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• Second police officer killed in A66 crash PC Tom Clough 'gave everyone his everything'

  10-09-2026 08:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The funeral of Tom Clough is being held in Kirkleatham, North Yorkshire, today, a day after the service for colleague and fellow crash victim PC Matthew Blades
  
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• The haunting sign that you’re days from death, according to end-of-life doctor

  30-09-2026 17:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  Dr Christopher Kerr revealed a very telling sign that someone could be about to die (Picture: The Oprah Podcast)There are very few things you can be certain of in life — but one of those is that, one day, it will come to an end.Yep, however much you might try to cheat death, it comes to us all eventually.But, despite all the suggestions of life flashing before your eyes, can anyone really know with accuracy when their time might be up?Well, you might not be able to predict the exact momen
  
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• 'We all know what happens in care homes': Police officer who Tasered wheelchair-bound pensioner, 92, joked about incident in online post featuring lightning

  30-09-2026 17:13 via dailymail.com
  
  PC Rachel Comotto fired the weapon at Donald Burgess, a wheelchair-bound amputee, after he threatened to stab staff in his care home and refused to drop a dinner knife.
  
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• River Wear latest: Details of arrest emerge as 3 teens die after car plunges into water

  30-09-2026 17:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three teenagers have tragically died after a car plunged into the River Wear in Sunderland - a 17-year-old boy who survived has been arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving
  
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• Hundreds of prisoners are due to walk free tomorrow

  30-09-2026 17:12 via metro.co.uk
  
  The controversial scheme has been expanded (Picture: Getty)Hundreds of prisoners are due to walk free from jail on Thursday in the first wave of the Government’s controversial expanded early release scheme.Some 5,000 prisoners are scheduled to be released in stages over the next year, down from 6,000, after ministers intervened to exempt rapists and the most serious child sex offenders.Several hundred people are likely to be released on October 1 as part of the first phase of the expanded
  
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• Father and son go on trial in Hong Kong over gruesome murder of model whose hacked up remains were found in a soup pot

  30-09-2026 17:12 via dailymail.com
  
  Police discovered parts of Abby Choi's mutilated body at a house in Lung Mei Tsuen, in the city's suburbs in February 2023.
  
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• Banking boss ‘told employee to separate his gay job from his day job’

  30-09-2026 17:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  Brian Larson alleges that he was ‘pushed out’ of the companyA JPMorgan Chase boss allegedly told an employee to separate his ‘gay job’ from his ‘day job’, according to a discrimination lawsuit. Brian Larson, a former senior associate on JPMorgan’s Chase Associate Program, alleged in a lawsuit that one of his supervisors had criticised his participation in Pride groups within the firm.After he was hired in 2021, Larson was appointed co-chair of the
  
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• Nick Ferrari: ‘Andy Burnham’s greatest asset? Simple – he’s not Keir Starmer’

  30-09-2026 17:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  ‘Andy Burnham can gather a crowd in a way similar to Boris Johnson,’ writes Nick Ferrari for Metro (Picture: EPA)Next year I’ll finally be leaving my teens – no, I wish!
  Rather, it will be 19 years of covering party political conferences. All those years ago when I started the Kindle had just been invented and was the “must have” gadget, Barack Obama moved into the White House and Taylor Swift was a relatively unknown country singer.Since then, I’ve bee
  
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• The retired British artist, 85, beaten to death by 'four suspected burglars' at his idyllic French home in murder that stunned isolated rural hamlet where he lived

  30-09-2026 17:03 via dailymail.com
  
  The body of John Agner, 85, a retired wood carver, was found battered to death in the front garden of his home in Verlus, southwest France, in the early hours of Saturday.
  
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• The affordable supermarket fashion and homeware buys everyone will be talking about

  30-09-2026 17:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Get these in your basket (or trolley) whist you can. (Picture: Metro/Getty)
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  From viral pyjama sets and trench coats that disappear from shelves faster than a carton of semi-skimmed, to designer-looking handbags without the eye-watering price tag and dresses that routinely rack up thousands of views on TikTok, supermarket shopping has
  
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• Philadelphia woman shoots and kills masked intruder she caught breaking into her home in dead of night

  30-09-2026 17:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A Philadelphia woman shot and killed a masked intruder after he broke into her home; she later realized that she actually knew the trespasser.
  
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• Tony Bellew on Ricky Hatton, 'it broke my heart - something needs to be done about suicide'

  30-09-2026 16:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former world champion boxer Tony Bellew speaks on the death of his friend Ricky Hatton, and tells why he's encouraging the nation to 'man up'... but not as we know it
  
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• NHS GP shares her one tip that will 'reduce severity and duration' of colds this winter

  30-09-2026 16:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Shireen Ghezel claims her advice will help 'reduce the severity and duration' of any cough or cold during the winter months - you will just need to buy one item from a pharmacy
  
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• Outrage after Reform-led council ban journalist who revealed pensioner's 'Lego blockade' plight in latest attack on media freedom

  30-09-2026 16:53 via dailymail.com
  
  Reform-led Derbyshire County Council has decided to 'end engagement' with Eddie Bisknell, one of the county's Local Democracy Reporters.
  
