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• Popular airline introduces ‘genius’ innovation for better sleep on flights

  24-06-2026 12:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sleeping on planes can be a nightmare (Picture: Getty Images)A good sleep on a plane evades a lot of us, and it’s not for a lack of trying.Social media is flooded with countless makeshift methods to try and get some comfortable shuteye, from tying your head to the chair with a scarf, to pulling your knees to your chest and tightening the seatbelt around your ankles.But Emirates has just introduced a game-changing feature in their seats, which allows passengers to rest their head for a nap
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham celebrates father-in-law’s birthday after ‘asking parents to leave him alone’

  24-06-2026 21:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Brooklyn Beckham was pictured at the Florida bash with his wife Nicola Peltz (Picture: nicolaannepeltzbeckham/Instagram)Brooklyn Beckham rang in his father-in-law Nelson Peltz’s birthday wearing matching cowboy hats, amid an ongoing rift with his own parents.It comes after the 27-year-old did not publicly acknowledge his parents, Victoria Beckham and Sir David Beckham’s Father’s Day posts to Instagram, which included pictures of him.But he has now been pictured at a Florida ba
  
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• England’s Trevoh Chalobah told he can leave Chelsea as bid is made

  24-06-2026 21:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Trevoh Chalobah is surplus to requirements at Chelsea (Picture: Getty Images)Trevoh Chalobah may have got a late call up to the England squad for the World Cup, but he looks set to leave Chelsea this summer.The 26-year-old joined the England squad just before their tournament began after Tino Livramento suffered an injury in training.He may be unlikely to feature unless there are further injuries, but it shows he is well thought of by Three Lions manager Thomas Tuchel, who again opted to leave
  
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• 'We're suffocating in the streets': Europe battles through ANOTHER day of unprecedented near-40C temperatures as deadly heatwave makes it 'difficult to live'

  24-06-2026 20:54 via dailymail.com
  
  France recorded its hottest-ever day for the second day running, with temperatures topping 40C in more than 50 departments since the latest heatwave began on June 17.
  
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• Keir-miserations: Ousted Starmer gets consolation hugs from European leaders at Berlin summit as departing PM makes one of his final foreign trips

  24-06-2026 20:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Two days after he tearfully announced his resignation as Labour premier, Sir Keir travelled to Berlin for a meeting of 'E5' group of countries.
  
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• JOHN MacLEOD: Tunnels to the islands? Give me fickle ferries any day over dank passage by the underworld

  24-06-2026 20:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Of late there has been a surge of calls that all the Outer Hebrides should really be linked up to the mainland - and each other - by a network of undersea tunnels.
  
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• Eve and Suki set to lose everything in EastEnders as cunning Nicola strikes back

  24-06-2026 20:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Suki and Eve’s world is set to crumble as Nicola has the upper hand (Picture: BBC / Jack Barnes / Kieron McCarron)Eve Panesar-Unwin (Heather Peace) received the news she desperately wanted in EastEnders as wife Suki (Balvinder Sopal) told her that they’ve been approved for adoption. But the happy development couldn’t have come at a worse time.Just moments earlier, Eve had been drowning her sorrows at Harry’s Barn after the meeting with the adoption panel went awry.
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• World Cup: England's pubs and bars braced for 'Super Saturday' when Three Lions play Panama

  24-06-2026 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pubs and restaurants could serve a bumper 55million extra pints if England go all the way to the final of the World Cup, which is being held across the US, Canada and Mexico
  
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• Boy, 15, missing after swimming in popular tourist lake during heatwave

  24-06-2026 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A 15-year-old boy is missing after swimming at a popular nature reserve in Hampshire where temperatures exceeded 36C today, marking the hottest June on record
  
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• 'Scandal' as Union voices anger over £327k payoff given
to trams boss amid calls for investigation

  24-06-2026 20:40 via dailymail.com
  
  The former boss of Edinburgh's controversial tram network was handed a 'golden goodbye' of more than £320,000.
  
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• Manchester snatches TV Festival away from expensive Edinburgh as organisers say it will allow them to 'radically reduce costs'

  24-06-2026 20:40 via dailymail.com
  
  For five decades it has attracted famous faces including actress Whoopi Goldberg, presenter Sir David Attenborough and journalist Emily Maitlis.
  
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• Gorgeous coastal hideaway pulls plug on its $300k tourist fund because locals don't want any more people visiting

  24-06-2026 20:36 via dailymail.com
  
  A wealthy coastal village in California unanimously approved its $41 million budget, but slashed nearly $300,000 from its tourism marketing budget.
  
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• Becky Hill says being booed ‘not nice’ in first post since festivalgoers left set

  24-06-2026 20:14 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 PageBecky Hill has addressed being booed by some audience members during a surprise set at TRNSMT.A TikTok video from the weekend showed sections of the crowd leaving while others booed when the singer revealed she would be performing an entire set of unreleased music.The booing unfolded during Hill’s appearance as TRNSMT’s secret act on th
  
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• Jose Mourinho open to selling £70m Real Madrid star to Manchester United

  24-06-2026 20:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mourinho overseeing big changes at the Bernabeu (Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire)Real Madrid are ready to listen to offers for midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni with Manchester United interested in a summer move.United are seeking to rebuild their midfield this summer with a deal to sign Ederson from Atalanta expected to be confirmed next month.Elliot Anderson has been their leading target but the Nottingham Forest star is expected to join Manchester City.Tchouameni is also high up on their shortlis
  
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• Little girl, 3, killed by LICE after parents let infestation get so bad that it left her anemic

  24-06-2026 20:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Joycelynn Dylewski was found struggling to breathe inside an apartment in Corinth, about an hour outside of Albany, on February 19, 2025 after suffering from a severe lice infestation.
  
