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• Migrant smugglers find route to beat crackdown

  16-08-2015 22:05
  
  BRITAIN’S immigration farce took a new twist yesterday after a security clampdown in Calais led to a flood of migrants from neighbouring Belgium.
  
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• Daughter of billionaire LA Times owner berates her own father's newspaper for running advert for Israeli tourism

  04-10-2026 21:09 via dailymail.com
  
  Nika Soon-Shiong, the daughter of LA Times executive Patrick Soon-Shiong, slammed the paper for sharing an Israeli tourism advert.
  
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• 'I don't feel safe in my area once hailed as Britain's coolest neighbourhood'

  04-10-2026 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Resident Natalie Freeman says the heart is being "torn out" of Digbeth, a bohemian district of Birmingham known for its creativity where Peaky Blinders' creator opened a studio
  
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• Kitten found outside Tube station needs new home after being rescued by commuter

  04-10-2026 21:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  A kitten was spotted being given away outside Camden Town underground station (Picture: Blue Cross/SWNS)A London commuter rescued a newborn kitten being given away for free outside a tube station.The two-month-old was spotted being flogged for free outside Camden Town Station in north London.Voice actor Chloe Eves intervened to stop the cat from falling into the wrong hands or being abandoned.After being assessed by a vet, the ginger and white kitten was taken into the care of the Blue Cross ch
  
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• Half of Scottish swimming hotspots polluted... with one 20 TIMES over the safe E.coli limit

  04-10-2026 21:07 via dailymail.com
  
  It has become a favourite pastime for many Scots as they take a splash in the chilly waters around Scotland's shores.
  
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• Chris Appleton out of Strictly 2026 after losing dance off

  04-10-2026 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The first star to leave Strictly Come Dancing 2026 was confirmed in tonight's Results Show.
  
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• Strict fitness regime? It's child's play, says TV Lorraine

  04-10-2026 21:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Anyone who spends as much time as Lorraine Kelly chatting to celebrities on a sofa must run the risk of becoming a couch potato.
  
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• Kemi Badenoch vows she won't let the SNP and their friends 'rip the UK apart'

  04-10-2026 21:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Kemi Badenoch has vowed that she won't let a separatist alliance led by John Swinney 'rip the UK apart'.
  
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• Tories declare war on benefit scammers to end 'stone-cold stupidity' of the SNP's approach

  04-10-2026 21:03 via dailymail.com
  
  A new law is to be proposed to fix the SNP's 'broken' benefits system and finally bring down 'out of control' spending.
  
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• Revealed, how fans tried to usher in a new role for Simple Minds superstar

  04-10-2026 21:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr has revealed a humbling moment when a fan mistook him for an usher at one of his own gigs.
  
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• Collapse in school nurses risks creating a generation of sick children with a lifelong dependence on the NHS, report warns

  04-10-2026 21:02 via dailymail.com
  
  New analysis by The King's Fund think tank reveals the workforce has been 'hollowed out' in recent years, with remaining staff 'stretched thinner and thinner'.
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2026 eliminates first star hours after result is leaked

  04-10-2026 21:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Chris Appleton and Jamie Winstone had to dance for survival ahead of Strictly’s first elimination of the series (Picture: BBC/Guy Levy)For one Strictly Come Dancing 2026 couple, their journey to the Glitter Ball is over before it really began.The first elimination of the series aired tonight, with the judges’ scores added to those from last week’s live show, when there was no public vote.To determine their fate, the two lowest-scoring pairs had to perform again in the dreaded
  
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• Emmerdale’s Nicola and Sadie’s final showdown as Jimmy’s funeral descends into chaos

  04-10-2026 21:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The race is on (Picture: ITV)Nicola King (Nicola Wheeler) has been taken in by Sadie King’s (Patsy Kensit) lies hook, line, and sinker in Emmerdale and Sadie is dangerously close to claiming her prize.The prize being Jimmy’s (Nick Miles) £150k that he’s hidden somewhere, and Sadie wants to lay claim to. She’s told the village she was in a secret relationship with Jimmy for years and has been playing the grieving side piece ever since, but it’s all a lie &ndas
  
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• Police receive report of child rape at schools in England and Wales EVERY DAY on average, shocking figures reveal

  04-10-2026 20:58 via dailymail.com
  
  At least 8,500 sexual offences against children aged 13 or under were logged by police between 2021 and 2025 - including 2,000 alleged rapes or attempted rapes.
  
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• Karen Bass is slammed for defending being out of town when Palisades fire wrecked LA

  04-10-2026 20:48 via dailymail.com
  
  LA Mayor Karen Bass, 73, defended her travels to Ghana when the Palisades fires rampaged through California, as she blamed the city's size for its high number of crises.
  
