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• NHS issues first-ever urgent organ donation alert with 9 people dying every week

  21-09-2026 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The NHS has launched an urgent organ donation response plan to get a million more Brits to sign up, as transplant waiting lists hit a record high
  
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• Met Office issues ‘exceptionally warm’ forecast and names areas facing 28C

  23-09-2026 18:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some parts of the UK could see temperatures reach at least 28C on Friday as Met Office weather forecasters say conditions will be 'exceptionally warm' for this time of year
  
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• Project Helix more powerful than PS6 reveals new leak that implies 2027 launch

  23-09-2026 18:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  Only a year away, possibly (Metro)Microsoft’s next Xbox will have more teraflops than Sony’s PS6 according to an insider, as more evidence points to a 2027 launch. Another console generation might seem like the last thing anyone needs right now, between pricey components and the underutilised potential of the current hardware, but that’s seemingly what we’re getting in 2027. Countless signs have pointed to a 2027 launch for Sony’s PlayStation 6 and Micros
  
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• Brit tourist, 71, found dead 'by heartbroken wife' on Greek holiday island

  23-09-2026 18:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple were holidaying at the coastal resort town of Hersonissos on Crete's north coast when the man's wife reportedly found him in their hotel room
  
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• Netflix delays Gary Glitter documentary after discovering ‘new legal information’

  23-09-2026 18:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Netflix has paused its Gary Glitter documentary just three weeks before release (Picture: Rob Stothard/Getty Images)Netflix has confirmed it will be pushing back the upcoming documentary about glam rock star and convicted sexual abuser Gary Glitter.Hunting Gary Glitter is a three-episode series which was scheduled for release on October 14, with the release date and trailer dropping just last week. However, a spokesperson for Netflix confirmed the streaming giant has been forced to push ba
  
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• Wes Streeting slaps down backlash over UK unit to combat Russian online lies

  23-09-2026 18:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wes Streeting said the security chiefs had been ordered to intervene to grapple with threats from hostile states 'of a different order of magnitude' to previous propaganda efforts
  
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• QUENTIN LETTS: His encounter with Trump exposed Burnham as a shrivelling, gauche bag of nerves - ill-suited to be PM in perilous times

  23-09-2026 18:24 via dailymail.com
  
  His glasses lopsided, his cufflinks over-large, hands clutched and knees all a-knock, Burnham looked a bag of nerves when meeting Trump at the United Nations building in New York.
  
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• Out-of-her-depth Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson left city convulsed with panic for hours after deadly shooting by refusing to let cops hold press conference until SHE arrived, hearing told

  23-09-2026 18:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Seattle's assistant police chief has asserted that he was ready to give a press conference more than three hours before the mayor finally spoke to the media, but was told to wait for her.
  
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• AOC reveals the brutal calculation behind her 2028 White House ambitions as she opens up about her two major vulnerabilities

  23-09-2026 18:19 via dailymail.com
  
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still weighing where her political future lies, but two questions are clearly weighing heavily on her mind, her race and her gender.
  
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• Tony Blair commits to new arms race: Former Prime Minister, 73, shows off buff physique as he hits the gym in Indonesia

  23-09-2026 18:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The ex-Labour Prime Minister, 73, looked in tip-top condition as he posed for a picture with an Indonesian politician.
  
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• Mother accused of trying to drown her three young children by driving their car into a creek to remain behind bars

  23-09-2026 18:18 via dailymail.com
  
  The Victorian mother had been in the grips of a severe mental health breakdown at the time, the court was told.
  
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• Fury as new residents in Canadian neighborhood are accused of creating squalid 'community garbage pile' that just keeps growing

  23-09-2026 18:17 via dailymail.com
  
  Surveillance footage obtained showed a man getting out of his car to make three trips to the pile to dump his garbage before driving away in broad daylight.
  
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• 'Prince William will be absolutely furious Prince Harry is making a documentary about their mum'

  23-09-2026 18:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  With the Duke of Sussex reportedly in talks to produce a documentary about his late mother ahead of the 30th anniversary of her death, Russell Myers told the Mirror’s Pod Save the King podcast that Prince William will be ‘furious’
  
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• Falmouth bomb: Evacuation and train lines closed as huge explosive found

  23-09-2026 18:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A suspected American missile from World War Two was found at Falmouth Docks, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes
  
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• Woman is gang-raped on migrant boat during deadly Atlantic crossing to Spanish holiday island

  23-09-2026 18:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Police have arrested three men accused of gang-raping a woman on a migrant boat during an Atlantic crossing in which more than a dozen people are believed to have died.
  
