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• M4 crash live: Police close carriageway both directions as incident unfolds, second road in traffic chaos

  07-12-2025 00:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A second road has since closed overnight, sending traffic into chaos with miles-long queues
  
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• As many as one in three new car sales in parts of UK were through taxpayer-funded Motability scheme for welfare claimants, new figures show

  07-12-2025 02:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Motability scheme allows disability welfare claimants to swap their mobility allowance for a lease on a new car, which are also exempt from VAT and insurance premium tax.
  
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• Reform UK gets first House of Lords member as Tory donor jumps ship

  07-12-2025 02:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last night, it was revealed Lord Offord is set to quit the Lords within weeks to stand as a Reform candidate for the Scottish Parliament in May.
  
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• Oi mate! Please stop calling everyone mate - while even Prince William is happy using the term, survey finds older people and women find it especially annoying

  07-12-2025 02:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the term is almost certain to irritate the over-50s and women, it has become widespread in the UK - with even the Prince of Wales apparently addressing a butler that way.
  
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• Street once plagued with crime is now the 'coolest' in America after undergoing dramatic transformation

  07-12-2025 02:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Orchard Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side has a rich history. In the 1800s and 1900s it was intentionally avoided by many due to crime but in the last 30 years it has been transformed.
  
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• Andrew saved millions by paying peppercorn rent on his daughters' St James's Palace flat

  07-12-2025 02:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The disgraced royal paid less than £20,000 a year for a lavish central London apartment worth more than 12 times that amount - £240,000 a year - to the Crown's coffers.
  
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• Mikel Arteta disagrees with Unai Emery title claim after Arsenal defeat to Aston Villa

  07-12-2025 02:02 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 PageMikel Arteta insists Aston Villa are Premier League title contenders this season, despite Unai Emery playing down his side’s chances after their 2-1 win against Arsenal on Saturday.Arsenal’s lead at the top of the Premier League has been cut to two points after their defeat at Villa Park as Manchester City went on to beat Sunderland 3-0 at the Et
  
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• The first year of the Wii U was better than the Switch 2 – Reader’s Feature

  07-12-2025 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  Nintendo Land was a good launch game (Nintendo)A reader is disappointed by the Metroid Prime 4 reviews, and the first year of the Switch 2 in general, and says he had more fun with the Wii U’s Nintendo Land.I regret buying my Switch 2. It’s not the most amount of money I’ve ever wasted, and I imagine it’ll probably seem worthwhile in a year or two, but I have not enjoyed its first year at all. The first year of the Switch 1 was incredible, probably the best ever for any
  
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• Was animal lover Claudia Schiffer quizzing Keir Starmer over bird flu outbreak closing in on her flock?

  07-12-2025 01:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former supermodel Claudia Schiffer - who sat next to Keir Starmer at last week's German state visit banquet - has been hit by a bird flu outbreak near her country mansion.
  
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• A steak dinner on a regular basis can help fight off colds and flu bugs faster

  07-12-2025 01:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists said it's crucial to get enough iron ahead of a viral infection to 'prep' the immune cells for an attack, so eating a diet containing plenty of it should help to bolster the immune system.
  
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• Distracted driving: Motorists using their mobile phones at the wheel killed 42 people last year and caused hundreds of serious accidents

  07-12-2025 01:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Distracted motorists caused a total of 655 serious accidents, the latest data shows.
  
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• MPs probe Crown Estate after it rakes in £1.1billion profit from offshore wind farms

  07-12-2025 01:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The estate, which owns the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland on behalf of the monarch, recorded profits of £1.1billion in each of the past two financial years
  
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• MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Teenage angst is not an illness that needs a life-changing label

  07-12-2025 01:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Before the Second World War , the problem barely existed. Most children went directly from school to work and did not have time for much introspection.
  
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• Barristers vow to 'bring courts to their knees' in strikes against David Lammy's plans to slash number of jury trials

  07-12-2025 01:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Parts of the profession want to 'bring the courts to their knees' in order to 'destroy' Labour's reforms, legal insiders revealed.
  
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• Lucy Letby 'used as scapegoat for failings of senior doctors' according to her childhood friend

  07-12-2025 01:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  the friend - a medical research scientist - told a meeting of Letby's supporters last week that she believed doctors had waged a 'petty vendetta' against Letby.
  
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• Woman found dead in car outside police station went undiscovered for three days

  07-12-2025 01:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman had entered the police station on Tuesday where she engaged with police and spent some time in the foyer before exiting the station and returning to her vehicle at about 6:30pm that day
  
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• Kaitlan Collins issues terse response to Trump's bonkers rant about her White House ballroom question

  07-12-2025 01:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 33-year-old took to her Instagram and responded to the commander-in-chief after he criticized her on Saturday morning in a blistering rant to his Truth Social page.
  
