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• Seventh and eighth stars out of I’m A Celebrity in shock double elimination

  05-12-2025 23:25 via metro.co.uk
  Tonight’s episode of I’m a Celebrity featured a shock double elimination (Picture: James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)Key Pointssummary__ai-icon
  I’m A Celebrity sees a shock double elimination, leaving only seven contestants in the jungleCelebrities faced emotional moments, including a tough Bushtucker Trial and visits from loved onesThe series enters its final stretch with a dramatic twist and emotional farewellsCreated with AI assistance. Quality assured by Metro editors.I&rsquo
  
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• Ronnie O’Sullivan compares snooker prospects to Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry

  07-12-2025 15:02 via metro.co.uk
  Ronnie O’Sullivan is talking up some young talent on the professional tour (Picture: Getty Images)Ronnie O’Sullivan has given high praise to two young snooker talents, comparing them to legendary players Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry.The Rocket turned 50 this week and is still sitting pretty in the world’s top 10, along with his fellow veterans John Higgins and Mark Williams.There is also a string of players over 40 years old in the top 16, with Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Sh
  
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• I was called disgusting and irresponsible on the school run

  07-12-2025 15:00 via metro.co.uk
  I was speechless (Picture: Dani Diaper)I felt a creeping presence behind me as I cycled up a steep hill with my two children in tow.Gruff and Marnie – who were around five and two years old at the time – were happily cruising along with me in a trailer attached to my bike, which is essentially a wide buggy-shaped seat, enclosed by a metal frame, weather-proof cover and a big flag to alert drivers.It was the morning school run so it was a particularly busy time of day on a main road
  
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• Dame Helen Mirren ‘increasingly frustrated’ with MobLand co-star Tom Hardy on set

  07-12-2025 14:59 via metro.co.uk
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  Dame Helen Mirren is reportedly frustrated with Tom Hardy’s behaviour on the set of the series MobLandSources claim Hardy’s lateness and perceived unprofessional conduct have caused tension between the two starsPrevious reports have highlighted similar on-set disputes involving Hardy, such as with Charlize Theron during
  
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• Meghan Markle’s dad ‘doesn’t want to die’ before meeting his grandchildren

  07-12-2025 14:40 via metro.co.uk
  Meghan Markle has been estranged from her father for seven years (Picture: Jake Rosenberg/Netflix/PA Wire/Caroline Graham for Mail On Sunday)Meghan Markle’s father has said he wants to reunite with his estranged daughter ‘before it’s too late‘.Thomas Markle, 81, had his left leg amputated at a hospital in Cebu, the Philippines, on Wednesday.His foot had turned black and swollen to the point that the retired Hollywood lighting designer was unable to walk.On Friday, a spok
  
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• How Ukraine's corrupt politicians are forcing Kyiv towards a Putin-approved peace deal: How embezzled millions, a golden toilet, and a president giving jobs to his pals could topple Zelensky

  07-12-2025 14:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ukrainians are fearful that the Kremlin and the White House might use the $100 million embezzlement scandal as leverage to push Kyiv to make painful concessions in talks.
  
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• Life in the Kevin McCloud homes WORSE than Poundbury: Grand Designs star branded King Charles's town 'intolerable'... but families on his model estate called it a 'warzone'

  07-12-2025 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grand Designs star Kevin McCloud's recent excoriating analysis of King Charles 's model town of Poundbury, could leave a few raised eyebrows in Buckingham Palace .
  
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• How to get a Christmas card from Princess Kate this year 

  07-12-2025 14:31 via metro.co.uk
  Getting a Christmas card from the royals isn’t as hard as you might think… (Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)If you’re looking for a way to make the holiday season feel a little more special, receiving a Christmas card from the Royal Family might just do the trick.And it turns out getting a card from the King and Queen or the Prince and Princess of Wales, is actually a lot easier than you might think.You don’t have to be a Duke or a Duchess to make it onto their mail
  
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• How to get a Christmas card from Kate Middleton this year 

  07-12-2025 14:31 via metro.co.uk
  Getting a Christmas card from the royals isn’t as hard as you might think… (Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)If you’re looking for a way to make the holiday season feel a little more special, receiving a Christmas card from the Royal Family might just do the trick.And it turns out getting a card from the King and Queen or the Prince and Princess of Wales, is actually a lot easier than you might think.You don’t have to be a Duke or a Duchess to make it onto their mail
  
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• I escaped America's most depraved boarding school on a remote ranch. Here's the torture they put us through. And it got even worse when I fled...