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• Tehran holds its first military training course for women after calls for Iranians to 'sacrifice themselves'

  04-10-2026 20:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Women have been learning how to handle assault rifles, ride zip lines and carry out first aid at a military training camp in Tehran as the Islamic regime calls on Iranians to 'sacrifice themselves'.
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing's 11 safe couples announced before one tearful star axed

  04-10-2026 20:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's Movie Week on Strictly - and this year's celebrities will hoping to avoid the first dreaded dance-off tonight after a star-spangled Saturday evening
  
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• Police receive reports of child rape at schools in England and Wales every single day, horrifying figures reveal - with 8,500 sexual offences against children under 13 logged in five years

  04-10-2026 20:46 via dailymail.com
  
  At least 8,500 sexual offences against children aged 13 or under were logged by police between 2021 and 2025 - including 2,000 alleged rapes or attempted rapes.
  
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• ‘Patriots’ block ambulances at anti-migrant protest as boat carrying 120 prepares to land in UK

  04-10-2026 20:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to the Border Security Command compound in Dover, Kent (Picture: PA)Anti-migrant protesters filmed themselves forming a blockade trying to prevent migrants landing on the south coast.The group of patriots were seen blocking ambulances from entering Gosport docks to meet a suspected migrant dinghy carrying 120 people from France on Sunday evening.Protesters, including children, clashed with police with shouts of ‘f*** you’ and f
  
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• Saturday Night Live blasted for ‘disgusting’ Cornell rape scandal joke

  04-10-2026 20:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Saturday Night Live has been slammed for a sketch about the Cornell University rape allegations (Picture: Saturday Night Live/NBC)Saturday Night Live has been criticised for a ‘disrespectful’ sketch which viewers accused of being ‘a lead-in to joke about rape’.The segment featured Michael Che and Colin Jost, comedians who have served as anchors on the satirical news feature Weekend Update, which is SNL’s longest-running recurring sketch.It mentioned the allegations
  
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• Two dead and 35 injured in shooting at Georgia homecoming party

  04-10-2026 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The deadly shooting, which killed two and injured around 35, took place during a homecoming party in Vienna, Georgia, with shots fired from a block
  
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• Strictly heartbreak tonight as tearful star axed after Movie Week

  04-10-2026 20:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's Movie Week on Strictly - and this year's celebrities will hoping to avoid the first dreaded dance-off tonight after a star-spangled Saturday evening
  
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• Debris field found in search for missing medical plane near Nantucket

  04-10-2026 20:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Canadian air ambulance vanished over the Atlantic as it was travelling from Bermuda to Boston in the early hours of Saturday
  
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• British Museum announces changes to deal with Bayeux Tapestry queues after hundreds were turned away or forced to wait hours

  04-10-2026 20:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Plans are being made to increase opening hours, add more signage and introduce an audio guide for visitors at the London museum.
  
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• Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood reveals Labour ministers constantly lobby her to give out more visas for migrant workers, with requests 'at least once every week or two'

  04-10-2026 20:07 via dailymail.com
  
  Shabana Mahmood expressed frustration about the 'sheer number' of pleas she gets from her colleagues in other Government departments for work visas.
  
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• Ken Paxton's estranged wife is mocked for advert begging for Texans to vote Republican... without uttering her allegedly adulterous ex's name

  04-10-2026 20:05 via dailymail.com
  
  State Senator Angela Paxton urged Texans to vote Republican in an ad appearing to support her allegedly adulterous ex-husband Ken Paxton as he battles for the US Senate.
  
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• 'Tory conference exposes a familiar choice - sanctions for the poor, tax breaks for the rich'

  04-10-2026 20:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harking back to how Margaret Thatcher built support for the Conservatives in the late 1970s, Kemi Badenoch has shared her own basis for how a future Conservative government would act should it seize power
  
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• Green Party members back 'Zionism is racism' motion

  04-10-2026 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.
  
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• Hospital lockdown: Pneumonic plague fears after scientist died ‘dropping test tube of pathogens’

  04-10-2026 19:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Daria Shipilova, 28, laboratory assistant is reported by Russian media as the country’s first fatal pneumonic plague case in years (Picture: Daria Shipilova/e2w)Vladimir Putin has been accused of covering up a deadly pneumonic ‘black death’ plague outbreak.Five hospitals and a college have reportedly been placed in immediate lockdown with patients unable to leave to visit relatives after the death of a lab worker from pneumonia.Relatives are only allowed to deliver personal be
  
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• Bombshell claim family told to leave RAF Fairford hours before arrests

  04-10-2026 19:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One of the cricketers said the family had played in the same area the previous evening without any problems, but claimed the situation was very different on Saturday
  
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