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• New HMRC Help to Save scheme rules mean 550,000 more Brits could get a boost

  20-04-2025 11:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The little-known savings scheme - launched in 2018 - is designed to reward those on lower incomes for putting money aside
  
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• Women’s abortion rights on the line in EU Parliament today

  17-12-2025 10:20 via metro.co.uk
  People hold up placards at a protest in front of the parliament building in Budapest, Hungary on September 28, 2022, during a demonstration marking International Safe Abortion Day (Picture: AFP)‘Should women’s access to safe abortion depend on geography, wealth and luck?’
  This is the question that the European Parliament will answer today as it votes on a proposal by ‘My Voice, My Choice’, a citizen-led campaign that has forced abortion access on the EU’s pol
  
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• BREAKING: Weston-super-Mare: Boy, 15, charged with murder of 9-year-old Aria Thorpe

  17-12-2025 10:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.
  
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• Boy, 15, is charged with murder of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe in Weston-super-Mare

  17-12-2025 10:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe in Weston-super-Mare, Avon and Somerset Police said.
  
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• Mum's disgusting boast as she swerves jail after filming herself suffocating son

  17-12-2025 10:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A young mum who sent sickening text messages and videos to friends about suffocating her infant son has avoided jail. She bragged that she got an 'adrenaline rush' out of abusing her child
  
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• Labour set to be DESTROYED by Plaid and Reform in Wales elections, poll shows - as floundering Keir Starmer faces final PMQs before Christmas

  17-12-2025 10:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer is set to be humiliated at local elections in May with his party evicted from the First Minister post in Wales for the first time since devolution.
  
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• Emmerdale confirms Robert and Aaron’s Christmas tormentor – and it’s not John

  17-12-2025 09:59 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 PageEmmerdale has confirmed the return of a villain who caused major drama for Robron this year.In the lead up to Christmas, Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) and Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) are looking forward to their future together. So much so, they even decide to look at getting Robert’s son Seb back to the village.This causes problems for Ross Barton (Mich
  
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• Prolific fare dodger who owes £30,000 in fines told he will be jailed if he rides another train

  17-12-2025 09:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charles Brohiri, 28, who promotes himself online as rapper Rvre Dean, has been told not to enter any property 'owned, leased or managed' by Govia Thameslink Railway.
  
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• Ripped gym mum, 46, shares how she avoids fat gain at Christmas 'without dieting'

  17-12-2025 09:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shannon Collins, 46, is a personal trainer who is a super fit and super ripped gym mum. If you want to avoid fat gain over Christmas, she shared simple methods to follow without dieting
  
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• Bondi Beach shooting: Ukrainian mum thought son safe - then learned the worst

  17-12-2025 09:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian mum Valentyna said she had believed Australia would be a safe nation to protect her son from the frontlines with Russia - but the Bondi Beach shooting shattered her world
  
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• Trump ‘surrounds’ Venezuela and vows to ‘shock them like nothing seen before’

  17-12-2025 09:42 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 PageUS President Donald Trump has ordered a blockade of all ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela as tensions with the South American country reach a breaking point.
  Taking to Truth Social, Trump’s escalation came after US forces seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast last week.
  There have been rumblings of a potential conflict for mon
  
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• Donald Trump surrounds Venezuela with ‘largest armada in the history of South America’

  17-12-2025 09:42 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 PageUS President Donald Trump has ordered a blockade of all ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela as tensions with the South American country reach a breaking point.Taking to Truth Social, Trump’s escalation came after US forces seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast last week.
  There have been rumblings of a potential conflict for mont
  
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• Kyren Wilson gives latest on mindset and cue after UK Championship nightmare

  17-12-2025 09:37 via metro.co.uk
  Kyren Wilson is in a much better place than he was in York (Picture: Getty Images)Kyren Wilson was in a positive mood again after an opening win at the Scottish Open, bouncing back from a nightmare trip to the UK Championship earlier this month.The Warrior was beaten in the first round in York by Elliot Slessor and went through a gruelling experience at the Barbican.The world number two changed cues multiple times in the build up to the UK Championship and even the day before his match, then lo
  
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• When is a five-star hotel not a five-star hotel? The words that tell you what you’re really paying for

  17-12-2025 09:36 via metro.co.uk
  A five-star hotel doesn’t necessarily mean a luxury one (Picture: Metro / Getty Images)We need a word for the special kind of disappointment you feel as you walk into an expensive hotel room and realise it doesn’t live up to expectations.The sinking feeling that your hard-earned cash has been spent on a five-star hotel that doesn’t feel, well, five-star — far from it.
  But how does your carefully chosen booking fall so spectacularly short?I got the inside scoop from Metro
  
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• Hell on the slopes! Hundreds of furious skiers are left battling in hours-long queues on the Dolomites as lack of snow shuts several runs, creating huge congestion

  17-12-2025 09:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The disruption unfolded over the weekend, with large crowds gathering at an altitude of around 2,300 metres near the connecting lift between Marmolada and the Sellaronda circuit.
  
