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• Strictly making drastic change for first time in 22 years ‘to secure BBC show’s future’

  17-09-2026 13:35 via metro.co.uk
  
  Strictly Come Dancing returns this Saturday, alongside a new spin-off of the BBC show (Picture: BBC/Ray Burmiston)Strictly Come Dancing is planning to bring the ballroom to younger audiences, with a new CBBC offshoot of the show. The new Strictly spin-off, titled Strictly Pro Dance Off, will feature a series of quick-fire dance battles between the show’s professional dance team – both those returning and the series newcomers. The new seven-minute CBBC show launch will coin
  
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• Max Verstappen races 100 go-karters from last place – and wins

  17-09-2026 16:49 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 PageFormula 1 star Max Verstappen beat 100 go-karters in the world’s biggest race of its kind at Silverstone.
  The amateur drivers had their hopes of winning over the F1 champion quickly dashed during the Red Bull Max vs 100 race yesterday.
  For the Dutch-Belgian racer, the challenge was a walk in the park from the outset.
  The 28-year-old, who drives under R
  
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• How one woman stepped in to protect others after sexual assaults spiked in her town

  17-09-2026 16:45 via metro.co.uk
  
  Chrissie (second from the right) was inspired to help after her daughter was harassed (Picture: Supplied)Not all heroes wear capes… our Unsung Heroes series celebrates ordinary people doing extraordinary work.
  Today, it’s Chrissie Lowery, 56, from Stroud, who patrols the streets with her team of Night Angels to keep women and girls safe at night.
  After a series of brutal stranger rapes and sexual harassment incidents in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 2022, local women banded together t
  
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• Strangling video among million files as five women feared dead and two missing in ‘house of horrors’

  17-09-2026 16:38 via metro.co.uk
  
  Raymond ‘R.C.’ Horsch and the Philadelphia house where police recovered more than one million digital files (Pictures: The US Marshals Service/TNS)Police fear five women linked to a Philadelphia property dubbed a ‘house of horrors’ are dead after discovering disturbing footage among more than one million images and videos.Two other women connected to the house in the city’s Olney neighbourhood remain missing. No human remains have yet been recovered and nobody has
  
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• Canadian supreme court judge reduces Haitian face biter's sentence to make sure she doesn't get deported... and scolds lower court judges for being too hard on her

  17-09-2026 16:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Macdala Monfiston, then 37, brutally attacked a woman outside a bar in Laval, Quebec on December 27, 2022, leaving the victim with a permanent scar on her face.
  
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• 'Beautiful' mother-of-two, 34, who was found hanged said she was 'better off dead' as she waited three years for ADHD assessment, inquest hears

  17-09-2026 16:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Mother-of-two Bethany Hewitt, 34, was found hanged in Runcorn, Cheshire, just 19 days after she told a GO she had experienced suicidal ideation and thoughts of hurting herself.
  
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• America's most irresponsible dad scolds cops after his daughter, 13, was ticketed for illegally riding minibike during street takeover

  17-09-2026 16:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Marvin Deleon and his 13-year-old daughter, Leilani, were among more than 70 people slapped with citations Sunday afternoon for roaring through Los Angeles streets on minibikes.
  
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• Inside Prince Harry's relationship with Diana's family from 'second father' to secret support network

  17-09-2026 16:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Earl Spencer has stepped up to offer guidance, refuge, and family loyalty during a time when Harry's relationship with King Charles has become increasingly fractured
  
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• Shocking footage shows moment teenage girl, 18, is stomped on and stabbed six times in wild brawl with up to 10 youths

  17-09-2026 16:33 via dailymail.com
  
  An 18-year-old girl was stabbed six times in Deer Park, west Melbourne, on Wednesday night.
  
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• Wet weather has returned to the UK — but hosepipe bans are far from over

  17-09-2026 16:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Much of the UK is still in drought (Picture: Shutterstock / Paul Maguire)Recent downpours across the UK may feel like autumn has finally arrived — but Britain is still feeling the effects of a record-breaking summer.Despite the rain, almost three-quarters of England remains in active drought, the most severe since 1976.It means that gardeners need to step away from those hosepipes, as the Environment Agency warns the bans could remain in place until early next year.Drought is only over wh
  
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• WPBSA chairman Jason Ferguson speaks out on Mark Allen absence

  17-09-2026 16:28 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mark Allen continues to spend time away from snooker (Picture: Getty Images)The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) continues to be in contact with Mark Allen during his absence from snooker, as chairman Jason Ferguson hopes for his return to action as soon as possible.Allen has not played since the World Championship semi-final in May, when he lost a thrilling encounter 17-16 to eventual champion Wu Yize.There have been six tournaments available to Allen since then, bu
  
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• Utah mother's son was shot and badly injured by bullies... then nurse sent terrifying 'help' message from hospital about her tiny daughter

  17-09-2026 16:23 via dailymail.com
  
  Crystal and Denver Dorrall's son Brandon was shot in the neck by teenagers looking for his younger brother Alex.
  
