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• Rapper Bobby Shmurda has been released from prison and hats are flying in celebration

  23-02-2021 16:55 via metro.co.uk
  
  Rapper Bobby Shmurda has been released from prison (Picture: Brad Barket/Getty Images for Power 105.1)Rapper Bobby Shmurda has officially been released from prison and his fans are delighted.The 26-year-old rapper, real name Ackquille Pollard, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a series of offences.His sentence was originally set to end in December 2021, however, he was made eligible for conditional early release on parole thanks to good behavior.The New Yor
  
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• Kellan Lutz and wife Brittany welcome baby girl a year after stillbirth

  27-02-2021 10:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kellan and Brittany have welcomed their daughter (Picture: Jesse Grant/WireImage)Kellan Lutz and his wife Brittany have welcomed their first child, a year after they suffered a pregnancy loss at six months. The Twilight star confirmed the news as he shared an Instagram post from his wife, announcing she had given birth to a baby girl called Ashtyn.Brittany’s post read: ‘She’s here!!!! Ashtyn Lilly Lutz | 2•22•21.‘The day she came into the world it was snowi
  
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• Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns £280billion bill for Covid support measures will have to be paid

  27-02-2021 10:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Sunak said: 'We now have far more debt than we used to and because interest rates... at least a month or two ago were exceptionally low, that means we remain exposed to changes in those rates.'
  
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• New scheme to help people buy homes with 5% deposit

  27-02-2021 10:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak is preparing to announce a new scheme to help home buyers with low deposits (Picture: Getty)A new scheme that will allow people with small deposits to buy a new home is set to be launched in a bid to ‘fire up’ the housing market.
  Chancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil a mortgage guarantee scheme in his Budget on Wednesday.
  It will provide incentives to lenders to provide mortgages to buyers with just 5% deposits who wish to purchase properties worth up to £600,000.Unlik
  
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• Police in Myanmar fire tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters gathering to oppose military coup

  27-02-2021 10:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Terrified pro-democracy activists were seen sprinting away from riot police as gas canisters fizzed around them and rubber bullet flew through the streets of Rangoon on Saturday.
  
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• Countess of Iveagh splits from Guinness heir in what could be one of Britain's biggest ever divorces

  27-02-2021 10:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reading-born interior designer Clare Hazell, 46, who lives at the Elveden Hall estate in Suffolk, has filed for divorce from Edward Guinness, 51, who has a reputed fortune of more than £900million.
  
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• Woman pulls up carpet to find hatch to 'creepy' basement she never knew existed

  27-02-2021 10:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  TikTok user @Unfortunateexistance filmed the moment she went down into the basement of her house after finding a hatch hidden under the carpet - and viewers advised her to 'move out'
  
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• What I Own: Steph and Lance, who put down a £37,000 deposit on a south London house that the pair have renovated

  27-02-2021 10:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The couple have been busy making changes (Picture: Steph Olubajo)Welcome back to What I Own – Metro.co.uk’s weekly homeowner diary series.This week we chat to 26-year-old Steph who lives with her partner Lance.The couple put down a deposit on their South East London house last year and have been hard at work renovating the property, to put their own stamp on it.While they still have a little more work to do, the pair’s efforts have certainly paid off.
  This is what they had to s
  
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• Knife danger, Levi betrays Kyle and Amy lies: 6 big Neighbours spoilers

  27-02-2021 10:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Here’s what this week’s Neighbours looks like (Picture: Channel 5)It’s a week of very bad decisions in Neighbours when Hendrix once again takes things too far, Amy concocts a very daft plan and Levi does something that threatens everything he holds dear.Hendrix (Benny Turland) is doing himself no favours and he’s about to burn his last bridge with the one person he’s always relied on. What will he do now he’s all alone?Amy (Jacinta Stapleton) is getting more s
  
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• Emmerdale spoilers: Bernice returns as she discovers Gabby Thomas is pregnant?

