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• Marks and Spencer customers issued urgent caution — 'stop using immediately'

  18-08-2026 12:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A product recall alert has been issued
  
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• Prostate cancer biopsies are unnecessary for many men, study finds

  19-08-2026 01:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A trial by University College London Hospitals has found that experienced radiologists can diagnose prostate cancer with 100% accuracy just from MRI scans, without the need of a biopsy
  
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• Council try to block travellers from entering field with 'ring of steel' and use tractor to kick up dust and force caravans out

  19-08-2026 01:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Contractors in Gosport, Hampshire, have tried to intimidate travellers away from setting up camp on a field near a school.
  
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• London 'billionaires' row' copes admirably with record-breaking drought as gardens remain an oasis of green

  19-08-2026 01:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Aerial images show at least a handful of the mega mansions in The Bishops Avenue, in Hampstead, north London,have not succumbed to seeing their lawns turn into dustbowls.
  
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• Home Office 'scared of scrutiny' as it rushes through plan to build one of Europe's biggest immigration detention centres on seafront site

  19-08-2026 01:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Haslar Immigration Detention Centre in Gosport, Hampshire closed a decade ago but  is set to be reopened and enlarged to house 600 foreign criminals and illegal migrants.
  
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• Daily horoscope August 19, 2026: Today’s predictions for your star sign

  19-08-2026 01:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Here’s what the stars have in store for your day (Picture: Metro.co.uk)The Moon in Scorpio reveals things that may otherwise have been hidden. Be open to new realisations.
  Virgo, Leo and Cancer, today is all about clarity for you. Use whatever new knowledge this Lunation affords you.Don’t be shocked or set off kilter by the boldness of this cosmic placement. Stay grateful and unruffled, and all will be well.
  Ahead, you’ll find all star signs’ horoscopes for today: Wednes
  
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• The jobs drought: Vacancies are at 12-year low as firms stop hiring amid fears over Labour's 'attacks on business'

  19-08-2026 01:00 via dailymail.com
  
  Britain is enduring a 'jobs drought' under Labour after vacancies fell to a 12-year low and unemployment rose, official figures show.
  
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• Study suggests sleeping well keeps middle-aged people fit to stay in work longer

  19-08-2026 00:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sleeping longer than the NHS advises - more than nine hours - or waking regularly in the night is linked to having to leave the workforce earlier, new research has suggested
  
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• Dubai residents sent missile alert after Iran launches fresh strikes on UAE

  19-08-2026 00:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The US and Iran have been in repeated bouts of conflict since February 28, when the US and Israel carried out joint strikes on several key Iranian sites - Iran retaliated and struck sites across the Middle East, including the UAE
  
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• 'Cookout killer' Death Row inmate William Silvia executed for murder of wife

  19-08-2026 00:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops
  
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• 'Hostile' witness erupts on stand in Tupac murder trial and makes shocking admission: 'I would have shot him': Live updates

  19-08-2026 00:37 via dailymail.com
  
  A former security guard for Death Row Records testified in court that he would have shot Tupac Shakur if the rapper had ever tried to fight him.
  
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• Mother saw son walking down the road with teacher who was abusing him and found photobooth pictures of them together, court told

  19-08-2026 00:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, was spotted walking down a north London road with the then-teenage boy by his mother.
  
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• Autopsy reveals cause of death of Thai teenager, 17, allegedly killed by Aussie - as cops claim his DNA was found on her body

  19-08-2026 00:20 via dailymail.com
  
  Simon Peter Carman, 45, from Perth's southern suburbs, could face the death penalty over the alleged murder of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla, also known as Cake.
  
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• UK weather maps show exact time violent thunderstorms and rain to batter nation

  19-08-2026 00:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New weather forecast maps show a deluge day incoming for most of the UK this week, with heavy rain, some hail, and a massive band of thunder streaking across every home nation
  
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• Masked schoolboys are caught raiding honesty box cake shed... before being sent back red-faced with £20 in hand

  19-08-2026 00:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Three masked schoolboy 'gangsters' were spottedentering The Capel Cake Shed in Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, on Sunday afternoon, and taking 11 items worth £27.50.
  
