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• Painting your front door blue could add £4,000 to your property value, but brown could decrease it by £700

  12-06-2020 15:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  (Picture: Getty Images)They say never judge a book by its cover, but it turns out that quite a few people judge properties by the colour of their front doors.Research by property company Sellhousefast.uk found that something as simples as changing the colour of your front door can affect its value by up to £4,000.The company analysed over 1,000 UK properties on Zoopla with three bedrooms and a garden, and calculated the average price as £275,000.10 properties of each d
  
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• Storm travel hell erupts with more than 5,000 flights pre-emptively canceled over weekend with thousands more to come - Live updates

  24-01-2026 00:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of flights have already been canceled across the US ahead of winter storm Fern, causing travel chaos for those planning to fly.
  
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• Trump's new $1 coin designs revealed after iconic 'fight' version axed as Dems battle vanity project

  24-01-2026 00:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The special President Donald Trump $1 coinappears to be getting a more classic design, as opposed to the 'fight, fight, fight' imagery originally shared by the Treasury Department.
  
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• Prince Harry releases all-new Afghanistan snaps after triumphant Donald Trump clapback

  24-01-2026 00:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Sussex has released new photos showing him in action in Afghanistan after releasing a triumphant statement remembering NATO soldiers who laid down their lives
  
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• Police reveal shock theory of why alleged gunman who shot dead his heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend and two others remains on the run

  24-01-2026 00:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The desperate manhunt continues for Julian Ingram, 37, who allegedly gunned down his ex Sophie Quinn and two others.
  
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• 'Lost generation' of anxious young Britons faces being 'written off' and consigned to life on benefits due to 'normal' mental health conditions, Government's work tsar warns

  24-01-2026 00:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alan Milburn, who served as a Labour MP between 1992 and 2010, has said there is a 'lost generation' of people in Britain.
  
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• Trump team plots crippling oil blockade in bid to topple communist Cuba

  23-01-2026 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The White House is now evaluating aggressive new strategies aimed at a transition of power in Cuba.
  
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• Teenager 'stabbed brother to death' after furious video game argument

  23-01-2026 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  William Spencer has been accused of murdering his 25-year-old brother at their home in Del City, Oklahoma, in the US after they allegedly argued over a video game
  
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• Storm travel hell erupts with more than 4,900 flights pre-emptively canceled over weekend with thousands more to come

  23-01-2026 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of flights have already been canceled across the US ahead of winter storm Fern, causing travel chaos for those planning to fly.
  
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• Keir Starmer 'wants apology' from Donald Trump over 'insulting' NATO claims

  23-01-2026 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer's response to Donald Trump's claims about NATO troops in Afghanistan was 'more specific and even personal' than his usual method of dealing with the President, according to an expert
  
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• Rapist's own family heckle 'horrible b******' as he's jailed for twisted attack

  23-01-2026 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shane Liptrot, 26, raped a woman in the middle of the night after banging on her door with a knife in his hand before barging his way inside her home
  
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• Police to face regular tests on how well they can do their job in order to keep new 'licence to practise' in major shakeup

  23-01-2026 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The radical shake-up of the way officers will be scrutinised comes as part of the largest reforms to British policing in 200 years.
  
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• Nigel Farage branded 'Thatcher's heir' by Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell

  23-01-2026 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour deputy leader will tear into the Reform UK leader at the Fabian Society New Year Conference, and describe him as the love child of the former Tory PM and Enoch Powell
  
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• Major 'best and brightest' police plan in bid to drive down crime

  23-01-2026 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government has announced £7million will be ploughed into recruiting the 'best and brightest' from universities to work in neighbourhood policing to drive down crime
  
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• Failing police forces face 'crack squads' of experts to bring them up to scratch under new reform package

  23-01-2026 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shabana Mahmood's new policing White Paper will set out new measures to bring under-performing forces up to scratch.
  
