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• Sam Allardyce changes Premier League prediction: ‘I think they will do it’

  26-08-2026 12:49 via metro.co.uk
  
  Former Premier League manager Sam Allardyce (Picture: Getty)Sam Allardyce has already changed his main Premier League prediction after the very first weekend of the new season.Defending champions Arsenal came into this season as the bookmakers’ favourites to defend their title, and got underway with a convincing 3-0 win over Coventry City on Friday.But it was a topsy-turvy weekend for the rest of the ‘Big Six’, with both Manchester United and Tottenham falling to disappointing
  
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• Alarming link between gender ideology and support for left-wing violence found in US government study

  27-08-2026 20:47 via dailymail.com
  
  A US government-funded study has found a startling link between transgender ideology and support for left-wing political violence.
  
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• Woman took trip to storage unit while recovering from fractured spine... then her dog provoked swarm of 300 KILLER BEES to attack her

  27-08-2026 20:46 via dailymail.com
  
  Only four months after recovery of her fractured spine, a Texas woman was viciously attacked and stung by over 300 killer bees at a storage facility.
  
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• Hundreds dead in Nepal flood disaster as devastated British families try to contact loved ones

  27-08-2026 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A 13-year-old British girl and 14-year-old boy are among those missing after a “tsunami from the sky” battered the area following a glacier collapse on Wednesday morning
  
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• Man jailed for raping girl, 16 and leaving her with two black eyes and swollen jaw

  27-08-2026 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Callan Hennessey was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court after being convicted of rape and admitting assault, strangulation and creating indecent images.
  
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• Mother whose son, 16, died while playing Russian roulette on Snapchat says Meta should pay far more than the $18 billion it has agreed to settle child harm cases

  27-08-2026 20:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Jennifer Mitchell's 16-year-old son, Ian Ezquerra, shot himself while filming and posting videos of himself playing Russian roulette on Snapchat in 2019.
  
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• Supreme Court asked to intervene in probe over Nicola Sturgeon's handling of complaints about Alex Salmond

  27-08-2026 20:34 via dailymail.com
  
  The UK's highest court has been asked to intervene in the long-running probe into Nicola Sturgeon's handling of complaints about Alex Salmond.
  
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• Musclebound model whose subway platform brawl ended in man's death has all charges DISMISSED by NYC court

  27-08-2026 20:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Nassadir Tate, 21, had three charges of assault dismissed in court on Thursday. Tate was initially accused of assaulting Johnson Eweka, 55, on March 14.
  
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• Punk rapper Bobby Vylan to face no further action from police over chanting 'death, death to the IDF' at Al Quds Day demonstration in London

  27-08-2026 20:28 via dailymail.com
  
  Members of the crowd also appeared to join in with the chant, on a day when 12 people were arrested during the protests.
  
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• Thousands of revellers brave the rain as they set up camp at Reading festival ahead of Bank Holiday weekend

  27-08-2026 20:27 via dailymail.com
  
  An estimated 100,000 people are expected to flock to Reading Festival- which runs from Thursday until Sunday - to see acts like Charli XCX, Florence + The Machine and Chase & Status.
  
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• Superyacht stewardess, 21, took her own life after row with her on-off boyfriend when they downed wine and she took cocaine, inquest hears

  27-08-2026 20:22 via dailymail.com
  
  Imogen Amesbury, who was known to her family as Imo, had worked abroad on yachts for several months in 2021 before returning to her home in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
  
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• Hundreds of police from across England are drafted in to restore order in Middlesbrough as town teeters on the brink of gang war

  27-08-2026 20:19 via dailymail.com
  
  Gang-related violence, believed to be linked to five youths who were killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 on Saturday, has spiralled across Teesside.
  
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• What happens next in EastEnders as Craig is caught out? Spoilers for next week confirmed

  27-08-2026 20:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s been quite a week on the Square – and more drama awaits (Picture: BBC / Metro)It’s that time of week again when EastEnders fans must wait until the following Monday for a new visit to the Square and viewers are no doubt eager to find out what’s next given the big developments this week.
  Friday’s visit to the Square saw Craig Ingram (Matthew James Bailey) tell Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) about Amy Mitchell’s (Ellie Dadd) role in Joel Marshall’s (Ma
  
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• Moment Muslim political leader who once tried to sue Donald Trump for £10m is arrested as he is jailed for cheating life insurance from elderly woman

  27-08-2026 20:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Former mayoral candidate, Kamran Malik, 59, posed as a solicitor through his firm KM Legal Ltd and stole a woman's £51,000 life insurance payment.
  
