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• Jose Mourinho shuts down Scott McTominay question before Benfica v Napoli reunion

  10-12-2025 10:32 via metro.co.uk
  Jose Mourinho’s Benfica face off against Antonio Conte’s Napoli in the Champions League (Picture: Getty)Jose Mourinho says he is fully focussed on footballing matters and his reunion with former favourite Scott McTominay will not be on his mind when Benfica take to the field against Napoli.The Special One has had a mixed start to life as head coach of Benfica having returned home to Portugal to over the reins from Bruno Lage back in September.His Benfica side sit third in the Primei
  
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• Gavin Newsom reveals the awkward text Kamala Harris sent to him about her book as they circle each other ahead of 2028

  11-12-2025 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California Governor Gavin Newsom quickly endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democrats' 2024 nominee when President Joe Biden left the race in July of last year.
  
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• Last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots written hours before she was beheaded for treason by Elizabeth I is to go on display

  11-12-2025 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mary wrote to her brother-in-law King Henri III of France at 2am on Wednesday February 8, 1587, just six hours before she was put to death for treason.
  
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• When Lily, 14, started feeling unwell, doctors brushed it off as 'growing up. Then came a life-changing diagnosis

  11-12-2025 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Perth mum whose teenage daughter has shared the warning signs doctors initially dismissed as signs of 'growing up' before she was diagnosed with a life-altering illness.
  
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• Major UK supermarket rolls out nationwide service making Amazon returns easier than ever

  11-12-2025 13:35 via metro.co.uk
  Morrisons is rolling out the Amazon parcel returns service nationwide in 2026 (Picture: Getty Images)Returning a parcel usually comes with a fair amount of faff, from getting yourself to the Post Office to remembering to package it up before the curfew.
  Is it any wonder two thirds of men have kept unwanted items because they ‘can’t be bothered’ to go through it all?Now though, Morrisons has launched a new service to take the stress out of the process, partnering with Amazon to
  
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• Are we about to revisit Brexit, again?

  11-12-2025 13:34 via metro.co.uk
  Just when we thought we had heard the last of it… (Picture: Getty)Read more from Craig Munro in Metro’s politics newsletter Alright Gov? which delivers exclusive analysis and more to your inbox every week.Iron your mini Union Jack and get practicing your robot dance moves to Abba – we’re heading back to the good old days of Brexit!It turns out three and a half years wasn’t enough time to spend debating the details of the UK’s relationship
  
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• Rebecca Park: Five grim new details in missing pregnant woman's murder

  11-12-2025 13:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Rebecca Park, 22, was 38 weeks pregnant when she was reported missing, with her body found several weeks later with horrific injuries and her abdomen cut open
  
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• The budding artist with his first ever exhibition - at the age of 100

  11-12-2025 13:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Co-op chief exec David Hughes MBE took up the brush and easel 40 years ago. Now his work has gone on display just as he is about to reach his milestone birthday
  
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• Eurovision looks doomed after its latest Israel controversy

  11-12-2025 13:31 via metro.co.uk
  I subscribe to its founding values – peace through culture and European unity (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Yesterday, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), organisers of Eurovision, decided that, despite opposition, Israel is in for the 2026 song contest in Vienna. Within minutes Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia said that, as a result, they were boycotting the competition.As a huge fan, I am feeling completely lost. I know that sounds dramatic, but Eurovision isn&rsquo
  
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• Failed asylum seeker convicted of raping woman in her own home after his crying victim made secret recording of attack

  11-12-2025 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chrey Callender, an hotel migrant from Trinidad, forced himself on the young woman after turning up drunk at her home at the end of a night out.
  
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• Burger King announces plans to open another 30 restaurants a year in the UK

  11-12-2025 13:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Burger King to open a wave of new company-run sites in the UK as it also announced a rise in annual profits and sales
  
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• Runner, 29, training for half-marathon was electrocuted by a low hanging cable, inquest hears

  11-12-2025 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Henry Oates, also known as 'Harry', was found dead on 27 October 2023 near Lupton, close to Kendal in Cumbria, while visiting his parents.
  
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• Asylum crisis deepens as court backlog more than doubles in a year to nearly 70,000 cases (and guess who's footing the bill!)

  11-12-2025 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New data from the Ministry of Justice showed the backlog of asylum cases in the lower tribunal rocketed by 104 per cent to 69,670 by the end of September, up from 34,234 a year earlier.
  
