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• Texas authorities find homemade bombs in 47-year-old man's home

  24-02-2021 00:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Christopher Crawson, 47,  first got under the radar of the Williamson County Sheriff's Office in mid-January after it was reported that he made the threat to his family.
  
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• Amazon’s latest Alexa speaker and a 21st century turntable join our Lust List

  26-02-2021 11:33 via metro.co.uk
  
  Some of the gadgetry on this week’s Lust ListAmazon first unveiled the swiveling Echo Show 10 device months ago, but it’s finally arrived over here in the UK.And it’s been joined by a host of other gadgets we’ve rounded up for this week’s Lust List.If anything, this week’s theme is one of updated retro tech. There’s a very 21st century turntable from Audio Technica and a re-imagined version of the iconic Atari 2600.Also, because there’s seemingly n
  
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• Emmerdale’s Claire King thinks cancer is ‘nature’s payback’ for how we treat the planet

  26-02-2021 11:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Claire King portrays Kim Tate in Emmerdale (Picture: ITV)Emmerdale star Claire King has revealed that she thinks cancer is ‘nature’s payback’ for how mankind has ‘mistreated the planet’.The actress, who portrays Kim Tate in the ITV soap, spoke about how she believes there might be a connection between cancer and how humans have abused the earth.
  ‘Cancer hits one in two, which is just horrendous,’ said the soap star. ‘I think that’s a lot to d
  
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• All HS2 protestors now removed from underground tunnels in London

  26-02-2021 11:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  Attempts have been ongoing to remove the protesters for weeks (Picture: PA)The final activist protesting against HS2 in a network of underground tunnels has been removed, according to the company building the rail link.
  Nine protesters have been holed up at the site in London for weeks, with bailiffs attempting to remove them. Some of them have since been charged and appeared in court after coming out of the tunnels.
  The network was discovered on January 26, after being created in secret by camp
  
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• Ronnie O’Sullivan offers Jack Lisowski advice after Players Championship mauling

  26-02-2021 11:29 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ronnie O’Sullivan was in sparkling form on Thursday night at the Players Championship (Picture: Getty Images)Ronnie O’Sullivan was in imperious form on Thursday night as he dished out a 6-1 thrashing to Jack Lisowski at the Players Championship, but the Rocket had kind words for his vanquished foe and would like to mentor him in the future.The world champion looked at his unstoppable best in the quarter-finals, making breaks of 125, 124, 93, 79, 63 and 59 in the six frames he needed
  
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• Katie Price and Carl Woods visited by police again after fan reports them for picking up takeaway

  26-02-2021 11:21 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Carl Woods has revealed he and Katie Price had the police at their door one again after a fan reported them for going out to pick up a takeaway. The car salesman, 32, shared his frustration with his followers after he and Katie, 42, made the 45-minute drive to pick up food from Sheesh in Essex for them and Katie’s children. He said on his Instagram story: ‘So I just
  
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• Russian diplomats forced to leave North Korea on foot while pushing their luggage on a trolley

  26-02-2021 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of Russian diplomats and their family members returned to Russia from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley on Thursday because of COVID-19 restrictions in the country.
  
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• Nighttime Covid jabs planned for Muslims during Ramadan

  26-02-2021 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officials are concerned that vaccine hesitancy within England's ethnic minority groups could be even greater during the month-long fast, which lasts from April 12 to May 12.
  
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• JCVI set to unveil Covid vaccine priority list once over-50s are jabbed

  26-02-2021 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britons as young as 40 are expected to be invited within weeks. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is expected to recommend the next phase continues on the basis of age.
  
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• Gotcha! 'Speed camera' van driver caught 'scrolling through Facebook' on her PHONE at 60mph

  26-02-2021 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simeon Haughton and his business partner Liam Rudge were on the A55 on their way to Chester on Tuesday when they drove past the vehicle plastered in blue and fluorescent yellow markings.
  
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• British Airways owner records biggest loss in its history of £6BILLION

  26-02-2021 11:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The London-listed airline group, which also owns Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus, announced a post-tax loss of £6billion in 2020, the worst since its formation 10 years ago.
  