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• New NHS 'registry update' alert as patients issued important advice on what to do

  17-09-2026 16:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Patients are being made aware of the steps they should take if it happens to them
  
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• University lecturer who wanted to work from home 900km from her job loses Fair Work battle after it found her 'cognitive disorder' diagnosis was made up

  17-09-2026 16:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Anna Kokavec from James Cook University has lost a Fair Work battle after admitting she invented a medical diagnosis to support her work from home claim.
  
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• Jeffrey Donaldson’s wife launches appeal after ex-DUP leader’s sex crime convictions

  17-09-2026 16:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeffrey Donaldson, former DUP leader, was convicted of 18 sex offences including one count of rape in relation to abuse against two women when they were children
  
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• British millionaire businessman killed in Swiss Alps plane crash alongside two friends

  17-09-2026 16:17 via dailymail.com
  
  A millionaire British businessman was killed alongside two friends in a plane crash in the Swiss Alps.
  
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• Baby boy whose mummified remains were found under floorboards wrapped in 1910 newspaper was deliberately garrotted with twine, inquest finds

  17-09-2026 16:15 via dailymail.com
  
  Contractors renovating a flat above a pizza shop in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, made the grisly discovery of the baby's remains under floorboards in July 2024.
  
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• Kevin Miller dies aged 57 as tributes paid to ex-Crystal Palace and Watford goalkeeper

  17-09-2026 16:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Miller, who played for clubs including Crystal Palace and Watford, had been working as Wigan Athletic's goalkeeping coach before he passed away on Tuesday
  
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• Former Shrinking crew member sues after alleging director ‘groped her breast’

  17-09-2026 16:12 via metro.co.uk
  
  Apple TV comedy series Shrinking stars Harrison Ford, left, and Jason Segel (Picture: AP)A former crew member on the hit comedy series Shrinking is suing Warner Bros. Television after alleging that a director and executive producer ‘grabbed and groped her left breast’.Mindy McKoin, who worked as an assistant director on the series, also claims she was wrongfully fired after raising concerns about alleged wage theft.Her lawsuit, filed in California state court on Tuesday, accuses dir
  
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• Woke Seattle mayor loses her cool when asked about her ban on surveillance cameras... as embarrassing new texts are leaked

  17-09-2026 16:11 via dailymail.com
  
  The socialist mayor controversially blocked the activation of surveillance cameras earlier this year, which would have connected to the city's real-time crime center system to monitor threats.
  
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• University lecturer who wanted to work from home 900km from her job loses Fair Work battle after it found 'cognitive disorder' diagnosis was made up

  17-09-2026 16:11 via dailymail.com
  
  Dr Anna Kokavec from James Cook University has lost a Fair Work battle after admitting she invented a medical diagnosis to support her work from home claim.
  
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• Gatwick Express airport trains suspended after fire erupts by tracks in Croydon

  17-09-2026 16:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thameslink and Southern routes also faced delays following the blaze in East Croydon
  
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• Brit dad-of-two killed alongside two friends as plane crashes near Swiss Alps resort

  17-09-2026 16:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Businessman Owain Davies was one of three people who died after a plane crashed in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday - a second Brit victim is yet to be named
  
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• 'Cult' priest forced young newlyweds to sell house to fund church before sexually assaulting bride, court told

  17-09-2026 15:58 via dailymail.com
  
  Chris Brain, pictured, denies raping one woman and indecently assaulting others during the 1980s and 1990s, when he was leader of the Nine O'Clock Service in Sheffield.
  
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• Eco-savvy kids teaching their own parents about recycling, poll finds

  17-09-2026 15:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A survey of 3,000 UK adults and 1,000 UK children aged 5 to 16, found 86 per cent of parents say their child's environmental education has helped change household recycling habits
  
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• Revealed: How the young mum found dead on a beach had previously escaped the clutches of an alleged kidnapper - as her former lover tells the Daily Mail: 'I didn't kill her'

  17-09-2026 15:55 via dailymail.com
  
  Payge Leembruggen, 31, was found dead in the sand dunes near North Wall beach in Mackay around 8am Tuesday, when her body was spotted by a dog walker.
  
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• Kim Jong Un sends 25,000 more North Koreans to feed Putin's war machine industry making drones and weapons

  17-09-2026 15:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As over 1.5 million Russian men die or are injured in Vadimir Putin's invasion North Korean despot Kim Jong Un sends thousands more of his people to plug a gap in the Kremlin's war-effort
  
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• Remains of mother-of-three who vanished nearly seven years ago found in London after wildfire - as police arrest man, 56, in murder probe

  17-09-2026 15:51 via dailymail.com
  
  The human remains discovered in woodland in London after a wildfire are those of Joanne Sheen, a Southampton mother-of-three who disappeared nearly seven years ago.
  
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• China is building 'first-ever mothership capable of launching submarine drones'

  17-09-2026 15:51 via dailymail.com
  
  China is building the world's first-ever underwater mothership capable of launching submarine drones, according to new satellite images.
  
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• 'Dementia killed my dad like Andy Burnham's - disease means you lose them twice'

  17-09-2026 15:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When he heard the news of Andy Burnham's dad's death to Alzheimer's, Reece Newman knew exactly how he was feeling, having lost his own father to the same thing in May
  
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