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• Liverpool student stunned after becoming first person ever to win ITV gameshow’s £100,000 prize

  11-12-2025 13:20 via metro.co.uk
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  Lucie Alcock, a student from Liverpool, became the first to win the full £100,000 on The 1% Club.Lucie solved a challenging logic puzzle in half the allotted time, impressing host Lee Mack and viewers.Under the new rules, Lucie has a chance to compete again for even more winnings in the following episode.Created with AI assis
  
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• Police called as council meeting descends into chaos after Reform UK race row

  11-12-2025 13:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The first full Staffordshire County Council meeting since the resignation of leader Ian Cooper, following a racism row and his expulsion from Reform UK, was suspended as police were called
  
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• MPs and peers could sit over Christmas break to pass workers' rights overhaul after Starmer's latest humiliating defeat in the Lords

  11-12-2025 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.
  
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• ChatGPT ‘spurred man to kill his mum before taking his own life’

  11-12-2025 13:18 via metro.co.uk
  Stein-Erik Soelberg was suffering from ‘paranoid delusions’ before his mum’s murder and his death (Picture: Curtis Means/Reuters/Metro)OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a hefty lawsuit for ChatGPT allegedly leading a man to kill his mum and take his own life.Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, was suffering ‘paranoid delusions’ before fatally strangling his mother, Suzanne Adams, at their home in Connecticut this August.
  Now, a lawsuit filed by Adams’ estate has alleged O
  
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• Prince William contacts Kevin Sinfield amid calls for knighthood 'ban' to be overturned

  11-12-2025 13:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Sinfield has been hailed a hero after completing his 7 in 7: Together challenge, with the rugby league legend revealing the Prince of Wales has reached out to him
  
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• Hunt for hooded gang who stole hundreds of items from Bristol Museum warehouse

  11-12-2025 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The force is appealing for information after the precious items were swiped on September 25. The lucrative heist took place between 1am and 2am.
  
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• MPs and peers face sitting over Christmas to pass workers' rights overhaul after Starmer's latest humiliating defeat in the Lords

  11-12-2025 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.
  
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• Major update on 28 Years Later franchise ahead of sequel release

  11-12-2025 13:14 via metro.co.uk
  28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is getting a sequel (Picture: Sony Pictures)The 28 Years Later franchise is reportedly set to make a third film in the trilogy following the positive response to the latest spin-off.The original 28 Days Later film was released in 2002 and met with a huge critical response. 28 Weeks Later, a sequel, was released in 2007, and in 2025, a third sequel, 28 Years Later, was released, both having a lot of success.In 2026, another film in the same universe is set to be r
  
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• Family outrage as poster of sadistic killer Colin Pitchfork used to promote concert

  11-12-2025 13:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pitchfork, now 65, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years in 1988, later reduced to 28 years, for raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.
  
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• Woman accused of stabbing her film director sister to death and taking her diamond encrusted Rolex watch appears in court

  11-12-2025 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nancy Pexton, 69, is said to have knifed Jennifer Abbott, also 69, in the neck on June 10 this year at the victim's home in Camden, north London.
  
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• Fearful Trump strong-arms world court in bully boy bid to rewrite justice rules

  11-12-2025 13:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  America is now threatening the International Criminal Court with fresh US sanctions if it refuses to amend its own rulebook to shield Donald Trump and his senior officials from potential prosecution
  
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• Generational divide: How the Christmas dinner table is facing a quiet crisis

  11-12-2025 13:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nine in ten members of Gen Z say they are distracted by tech at the Christmas dinner table - and just under 40% struggle to make festive conversation, a survey shows
  
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• Primal Scream under fire for showing allegedly antisemitic images on stage at a London gig

  11-12-2025 13:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rock band, whose frontman Bobby Gillespie has long been an outspoken critic of Israel , showed images of a Jewish Star of David merged with a Swastika.
  
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• Putin torturer sent to round up Ukraine war deserters ‘shot dead in revenge killing’

  11-12-2025 13:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Konstantin Ektov, a former plumber who worked as a military policeman using barbaric tactics to round up deserters from the Ukraine frontline of Putin's war, was shot dead by a soldier he was hunting
  
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• 'I snitched on Bonnie Blue in Bali - cops were baffled by one disturbing detail'

  11-12-2025 13:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nottingham-born Bonnie Blue has discovered her fate after being arrested in Indonesia. And now the local who tipped the police off has spoken out
  
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• Football fans fear Trump tourism rule will lead to one major problem at World Cup 2026

  11-12-2025 13:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The United States is co-hosting the FIFA 2026 World alongside neighbours, Canada and Mexico, but a proposal by the Trump administration may scupper many fans' plans to attend
  
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• Ex-MP who attended Nazi-themed stag party still has access to parliament

  11-12-2025 13:02 via metro.co.uk
  A former Conservative MP who attended a Nazi-themed stag do and two others suspended in the cash-for-questions affair still have passes allowing them access to parliament (Picture: Getty)A former MP who organised a Nazi-themed stag do and two others suspended over the ‘cash for questions’ scandal have retained access to parliament in the years since they left Westminster.Aidan Burley, who was sacked as a ministerial aide after details emerged of the trip where guests raise
  
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