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• Andy Burnham says Britain 'supports Ukraine 100%' after Putin warned 'there will be a price to pay' for supplying Kyiv with drones

  19-08-2026 00:04 via dailymail.com
  
  'We are not fair-weather friends, we will be there in Ukraine's hour of need and that won't change,' the Prime Minister said.
  
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• Criminal's tail-wagging Labrador leads police to his hiding spot after he abandoned pooch while fleeing officers

  19-08-2026 00:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Charles Foy, 41, was spotted riding an e-scooter - a vehicle that can't be insured and is illegal to use on public roads - by a patrol officer in February 2026.
  
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• Return of the Vicar of Tiddly: Disgraced priest who drunkenly crashed Bishop of Lincoln's car lands new role at London church

  18-08-2026 23:57 via dailymail.com
  
  A vicar who caused havoc by crashing his bishop's car while three times over the drink drive limit has been given a new job by the Church of England at a Grade II listed church in Chiswick, west London.
  
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• Narcos expert who placed US sanctions on notorious Kinahan trio reveals KEY strategy the State must implement immediately to stop Cartel rivals' plans to fill inevitable vacuum

  18-08-2026 23:54 via dailymail.com
  
  'My worry would be… it's going to affect the pipelines of those drugs. How do we prevent anyone from stepping in and filling that?'
  
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• Inside Andy Burnham's mission to continue Manchester's homelessness success across the whole of England

  18-08-2026 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As Andy Burnham prepares to apply the lessons learned from his Manchester 'A Bed Every Night' scheme, local groups say it has become a victim of its own success
  
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• Drunk Jet2 passenger 'ruined holidays' of 300 passengers with what he said to crew

  18-08-2026 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jason Mulhern, 57, forced a Jet2 flight to Dalaman in Turkey to be cancelled at Manchester Airport after he became abusive to cabin crew during a drunken tirade, a court heard
  
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• Andy Burnham launches national drive to offer all rough sleepers bed this winter in 'moral mission'

  18-08-2026 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham writes for The Mirror on his 'moral mission' to end rough sleeping - one of his first instructions to officials after becoming Prime Minister
  
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• 'People rough sleeping in doorways and stations isn't the Britain I want to see'

  18-08-2026 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham writes for The Mirror about his pledge to end rough sleeping - it was the first instruction he made as Prime Minister when he entered Downing Street last month
  
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• Residents of London borough famed for low council tax could see 160% RISE next year - but Conservatives blame Labour for taking millions in funding

  18-08-2026 23:34 via dailymail.com
  
  Households in Wandsworth, which has long been known for its low bills, are facing the biggest rise in council tax ever imposed in England.
  
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• Nigel Farage 'should hang his head in shame' as Brexit led to small boat crisis, critics warn

  18-08-2026 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ministers face calls to sign up to the EU's new Migration and Asylum Pact, which the Lib Dems say will finally stop the small boats crisis as Ed Davey turned his fire on Nigel Farage over Brexit
  
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• Three family members die and fourth is critical after beach horror on Sussex coast: Teenage girl, woman and man are dead and young girl is fighting for her life - witnesses tell of shocking scene

  18-08-2026 23:29 via dailymail.com
  
  Ambulances, two helicopters and coastguards rushed to Shoreham-by-Sea at 3pm after fishermen reported seeing four people struggling in the water. .
  
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• Fowl play! The judge, his peacocks, and locals who can't stand the noise any more

  18-08-2026 23:28 via dailymail.com
  
  A villager lodged a formal complaint with the local council about the noise they make - and other locals have since made their own concerns known.
  
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• Joe Biden's FBI accused of unprecedented stunt to keep his family's alleged crimes secret

  18-08-2026 23:26 via dailymail.com
  
  Senators are demanding that Trump officials fork over classified documents that may shed light on an FBI effort to 'misclassify' files on the Biden family's alleged wrongdoing.
  
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• School board member admits to lying about football coach calling her son the N-word after it emerged he didn't even attend his school

  18-08-2026 23:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Fresno Unified Board Trustee Keshia Thomas has been told she should quit after she withdrew a claim that her son's former football coach hurled a racial slur at her son.
  
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• Erin Patterson's appeal begins: Triple murderer to fight her sentence today as lawyers claim she suffered miscarriage of justice at high-profile trial

  18-08-2026 23:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Erin Patterson's fight to quash her convictions will start in the Victorian Court of Appeal on Wednesday.
  
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