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• I’m A Celebrity 2020: Viewers ‘outraged’ over Shane Richie’s ‘easy’ trial as he wins 12 stars

  24-11-2020 23:58 via metro.co.uk
  
  Shane Richie smashed his task on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here (Picture: ITV)I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! viewers were left fuming over Shane Richie’s trial, branding it ‘easy’.The EastEnders star, 56, smashed the Cruel Jewels task on Tuesday after he was forced to crawl around surrounded by 200 spiders – and came away with all 12 stars.His campmates were thrilled by the news, which came at the end of a tense few days in Gwrych Cast
  
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• What is Australia Day and when is it celebrated?

  26-01-2021 09:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Celebrations are more muted this year because of covid (Picture: AP Photo/Mark Baker)Australia Day is celebrated by people Down Under, but it’s not all barbecues and booze.
  If you’ve noticed the day seems a little heated, it’s because it’s quite a controversial part of the Aussie calendar.
  Find out all you need to know about Australia Day here…Watching Australia Day celebrations and wondering what they mean?When is Australia Day?Australia Day is celebrated on Janua
  
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• Thomas Tuchel expected to be in charge of Chelsea for Premier League clash with Wolves

  26-01-2021 09:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  Thomas Tuchel’s arrival at Chelsea is imminent (Picture: Getty Images)Thomas Tuchel is yet to be announced as Chelsea manager, but he could still be in charge of the Blues when they host Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday night in the Premier League.Frank Lampard was sacked as Chelsea boss on Monday morning after a string of poor results in the Premier League and a failure to get the best out of his expensive summer signings, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz.It is no secret that Tuchel is set
  
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• Korean rapper Iron dies aged 29

  26-01-2021 09:38 via metro.co.uk
  
  Iron was found unconscious outside an apartment building (Picture: Blockberry)South Korean rapper Iron has died aged 29.The star was found ‘bleeding and unconscious’ outside an apartment building in Seoul’s Jung District at around 10.25am on January 25.According to a spokesperson from Seoul Jungbu Police Station, an apartment guard called the emergency services when they discovered Iron.They told Dispatch: ‘He was urgently taken to the hospital, but he passed away.‘
  
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• EU threatens to block or restrict vaccine exports as row explodes over supply

  26-01-2021 09:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The UK's Vaccine Minister blasted 'vaccine nationalism' as the EU warned new controls will be needed on the export of Pfizer vaccine from Belgium
  
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• Clever salad hack means you’ll never have soggy leaves

  26-01-2021 09:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  This is so smart (Picture: Meow Meix/Instagram)A crisp, fresh salad is the perfect weekday lunch – but there’s nothing worse than soggy leaves.Wet, slimy lettuce that’s lost all its crunch can quickly make you lose your appetite. And a disappointing lunch can ruin your whole day.Thankfully, a nutritionist has shared her ‘game changer’ hack that will ensure you’ll never have to eat a soggy salad – even if you leave it overnight.Amanda Meixner’s tric
  
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• Scientists' fury at 'incorrect' claim that Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is only 8% effective

  26-01-2021 09:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  German newspaper Handelsblatt published the figure citing senior sources in the country's Government. But Oxford and AstraZeneca have hit back saying the claims are 'completely incorrect'.
  
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• Tourist who had part of his arm ripped off by a LION on luxury safari reaches settlement

  26-01-2021 09:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patrick Fourgeaud, 64, was attacked by the lion during a trip in the Ruaha National Park in August 2015. His wife Brigitte, 63, had woken to find the animal sniffing at her back.
  
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• Christian Pulisic sends message to Frank Lampard after Chelsea sacking

  26-01-2021 09:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Christian Pulisic has thanked Frank Lampard following his sacking at Chelsea (Getty)Christian Pulisic has sent a message of support to Frank Lampard after he was sacked as Chelsea manager on Monday.The 42-year-old was relieved of the duties yesterday during a meeting a Stamford Bridge with Chelsea chiefs Marina Granovskaia and Bruce Buck.Lampard leaves Chelsea with the team having lost five out of their last eight Premier League games, and after an encouraging start to the campaign, the club are
  
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• Trump breaks silence to claim he’ll ‘forever be a champion for American people’

  26-01-2021 09:20 via metro.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has opened the ‘Office of the Former President’ to continue the Trump administration’s agenda (Picture: Getty Images)Donald Trump has claimed he will ‘forever be a champion for the American people’ in his first statement since leaving the White House.The former US leader opened the ‘Office of the Former President’ on Monday in order to continue his administration’s agenda through advocacy, organising, and public activism.Based in Flori
  