  07-12-2025 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The only girl ever to flee an infamous reform school, Chanel Mare says the abusive owners escaped accountability and blasts state officials for turning a blind eye.
  
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• Classic children’s film that ‘traumatised a generation’ arrives on Amazon Prime

  07-12-2025 14:30 via metro.co.uk
  This certainly isn’t your average animated film (Picture: Everett/Shutterstock)A classic children’s film that should absolutely be deemed a horror film is now streaming on BFI Player via Amazon Prime Video.What sort of film could possibly make adorable, fluffy bunnies frolicking in the woodlands horrific? The answer to that is the 1978 animated film Watership Down.Based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams, Watership Down tells the story of a group of rabbits, led by brothers Hazel an
  
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• Weight-loss jabs could age the body by a decade and increase risk of frailty and falls

  07-12-2025 14:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Weight-loss jabs can age the body by a decade and increase the risk of frailty, experts have warned.
  
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• British cyclist killed in ‘deliberate’ hit and run in Tenerife

  07-12-2025 14:28 via metro.co.uk
  Arona village in Tenerife, Canary Islands, near where the crash happened (Picture: Shutterstock)A young British Liverpool FC fan has died in Tenerife, with authorities investigating the possibility of murder.The man, identified so far only by his first name of Harry, was cycling on the Spanish island when he was struck in a hit-and-run crash, which had signs of being deliberate.
  He was pronounced dead at the scene on the evening of December 1, with the alarm raised around 8pm in the southern mu
  
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• NATO deploys fighter jets as 'unidentified aircraft' enters alliance's airspace

  07-12-2025 14:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fighter jets were scrambled from from the Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands after an unidentified aircraft entered NATO airspace today
  
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• Police launch murder probe after woman and young boy killed in house fire in Edenderry

  07-12-2025 14:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Another woman was seriously injured and taken to hospital by the emergency services.
  
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• UK snow forecast for Christmas as Met Office and BBC issue latest predictions

  07-12-2025 14:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Snow is expected this month but it awaits to be seen whether the UK will see a White Christmas - the Met Office, BBC and Netweather have released their latest predictions
  
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• Want to boost annual retirement income by £10,000? The job that can do it in just 12 years - most lucrative public sector pensions revealed

  07-12-2025 14:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There's one particular job in which you can bag an extra £10,000 a year of income in retirement in just 12 years of work, analysis for The Mail on Sunday has found.
  
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• Sex with a fellow trans person put me off cis men for life

  07-12-2025 14:00 via metro.co.uk
  It wasn’t until my early twenties that I discovered the label ‘nonbinary’ (Picture: Dee Whitnell)When my date used my correct pronouns, I felt a sudden surge of happiness.He was a cisgender guy, and since most men had misgendered me on dating apps and on actual, in-person dates, this gesture gave me a glimmer of hope.Telling my friend about it, however, gave me the slap in the face I needed. ‘Getting your pronouns right is the bare minimum, Dee,’ she said, shaking
  
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• Final Neighbours spoilers confirm end of an era as much-loved soap finishes after 40 years

  07-12-2025 14:00 via metro.co.uk
  Neighbours bids farewell once again in a jam-packed finale week (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)The end of an era beckons as Neighbours prepares to say goodbye once more, with the final week seeing the fight for Ramsay Street’s future wage on.The popular Aussie soap, which was rescued by Amazon shortly after its terrestrial TV finale three years ago, will conclude once again this Thursday (December 11) after 460 bonus episodes on the streaming service.And the race to save the Street is well
  
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• Woman threatens to keep lazy neighbour's 'parcel forever' after he does 1 thing

  07-12-2025 13:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman was left seething after her neighbour kept allowing parcels to be delivered to her house, and she was sick of him using her home as a sorting office...
  
