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• Map shows London’s knife crime hotspots including posh borough

  21-09-2026 12:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  These are the capital’s worst areas for knife crime (Picture: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)More than 13,000 knife crimes have been recorded across London in the past year.Between September 2025 and August 2026, a total of 13,649 crimes were reported in the capital, of which over half were connected to a robbery.The figure is down from the previous year, when knife-related offences in London surpassed 16,000 for the first time for the 12-month period ending March 2024.The wo
  
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• Three people are killed and four fighting for life after gunshots ring out at Midwest nightlife spot

  28-09-2026 03:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Three men were killed and four others wounded after gunfire erupted at an after-hours spot on Detroit's west side early on Sunday morning.
  
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• Tragedy as couple are killed in head-on crash after 29-year-old's pickup truck swerved in wrong lane

  28-09-2026 03:11 via dailymail.com
  
  A 54-year-old man and his wife were killed when the 29-year-old allegedly crossed the road's center line and slammed into them. Photos from the scene show the couple's car totally mangled.
  
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• Hollywood actress confronts three masked robbers trying to break into her mansion while in her PAJAMAS

  28-09-2026 03:05 via dailymail.com
  
  The actress saw three people dressed in all black and wearing ski masks approach her $1.5 million Hollywood Hills home on Saturday evening.
  
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• Moment huge bluefin tuna leaps out the sea just feet away from stunned surfers

  28-09-2026 02:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Striking footage shows the animal dive into the water to pursue a smaller fish during a surfing class at Fistral Beach in Newquay on Tuesday last week.
  
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• BBC faces backlash over story claiming viral bare fingernails trend is 'racist and classist'

  28-09-2026 02:43 via dailymail.com
  
  The BBC has been accused of publishing 'divisive tosh' after an article about a viral manicure trend is 'classist' and rooted in 'white supremacy'.
  
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• Former footballer Joey Barton could be stripped of jail privileges after 'mobile phone and tobacco found in his cell'

  28-09-2026 02:39 via dailymail.com
  
  The 44-year-old former Manchester City, QPR and Newcastle midfielder was caught with the contraband following a search carried out by anti-corruption officers.
  
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• Six out of ten maternity deaths were 'avoidable' with better care, new reviews finds

  28-09-2026 02:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Some six in ten who died in pregnancy, birth or the postnatal period between 2022 and 2024 could have been saved with better care - an all-time high since records began in 2009.
  
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• Hero farmer who foiled RAF 'terror bomb' says security forces should be red-faced that a 'plucky amateur' saved the day - and claims: 'The worst thing is that we saw MORE than five suspects...'

  28-09-2026 02:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Driving home from a party in the early hours of yesterday, a local farmer was shocked to see three large white vans blocking a road in her quiet village.
  
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• Twelve teenagers suffer gunshot wounds as shootout erupts at birthday party in Georgia park

  28-09-2026 02:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A sheriff said an argument erupted after a birthday party was evicted from a rental - and then they 'brandished firearms and then began firing at each other'
  
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• Teen becomes first person to face terror charges because of his 'hatred for humanity'

  28-09-2026 02:29 via dailymail.com
  
  It comes amid concerns that young people preparing mass casualty attacks are escaping with relatively minor charges because they are not considered to have an ideology.
  
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• Teenage girl, 14, among three dead in multi-vehicle crash with a truck - as 11-year-old girl fights for life and learner driver rushed to hospital

  28-09-2026 02:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Two people in one vehicle, who have yet to be identified, died.
  
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• Moment crazed killer, 18, remains calm as police arrest him outside home for murdering his teaching assistant mother - after keeping her captive then striking her to death with a hammer

  28-09-2026 02:18 via dailymail.com
  
  Tristan Roberts, 18, of Prestatyn, North Wales, was put in handcuffs by officers outside his home after Angela Shellis, 45, was discovered dead in the Morfa Nature Park.
  
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• Tense stand-off in Ulster as thousands of protesters attend first loyalist parade for three decades 

  28-09-2026 02:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Thousands of protesters, including first minister Michelle O'Neill, blocked Garvaghy Road in Portadown to stop the Protestant Orange Order marching through the Catholic area.
  
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• Richard Hammond suffers fresh setback in the renovation of his £2m Welsh mansion... over fears of pollution to a nearby river and damage to archaeological remains

  28-09-2026 02:15 via dailymail.com
  
  The 56-year-old planned extensive additions to the six-bedroom Georgian manor house including adding a heritage-style showroom to house his extensive car collection.
  