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• UK grocery store boss extradited to Italy on £40million tobacco smuggling charges after anti-mafia probe

  23-09-2026 18:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Hasan Ferhat Baybasin, 34, was sent to Genoa accused of masterminding a huge international operation flooding Britain with illegal cigarettes using complex maritime routes
  
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• Falmouth bomb - live: Evacuation and train lines closed as huge explosive found

  23-09-2026 18:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A suspected American missile from World War Two was found at Falmouth Docks, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes
  
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• There’s nothing patriotic about Danny Tommo slashing a migrant dinghy

  23-09-2026 18:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  ‘Tommo’ was streaming the incident (Picture: Daniel Thomas)Knife in hand, aboard an inflatable boat and shouting ‘This is England. This is not France any more’ – defender of the realm, Daniel Thomas aka Danny Tommo arrived in the Channel like a bad superhero no one asked for.I know this sounds like a joke, but it isn’t.Yesterday evening, Thomas, a far-right activist known for his links to Tommy Robinson, took things to another level when he was filmed stabbin
  
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• Peep Show star Matt King reveals frustrating effect of recent stroke

  23-09-2026 18:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  This man is not Super Hans; he merely has Super Hans’ face and voice (Courtesy of Matt King)Saying, ‘Hello Simon’ is not how you should start an interview with someone called Matt.
  Yet this embarrassing blunder was, in many ways, an awkward but apt way to kick off an interview with Matt King, who’s spent the last two decades or so being treated as if he really were his infamous alter ego: Simon (if that was his real name), aka Super Hans. Hans, for those who need re
  
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• Milei issues call to UK over Falklands and says islanders shouldn't have choice

  23-09-2026 17:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Argentine President Javier Milei said the Falklands Islands do not have the right to self-determination as their population was 'implanted' by an 'occupying power'
  
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• Moment two RAF pilots eject from Hawk jet caught in spectacular video footage

  23-09-2026 17:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Witnesses said they saw 'flames coming from' the Hawk T2 training aircraft at RAF Valley before it came down near the village of Rhosneigr.
  
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• Ken Paxton's estranged wife breaks silence since 'biblical grounds' divorce with brutal warning to Republican women

  23-09-2026 17:56 via dailymail.com
  
  Angela Paxton, the ex-wife of Texas Attorney General and Republican US Senate nominee Ken Paxton who divorced him on 'biblical grounds' last year, has broken her silence.
  
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• ‘Kenneth Law poisoned my son – I fear more young people will die’

  23-09-2026 17:51 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tom Parfett took his own life in October 2021 after buying poison from Kenneth Law (Picture: Provided)Poison sellers will continue to take the lives of young people in the UK, the dad of a British victim has warned.David Parfett’s son Tom was 22 when he died in a hotel in Surrey in October 2021 after buying a poison tablet online from Canadian Kenneth Law.Law is due to be sentenced after he admitted 14 counts of aiding suicides in Canada after meeting people in online suicide forums, in a
  
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• Celebrity fitness coach Tracy Anderson's poodles escape from Hamptons yard in bloody attack of 76-year-old neighbor...'They had me surrounded'

  23-09-2026 17:51 via dailymail.com
  
  Monica Enders, 76, claims she suffered severe injuries when celebrity fitness guru Tracy Anderson's poodles attacked her after they escaped from her Sag Harbor home last month.
  
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• White House defends ICE arrest of former news anchor working for California state legislator: 'This takes sanctuary city to a whole new level'

  23-09-2026 17:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Ho-Yin Mo, a field representative for Democratic assemblywoman Catherine Stefani and former TV anchor, was arrested in an ICE operation last week.
  
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• Argentina's president demands UN help with his country's 'national cause' of seizing the Falklands from Britain after Trump blanks Burnham's request to back UK sovereignty

  23-09-2026 17:49 via dailymail.com
  
  Mop-topped hard right leader Javier Milei said that ownership of the archipelago was a 'national cause' for his country in a speech to the UN general assembly.
  
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• Gen Z named most generous generation – doing five kind acts every week

  23-09-2026 17:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new poll has found that Brits are more generous than ever – with Gen Z leading in acts of kindness and charitable giving
  
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• What exactly happened at Ole Miss? Mystery as police confirm two students died from 'kratom'... but students fear more is under the surface

  23-09-2026 17:37 via dailymail.com
  
  The mystery surrounding the deaths of two Ole Miss students from a suspected kratom overdose has sparked a social media firestorm.
  
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• Three in four parents put their own health on hold while caring for children, study finds

  23-09-2026 17:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Research shows parents regularly cancel doctors appointments or ignore symptoms in order to prioritise their children - often making their issues worse.
  
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• Startup founder moaned about his scraped knee instead of helping woman and toddler who died in burning car after he drove Tesla into them at 142mph, prosecutors say

  23-09-2026 17:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Zachary Chernicky was driving the electric vehicle between 100mph and 142mph when he slammed into heavy traffic and 'turned his car into a literal bomb,' a filing read.
  
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