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• Skin cancer rates are rocketing upwards in the UK

  26-01-2021 09:12 via metro.co.uk
  
  A woman sunbathing in Wandsworth Park on a hot sunny day in London during the summer heatwave (Credits: Amer Ghazzal/REX)Rates of skin cancer have rocketed in the past few decades, including rising five-fold in males, according to a new study.Incidence rates for the disease – the fifth most common cancer in the UK – are also up 250% in females.The study, by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), analysed data on more than 265,000 people diagnosed with skin can
  
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• Snowpiercer season 2 episode 1 review: Sean Bean’s presumed-dead Mr Wilford takes time to show true colours

  26-01-2021 09:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sean Bean has arrived as Mr Wilford on Snowpiercer (Picture: Netflix)The passengers of Snowpiercer continue their treacherous journey across the frozen Earth in season two, with Sean Bean entering the fray as the powerful and previously presumed-to-be-dead Mr Wilford.In season one of the TV adaptation of Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film of the same name, Andre Layton (Hamilton star Daveed Diggs), the leader of the maltreated ‘Tailies’ at the back of the train, successfully enacts a reb
  
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• Poor white youngsters in 'left behind' towns much more likely to miss out on uni

  26-01-2021 09:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A study by the Office for Students found that young people on free meals or from disadvantaged areas comprised 92% of those in the bottom fifth of those likely to attend university
  
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• Giant head cyst explodes in doctor’s hands in extreme graphic pimple popping video

  26-01-2021 09:03 via metro.co.uk
  
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  The Bad Skin Clinic faces its most brutal pimple popping video yet as a man’s head cyst explodes in a doctor’s hands. In the new episode, which airs tonight on Quest Red, a man named James seeks the help of Dr Emma Craythorne to remove a cluster of protruding head bumps that have been slowly growing over 20 years. Unable to get the right help from doctors before now
  
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• WWE Raw results, grades: Randy Orton hits Alexa Bliss with RKO

  26-01-2021 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Viper strikes (Photo: WWE)WWE Raw went off air last night with Randy Orton delivering the RKO to Alexa Bliss.The Legend Killer – who has hit his devastating signature move on the likes of Stacy Keibler and Nia Jax in the past – took out the Goddess as the broadcast came to an end.Earlier in the night, Bliss recapped her recent feud with the Viper during a special edition of Alexa’s Playground.She said she couldn’t wait to see ‘him’ – The Fiend &ndash
  
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• The Cabins stars Sarah Hutchinson and Charlotte Taundry applaud ITV bosses for normalising LGBT+ dating

  26-01-2021 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sarah Hutchinson and Charlotte Taundry met on The Cabins (Picture: ITV)The Cabins stars Sarah Hutchinson and Charlotte Taundry have applauded the ITV dating show for ‘normalising’ LGBT+ love.The dating series throws two singletons into swanky, remote log cabins together, where they have to decide if they want to stay past the first 24 hours.The lovebirds met on the first series, which aired at the beginning of the month, and quickly became inseparable, holding hands in bed
  
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• Hollyoaks spoilers: 32 new images reveal George’s abuse exposed, hostage horror and huge exit

  26-01-2021 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s all kicking off in Hollyoaks (Picture: Lime Pictures)January has certainly been an eventful month for Hollyoaks, and you can be rest assured that it goes out in a big way, as February kicks things off with a bang.
  Dean Vickers (Paul Sloss) returns to win back so-called ‘soulmate’ George Kiss (Callum Kerr), which leaves John Paul McQueen (James Sutton) unnerved.
  However, when George uses him to get back at his beau, Dean decides enough is enough, and therefore tells Courtne
  
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• Holby City spoilers: Jac and Sacha face deadly danger

  26-01-2021 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Is Sacha a target? (Picture: BBC)Almost the first thing we see in tonight’s Holby City is a gun. A mystery person is sitting in a car in the hospital car park with a gun in their glove compartment and Sacha (Bob Barrett) in their line of sight. Could it be Jodie (Sian Reese-Williams), back to seek revenge after Sacha rejected her last week? Or maybe it’s Sacha’s daughter Beka (Francesca Barrett) who’s the real target?That’s Sacha’s worst fear – that Jodi
  
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• Boris Johnson to back Covid plan today forcing travellers into hotel quarantine

  26-01-2021 09:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister will hold a crunch Covid-O meeting today to thrash out the plan - but there is still no agreement about when it will be announced or who it will cover
  
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• Harry Redknapp backs Frank Lampard for Celtic job after Chelsea sacking

