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• Inside pregnancy scammer Kira Cousins' wild web of lies as SECOND 'baby scam' emerges

  07-12-2025 16:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As a second baby scam emerges in the case of Kira Cousins, the Mirror takes a look inside the complex web of lies woven by the pregnancy hoaxer, from her elaborate AI deception, to her controversial TV deal
  
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• Dozens of customers are poisoned by pub's Sunday lunch - including one who took leftovers home in doggy bag only for the dog to fall ill too

  10-12-2025 12:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dozens of diners have been struck down with food poisoning after tucking into a pub's Sunday lunch.
  
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• The loophole that could hand Bryan Kohberger a huge payday if he exposes his prison secrets

  10-12-2025 12:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dave Leroy, former Idaho Attorney General, reveals that Idaho laws can't stop Kohberger from selling his story. But, they can make sure he never gets his hands on the money himself.
  
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• Killjoy Lib Dem council bans tenants from putting Christmas wreaths on their front doors over health and safety - and threatens them with fines if they do not comply

  10-12-2025 12:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liberal Democrat-run Portsmouth City Council sparked fury after housing officers wrote to tenants telling them festive decorations were not permitted on the outside of their flats.
  
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• Anthony Hamilton relives chaotic experience of Snooker Shoot Out in Blackpool

  10-12-2025 12:45 via metro.co.uk
  The Snooker Shoot Out was previously held in Blackpool from 2011-15 (Picture: WST)The Snooker Shoot Out is back in Blackpool this week for the first time since 2015, with the Tower Circus likely to serve up a raucous atmosphere.The unique event on the snooker calendar sees one-frame matches played with a time limit of 10 minutes and under a shot clock.Not only is the game itself different, but the atmosphere could not be more contrasting to the studious silence of a ‘normal’ snooker
  
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• Peter Kay has plans for Phoenix Nights revival but there’s one big roadblock

  10-12-2025 12:44 via metro.co.uk
  Peter Kay has said he’s already started writing a Phoenix Nights revival (Picture: Channel 4)Key Pointssummary__ai-icon
  Peter Kay revealed he’s written scenes for a Phoenix Nights revival, but faces challenges with modernising the showHe is exploring de-ageing technology for flashback scenes but wants it to look convincingKay declined Netflix’s offer to host the show due to issues around including trigger warnings for dated comedy contentCreated with AI assistance. Quality ass
  
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• K virus symptoms to watch out for as new horror H3N2 flu strain rips through UK

  10-12-2025 12:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cases of the H3N2 strain of the flu virus have surged across the UK with NHS chiefs urging people with pre-existing conditions to get vaccinated ahead of Christmas
  
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• Deserted village that could house 50 people with its own playground, community hall and mansion house goes up for sale for just £2million

  10-12-2025 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plas Bellin includes an impressive 10 acres of land tucked away in the Welsh countryside, just under two miles from the picturesque village of Northop near Chester.
  
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• Prince William 'so sad' after sudden death of friend with heartbreaking statement

  10-12-2025 12:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prince of Wales has honoured environmentalist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has died at the age of 83, recalling fond memories of their time together in Africa
  
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• Male life expectancy has not returned to pre-pandemic levels with boys predicted to live for average of 79.1 years - compared to 83 for females

  10-12-2025 12:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A baby boy born in the UK between 2022 and 2024 can expect to live for an average of 79.1 years, compared to 83 for a baby girl.
  
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• The 'Staircase Killer' Michael Peterson breaks years of near-silence in the FREE The Crime Desk newsletter

  10-12-2025 12:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twenty-four years ago, the body of Kathleen Peterson was discovered in a pool of blood at the foot of a staircase. Now her convicted husband sits down with The Crime Desk in an exclusive interview.
  
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• A frog saved from croaking it, a yoga-loving gorilla and a fabulous fish feature among the winners of this year's Comedy Wildlife Awards

  10-12-2025 12:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The competition's latest crop of winners displays the animal kingdom at its most unpredictable, with photographers capturing scenes that resemble slapstick sketches more than actual images.
  
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• The truth about Becky finally exposed in Coronation Street as Carla fights back in early ITVX release

  10-12-2025 12:38 via metro.co.uk
  Carla Connor outsmarted her (Picture: ITV)The following article contains spoilers from an episode of Coronation Street that hasn’t aired on ITV1 yet, but can be viewed on ITVX.Carla Connor (Alison King) has uncovered some huge information about Becky Swain (Amy Cudden) in Coronation Street, but the fire in her belly that once drove her to destroying her enemy has been reduced to ash.Carla has felt isolated from Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) and Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) ever since Becky retu
  
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• PMQs: Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch amid Budget bombshell update

  10-12-2025 12:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It comes just hours after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves hit out at 'unacceptable' leaks of her second Budget on November 26 and told MPs the Cabinet Office was now investigating
  
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• Christmas party reveller's family plea for help 30 years on from disappearance

  10-12-2025 12:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Philip Fudge, 21, who travelled from Hull to Liverpool for party got into a taxi with two women and a man at the end of his night out. It was the last time he was seen
  
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• Britain WON'T copy Australia's ban on under-16s using social media as ministers warn it is 'unenforceable'

  10-12-2025 12:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australia this week became the first country in the world to ban social media for children with sites ordered to take steps to prevent under-16s accessing accounts.
  
