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• Robbie Williams set to entertain us with biopic from Greatest Showman director

  23-02-2021 23:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Robbie Williams is getting his own biopic (Picture: Rex)Freddie, Elton and Bowie have all had the biopic treatment… and now it’s Robbie Williams’s turn.His life story is being brought to the screen — fittingly — by the director of The Greatest Showman, who says that he won’t shy away from the stage extrovert’s well-documented demons.Better Man, featuring Robbie’s hits, will be a coming-of-age story, director Michael Gracey told US outlet Deadline.
  
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• Brits braced for chills of -7C and blustery gales after weekend mild spell

  07-03-2021 06:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fine weather with sunny spells is expected to last today but blustery downpours are due later in the week
  
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• Health minister Greg Hunt smacks down Toorak GP who wanted to charge for the coronavirus vaccine

  07-03-2021 06:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health minister Greg Huntsaid the doctor from Toorak, Melbourne, talked to him about their desire for a vaccine fee despite both Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines being made available free.
  
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• Senate Republicans slam COVID relief bill as Joe Biden says it puts the US 'on the road to recovery'

  07-03-2021 06:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $1.9trillion relief package passed through the Senate Saturday with Biden hoping to sign bill into law next week providing it passes lower chamber.
  
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• Pastor tells women to 'lose weight and be more like Melania Trump' in sermon

  07-03-2021 05:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Baptist preacher Stewart Allen Clark, 55, handed out unsolicited marriage advice about how to keep a husband from getting "distracted" and asked "why so many women let themselves go" during a sermon
  
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• FDNY paramedic recounts 'traumatic' experience helping teen on drugs who bit her face

  07-03-2021 04:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jenna Piscitello, 28, responded to a call in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn around 2am on Friday morning when the 17-year-old girl bit her face.
  
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• Horror crash on South Australian highway leaves two people dead, another in critical condition

  07-03-2021 04:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A horror crash on the Stuart Highway in South Australia's Far North, has left two dead, and another injured. The impact of the collision caused the vehicles to catch fire, damaging the road.
  
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• Queen 'won't watch' Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview as she focuses on Philip

  07-03-2021 04:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The monarch will reportedly not watch the couple's tell-all on Sunday night as her mind stays on "duty and Philip" ahead of Commonwealth Day
  
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• Brittany Higgins' boyfriend explodes at politicians as the couple leave Canberra for good

  07-03-2021 04:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Shiraz said he was 'angry and sad' the couple had to move out of Canberra, whileexpressing his frustration the culture inside parliament 'won't change'.
  
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• Fears of a coronavirus outbreak in South Australia with a 'very strong positive' result detected

  07-03-2021 04:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  South Australia is on high alert for a potential coronavirus outbreak after a 'very strong positive' result was recorded in a wastewater sample.
  
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• Covid-19 overseas travel could begin sooner in Australia according to epidemiologist

  07-03-2021 04:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Tony Blakely claims as little as 40 per cent of the population needs to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before the country can consider reopening its international borders.
  
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• Homeless woman, 19, found dead and wrapped in plastic in abandoned fish market in Manhattan

  07-03-2021 04:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The woman's body, whose name was withheld, was found at 9.20am Saturday by her boyfriend and a friend in the New Market Building, a part of the former Fulton Fish Market.
  
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• Mother of 2 teens shot dead by her boyfriend is arrested over the weapon used in the murder-suicide

  07-03-2021 03:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Danielle Jette, 41, was charged with criminally negligent storage of a firearm, risk of injury to a minor and criminal liability for the acts of another/criminal possession of a firearm.
  
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• ANOTHER former aide to Gov Andrew Cuomo accuses him of sexual misconduct

  07-03-2021 03:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ana Liss, 35, claimed in an interview on Saturday that she was also subject to unsolicited advances from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
  
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• Kylie Moore-Gilbert reveals the gruesome conditions she barely survived in an Iranian prison

  07-03-2021 03:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was released from an Iranian prison in November 2020, after she was tried and sentenced to ten years for trumped-up spying charges.
  