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• Steve Toussaint: ‘House of the Dragon fans thought I was dating my co-star’

  24-06-2026 20:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Steve Toussaint was thrown straight into the action at the start of House of the Dragon season 3 (Picture: HBO)‘History does not remember blood, it remembers names.’House of the Dragon fans will certainly never forget the name Corlys Velaryon. Played by Steve Toussaint, the Sea Snake is a force to be reckoned with on the ocean, and is the Hand of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy).But he hasn’t had an easy road, to say the least. Tragedy has continually befallen Hous
  
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• James Franco shares erratic posts claiming aliens live in his garage

  24-06-2026 19:53 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 PageJames Franco has resurfaced on social media, spouting strange conspiracy theories about an alien living in his garage.The 48-year-old former actor has been posting on TikTok since the start of this month, often wearing a bedraggled blue t-shirt, which viewers think is a clue to something.Franco was shunned from Hollywood after being accused of sexual miscond
  
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• American boy, 12, attacked by shark at luxury Caribbean resort

  24-06-2026 19:52 via dailymail.com
  
  The boy, aged 12, was attacked at the Exuma Cays area around 3:30pm on Tuesday in front of his horrified family, Royal Bahamas Police said.
  
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• Chilling killer told cops 'I've disposed of my wife' after stabbing her 78 times

  24-06-2026 19:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robert Alexander, 66, was 'motivated by money' and his determination to stop his wife leaving him when he stabbed her to death at their home in Tamworth, a court heard
  
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• UK heatwave: Bridget Phillipson fires simple message to worried parents amid 36C scorcher

  24-06-2026 19:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has asked parents to trust teachers at schools — if their child's school is open during the heatwave this week as hundreds are shut
  
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• Next PM: Burnham lines up first Downing St appointment after Starmer's fiery PMQs

  24-06-2026 19:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer has been met with a lively Commons today as Kemi Badenoch dismissed Andy Burnham as a "pair of eyelashes in a t-shirt" and branded Bridget Phllipson a "spiteful class warrior"
  
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• A consolatory hug goodbye: European leaders embrace Keir Starmer at Berlin summit as departing PM makes one of his final foreign trips

  24-06-2026 19:44 via dailymail.com
  
  Two days after he tearfully announced his resignation as Labour premier, Sir Keir travelled to Berlin for a meeting of 'E5' group of countries.
  
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• Woman and five children rescued after being held captive for over 10 years

  24-06-2026 19:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A French woman who was allegedly held captive and abused by her husband for more than a decade in a remote town in north-west Pakistan has been rescued by police
  
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• Gorilla's in our midst! Londoners welcome Caesar the ape after council killjoys said Wakefield woman couldn't keep it on her home

  24-06-2026 19:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Adele Teale, 59, was told by Wakefield Council to remove the 4kg resin figure from outside her two-bedroom terraced home within four weeks or face legal action or a £20,000 fine.
  
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• Boy, 14, arrested over murder of missing girl 'posted TikTok of her' before body was found next to bowls club just 500 yards from her home

  24-06-2026 19:40 via dailymail.com
  
  Lilly Jones, 14, was last seen at 6.50pm on Saturday in Blaina, a former mining village near Ebbw Vale in the South Wales Valley.
  
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• Met Office names 31 areas it won't cool off on Saturday as 34C heat warning remains – full list

  24-06-2026 19:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  UK temperatures are set to ease this weekend as cooler air spreads in – but the east will stay warmest for longest
  
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• What the hottest places of 1976 look like today.... Britons channel the spirit of XXX to cope with scorching temperatures 50 years on from famous heatwave

  24-06-2026 19:35 via dailymail.com
  
  A Labour PM has quit after barely two years, the US is lavishly celebrating independence and the mercury is soaring to new heights - so it goes, both 50 years ago and now.
  
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• Do the public need to be more patient with PMs? Readers discuss

  24-06-2026 19:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Readers discuss Starmer’s exit, if the electroate are too quick to judge and whether the social media ban for under-16s is good news (Picture: EPA)Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments 'If a problem isn’t solved faster than a cup of water heating in the microwave, we turn on them'Regarding the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister (MetroTalk, Tue) after two years in power. He was the sixth PM we’ve had in te
  
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• Boy, 16, accused of attempted murder of girl following stabbing at secondary school admits possession of knife

  24-06-2026 19:30 via dailymail.com
  
  Armed police were scrambled to Thorpe St Andrew High School, on the outskirts of Norwich in Norfolk, in March following reports that a 15-year-old girl had been stabbed in the back.
  
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• Andy Burnham plans to set up 'No10 in the North' in bid to shift power outside London

  24-06-2026 19:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham is expected to say he wants to move parts of his Downing Street operation out of London if he becomes Prime Minister in his first major policy speech
  
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