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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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• Sickening list of prison perks enjoyed by Islamic State fanatics who plotted 'UK's deadliest ever terror attack'

  31-12-2025 13:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were last week convicted of planning a gun attack on Jewish targets.
  
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• Handyman who raided £100k of elderly woman's savings as she lay unconscious in hospital is jailed for three years

  31-12-2025 13:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simon Appleby, 40, made one last payment to himself of £15,000 just an hour before the pensioner in her 80s died in hospital.
  
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• The village taken over by learner drivers: Residents in 'easiest place to get a licence' accuse novice motorists of making their lives hell

  31-12-2025 13:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Learner drivers have flocked to the village of Miskin, Glamorgan, from far and wide after word spread of its relatively straightforward test route.
  
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• Europe's skiing 'ghost resorts': How hundreds of lifts lie abandoned due to lack of snow as videos show bare mountains

  31-12-2025 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Videos posted to social media show how Europe has been left with a new landscape of 'ghost stations', with unreliable snowfall leaving the once white-topped mountains now barren.
  
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• 'Plane passenger asked me to take his middle seat and got petty when I said no'

  31-12-2025 13:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman has criticised a plane passenger for demanding she swap seats with him and then acting 'petty' when she declined his request - even though she paid for her seat in advance
  
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• New Year's Eve livestream as fireworks light up Syndey, Tokyo, London and Paris

  31-12-2025 13:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New Year's Eve celebrations have already started across the world, with a livestream showing all the fireworks displays and partying as the planet begins to enter 2026
  
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• New Year's Eve Australia LIVE UPDATES: Touching moment crowd of more than a million falls silent on Sydney Harbour to remember victims of the Bondi massacre: 'Could hear a pin drop'

  31-12-2025 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DAILY MAIL LIVEBLOG: New Year's Eve celebrations are underway in Sydney!
  
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• MH370 search resumes as upgraded tech deployed in hunt for missing flight

  31-12-2025 13:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A search vessel and two autonomous underwater vehicles have arrived in the search area as Texas-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity resumes the "no-find, no-fee" search operation
  
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• Office clerk caught spying on workmates using the toilet is spared jail after he blamed his lurid behaviour on staff 'bullying'

  31-12-2025 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An office clerk caught spying on workmates using the toilet has been spared jail after he blamed his lurid behaviour on being a victim of staff 'bullying'.
  
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• Office worker says he spied on colleagues in the toilet because they bullied him

  31-12-2025 13:29 via metro.co.uk
  Andrew Cox received fifteen weeks’ imprisonment suspended for eighteen months after claiming he had become ‘introverted’ due to bullying at work (Picture: Cavendish Press)An employee caught recording colleagues on the loo has been spared jail time by blaming his lurid behaviour on workplace ‘bullying’.Andrew Cox, 38, rigged a mobile phone in a cubicle so he could record fellow workers taking toilet breaks.The man from Wrexham, North Wales, was rumbled in March 2024
  
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• POLL OF THE DAY: Is Reform UK 'genuinely the last chance for Britain', as Nigel Farage claims?

  31-12-2025 13:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a New Year address to voters shared with the Daily Mail, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said his party had led for over 175 opinion polls in a row with an average lead of 10 per cent.
  
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• NHS warning to key group to avoid popular cholesterol drug atorvastatin

  31-12-2025 13:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Atorvastatin is a commonly prescribed statin used to lower high cholesterol and prevent heart disease
  
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• Snooker legends need oxygen tanks for far-flung New Year exhibition

  31-12-2025 13:15 via metro.co.uk
  Neil Robertson making use of the oxygen tanks on offer in Lhasa (Picture: Instagram)Some of snooker’s biggest names are spending New Year at altitude, needing oxygen tanks for an exhibition in Tibet.Mark Williams, Neil Robertson, Kyren Wilson, Xiao Guodong and Wu Yize are playing at the Lhasa Winter Plateau Snooker Challenge on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.The five players, who have all lifted trophies this season already and will be playing at the Masters in January, are
  
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• How the latest airport trend 'belt bumping' is infuriating passengers: 'Horrible etiquette and disrespectful'

  31-12-2025 13:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Politely queuing to check your luggage in at the desk before collecting boarding passes and heading to security is how many holidays abroad begin. 
  
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• 'Coward' Keir Starmer warned his 'party before people' move to axe local elections will block investment worth 'billions' to struggling economy

  31-12-2025 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Labour has pushed back votes to 2027 in four areas that were due to gain a directly-elected mayor in 2026 in what critics said was a 'dictatorial' move.
  
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• Married mum-of-three 'abducted and gang raped in moving van' for hours

  31-12-2025 13:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police say the woman was lured into the back of a van where she was repeatedly raped for two-and-half hours before being thrown out onto the road
  
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• Families living in the shadow of four enormous 'supersheds' call probe into planning decisions 'tick-box exercise'

  31-12-2025 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The four bleak, grey warehouses - which stand up to 60ft tall - are part of the new Astley Business Park in Tyldesley, Wigan, and were signed off by the local authority in June 2024.
  
