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• Non-essential shops that won't open in April as Covid triggers £22bn losses

  23-02-2021 11:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Britain's embattled high streets have been given the green light to trade again from April 12, but for dozens of towns and communities, retail will never be the same again
  
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• Devon and Cornwall police chief demands 500 more officers to cope with staycationers

  02-03-2021 12:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From April 12, Britons can stay in self-contained holiday cottages - with Devon and Cornwall among the most popular destinations.
  
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• Joe Biden 'is preparing to impose sanctions on Russia'

  02-03-2021 12:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Biden executive order could also trigger sanctions on Russia for the SolarWinds cybersecurity hack and for allegedly placing bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan, it is claimed.
  
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• Police share hilarious poster in Perth pub listing things that are hard to say when drunk

  02-03-2021 12:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Western Australian police have put up hilarious posters of things that are impossible to say when drunk as a waning to punters to behave in nights out,
  
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• Ed Gamble confesses to being ‘phantom poo-er’ in grim retelling of lads’ weekend gone wrong

  02-03-2021 12:40 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Mel Giedroyc has managed to get celebs to confess to some weird things in new series Unforgivable – but Ed Gamble’s admission may be the grimmest yet. In a show where Gemma Collins admitted to faking a sex tape to Piers Morgan and Graham Norton revealed he ended up getting appendix removal surgery to bunk off school, Ed has managed to stand out with his tale of being a p
  
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• Captain Sir Tom Moore’s life to be celebrated with public event in April

  02-03-2021 12:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  The family announced the celebration of the veteran’s life will take place in the spring (Picture: PA/Captain Tom Moore Twitter)A public event to celebrate the life of Captain Sir Tom Moore will take place this spring, his family have announced.The Second World War veteran’s loved ones have asked the public to save the date of April 30 – what would have been Sir Tom’s 101st birthday.Daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said they aim to make the event one that people in the UK and
  
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• Manchester United should cash in on Anthony Martial, warns John Barnes

  02-03-2021 12:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Anthony Martial has managed just seven goals this term (Photo by Ash Donelon/Manchester United via Getty Images)Liverpool legend John Barnes believes it’s ‘time’ for Anthony Martial to leave Manchester United after the Frenchman lost his place in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s starting XI.
  The 24-year-old was handed his old no.9 shirt in 2019 and he had his best scoring season to date last term, netting 23 times in 48 matches for the Red Devils as a centre forward.
  However, Marti
  
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• Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview won’t be pulled if Prince Philip’s health worsens

  02-03-2021 12:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  The 90-minute special could detonate a ‘diplomatic bomb’, insiders have said (Picture: CBS/AFP)Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s ‘tell-all’ interview with Oprah Winfrey won’t be axed or delayed even if Prince Philip’s illness worsens, industry insiders say.
  Producers are said to be refusing to pull the 90-minute CBS special, which has the potential to detonate a ‘diplomatic bomb’, given the Duke of Edinburgh’s condition.
  Philip, 99, was
  
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• Mark Hughes says Manchester United signed Edinson Cavani at ‘the wrong time’

  02-03-2021 12:35 via metro.co.uk
  
  Cavani should have been signed sooner, says Hughes (Picture: Getty Images)Mark Hughes feels Manchester United signed veteran striker Edinson Cavani at ‘the wrong time’ and should have bought him half a decade ago.
  Hughes, the ex-United forward, says his former club need a striker in their ‘pomp’ rather than one who is in the twilight of his career.
  That said, the former Wales, Blackburn and Manchester City manager still thinks the Uruguay international is the best option
  
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• Mum killed herself while coping with series of devastating events

  02-03-2021 12:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Nicola McIntyre’s sisters paid tribute withone saying she lit up the room (Picture: MEN)A loving mother took her own life as she struggled to deal with several things that had happened throughout her life.
  Nicola McIntyre, 32, had suffered a betrayal at work and had enduring flashbacks to a horrific sex attack in which she was gang raped, an inquest heard.
  Her sisters said she was kind, loving and ‘so much fun’, but her world changed after their parents split when she was just
  