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• Binman says never put common item in recycling - 'easy mistake to make'

  30-09-2026 16:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People tend to fall foul of those confusing rules all the time, he claims
  
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• 'Jihadist' pilot stabbed co-pilot and tried to crash FlyDubai plane before hero crew and passenger broke into cockpit and overpowered him, preventing 'Israeli 9/11'

  30-09-2026 16:52 via dailymail.com
  
  A commercial pilot flying from Dubai to Israel attacked another pilot before being overpowered by passengers in what is feared to have been an attempted hijacking.
  
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• FlyDubai FZ1073 live: Pilot 'tries to crash' Israel flight before mid-air bloodbath

  30-09-2026 16:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One of the pilots on FlyDubai flight FZ1073 is thought to have tried to crash the plane, which was heading to Tel Aviv in Israel, before passengers rushed the cockpit
  
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• Peta risked everything for her real estate mogul boyfriend's business dream. Then a judge found she'd been kept in the dark while her $950,000 home was on the line

  30-09-2026 16:48 via dailymail.com
  
  She mortgaged her home to help fund her boyfriend's business venture. When it collapsed, a judge found she had been kept in the dark as creditors pursued repayment through the courts.
  
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• Ex-director of Britain's top A-level school admits stealing £5million from the £70,000-a-year private college as his 'tiger mum' wife prepares to face trial

  30-09-2026 16:47 via dailymail.com
  
  Nadeem Sarwar (pictured), 50, was acting as a director and trustee at Cardiff Sixth Form College set up by his wife Yasmin Sarwar, 48, at the time of the offences.
  
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• Phoebe Burgess' awkward history with the columnist first offered her new podcast gig... Plus, revolt inside Nine and Woollahra councillor's five-hour pub session sets tongues wagging: INSIDE MAIL

  30-09-2026 16:46 via dailymail.com
  
  The woman iHeart wanted before Phoebe Burgess has a complicated history with the former NRL WAG. Plus, furious Nine staff continue leaking details of a controversial newsroom overhaul.
  
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• Trump's $500 refund checks to hit mailboxes of nearly 1 million Americans before midterms... here's how to claim your cash

  30-09-2026 16:45 via dailymail.com
  
  President Donald Trump's $500 check refunds for Obamacare enrollees are now on their way to nearly one million Americans across the country weeks before the midterm elections.
  
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• Martin Lewis says do not 'miss out' on DWP benefit - could be worth £3,000 a year

  30-09-2026 16:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Lewis says it is 'shameful' that so many people do not get what they are entitled to
  
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• Tech boss says being evil is ‘actually good’ with bizarre car analogy

  30-09-2026 16:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel compared being evil to being like a ‘Ferrari’ (Picture: EPA)A tech boss has claimed being evil is ‘not bad’ in a bizarre interview and illustrated his theory with cars.Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel caused a stir online after saying in a recent interview that evil is ‘actually kind of good’.Speaking with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the media group Axel Springer, the billionaire venture capitalist was asked about whether AI is
  
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• Dubai-Israel flight: Everything we know so far - pilot 'stabbed', hero Brit, and 'screams and blood'

  30-09-2026 16:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers have described screams, blood and panic after a reported fight between two pilots sparked a mid-air emergency - here's everything we know so far
  
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• Caring woman suffered horrific Final Destination-style double accident after checking to see if her boyfriend was okay after freeway pile-up

  30-09-2026 16:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Kyra Kinnison's boyfriend has now revealed what happened in the haunting moments before she dodged a car crash - before plummeting down a 70 foot drop off of a highway in Kansas.
  
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• Burnham's recipe for Left-wing 'rainbow coalition' chaos: No election for decades would have given a single party a majority under PR voting system that PM wants Britain to use

  30-09-2026 16:38 via dailymail.com
  
  The Prime Minister used his Labour conference speech on Tuesday to announce the creation of a new 'national commission' to look at electoral reform.
  
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• BBC expert says stop shutting blinds 'wrong way' as it makes homes feel colder

  30-09-2026 16:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Something this simple could be the reason heat is escaping your home
  
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• Met Office maps show downpours to lash across UK on Saturday - see full list of worst-hit areas

  30-09-2026 16:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Met Office maps show rain over the Midlands, northern England and parts of Wales on Saturday 3 October, with lighter patches in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland
  
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• Moment 80 springer spaniels are found starving and cowering in filth inside children's social worker's home - as he faces jail

  30-09-2026 16:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Seventy-nine of the dogs have now been rehoused since they were discovered in a filthy home in Doncaster in April 2025.
  
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• I was an extra in Digger – this is what Tom Cruise is really like on set

  30-09-2026 16:33 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tom Cruise’s Digger is undeniably one of the year’s most talked-about yet polarising films of the year (Picture: PA)Speaking about Digger in any capacity feels like a Mission: Impossible. I make no apologies for the pun. So much has been said about Tom Cruise’s likely Oscars contender and yet, at the same time, so little, thanks to Warner Bros. sternly warning against any spoiler leaks to protect the big plot twist. Even with the exact details under wraps, criti
  
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