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• Judge grants anonymity to serial burglar fighting FIFTH deportation 'to protect him from Albanian crime gang'...then he shares video of himself in court

  28-09-2026 02:15 via dailymail.com
  
  The man has been convicted of multiple crimes in the UK and repeatedly deported by the Home Office before sneaking back into the country.
  
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• Moment Beau Lamarre-Condon is seen opening his gun locker before shooting deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

  28-09-2026 02:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Follow Daily Mail's live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon's murder trial.
  
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• Games Inbox: Is the next Super Mario game open world?

  28-09-2026 02:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Super Mario Galaxy movie didn’t hint anything about a new game (Universal Studios/Nintendo)The Monday letters page is alarmed to find out Super Mario 64 has a 30th anniversary going on this week, as another reader sticks up for Marvel’s Wolverine.Games Inbox is a collection of our readers’ letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected]
  Two anniversaries, no games
  I doubt Nintendo will acknowledge it but it’s th
  
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• Burnham to nationalise UK's busiest rail route in months: West Coast Main Line to be taken over 'at earliest opportunity'

  28-09-2026 02:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander last night said Avanti West Coast would be taken over at the 'earliest possible opportunity' when its latest franchise expires in March.
  
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• Keep Driving PS5 review – beware of hitchhikers

  28-09-2026 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Keep Driving – it’s not exactly Gran Turismo (YCJY Games)A roguelite road trip where your relationship with your parents may lead to the game over screen is one of the most endearingly oddball indie games of the year.There are times in life when less is more. If you’ve seen one too many expensively produced, but oddly peril free, CGI movie chase sequence or feel as though every single supermarket ready meal somehow manages to be simultaneously both too sweet and too salty, the
  
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• DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: Iran's waging a shadow war against Britain - and believe me, more attacks ARE coming. No one can say we weren't warned...

  28-09-2026 02:00 via dailymail.com
  
  My first thought on hearing that counter-terrorism police had declared a 'major incident' near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and arrested several men was a weary, 'Not another one'.
  
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• Anthony Albanese's government quietly grants permanent visas to 30,000 boat arrivals

  28-09-2026 01:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Most of these people, which include over 6,500 people from Iran and over 4,500 people from Afghanistan, have already been living in Australia on temporary visas.
  
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• Trump gives whole new meaning to press pool as he hints at remodeling of White House briefing room

  28-09-2026 01:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Trump has taken to Truth Social to suggest the White House press pool could be making a much more literal change going forward.
  
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• 'Iran bomb plot' at RAF base foiled by farmer's 999 call: Five arrested in early hours after three vans spotted near air base used by US bombers

  28-09-2026 01:24 via dailymail.com
  
  In a suspected Iranian plot, five men in three vans packed with explosives were stopped 350 yards from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire early yesterday.
  
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• Six out of 10 maternity deaths were 'avoidable' with better care, new reviews finds

  28-09-2026 01:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Some six in ten who died in pregnancy, birth or the postnatal period between 2022 and 2024 could have been saved with better care - an all-time high since records began in 2009.
  
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• DAN HODGES: An hour after Burnham's social care pledge, a text arrives from one of his allies. 'I think there will be an election in May.'

  28-09-2026 01:22 via dailymail.com
  
  To be fair to Andy Burnham, no one can say they don't know what he stands for anymore. Appearing on the BBC, the Prime Minister made the boldest commitment of his premiership
  
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• Pension triple lock may be scrapped to fund National Care Service: PM's social care pledge is predicted to cost taxpayers £18BILLION - with death tax also mooted to pay for it

  28-09-2026 01:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Speaking as the Labour Party conference got under way in Liverpool, the Prime Minister said he was ready to 'grasp the nettle'.
  
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• Woman who'd 'never hurt a fly' is given shockingly short jail sentence ONLY to be served on weekends after killing great-grandmother with car and fleeing scene

  28-09-2026 01:16 via dailymail.com
  
  Stephanie Holt, 32, was sentenced to 365 days in jail - served only on weekends - after fatally striking Mary Hulswit, 76, and leaving the scene.
  
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• Green shoots show new beginnings at site Sycamore Gap tree - three years after it was illegally felled

  28-09-2026 01:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The National Trust has showcased new growth at the UNESCO heritage site on the three year anniversary of the shock felling in 2023 by Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers
  
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• 'Free' social care could cost taxpayer £18BILLION as Labour floats scrapping pensions triple lock and introducing 'death tax' to pay for it

  28-09-2026 01:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Speaking as the Labour Party conference got under way in Liverpool, the Prime Minister said he was ready to 'grasp the nettle'.
  
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