  27-02-2021 10:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Bernice learns Gabby is pregnant in Emmerdale (Picture: ITV)Gabby Thomas (Rosie Bentham) is about to get herself involved in the Tate’s lives for a very long time in Emmerdale after discovering she’s pregnant with Jamie’s (Alexander Lincoln) baby.Following the discovery, Gabby was apprehensive about telling anyone, but could she be confronted by her own mother in upcoming episodes as Bernice (Samantha Giles) discovers Gabby’s pregnancy through someone else?Bernice left th
  
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• EastEnders spoilers: Gray Atkins loses it with Whitney Dean in violent outburst

  27-02-2021 10:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Gray gets vicious (Picture: BBC)Time is running out for Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith) in EastEnders. With the Carters determined to find Tina (Luisa Bradshaw-White), Gray is doing all he can to convince them she’s well so the secret that he killed her can remain hidden.One person who has supported Gray since Chantelle’s (Jessica Plummer) death is Whitney (Shona McGarty).
  One thing Whitney is blissfully unaware of is that Gray has started to manipulate her, subtly planting seeds
  
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• Coronation Street spoilers: Geoff Metcalfe kills Yasmeen Nazir from beyond the grave?

  27-02-2021 10:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Yasmeen is still suffering due to Geoff (Picture: ITV)The abuse Yasmeen Nazir (Shelley King) has been receiving from Geoff Metcalfe (Ian Bartholomew) may have come to an end in Coronation Street, but Yasmeen is still deeply struggling to adapt to normal life.Yasmeen is being haunted by her memories of Geoff, suffering panic attacks and hallucinations, but will things come to a tragic and devastating end soon when Geoff kills Yasmeen from beyond the grave?Alya (Sair Khan) points out that along wi
  
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• 'Chaos' surrounding George's birth resulted in emergency plan for Charlotte

  27-02-2021 10:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kate Middleton had all three of her children at St Mary's Hospital's Lindo Wing, but huge excitement around the arrival of new royal meant things were very, very busy
  
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• A death, new enemies and a break-in: 8 massive Home and Away spoilers

  27-02-2021 10:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  (Picture: Endemol Shine)This week on Home and Away, there’s plenty of shock and suspicion going around. While Christian (Ditch Davey) and Tori’s (Penny McNamee) engagement should be a happy occasion, Justin (James Stewart) and Leah (Ada Nicodemou) soon realise their opinions on marriage are vastly different. Will they be able to recover after multiple heated arguments?Meanwhile, Christian feels responsible after his patient dies unexpectedly, and Lewis (Luke Arnold) treats this as co
  
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• Soldiers from Captain Sir Tom Moore’s regiment to carry coffin at funeral today

  27-02-2021 09:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Captain Sir Tom Moore’s memory will be honoured today by his old regiment (Picture: Reuters)Six soldiers from Captain Sir Tom Moore’s Yorkshire Regiment will carry his coffin at his funeral today, which his family say will be ‘quite spectacular’.
  A World War Two-era plane will soar over the service in honour of the veteran and NHS fundraising hero, who died earlier this month after a battle with Covid-19 and pneumonia.
  Sir Tom captured the hearts of the nation last year w
  
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• Thomas Tuchel reveals the position Kai Havertz will play in his Chelsea team

  27-02-2021 09:55 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kai Havertz has struggled to make an impact at Chelsea since his summer move from Bayer Leverkusen (Picture: Getty)Thomas Tuchel insists Kai Havertz will feature prominently in this Chelsea team and insists his lack of playing time over the course of the last month has simply been down to the Germany international’s lack of fitness.The 21-year-old represented, by some distance, the most expensive of the London club’s seven summer recruits, but he struggled to nail down a settled role
  
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• Woman, 27, devastated as sister's death doesn't exempt her from hotel quarantine

  27-02-2021 09:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Billie Gray, 27, who had been working in Sweden since August, believed she would be able to isolate at her mum's house upon her return to Scotland after two negative coronavirus tests
  
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• Jacinda Ardern throws Auckland into another week long lockdown after just ONE new case of Covid-19

  27-02-2021 09:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister of Auckland Jacinda Ardern has announced Auckland will go into lockdown for one week, after just one new local case of Covid-19.
  
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• Duke of Wellington's youngest son Lord Frederick, 28, is engaged to bomb disposal expert

  27-02-2021 09:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lord Frederick who is the godson of Prince Charles and a direct descendant of the 'Iron Duke', is engaged to fellow soldier Katie Lambert, 28.
  
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• Coronavirus live news: UK will face 'enormous strains', says chancellor; New Zealand PM says Auckland to go into lockdown for seven days

  27-02-2021 09:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Rishi Sunak warns of risk to economy; Joe Biden tells US ‘now is not the time to relax - follow all the day’s news as it happensVan-Tam warns against giving up on Covid rulesExperts criticise Boris Johnson for putting dates in Covid roadmapSee all our coronavirus coverage 8.43am GMT Russia has reported a further 11,534 Covid-19 cases, including 1,825 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 4,234,720 since the pandemic began.There were an additional 439 deaths in the same period, the
  
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• Victoria bans all single use plastics in an effort to crackdown on pollution in the state

  27-02-2021 09:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A number of single-use plastics will be banned in Victoria within two years, the state government has announced, in a crackdown on pollution in the state.
  