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• Student who learnt to read at 13 gains first-class degree from Bristol University

  02-03-2021 12:28 via metro.co.uk
  
  William plans to keep studying before going into politics (Picture: PA)William Carter, now 22, didn’t learn to read until he was 13, due to severe dyslexia and dyspraxia.
  However, the student has now defied his detractors by earning himself a first-class honours degree from Bristol University.As a child, William was put in the bottom set in all subjects, and mocked because of his shaky reading ability.He was referred to children’s mental health services due to his feelings of lonelin
  
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• Plane ‘forced to make emergency landing after cat attacked pilot’

  02-03-2021 12:28 via metro.co.uk
  
  The cat was ‘angry and aggressive’, according to local media reports (Picture: REX / Shutterstock)A passenger plane reportedly had to make an emergency landing due to an out of control cat in the cockpit.The plane was travelling to Doha in Qatar, but the pilot decided to return to the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum.Local media reports suggest the animal was ‘aggressive and angry’ and had somehow snuck onto the plane before it took off.It resisted several attempts
  
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• Fed up police 'don't want to enforce Covid rules' after vaccine 'betrayal'

  02-03-2021 12:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ken Marsh, who chairs the Metropolitan Police Federation, said police have "had enough" of trying to make people stick to rules which are "not policeable" - and said the organisation is considering legal action
  
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• Tiny device plugs into a smartphone to diagnose Covid-19

  02-03-2021 12:27 via metro.co.uk
  
  The microfluidic chip attaches to a potentiostat that then plugs into a phone (Picture: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)Engineers at Rice University in Texas have developed a small device that plugs into a standard smartphone to help detect Covid-19.Roughly the size of a stamp, the gadget is a sensor able to measure the concentration of Covid-19 nucleocapsid proteins in the blood from a regular finger prick.Using ‘programmable magnetic nanobeads’ which bind to the protein biomarker of th
  
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• Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview will air on ITV after ‘£1,000,000 deal’

  02-03-2021 12:23 via metro.co.uk
  
  The couple has faced calls to delay the broadcast as Prince Harry’s grandfather Prince Philip remains in hospital (Picture: CBS)Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s two-hour ‘tell-all’ interview with Oprah Winfrey will air in the UK after ITV purchased it in a ‘£1 million deal’.British viewers will be able to watch Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A Primetime Special at 8pm on Monday, 24 hours after it is broadcast on CBS in the US.
  Royal fans will also be able
  
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• How parents can reignite their sex drives after a year of Covid restrictions

  02-03-2021 12:21 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s important to still take time for each other (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)Parents of younger children are among those who’ve had the hardest times during the pandemic.With schools shutting, no babysitters to hire and at least one breadwinner still needing to work, having kids around 24/7 has likely been tiring to say the least.So if you and your partner have found that sex has fallen by the wayside, you wouldn’t be the only ones.That’s why Laura Vowels, principa
  
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• Hampshire fly tippers get truck stuck on mountain of rubbish while illegally ditching waste

  02-03-2021 12:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The owners of the van were forced to abandon their vehicle after trying to dump illegal waste at Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Clanfield in Hampshire late last Wednesday night.
  
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• Primavera Sound Barcelona cancelled for second year in a row due to ‘uncertainty’ around pandemic

  02-03-2021 12:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Primavera Sound has been postponed again (Picture: Jordi Vidal/Redferns)Primavera Sound Barcelona has been cancelled for the second year in a row.The 20th anniversary of the Spanish festival was cancelled last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic, and had been set to take place this June.However, it has now been confirmed that it will not go ahead due to the ‘uncertainty surrounding the legal framework for large events’ in early June.A statement from the organisers released this mo
  
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• Man and woman fined £10k each for avoiding hotel quarantine after Dubai trip

  02-03-2021 12:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Merseyside Police said the man and woman failed to comply with quarantine laws after returning to the Wirral from a trip to Dubai - currently on the UK's foreign travel red list
  
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• Six people, including two children, rescued from the back of a U-haul

  02-03-2021 12:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The six passengers willingly got into the back of the box truck in Toms River, New Jersey but alerted police after the driver refused to pull over and let them out, authorities say.
  