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• Government agrees to call pregnant women ‘mothers’ in new maternity bill

  26-02-2021 11:16 via metro.co.uk
  
  The bill is being rushed through so pregnant Attorney General Suella Braverman can go on maternity leave (Picture: PA/Rex)The Government has bowed to pressure to call pregnant women ‘mothers’ – not people – in a new law allowing ministers to take paid maternity leave.The changed wording of the bill was accepted as ministers rush the legislation through Parliament to allow the Attorney General to take six months off to care for her second child.All sides of the Lords were
  
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• Arsenal star Hector Bellerin has agreement with Mikel Arteta that he can leave in the summer

  26-02-2021 11:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mikel Arteta held heart-to-heart talks with Hector Bellerin last summer over his Arsenal future (Picture: Getty)Hector Bellerin was convinced to stay at Arsenal for one more season after holding heart-to-heart talks with Mikel Arteta in the summer.
  The long-serving defender was courted by both Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain in the summer, but was persuaded to remain by his former teammate and current manager.Bellerin, who joined Arsenal from Barcelona’s La Masia academy as a teenager, h
  
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• Kate Lawler shares pictures of baby Noa in hospital after rushing her to A&E

  26-02-2021 11:12 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kate has been updating fans on Noa’s condition (Picture: Instagram)Kate Lawler rushed her two-week-old baby to A&E after her finger became infected.The Big Brother winner welcomed her daughter Noa with partner Martin earlier this month, and it’s already been a dramatic few weeks for the baby, after she was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit with breathing issues when she was born 11 days early.Noa is now back in hospital and had to spend the night there after being diagnos
  
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• British peer's nine year battle to prove his son was beaten to death by four Kenyan police officers 

  26-02-2021 11:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lord Nicholas Monson, 55, said both he and ex-wife Hilary are tortured by the fact that no one has been found responsible for the 28-year-old's death in Kenya in 2012.
  
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• Devastated couple told they can't hold a wedding in Cornish because it's against the law

  26-02-2021 11:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cornwall Council told Steph Norman and Aaron Willoughby their ceremony must be in English and Cornish.
  
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• Dorset beach hut is up for sale for £325,000… and it doesn’t even face the sea

  26-02-2021 11:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  The hut, circled, at Mudeford Spit, faces the lagoon rather than the beach (Picture: CorinMesser/BNPS)If you’ve got £325,000 handy, you could probably just about afford a flat in London.
  Or, you can get a beach hut in Dorset… but we should probably flag that it’s just 16ft by 10ft.
  The hut is so pricey thanks to its location on the exclusive Mudeford Spit in Christchurch, where beach sheds have sold for £330,000 and even £1.25million.But unlike those other hu
  
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• Married At First Sight Australia’s Jessika Power reveals addiction hell after Dan Webb split: ‘It was pretty scary’

  26-02-2021 11:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jessika Power and Dan Webb appeared on Married At First Sight Australia (Picture: Nine / Instagram)Married At First Sight Australia’s Jessika Power has opened up about her addiction hell, following her split from Dan Webb.Season six of MAFS was initially filmed in 2018, but is currently airing in the UK on weeknights on E4.Jess raised eyebrows with her antics on the show, when she embarked on an affair with Dan – despite them being married to Mick Gould and Tamara Joy respectively.Ho
  
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• Inside a popular abandoned nightclub where urban explorer made 'seedy' discovery

  26-02-2021 11:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The urban explorer Bearded Reality ventured into Mode nightclub in Bradford city centre, which was set on fire six years ago after closing to the public back in 2011
  
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• How I Do It: ‘I’m locked down away from my partner and got caught taking a dick pic for her’

  26-02-2021 11:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ben and his girlfriend have to navigate intimacy from afar (Picture: Getty/Myles Goode)Ben*, a 27-year-old student based in Brighton, is one of many up and down the country who’s been forced to lockdown away from his partner.
  Ben and his girlfriend Andrea* talk openly about their fantasies about group sex and adventures outdoors, but most of all they just miss each other.Other than that, he’s very happy with his sex life and the way the relationship was going, saying sex with Andrea
  