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• Netflix deal puts Gary Lineker in podcast super league - but can he succeed?

  07-12-2025 01:07 via bbc.com
  In a big money move, Lineker will go head-to-head with his old employer with The Rest Is Football.
  
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• Labour's obesity tsar urges restaurants to give women smaller portions than men as they need less calories

  07-12-2025 01:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Naveed Sattar said menus should be adapted to include smaller versions of meals that contain fewer calories, as part of an effort to drive down obesity rates.
  
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• Daily horoscope December 7, 2025: Today’s predictions for your star sign

  07-12-2025 01:01 via metro.co.uk
  What’s in store for you today? (Picture: Metro.co.uk)Mercury in Scorpio makes an alliance with Scorpio in Saturn. This rational blend will allow you to see what you want clearly, so ensure you set a goal today.Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius, you crave stability. Whether it’s setting your long-term path or cutting through domestic noise, avoid risk.Today is all about being grateful for your present, and looking to the future. Any cosmic uncertainty is dispelled, so use this chan
  
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• Retail apocalypse leaves two malls in Dem-run state close to death as stores close

  07-12-2025 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two malls in New Jersey are slowly dying as they continue failing to attract shoppers in what is supposed to be the busiest season of the year for the retail sector. Malls all over the country are struggling.
  
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• 'I don't want to die estranged from Meghan. I want to meet my grandkids and Harry': Thomas Markle speaks to the Mail's CAROLINE GRAHAM from his hospital bed in this world exclusive interview

  07-12-2025 00:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Markle, 81, who has been estranged from his daughter since her wedding to Prince Harry, was admitted to a hospital in Cebu in the Philippines, after his left foot suddenly turned blue-black
  
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• Huge manhunt underway after prisoners escape through a wall from Louisiana jail

  07-12-2025 00:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Louisiana authorities are still hunting for 24-year-old murder suspect Keith Eli, the last of three violent inmates who escaped through a crumbling jail wall and scaled down using bedsheets.
  
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• M4 crash live: Police close carriageway both directions, while second road shut off traffic chaos

  07-12-2025 00:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A second road has since closed overnight, sending traffic into chaos with miles-long queues
  
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• 'To quell my screams the Soviet doctor aimed a revolver between my eyes and threatened to blow my brains out': HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE on the British servicemen treated in Stalin's hospitals

  07-12-2025 00:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This chilling testimony comes from the memoir of Morris Mills, who with so many other British seamen was treated for terrible wounds while serving on the Arctic convoys during Second World War.
  
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• Heartbreaking final words of pregnant mother Samanvitha Dhareshwar after she was hit and killed by a car while walking with her family in Hornsby

  07-12-2025 00:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One of the men involved in the tragic crash that claimed the life of a mother and her unborn child has spoken out.
  
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• Comrade Starmer! As desperate Labour rakes over Nigel Farage's schooldays, we reveal the KGB's toxic propaganda machine and the hard-Left past Sir Keir would rather we all forgot

  07-12-2025 00:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Security experts have suggested that Starmer's only mistake on this occasion was youthful naivete in signing up to a venture run by a totalitarian Communist regime..
  
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• Top head: We're too quick to say pupils have anxiety when it's just the ups and downs of being a teenager

  07-12-2025 00:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It follow Health Secretary Wes Streeting's announcement, that an independent review would be held into the diagnosis of mental health conditions in the face of soaring numbers of sufferers.
  
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• 'A clear challenge to Slot's authority in Salah's show of rebellion'

  07-12-2025 00:36 via bbc.com
  Mohamed Salah's astonishing public attack on Liverpool and Arne Slot piles pressure on the troubled head coach, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.
  
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• Balvinder Sopal comforted by Motsi Mabuse as she breaks down after ‘magical’ Strictly performance

  07-12-2025 00:32 via metro.co.uk
  Balvinder Sopal grew emotional as she and Julian Caillon stood for judging (Picture: BBC)Key Pointssummary__ai-icon
  Balvinder Sopal received her highest score yet on Strictly, 35 points, for a Viennese Waltz to ‘Never Enough’ from The Greatest ShowmanOvercome with emotion after receiving high praise from the judges, Balvinder was comforted by Motsi Mabuse with a hugFans and judges were deeply moved by the performance, praising her determination and the emotional resonance of her dan
  
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