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• Keep on running... 90-year-old Ian sets a world record for 10km

  21-09-2026 01:21 via dailymail.com
  
  A 90-year-old runner who completed a 10km race in just over an hour is believed to have set a world record for his age.
  
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• RAF jet crashed into ball of flames just yards from caravans after pilots ejected, park owner reveals - as he tells of 'lucky escape'

  23-09-2026 19:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Richard Owen, 88, who owns Afallon Caravan Park near Rhosneigr, Anglesey, told of his family's lucky escape from the flaming debris - which was scattered across his land.
  
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• Essex cricketer Robin Das charged with two counts of rape

  23-09-2026 19:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robin Das, who has made 62 appearances for Essex County Cricket Club, will appear at Inner London Crown Court next month to face two charges of rape
  
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• Pictured: Mother and her three school-age children who were killed in Bootle house fire - after hero father 'tried to save family by breaking windows'

  23-09-2026 19:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Lisha Brabin and three of her children are understood to have been found dead in a bedroom at their home in Stone Square during the early hours of yesterday morning.
  
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• Glamorous Midwest mayor embroiled in scandal after her police chief tried to have photos of her smooching ex-boyfriend REMOVED from internet

  23-09-2026 19:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Self-described community activist Jahdante Smith has claimed that Police Chief Todd Bettison asked him to remove the images of Sheffield with her ex, Marvin Walker, from Facebook.
  
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• Hiker who fell 1,000 feet to his death on steep, narrow trail is SECOND man to die on same Washington mountain in one weekend

  23-09-2026 19:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Gary Idleburg, 66, and Peter Kalapaca, 78, were both hiking in Washington over the weekend when they slipped and fell to their deaths.
  
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• Family tribute to children and ‘devoted’ mother killed in Bootle house fire

  23-09-2026 19:27 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kane Stephenson reportedly escaped the blaze that claimed the life of his wife LishaTributes have been paid to a mother and her three children who died in a house fire in Merseyside.The victims, named locally as Elisha Stephenson and her three children, Prue, Ellis and Leo, were killed after a fire ripped through their semi-detached home in Bootle, Liverpool on Tuesday.Their father Kane Stephenson is understood to have desperately tried to rescue those inside, breaking windows before being forc
  
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• Bootle house fire: Mum and her three children found dead in bedroom are named

  23-09-2026 19:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Elisha Brabin, 36, Leo Brabin, 16, Ellis Brabin, eight, and Prudence Brabin, seven, were found dead after a fire ripped through the home in Stone Square, Bootle on Tuesday
  
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• Myles Lewis-Skelly names shock Tottenham player as toughest Premier League opponent

  23-09-2026 19:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  Myles Lewis-Skelly was very impressed by a Spurs man (Picture: Getty Images)Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly has given a surprise answer when asked who is the toughest opponent he has faced in the Premier League.Still just 19 years old, Lewis-Skelly has made 81 first team appearances for the Gunners across all competitions and won six England caps.He broke into the team in the 2024/25 season and starred at left-back, but has been used more recently in midfield.The teenager has a Premier Leagu
  
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• Heir to 'McMansion' fortune drove truck over tourist sunbathing on idyllic Hamptons beach, claims $7m lawsuit

  23-09-2026 19:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Jack Farrell, son of Hamptons developer Joe Farrell, was accused of 'wanton and reckless conduct' in an incident allegedly occurring on August 18.
  
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• Grandad dies after severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight causes heart failure

  23-09-2026 19:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Geoff Kitchen had previously undergone surgery for coronary artery disease, but the inquest concluded that the physiological effects of severe turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight triggered his fatal cardiac arrest
  
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• Polished young woman, 28, convicted of sickening child abuse against youngster

  23-09-2026 18:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Official documents from Alabama courts reveal that Griffith was previously charged in another child abuse case in 2024.
  
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• Prison tutor, 51, sent explicit images to inmate she was found in office with

  23-09-2026 18:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prison tutor Oksana Antanaitiene, 51, from Grays, Essex, has pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office after sending sexually explicit images to an inmate at HMP Chelmsford
  
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• Sensational Tylenol Murders breakthrough as Idaho cops say mysterious 'Unknown wanderer' found dead in church in 1982 is doctor likely behind seven poison killings

  23-09-2026 18:44 via dailymail.com
  
  On Wednesday morning, the Ada County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) held a press conference, revealing that the unidentified man was Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski.
  