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• Good Morning Britain host Alex Beresford slams ‘has been’ Prince Harry after James Corden appearance

  26-02-2021 10:59 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Good Morning Britain host Alex Beresford cheekily took a swipe Prince Harry during Friday’s show after they played a clip of his interview with James Corden.During the latest episode of The Late Late Show, James gave the Duke of Sussex his first tour around Los Angeles from an open-top double-decker bus.The comedian not only arranged for the pair to have an afternoon tea, but he ev
  
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• Good Morning Britain host Alex Beresford mocks ‘has been’ Prince Harry after James Corden appearance

  26-02-2021 10:59 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Good Morning Britain host Alex Beresford cheekily took a swipe Prince Harry during Friday’s show after they played a clip of his interview with James Corden.During the most recent episode of The Late Late Show, James gave the Duke of Sussex his first tour around Los Angeles from an open-top double-decker bus.The comedian not only arranged for the pair to have an afternoon tea, but
  
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• How camper who found Melissa Caddick's shoe on a NSW South Coast beach almost threw it in the BIN

  26-02-2021 10:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Caddick vanished a day after ASIC confronted her during a raid at her luxury Dover Heights home in Sydney's eastern suburbs on November 11.
  
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• PlayStation gutting Sony Japan Studio following mass exodus of staff

  26-02-2021 10:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sony’s oldest developer is soon to be no more (pic: Sony)Sony’s famous Japan Studio will soon cease to exist in anything like its current state, as the company’s focus away from its home territory continues.What was once Sony’s most important internal studio has been all but shut down, with the company admitting that it is ‘re-organising’ the 27-year-old Japan Studio.There had already been rumours that development of new games at the studio was being scaled ba
  
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• Lorraine Kelly offers to pose naked on TV for new painting series

  26-02-2021 10:54 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Lorraine Kelly has offered to get naked for a life modelling competition. The cheeky 61-year-old made the proposition to Jenny Eclair during her daytime TV show, saying she thinks it would be ‘a lot of fun’ to strip for a new TV show. Drawers Off, hosted by Jenny, sees a group of amateur painters show off their skills as artists – as one-by-one they have to ta
  
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• Company boss who slipped on puddle of Bailey’s wins £130,000 payout

  26-02-2021 10:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Andreas Wuchner could be in line for a much bigger payout (Picture: Champion News)British Airways has been ordered to pay a businessman compensation after he slipped on spilled Bailey’s.
  Andreas Wuchner’s company folded the year after he fell and hit his head near a BA check-in at Heathrow Airport, leaving him with brain damage in November 2017.
  He took the airline to court over his injuries and for loss of earnings.
  Judge Simon Monty QC awarded him an immediate payout of £130,
  
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• Isis bride Shamima Begum loses court battle to let her back into UK

  26-02-2021 10:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ms Begum 15 when she and two other schoolgirls travelled to Syria tojoin the so-called Islamic State groupISIS bride Shamima Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK to fight a decision to strip her British citizenship, the Supreme Court has ruled.
  The decision is a victory for the Government, who argued allowing her to return posed a risk to national security.Ms Begum 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in Febr
  
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• ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses Supreme Court appeal to return to the UK

  26-02-2021 10:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British-born jihadi bride Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls from Bethnal Green, east London, ran away to Syria to join ISIS, leading to her UK citizenship being revoked
  
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• Recall for popular chocolate chip biscuit over fears it could cause a serious allergic reaction

  26-02-2021 10:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australia's supermarket giants have recalled a popular chocolate chip biscuit product amid fears it could cause a serious allergic reaction over an undeclared milk allergen.
  
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• Mikel Arteta issues worrying update over Bukayo Saka fatigue problem

  26-02-2021 10:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Saka was on form again with two assists against Benfica (Picture: Getty)Mikel Arteta admits Arsenal star Bukayo Saka is ‘really fatigued’ after Thursday’s Europa League victory over Benfica.The 19-year-old once again played a pivotal role for the Gunners as they came from behind to secure a 3-2 win against the Portuguese giants to book their place in the last 16 of the competition.Saka set up both goals for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, one an incisive through ball and the other a
  
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