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• Martin Lewis shares ‘painless’ 1p method to easily save £667 in 2026 

  31-12-2025 13:03 via metro.co.uk
  You only have to start with 1p (Picture: Getty Images)If you’re looking for an easy way to save a few hundred quid this year, Martin Lewis has you covered.The Money Saving Expert (MSE) and his team have shared a straightforward and ‘relatively painless’ method that will allow people to save as much as £667 over the next 12 months.And all you have to do is start by putting aside just 1p on January 1. The 53-year-old explained how to do it in his newsletter, saying it
  
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• Save up to £500 off mattresses and pillows in Simba’s New Year sale

  31-12-2025 13:00 via metro.co.uk
  We could all do with better sleep, and deserve a bargain too. (Picture: Metro/Simba)
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  Some say you can’t put a price on a good night’s sleep, but Simba’s New Year sale certainly can. To celebrate 2026, it’s currently discounting its bestselling mattresses, dreamy duvets, plush pillows and bedding ranges by
  
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• 12 months that buried Andrew from creepy emails to tragic death and exile

  31-12-2025 13:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has faced a difficult year, from being stripped of his official titles and honours to being forced to leave his Windsor home after two decades
  
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• Outrage in India as mother-of-three is abducted and gang-raped in moving van for two hours then thrown onto the road as the vehicle sped along

  31-12-2025 12:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The horrific attack took place overnight from Monday into Tuesday after the married woman was waiting for transport to return home in Faridabad, near Delhi.
  
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• Carl’s crimes caught out in Coronation Street as further discovery leaves Abi reeling in early ITVX release

  31-12-2025 12:52 via metro.co.uk
  Abi Webster has caught Carl in another lie (Picture: ITV)This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.Abi Webster’s (Sally Carman) world fell apart last week when she discovered that brother-in-law turned lover Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard) had been cheating on her, but she has since made a further discovery which has left her heartbroken and furious.If you asked Carl to define the word ‘fa
  
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• Man proves he’s skilled enough for top Australian visa – by hacking the government website

  31-12-2025 12:51 via metro.co.uk
  Jacob Riggs is a cybersecurity leader and security researcher, who was granted the Australian 858 visa (Picture: SWNS)A British man has been granted Australia’s rarest visa – typically given to Nobel Prize laureates and Olympians – after hacking into the government system.Jacob Riggs, from Bexley, London, is a self-described ‘ethical hacker’ who had set his sights on the 858 National Innovation Permanent Visa, which boasts an overall applicant success rate of
  
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• Londoners’ fury after best view of New Year’s Eve fireworks is closed

  31-12-2025 12:51 via metro.co.uk
  London’s New Year’s fireworks, as seen from Primrose Hill (Picture: Guy Bell/Shutterstock)The decision to ban revellers from watching the New Year’s Eve fireworks from Primrose Hill has been met with anger from Londoners.The Camden Park spot offers some of the best views across the capital and attracted an estimated 30,000 people this time last year.But it will be closed tonight and cordoned off with solid hoarding and temporary fencing, while other parts have just the tempora
  
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• Anthony Joshua says ‘I feel pain all over my body’ after car crash that killed two friends

  31-12-2025 12:51 via metro.co.uk
  Anthony Joshua’s lost two of his close friends, Sina Ghami and Kevin Latif Ayodele, in the crashAnthony Joshua reportedly said ‘I feel pain all over my body’ after the fatal car crash on Monday which killed two of his closest friends.The former heavyweight champion was a passenger in a Lexus which crashed into a stationary truck in Makun, Nigeria.Joshua’s close friends Sina Ghami and Kevin Latif Ayodele were killed in the accident, which occurred after the car suffered a
  
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• Russia releases video 'evidence' of Ukrainian drone attack on Putin's residence

  31-12-2025 12:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip, shot during the night, showed a damaged drone lying in the snow in a forested area in north-west Russia this week.
  
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• 'My parents bought me a house for Christmas - as well as thousands of pounds more of gifts'

  31-12-2025 12:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Florie Hannaby-Cummins, 19, left her viewers in shock when she revealed her multi-thousand pound haul of gifts that included a house, designer jewellery and expensive tech
  
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• Back up, this is what really happens to your body when you hold in your poo

  31-12-2025 12:44 via metro.co.uk
  Woman sitting on toilet holding toilet paper roll (Credits: Getty Images)Going for a number two, using the facilities, dropping the kids off at the pool. We’ve come up with a number of ways to say we need to go for a poo, without actually saying it.Why? Well, while it’s perfectly natural, it’s just a bit awkward. This feeling is even worse when you’re not in the comfort of your own bathroom — or worse, at work, knowing full well a colleague could walk into the cubi
  
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• New train tickets from just £10 to launch next week - how to bag the bargain deals and where to go

  31-12-2025 12:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The cost of millions of train tickets will be cut by more than 50 per cent for a week as part of a government scheme to ease the cost-of-living crisis.
  
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