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• Jake Reiner describes utter grief after his parents Rob and Michele were murdered and what he thinks about his suspected killer brother

  27-08-2026 20:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Jake said he was in downtown Los Angeles on December 14 when his younger sister, 28-year-old Romy, called him twice in quick succession.
  
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• Xabi Alonso explains why Enzo Fernandez is axed from Chelsea squad for Luton clash

  27-08-2026 20:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Fernandez is not in the squad for tonight’s Carabao Cup game (Picture: Alamy Live News)Enzo Fernandez has been left out of the Chelsea squad for tonight’s Carabao Cup clash against Luton Town.The Argentina international’s future at Stamford Bridge remains in huge doubt with Manchester City expected to launch a bid to sign him before Tuesday’s transfer deadline day.Chelsea initially set a deadline of last Friday for their Premier League rivals to sign the former Benfica s
  
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• POLL: What should Trump have renamed Lake Ontario? Have your say in this week's DC Insider

  27-08-2026 20:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Trump renamed Lake Ontario this week amid his escalating trade war with Canada. What would you name it? Sound off in this week's DC Insider poll.
  
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• 50 Cent says new London crime thriller Fightland is ‘a level above’ his biggest TV hit

  27-08-2026 20:00 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 PageMy first memory of 50 Cent stems back to 2003 when I was nine years old, watching him hang upside down as he rapped the opening bars of In Da Club, a bona fide noughties classic.So to speak to him face to face about his new TV thriller Fightland, a boxing crime drama set in London that’s launching on Sky, was surreal.‘I wanted to turn it up a not
  
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• First the floods - now (surprise, surprise), a washout Bank Holiday weekend is on the cards with heavy downpours across country

  27-08-2026 19:55 via dailymail.com
  
  A weekend washout is on the cards for parts of the country after torrential rain in the West Midlands brought flooding,
  
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• Government study uncovers link between transgender ideology and support for left-wing violence

  27-08-2026 19:52 via dailymail.com
  
  A US government-funded study has found a startling link between transgender ideology and support for left-wing political violence.
  
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• ‘Thames Water could be nationalised under Burnham tenure without spending a penny’

  27-08-2026 19:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We must remove the profit-at-all-costs motive from what is essential service on which all of us depend, yet none of us have any choice over who we buy from, argues Graham Hiscott
  
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• Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America as Canada trade war takes ugly turn

  27-08-2026 19:43 via dailymail.com
  
  President Donald Trump made a big announcement today - signing an executive order to officially rename Lake Ontario in Canada to 'Lake America.'
  
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• Police officers from across England drafted in to Middlesbrough in bid to restore order as town teeters on the edge

  27-08-2026 19:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Gang-related violence, believed to be linked to five youths who were killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 on Saturday, has spiralled across Teesside.
  
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• Abuse victims of air cadets' own 'Savile' to share £2.5million payout

  27-08-2026 19:40 via dailymail.com
  
  The victims of a pervert who abused air cadets over several decades are to share nearly £2.5million after winning a payout from the Ministry of Defence.
  
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• Tourists buy paella in Spain in beautiful spot – but are horrified when bill arrives

  27-08-2026 19:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A group of holidaymakers thought they had found a bargain in Spain, but one detail on the menu left them facing a very different bill
  
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• March of the £1billion NHS pen pushers...  amid criticism the money could have been used to pay for 'tens of thousands of nurses'

  27-08-2026 19:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Backroom costs for Scotland's NHS soared by £58 million in just one year and the annual bill is now £1.1 billion - enough to pay for 33,000 new nurses.
  
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• Prince Harry's fresh hope for taxpayer-funded security as Home Secretary orders new review

  27-08-2026 19:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were met by their private security team as they touched down in the UK, but with mounting costs Prince Harry will be hoping the government changes its stance
  
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• POLL: What should Trump rename Lake Ontario? Have your say in this week's DC Insider

  27-08-2026 19:28 via dailymail.com
  
  Trump floated the idea of renaming Lake Ontario as his war with Canada heats up. What name would you suggest? Sound off in this week's DC Insider poll.
  
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• Inside Middlesbrough community living in terror and fear as gang turf war claims nine lives in five days

  27-08-2026 19:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A home was this morning rammed just two miles from where seven-year-old Valentina Foster and her aunt Natalie McDonald lost their lives in a house fire in Middlesbrough
  
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• Google agrees to remove hyphens from town name – after 130 year campaign

  27-08-2026 19:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Bradford on Avon or Bradford-on-Avon? (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)Wars and conflicts continue to rage, but at least one argument stewing for decades has been settled for good.
  With or without hyphens? That is the question residents of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire have been mulling over the spelling of the town’s name.
  Google has become a hero in a long-standing row after it agreed to remove the hyphens from the town’s name.
  It comes after a campaign by locals, who have labelled the
  
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