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• Gavin Williamson using 'misleading' research to justify campus free-speech law

  27-02-2021 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Cardiff University calls on education secretary to correct the record over claim Germaine Greer was banned The education secretary is using “completely misleading” and “dubious” research to justify introducing new legislation on free speech in universities, according to the head of Cardiff University.Gavin Williamson sparked anger in universities when he unveiled plans on 16 February to counter what he called “unacceptable silencing and censoring” on campuses.
  
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• ‘Just say when’: Conor McGregor teases major WWE match as Triple H extends open invite

  27-02-2021 09:27 via metro.co.uk
  
  McGregor could be on his way (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Conor McGregor might finally be heading to WWE.The UFC legend has teased a major match with current NXT Champion Finn Balor, and the black and gold brand’s boss has extended an open invitation to Notorious.Everything kicked off when Irishman Balor had a bit of fun at his countryman’s expense, setting up action figures of each of them in the ring with Triple H stood between them in a suit.He simply captioned it: ‘Trip
  
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• UK economy to face ‘enormous strains’ after lockdown, Rishi Sunak warns

  27-02-2021 09:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the Government Covid debt will eventually have to be paid offBritain’s public finances will face ‘enormous strains’ in the wake of the third national lockdown, the Chancellor has warned.Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget announcement,Rishi Sunak told the Financial Times a bill for the Government’s £280bn investment in coronavirus support will eventually have to be paid, with low interest rates leaving the nation’s economy ‘expo
  
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• Shamima Begum left 'angry, upset and crying' after court blocks Britain return

  27-02-2021 09:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ms Begum is now stuck in a detention camp in Syria after the Supreme Court unanimously turned down her request to fight her citizenship battle yesterday
  
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• Micah Richards names Man Utd star Bruno Fernandes as his choice for PFA Player of the Season

  27-02-2021 09:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Micah Richard believes Bruno Fernandes deserves to be named PFA Player of the Season (Picture: Sky Sports)Micah Richards believes Bruno Fernandes is the obvious candidate to win the PFA Player of the Season Award and feels the Manchester United talisman has made a Virgil van Dijk-esque impact at Old Trafford.The Portugal international has spearheaded United’s Premier League title charge and played a pivotal role in their progress to the latter stages of this season’s domestic and Eur
  
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• Rita Ora makes the most of being out of quarantine as she hits the beach in Sydney ahead of The Voice Australia

  27-02-2021 09:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  Rita made the most of her freedom (Picture: Matrix)Rita Ora is making the most of being out of quarantine, after flying Down Under for work.The 30-year-old has completed 14 days of quarantine after travelling from the UK to Sydney to start work as a judge on The Voice Australia.But before the hard work kicked in, she got in some R&R as she hit the beach with friends including her sister and manager Elena.The Let You Love Me singer wore a woven Missoni string bikini for her sun-soaked day out
  
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• WWE SmackDown results, grades: Roman Reigns decimates Daniel Bryan, Apollo Crews embraces wealthy Nigerian roots

  27-02-2021 09:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Universal Champion Roman Reigns attacks WWE superstar Daniel Bryan on SmackDownWWE SmackDown went off the air with Roman Reigns standing tall over a fallen Daniel Bryan.The company has left things open heading into Fastlane next month, as the Universal Champion took a shot at a potential challenger.Roman started the night with Jey Uso and Paul Heyman by his side as he insisted the blue brand needed him and claimed the same was true for Elimination Chamber as he proved he operates ‘at anoth
  
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• How Ned Kelly's little sister Kate found fame before her mysterious death

  27-02-2021 09:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For more than a century Kate Kelly has beenovershadowed by her notorious older brother Ned Kelly but a new book reveals her own remarkable life in full for the first time.
  
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• “Where are the next Tom Cruises?”: how the internet changed celebrity

  27-02-2021 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In our social media-saturated society, modern fame has become fragmented resulting in a galaxy of stars vying for our attentionModern Toss on fameWho is the most famous person in the world? According to Google – top of “1,040,000,000” answers – is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the wrestler turned movie star whose brand of brawny justice can be seen in Jumanji, Moana and the Fast & Furious franchise. If this doesn’t seem totally impossible, it feels mudd
  
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