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• Biggest policing shake-up in 200 years as new crack squads to be created

  23-01-2026 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shabana Mahmood will next week unveil a policing blueprint that will give the Government more powers to sack chief constables and tackle failing forces
  
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• Ambulances race to HMP Rochester with prisoners 'dropping like flies'

  23-01-2026 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Multiple ambulances were called to HMP Rochester after several inmates were taken ill
  
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• The Traitors fans praise groundbreaking finale after ‘best win in the show’s history’

  23-01-2026 23:12 via metro.co.uk
  The final of this year’s The Traitors certainly delivered (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul Chappells)The Traitors fans have hailed the finale of the BBC series as one of the ‘most phenomenal episodes in the history of British television’.After four weeks of backstabbing, woeful Faithful guessing and incredible drama, the finale of one of the most beloved shows in the UK certainly delivered the goods.In what was a breathtaking 75 minutes, Stephen and Rachel kept their promise
  
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• Keir Starmer's 'one tell' in Trump NATO blast that reveals if it was just an act

  23-01-2026 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer's response to Donald Trump's comments about NATO troops in Afghanistan looked "performative", but there was "one tell" that showed whether he genuinely meant it
  
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• Millionaire fast food chain CEO Kristen Pierce-Sherrod mysteriously dies at 55

  23-01-2026 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The CEO of Harold's Chicken mysteriously died at the age of 55, the family announced.
  
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• 'I watched boy beg his mum to let him die in Afghanistan - Trump is insulting and has no morals'

  23-01-2026 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror photographer Phil Coburn was blown up with a US convoy in Afghanistan in 2010. Here, he gives his thoughts on Donald Trump's insult to our forces who served in the Afghan conflict
  
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• Emmerdale boss reveals ‘explosive’ twists ahead as dead bodies are found

  23-01-2026 22:45 via metro.co.uk
  When Emmerdale boss Laura Shaw cryptically told me last year that Corriedale was just the beginning of a massive 2026 for the show, I was intrigued – and she has certainly been true to her promise.
  Since the car-pile up that collided the Dales cast with that Coronation Street lot, we have seen Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) return from the dead, Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) kill Ray Walters (Joe Absolom), and Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) be diagnosed with cancer.And a fresh preview confir
  
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• Key checks at scandal-hit hospital still needed, lawyer says, as families hit out

  23-01-2026 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scotland's scandal hit super hospital has still not had key checks carried out on its ventilation system, an inquiry has heard.
  
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• Watchdog taking SNP ministers to court over failure to disclose Sturgeon documents

  23-01-2026 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A watchdog is taking SNP ministers to court after they failed to produce documents related to Nicola Sturgeon's ­handling of complaints about Alex Salmond.
  
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• Solicitor, 63, is accused of stalking legal blogger and making unwanted sexual advances - after coming under separate probe over buying up hundreds of freeholds

  23-01-2026 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew Milne, 63, is said to have sent the writer numerous unwanted sexualised messages including one which read: 'If you agree to be my total sex slave I will let you live in the garage'.
  
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• Starving girl, 7, fed just 'one corn dog a day' as sick mum's plot foiled by grandma

  23-01-2026 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Virginia Gonzales' cruel treatment of her young daughter was reportedly outed by her siblings, who are said to have told their grandmother she was being locked in a closet
  
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• Man, 28, dies in police custody as he's raced to hospital after arrest

  23-01-2026 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man has died after he was arrested by Devon and Cornwall Police in Torquay on January 15 - police said a 'mandatory referral' to the Independent Office for Police Conduct had been made
  
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• EUAN MCCOLM: The SNP will stop at NOTHING to keep us in the dark

  23-01-2026 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I wonder whether we can be certain that, asked what time it was, John Swinney would not reply that he was unable to answer for legal reasons. So pathologically secretive is our First Minister that he devotes much of his time and energy to avoiding even the slightest scrutiny.
  
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• Little girl's appalling question to nanny who was having affair with her father hours after mother's brutal murder

  23-01-2026 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brendan Banfield's daughter asked her nanny if she was going to marry her father just hours after her mother was murdered, a court heard.
  
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• Struggling Scots landed with water bills hike as quango boss enjoys bumper pay package

  23-01-2026 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Struggling Scots have been hit with an 8.7 per cent hike in bills by Scottish Water - while its boss rakes in more than half a ­million pounds a year.
  
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