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• Michelle Heaton lifts the lid on the highs and lows of being in a noughties band - and takes aim at today's 'fame-hungry' reality stars

  17-12-2025 09:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Liberty X star has lifted the lid on the highs and lows of life in a noughties girl band.
  
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• Major Brexit change to be reversed by Keir Starmer in huge boost to young people

  17-12-2025 09:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  UK students will continue to pay their standard domestic fees - which are capped at £9,535 a year - when they are abroad, under the new deal to rejoin the Erasmus programme
  
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• Seven million warned over fruit as expert highlights potentially dangerous statin side effects

  17-12-2025 09:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Around seven million UK adults taking cholesterol-lowering statins have been warned as experts highlight natural compounds that could disrupt prescribed medications
  
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• Britain 'will pay £120m a year' to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange scheme in latest Labour unwinding of Brexit

  17-12-2025 09:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ministers are expected to confirm the move later despite fears the UK will have to pay around £120million a year into Brussels coffers.
  
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• Viral letter calls for Anthony Albanese to step down NOW - as heartbreak over the Bondi Beach massacre turns to anger: 'Ignored extremist hatred'

  17-12-2025 09:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The letter's author listed a number of issues he felt demonstrated Albanese's lack of action to growing antisemitism concerns.
  
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• Death Row inmate orders last meal - then execution suspended

  17-12-2025 09:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Murderer Stacey Humphreys, 52, ordered bbq beef brisket, pork ribs, a bacon double cheeseburger, chips, coleslaw, cornbread, buffalo wings and a meat lovers pizza
  
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• ‘Devoted’ mum-of-two found dead in canal after failing to pick up daughters from babysitter

  17-12-2025 09:07 via metro.co.uk
  Jana Bahvalova, 29, a Latvian citizen, was pulled from Bridgewater Canal in Altrincham (Picture: Diāna Bahvalova)A mum-of-two has been found dead in a canal after she failed to pick up her daughters from their babysitter.
  Jana Bahvalova, 29, a Latvian citizen, was pulled from Bridgewater Canal in Altrincham.Her sister Diāna described her as a ‘devoted’ mum with a ‘quiet, kind and gentle soul’.
  She said: ‘After separating from her husband, Jana was raising
  
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• Our ultimate supermarket Christmas food guide: From the tastiest turkey and poshest pigs in blankets to the stodgy stuffing you must avoid...

  17-12-2025 09:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From tantalisingly tasty turkeys to posh pigs in blankets and standout smoked salmon, supermarkets have pulled out all the stops this Christmas.
  
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• Victim 'raped in toilet' of Welsh nightclub as cops launch probe and arrest teen

  17-12-2025 09:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An 18-year-old man has been arrested after Dyfed-Powys Police swooped following an incident which allegedly took place at Sands Nightclub in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
  
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• When GUY ADAMS revealed his 10-week body transformation, it was so astonishing he was accused of faking it. Now he reveals step-by-step photos, his food and exercise diary - and exactly how you can transform yourself too

  17-12-2025 09:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In just ten weeks Guy Adams slimmed and sculpted his body. Here's exactly what Guy learnt from the fitness and nutrition pros and how you can do it too.
  
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• Sign we all saw at Easter tells us if it'll be a white Christmas

  17-12-2025 09:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Traditional folklore sayings have been used for centuries to interpret nature's signs around Christmas, with old beliefs suggesting Christmas Day weather can predict Easter conditions
  
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• Serial killer Joanne Dennehy's 'deeply unsettling' inner-world laid bare

  17-12-2025 09:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A psychologist has pulled back the curtain to reveal the sick inner workings of Joanne Dennehy who went on a bloody killing spree in Peterborough in 2013 and was jailed for life.
  
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• 'Ghost' village where time stopped 82 years ago and gates have to be locked at dusk

  17-12-2025 09:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tyneham village in Dorset is like nowhere else in the UK, a frozen in time relic of the past yet it will never be forgotten. It was a thriving community until residents were forced to leave in the Second World War and were never allowed to return
  
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• Dreaming about someone over Christmas has very specific meaning for the future

  17-12-2025 09:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keeping an eye on your dreams in the week before Christmas could ensure a smoother festive period
  
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• 28 Emmerdale spoiler pictures reveal Christmas drama as resident goes missing

  17-12-2025 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  Jacob and Sarah get to work planning their gender reveal party (Picture: ITV) Jacob and Sarah get to work planning their gender reveal party (Picture: ITV) They're excited about their future together (Picture: ITV) They're excited about their future together (Picture: ITV) Laurel remains charmed by Ray (Picture: ITV) Laurel remains charmed by Ray (Picture: ITV) He hopes to one day spend a proper Christmas with her (Picture: ITV) He hopes to one day spend a proper Christmas with her (Picture: ITV
  
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