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• Kerry Packer offered $1.25million for the capture of a Tasmanian tiger

  07-03-2021 03:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To mark the 125th anniversary of The Bulletin magazine in 2005 its billionaire owner Kerry Packer offered a whopping $1.25million for the capture of a 'live, uninjured' thylacine.
  
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• Woman moved in with man after only four dates before lockdown hit

  07-03-2021 03:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lauren Arris Cartwright, 27, wasn't planning on a permanent stay when she flew to Northern Ireland to stay with boyfriend Dan - but ended up finding love in lockdown
  
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• Linda Reynolds extends medical leave after apologising for calling Brittany Higgins a 'lying cow'

  07-03-2021 03:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Defence minister Linda Reynolds was taken to hospital for a pre-existing heart condition on February 24 and was due to return from medical leave on March 8.
  
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• Filming for Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is 'interrupted by aggressive set invader'

  07-03-2021 03:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The TV presenters were pictured outside Television Centre in Central London as the man, dressed in a grey hooded top and jeans, was confronted by security guards.
  
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• Mark McGowan opens border with Victoria despite his 28 days of no Covid cases rule

  07-03-2021 03:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark McGowan gave no explanation for why Victoria got less time in the naughty corner, but the WA state election is on March 13 and the AFL season starts on March 18.
  
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• Your Mail on Sunday has 20 Press Oscars nominations 

  07-03-2021 03:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brilliant journalists behind the Mail on Sunday have received a remarkable 20 nominations at the prestigious Society of Editors' National Press Awards.
  
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• Extra £200,000 legal bill 'could topple' Nicola Sturgeon

  07-03-2021 02:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon's government spent an extra £200,000 of taxpayers' money on a doomed legal battle with Alex Salmond, even after lawyers said she was bound to fail.
  
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• Was the sickening photo of a Grand National winning trainer leaked over a feud with a gangster?

  07-03-2021 02:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mail on Sunday can reveal mounting suspicion that the 'concerted attack' was orchestrated by a criminal gang seeking to ruin Elliott over a long-running feud.
  
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• Disgust of Tunbridge Wells over BBC blunder that called the town 'Royal Tonbridge Wells'

  07-03-2021 02:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Now the citizens of Tunbridge Wells really have been left as 'disgusted' as their stereotype after the BBC confused their Kent spa town with Tonbridge, its less affluent neighbour.
  
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• Old balls please! Revolutionary invention turns used tennis balls into new ones 

  07-03-2021 02:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Price Of Bath - the UK's last tennis ball manufacturer - has adapted a machine to grind discarded balls into a fine dust, from which they can be reconstituted.
  
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• Desperate search for Sydney girl, 12, missing for three days from Dean Park

  07-03-2021 02:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amelia Hamza has not been seen since leaving a home on Denbern Street in Dean Park, Sydney's west, about 12pm on Thursday.
  
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• More than a third of Britons feel BBC is 'too woke'

  07-03-2021 02:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The latest survey, for the campaign group Defund The BBC, reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the BBC licence fee, which will rise next month from £157.50 to £159.
  
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• PM of Caribbean nation accuses UK of 'forgetting' the Queen's subjects 

  07-03-2021 02:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain has 'forgotten' the Queen's subjects in Commonwealth countries during its world-beating vaccine rollout, Dr Timothy Harris, Prime Minister ofCaribbean nation St Kitts and Nevis, has claimed.
  
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• Bruno Fernandes hits back at criticism over his poor Man Utd form vs top six clubs

  07-03-2021 02:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Bruno Fernandes has struggled against the Premier League’s ‘top six’ this season (Getty)Bruno Fernandes has hit back at criticism over his performances for Manchester United against the ‘top six’ clubs in the Premier League.Since making the move to Old Trafford, Fernandes has scored 34 goals and registered 21 assists in just 62 appearances.However, the Portugal international has struggled against the Premier League heavyweights this season with just with just one go
  
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• Twin sisters are about to transform the way the world thinks about Down's

  07-03-2021 02:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Born two minutes apart 11 years ago, the siblings have always been close, and as Amber struggles to pull her top over her head, Olivia is on hand to help undo the buttons.
  
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