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• ‘Mother, 33, dumped baby boy in trash can hours after secretly giving birth’

  02-03-2021 12:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Maria Merisier, 33, appeared at Dorchester Municipal Court yesterday afternoon (Picture: CBS Boston)A mother who allegedly dumped her newborn baby in a trash can just hours after giving birth has been charged with attempted murder.Maria Merisier, 33, appeared in court on Monday accused of delivering her baby boy in secret and abandoning the fragile newborn in a bin at the side of the road.As well as attempted murder, Merisier, from Dorchester, Massachusetts, is also charged with child abandonmen
  
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• Family of boy stabbed in heart slam 'stone cold silence' of pals involved

  02-03-2021 12:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yousef, 17, was stabbed in the heart with a flick knife in the upmarket village of Hale Barns, Cheshire, and friend Joshau Molnar was cleared of murder and manslaughter
  
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• You can buy a five-storey mini castle for £925,000

  02-03-2021 12:12 via metro.co.uk
  
  Pretend to be a royal with this beautiful castle (Picture: Savills)Fancy jazzing up your Zoom background a little?
  Rather than picking up a pot of paint for your living room wall, maybe it’s time to go all out and just buy your own mini castle instead.
  If that plan sounds appealing, you’re in luck, as such a property has hit the market for the bargain price of £925,000.
  For under a million, you can buy a stunning five-storey castle complete with stunning views from the upstairs
  
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• Lorraine Kelly ‘doesn’t understand’ why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s chose to do Oprah Winfrey interview

  02-03-2021 12:10 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Lorraine Kelly has said she ‘doesn’t understand’ why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sat down for an interview with US talk show host Oprah Winfrey.The no-holds-barred interview is set to air in America on March 7 on CBS.On Tuesday’s episode of her show, Lorraine sat down with royal correspondent Russell Myers to get his take on the TV appearance.Lorraine asked if
  
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• Parents of Dustin Buckley who was shot at Neerim East Forest in Victoria upset about lies made

  02-03-2021 12:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dustin Buckley was with another teenage friend when he suffered a gunshot wound to the head in the Neerim East Forest in eastern Victoria August 2017.
  
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• Rust Console Edition footage is looking good ahead of closed beta

  02-03-2021 12:08 via metro.co.uk
  
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  A PS4 and Xbox version of survival game Rust is still on course for release this year, as sign-ups for the closed beta begin.The lockdown has seen a number of unexpected hits, mostly those with strong social elements, and that’s included games that are already several years old. Among Us is the most obvious example, but there’s also been the unexpected return to prominence of
  
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• Tom Holland almost wasn’t cast as Spider-Man despite being backed by Russo brothers

  02-03-2021 12:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tom Holland almost wasn’t cast as Spider-Man (Picture: Marvel)Playing Spider-Man is a pretty big deal and one Tom Holland has done expertly since taking over the role, but there was a time when Sony had their doubts over casting him.
  The actor, 24, made his debut as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in Marvel movie Spider-Man: Homecoming released in 2017.
  Its the latest trilogy from Marvel that focuses on the web-slinging superhero and while the Russo brothers – who have long been attached
  
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• Robbie Williams considers buying Blackpool Pleasure Beach theme park

  02-03-2021 12:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robbie Williams said he was 'tempted' to buy Blackpool Pleasure Beach as he claimed the owners tried to sell the famed Lancashire amusement park to him.
  
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• Brazil Covid variant 'could reinfect 60% of people who have already had disease'

  02-03-2021 12:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prof Ester Sabino, of the University of São Paulo, said between 25% and 61% of protective antibodies from early Covid-19 variants did not work against the new dangerous P1 variant
  
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• Pickup truck does a spectacular 360 spin across icy highway but avoids a collision 

  02-03-2021 12:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Terrifying footage shows a pickup driver perform a full 360-degree spin in the middle lane on a highway near Calgary in Alberta, Canada, before miraculously stopping unscathed.
  
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