pupils had just returned to the Brinell High School in the small town of Fagersta, central Sweden, following their summer break.A massive emergency response was triggered when a man armed with a sword entered this afternoon, with two boys
  
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• Syrian refugee, 19, who raped drunk young woman in Bournemouth beach toilet as she tried to get home from a night out is jailed for six years

  21-08-2026 19:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Mohammed Abdullah initially offered the young woman a ride home on the back of a bike he had rented before launching an attack on the victim.
  
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• 'Fat and happy' and fatally unready: Trump insiders' brutal warning about 'tsunami' barreling at West Wing

  21-08-2026 19:44 via dailymail.com
  
  President Donald Trump and his allies face an onslaught of Congressional hearings, investigations, subpoenas, if Democrats seize the majority in the next Congress.
  
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• Woman, 19, raped on Bournemouth seafront had desperately fought her attacker

  21-08-2026 19:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mohammed Abdullah, 19, has been jailed for raping a 19-year-old woman in a terrifying attack in a Bournemouth seafront toilet
  
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• Marco Rubio overtakes JD Vance by shocking figure in new poll as 2028 momentum builds

  21-08-2026 19:32 via dailymail.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has surged past Vice President JD Vance in early 2028 White House testing.
  
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• Eight killed in plane crash near ultra-remote Alaska radar station

  21-08-2026 19:29 via dailymail.com
  
  The Cessna 441, which left from Anchorage, crashed shortly after 12:15pm local time on Thursday while headed to Cape Newenham Long Range Radar site.
  
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• Arsenal vs Coventry LIVE: Premier League latest score and goal updates as Guimaraes injured

  21-08-2026 19:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arsenal host Coventry City at the Emirates (Picture: Getty)Arsenal will get their Premier League title defence underway tonight against newly-promoted Coventry City at the Emirates.After winning their first league title in 22 years, the Gunners will be keen to lay down an early marker to their rivals against Frank Lampard’s Sky Blues.Summer signing Christos Tzolis could make his league debut for Mikel Arteta’s side tonight, but there are doubts over Bruno Guimara
  
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• Arsenal vs Coventry LIVE: Premier League latest score and confirmed lineups as Guimaraes injured

  21-08-2026 19:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arsenal host Coventry City at the Emirates (Picture: Getty)Arsenal will get their Premier League title defence underway tonight against newly-promoted Coventry City at the Emirates.After winning their first league title in 22 years, the Gunners will be keen to lay down an early marker to their rivals against Frank Lampard’s Sky Blues.Summer signing Christos Tzolis could make his league debut for Mikel Arteta’s side tonight, but there are doubts over Bruno Guimara
  
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• Arsenal vs Coventry LIVE: Premier League latest score and confirmed lineups

  21-08-2026 19:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arsenal host Coventry City at the Emirates (Picture: Getty)Arsenal will get their Premier League title defence underway tonight against newly-promoted Coventry City at the Emirates.After winning their first league title in 22 years, the Gunners will be keen to lay down an early marker to their rivals against Frank Lampard’s Sky Blues.Summer signing Christos Tzolis could make his league debut for Mikel Arteta’s side tonight, but there are doubts over Bruno Guimara
  
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• Baby killer Constance Marten granted permission to appeal her 14-year sentence over the death of her fifth child following nationwide manhunt with her rapist lover

  21-08-2026 19:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Constance Marten, pictured, has been granted permission to appeal her sentence over the death of her baby Victoria. Marten and partner Mark Gordon went on the run when the baby was born.
  
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• Glasgow Tesco evacuated as huge blaze sparks 'total panic' and thick smoke pours out

  21-08-2026 19:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Customers and staff were evacuated from a Tesco in Glasgow after a fire broke out in its underground car park.
  
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• Six men deny being involved in South Wales grooming gang that 'raped and sexually abused children over 11-year period'

  21-08-2026 19:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Nine men, aged between 54 and 76, were arrested in July as part of an investigation into allegations of abuse against victims between 1985 and 1996.
  
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• Female teacher shows cops areas of her classroom where she sexually abused boy, 17

  21-08-2026 19:08 via dailymail.com
  
  Heather Mashburn-Smith, 37, was arrested in April after deputies investigated allegations that she subjected the boy to unlawful sexual activity twice at Port Charlotte High School.
  
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• Who was Liv Flaherty in Emmerdale?

  21-08-2026 19:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Liv Flaherty was mentioned in tonight’s Emmerdale (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)The beauty of soap is that we get to follow characters over whole lifetimes – from birth to death and beyond – and every so often we get to relive memories along with our favourite characters.
  In tonight’s (Friday, August 21) Emmerdale, we were treated to one of these moments, as Vinny Dingle (Bradley Johnson) told Kev Barton (Chris Coghill) about his late wife, Liv Flaherty.While on a walk,
  
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• I slept with my new partner and his ex – it was amazing

  21-08-2026 19:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  They had both made me orgasm (Picture: Getty Images)As I wrap myself around my boyfriend, Peter*, in bed, he puts one arm around my shoulders and, with the other, he looks at his phone.Meanwhile, a third hand moves from my hips and grabs me by the waist.A woman whispers into my ear from behind: ‘You’re amazing.’Peter looks over at us both – and smiles at a successful threesome.But that wasn’t even the strangest part of this moment. Because I wasn’t just in be
  
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• Mother in drug mule gang is facing jail for helping smuggle £13m worth of cannabis into Britain in 22 suitcases after they paid for extra baggage charges

  21-08-2026 18:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Paige Crisp and her accomplices were stopped by Birmingham Airport border with a staggering 460 kilograms of the Class-B drug on August 9, 2024.
  
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