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• Met Office issues ‘exceptionally warm’ forecast and names areas facing 28C

  23-09-2026 18:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some parts of the UK could see temperatures reach at least 28C on Friday as Met Office weather forecasters say conditions will be 'exceptionally warm' for this time of year
  
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• Project Helix more powerful than PS6 reveals new leak that implies 2027 launch

  23-09-2026 18:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  Only a year away, possibly (Metro)Microsoft’s next Xbox will have more teraflops than Sony’s PS6 according to an insider, as more evidence points to a 2027 launch. Another console generation might seem like the last thing anyone needs right now, between pricey components and the underutilised potential of the current hardware, but that’s seemingly what we’re getting in 2027. Countless signs have pointed to a 2027 launch for Sony’s PlayStation 6 and Micros
  
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• Brit tourist, 71, found dead 'by heartbroken wife' on Greek holiday island

  23-09-2026 18:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple were holidaying at the coastal resort town of Hersonissos on Crete's north coast when the man's wife reportedly found him in their hotel room
  
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• Netflix delays Gary Glitter documentary after discovering ‘new legal information’

  23-09-2026 18:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Netflix has paused its Gary Glitter documentary just three weeks before release (Picture: Rob Stothard/Getty Images)Netflix has confirmed it will be pushing back the upcoming documentary about glam rock star and convicted sexual abuser Gary Glitter.Hunting Gary Glitter is a three-episode series which was scheduled for release on October 14, with the release date and trailer dropping just last week. However, a spokesperson for Netflix confirmed the streaming giant has been forced to push ba
  
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• Tightening their belts: Boss of Timpson says shops have seen 680 per cent rise in drilling of extra holes as fat jabs slim down customers

  23-09-2026 18:33 via dailymail.com
  
  Olivier Picard, chairman of the National Pharmacy Association, said: 'It is encouraging to see more and more people needing extra notches in their belts after starting weight management treatments.'
  
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• Wes Streeting slaps down backlash over UK unit to combat Russian online lies

  23-09-2026 18:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wes Streeting said the security chiefs had been ordered to intervene to grapple with threats from hostile states 'of a different order of magnitude' to previous propaganda efforts
  
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• QUENTIN LETTS: His encounter with Trump exposed Burnham as a shrivelling, gauche bag of nerves - ill-suited to be PM in perilous times

  23-09-2026 18:24 via dailymail.com
  
  His glasses lopsided, his cufflinks over-large, hands clutched and knees all a-knock, Burnham looked a bag of nerves when meeting Trump at the United Nations building in New York.
  
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• Out-of-her-depth Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson left city convulsed with panic for hours after deadly shooting by refusing to let cops hold press conference until SHE arrived, hearing told

  23-09-2026 18:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Seattle's assistant police chief has asserted that he was ready to give a press conference more than three hours before the mayor finally spoke to the media, but was told to wait for her.
  
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• AOC reveals the brutal calculation behind her 2028 White House ambitions as she opens up about her two major vulnerabilities

  23-09-2026 18:19 via dailymail.com
  
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still weighing where her political future lies, but two questions are clearly weighing heavily on her mind, her race and her gender.
  
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• Tony Blair commits to new arms race: Former Prime Minister, 73, shows off buff physique as he hits the gym in Indonesia

  23-09-2026 18:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The ex-Labour Prime Minister, 73, looked in tip-top condition as he posed for a picture with an Indonesian politician.
  
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• Mother accused of trying to drown her three young children by driving their car into a creek to remain behind bars

  23-09-2026 18:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The Victorian mother had been in the grips of a severe mental health breakdown at the time, the court was told.
  
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• Fury as new residents in Canadian neighborhood are accused of creating squalid 'community garbage pile' that just keeps growing

  23-09-2026 18:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Surveillance footage obtained showed a man getting out of his car to make three trips to the pile to dump his garbage before driving away in broad daylight.
  
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• 'Prince William will be absolutely furious Prince Harry is making a documentary about their mum'

  23-09-2026 18:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  With the Duke of Sussex reportedly in talks to produce a documentary about his late mother ahead of the 30th anniversary of her death, Russell Myers told the Mirror’s Pod Save the King podcast that Prince William will be ‘furious’
  
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• Falmouth bomb: Evacuation and train lines closed as huge explosive found

  23-09-2026 18:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A suspected American missile from World War Two was found at Falmouth Docks, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes
  
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• Woman is gang-raped on migrant boat during deadly Atlantic crossing to Spanish holiday island

  23-09-2026 18:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Police have arrested three men accused of gang-raping a woman on a migrant boat during an Atlantic crossing in which more than a dozen people are believed to have died.
  
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• UK grocery store boss extradited to Italy on £40million tobacco smuggling charges after anti-mafia probe

  23-09-2026 18:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Hasan Ferhat Baybasin, 34, was sent to Genoa accused of masterminding a huge international operation flooding Britain with illegal cigarettes using complex maritime routes
  
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