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• Offaly house fire 'was murderous attack' as woman and boy, 4, killed in blaze

  07-12-2025 13:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A murder investigation is underway after a fire ripped through the house in Offaly, Ireland, on Saturday evening, tragically killing a woman in her 60s and a four-year-boy
  
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• ‘Half a month’s rainfall’ to soak the UK with four days of weather warnings in place

  07-12-2025 13:58 via metro.co.uk
  Make sure to bring your umbrella today… and tomorrow… and the day after that (Picture: Alamy Live News)Parts of the UK may be drenched by more than half a month’s rainfall in a single day this week, the Met Office has warned.Yellow weather warnings will be in place for the next four days, with heavy rain and fierce winds forecast to lash the nation.
  The miserable weather could lead to travel chaos, power outages and flooding.Northern Ireland has been issued a yellow weather
  
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• Rachel Reeves warned by OBR that UK's 'frightening' borrowing binge will be unaffordable

  07-12-2025 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The comments from the OBR are the latest broadside following its revelation Reeves knew months ago that there was no black hole in this year's public finances.
  
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• Wreckage of £200,000 Lamborghini left behind after 'huge brawl' left two people with stab wounds - and police make eight arrests

  07-12-2025 13:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police have arrested eight people - six men and two women - after two men in their 20s suffered serious stab wounds in Summer Lane, near the city centre.
  
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• Poisoned raspberries case: Dad of teen victim reveals devastation

  07-12-2025 13:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A business woman is wanted by Interpol after two teenage girls died after allegedly eating a poisoned dessert, police have said
  
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• The search for 'Leo's hero': thousands offer help in worldwide appeal for stem cell donor

  07-12-2025 13:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We told how Leo Sproson, 16, was at the centre of a worldwide search for a match as he is treated for leukaemia. His parents Jenna and Warren joined forces with the blood cancer charity DKMS.
  
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• Shaka Hislop names Arsenal star who was ‘non-existent’ in Aston Villa defeat

  07-12-2025 13:38 via metro.co.uk
  Mikel Arteta’s side lost to Aston Villa on Saturday (Picture: Getty)Shaka Hislop felt that Arsenal midfielder Eberechi Eze was ‘non-existent- for Mikel Arteta’s side in their 2-1 Premier League defeat to Aston Villa.Arsenal’s remarkable 18-game unbeaten run came to an end at Villa Park on Saturday as Emi Buendia’s injury-time winner sparked life back into the title race.Unai Emery’s side took the lead in the first half through Matty Cash before the in-form Le
  
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• Pharmacist issues Christmas Day warning for anyone who takes weight loss jabs

  07-12-2025 13:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A clinical pharmacist has warned that millions of people using weight loss jabs risk vomiting on Christmas Day if they overindulge in rich festive food and drink
  
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• Ryanair adds brand new flights to ‘most underrated city ever’ from £65

  07-12-2025 13:32 via metro.co.uk
  New flights are being added from Liverpool to Tirana (Picture: Getty Images)When we think about a city break, New York, Paris or Rome might top the list, but Tirana likely doesn’t make the cut.However, you might want to add it to the list, as the vibrant capital city of Albania has undergone a major revitalisation in recent years, adding colour to what used to be a very grey, Communist area until the 1990s. Its lively transformation, interesting skyline, cheap food and drink and gene
  
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• Mo Salah next club odds give Champions League team a chance of blockbuster move

  07-12-2025 13:26 via metro.co.uk
  Mohamed Salah could be into his final few weeks at Liverpool (Picture: Getty Images)Mohamed Salah stunned the football world on Saturday by blasting his treatment at Liverpool and suggesting he is close to leaving the club.The Reds legend has been left out of the starting line-up for the last three games and wasn’t even brought on during the 3-3 draw with Leeds United on Saturday evening.After the wild game at Elland Road, the Egyptian vented his fury at how he has been treated of late, f
  
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