  26-01-2021 08:58 via metro.co.uk
  
  Frank Lampard is available for a new job after being sacked by Chelsea (Picture: AMA/Getty Images)Harry Redknapp has backed Frank Lampard to take over at Celtic, saying it would be interesting to see his nephew in competition with Steven Gerrard at Rangers.Lampard was sacked as Chelsea manager on Monday after 18 months in charge at Stamford Bridge, with Thomas Tuchel set to be announced as his replacement imminently.It has been a rollercoaster ride in management for Lampard so far, after a year
  
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• Up to 10cm of snow to hit parts of UK after ‘snowiest spell’ in two years

  26-01-2021 08:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  People go sledging in the snow on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)More snow and rain are expected to sweep through parts of the UK today.It comes after the country had its snowiest spell for two days, with almost seven inches of snowfall overnight on Sunday.Some 20 weather stations across England recorded 5cm of snow or more for three days running.The Met Office said early cloud, rain and hill snow were likely for Northern Ireland, Wales and England’s
  
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• Snow and ice warnings continue across UK with another four inches set to fall

  26-01-2021 08:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  People go sledging in the snow on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)More snow and rain are expected to sweep through parts of the UK today.It comes after the country had its snowiest spell for two days, with almost seven inches of snowfall overnight on Sunday.Some 20 weather stations across England recorded 5cm of snow or more for three days running.The Met Office said early cloud, rain and hill snow were likely for Northern Ireland, Wales and England’s
  
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• Brazil pandemic like 'plague' as patients 'drop like flies' in oxygen shortage

  26-01-2021 08:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brazilian medical volunteers in Manuas, which has been devastated by coronavirus, are having to deprive some Covid patients of oxygen so others can receive life-saving treatment
  
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• People warned not to book summer holidays yet as PM ‘approves hotel quarantine’

  26-01-2021 08:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ministers have warned there are still too many people in hospital with coronavirus to consider booking summer holidays at the moment (Picture: Reuters)People should avoid booking summer holidays at the moment, a Government minister has warned.Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said: ‘I think it’s far too early. There’s still 37,000 people in hospital with Covid at the moment, it’s far too early for us to even speculate about the summer’He added there would be an announ
  
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• ‘Don’t book your summer holidays yet’, minister warns

  26-01-2021 08:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ministers have warned there are still too many people in hospital with coronavirus to consider booking summer holidays at the moment (Picture: Reuters)People should avoid booking summer holidays at the moment, a Government minister has warned.Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told Times Radio: ‘I think it’s far too early. There’s still 37,000 people in hospital with Covid at the moment, it’s far too early for us to even speculate about the summer.’He said the ‘p
  
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• Mikel Arteta provides update on Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ahead of Southampton vs Arsenal

  26-01-2021 08:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed Arsenal’s FA Cup fourth round defeat against Southampton (Picture: Getty)Mikel Arteta is unsure whether captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will be available for selection against Southampton this evening.
  The Arsenal skipper missed Saturday’s FA Cup fourth round defeat against the same opponents due to a ‘personal matter’.In his absence, the Gunners’ defence of the trophy they won last season, thanks mainly to his four goals across th
  
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• NRL star Masada Iosefa dies aged 32 after accident in the Outback hours before his birthday

  26-01-2021 08:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Masada Iosefa, 32, who played for the Penrith Panthers and Wests Tigers, died after a quad bike accident in the Northern Territory on Monday night.
  
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• Coronavirus vaccine minister tells Brits "not to book overseas summer holidays"

  26-01-2021 08:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nadhim Zahawi says it is "far too early" to think about booking a summer getaway with 37,000 people still in hospital with coronavirus
  
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• Schools could see staggered return with primaries reopening first

  26-01-2021 08:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Schools in areas of the country with lower infection rates may also reopen before places still considered coronavirus hotspots (Picture: Getty Images)Ministers are considering a ‘phased return’ of pupils which would see primary schools and key exam years going back first.Schools in areas of the country with lower infection rates may also reopen before places still considered coronavirus hotspots.Department of Education insiders have revealed the potential plans to the Sun, insisting
  
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• Primary schools could be first to reopen in ‘phased return’ to classroom

  26-01-2021 08:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Schools in areas of the country with lower infection rates may also reopen before places still considered coronavirus hotspots (Picture: Getty Images)Ministers are considering a ‘phased return’ of pupils which would see primary schools and key exam years going back first.Schools in areas of the country with lower infection rates may also reopen before places still considered coronavirus hotspots.Department of Education insiders have revealed the potential plans to the Sun, insisting
  
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