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• My father was the Church of England's most prolific sexual abuser: Daughter speaks for the first time about John Smyth - the sadist who tortured boys in sinister soundproofed shed...but never faced justice

  10-12-2025 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The daughter of one of Britain's most barbaric and prolific child abusers has spoken about her sadistic father for the first time on camera in a new TV documentary.
  
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• Mum admits 'I do have something to declare' before shock discovery at UK airport

  10-12-2025 12:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mandy Hendry landed at Manchester Airport from Thailand and at first told Border Force officers she had cigarettes in a suitcase, before later saying she did have something to declare
  
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• Trump tells Zelensky he has until Christmas to accept his peace deal - as Ukrainian leader says he is 'ready to hold elections'

  10-12-2025 12:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US president's envoys, son-in law Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, delivered the ultimatum during a two-hour long phone call with Zelensky after discussions with Putin in Moscow.
  
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• Lewis Capaldi brutally roasts fans after they get engaged at his concert

  10-12-2025 12:26 via metro.co.uk
  Lewis Capaldi has called out fans who got engaged at his concerts (Picture: Matthew Baker/ Getty Images)Lewis Capaldi hasn’t missed his chance to take aim at a couple who staged a proposal in the middle of his show.The Scottish singer, 29, is currently travelling around Australia with his Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent tour.Although fans have been celebrating his return to the stage after a two-year break, several have also used his concerts as a place to propose to their partners.S
  
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• Teaching assistant banned from classrooms after telling pupils he had shot dead over 250 people as a military sniper codenamed Kill Switch and still had his gun at home

  10-12-2025 12:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A professional standards hearing heard that Scott John Trigg-Turner, 44, told students at Bassaleg School in Newport, South Wales, that he served in the US marines under the codename 'Kill Switch'.
  
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• Aldi slashing prices to 8p but you'll need to be quick

  10-12-2025 12:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The supermarket's festive deal is available for a limited time only
  
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• Fez buildings collapse: Kids among 19 killed in popular tourist city

  10-12-2025 12:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Young children are among at least 19 people who are known to have died when two buildings collapsed in one of Morocco’s most popular tourist cities
  
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• 'Entitled neighbour keeps clogging street with 10 trucks so I got petty revenge'

  10-12-2025 12:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman has blasted her neighbour for clogging up the street with his 10 trucks – and after watching his general behaviour for a while, she decided to teach him a lesson in kindness
  
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• Russian dead from Ukraine war listed as 'AWOL' amid Kremlin propaganda

  10-12-2025 12:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 150,000 Russian troops thrown into battle over key Donetsk region as Kremlin chiefs lie about war gains and disguise their dead or missing by listing them as being deserters
  
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• Revealed - Putin's plots to slaughter Western civilians: US plane bombs, derailing packed trains and poisoning our water supplies are among the plans foiled

  10-12-2025 12:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Security services say the latest revelations show the Kremlin is no longer just waging war on Ukraine, but targeting the West after attempting to poison water supplies and plant sleeper agents in Europe.
  
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• Gooning is the trance-inducing sex act dubbed the fetish of 2026

  10-12-2025 12:10 via metro.co.uk
  Gooning is only getting more popular (Picture: Getty/ Metro)The Dionysian act of ‘gooning’ has been dubbed the fetish of the year for 2026.Porn site Clips4Sale revealed sales of explicit videos featuring gooning have increased 151% since November 2023, with a 49% jump in sales in the past six months alone.The nsfw term was one of the top five most googled slang words in 2025, too, with 28,000 searches from curious Brits — that’s roughly 77 searches a day.It was also the
  
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• Skunk-scratch horror: Kidney donor patient killed by hidden rabies infection

  10-12-2025 12:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man has died of rabies after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor believed to have contracted the virus from a skunk scratch, in only the fourth transplant-transmitted rabies case in 50 years
  
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• ‘Proper player’ – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain blown away by Arsenal star in training

  10-12-2025 12:06 via metro.co.uk
  Arsenal have allowed Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to train with the first-team and the U21s (Picture: Getty)Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain says he could tell ‘right from the off’ that Max Dowman was a ‘proper player’ after being invited back to train with Arsenal this winter.After his Besiktas contract was terminated by mutual agreement in late August, Oxlade-Chamberlain has been putting in the hard yards to maintain his fitness levels with a view to finding a new club.Intent on pro
  
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• 2025 Snooker Shoot Out draw, schedule, TV channel, prize money and rules

  10-12-2025 12:03 via metro.co.uk
  Tom Ford is the defending champion at the Shoot Out this year (Picture: Getty Images)The Snooker Shoot Out gets underway on Wednesday as the unique event returns to Blackpool for the first time since 2015.The one-frame chaos of the Shoot Out has been on something of a UK tour being played in Reading, Watford, Milton Keynes, Leicester and Swansea but is now back at the Tower Circus, where it was played from 2011-15.The matches are all just a single frame, lasting a maximum of 10 minutes and play
  
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