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• Two Brits dead as plane crashes into golf course in the Dominican Republic

  20-04-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plane was trying to make an emergency landing when it struck the ground and burst into flames
  
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• Olivia Colman, 52, debuts new look after ditching brunette pixie cut

  29-09-2026 11:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Olivia Colman showed of her stunning long grey hair at at the screening of her new film Wicker (Picture: Getty Images for ZFF)Olivia Colman has ditched her signature brunette pixie cut ahead of promotion for her upcoming romantic comedy Wicker.The Oscar-winning actress, 52, looked simply stunning as she took to the red carpet at the Zurich Film Festival on Monday during a screening of the racy film, which she stars in alongside Alexander Skarsgård.The Favourite star debuted her
  
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• Celebrity Traitors season 2 stars ‘are feeling paranoid about exposing BBC series’

  29-09-2026 11:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Celebrity Traitors season two is just days away (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge/BBC Creative)Anticipation for the second season of Celebrity Traitors is reaching fever pitch (for me at least), with just days to go before the BBC game of wink murder returns.Traitors superfan Richard Osman is similarly excited, having shared the nuggets of information he’s managed to glean about the series so far, in a non-spoiler-y way.But the former Pointless host has said that the stars of the
  
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• Labour conference - live: Triple lock pension 'could be reviewed' as Angela Rayner praises 'bold' Andy Burnham

  29-09-2026 11:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham will address the Labour Party conference in Liverpool today pledging to tackle issues that politicians usually avoid - sparking speculation that the triple lock pension could be in his sights to fund a social care shake-up
  
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• Ex-world snooker champion Graeme Dott is jailed for seven years after he sexually abused young boy and girl

  29-09-2026 11:16 via dailymail.com
  
  The 49-year-old subjected a girl and a boy, both of primary school age, to 'lewd, indecent and libidinous behaviour' by touching and kissing them inappropriately.
  
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• Burnham faces Labour fury at 'suicidal' move to end 'triple lock' on pensions in Labour speech today... as he goes soft on benefits

  29-09-2026 11:14 via dailymail.com
  
  Andy Burnham is promising to flesh out his plan for an NHS-style social care system - estimated to cost £18billion a year - in a highly personal address to activists in Liverpool.
  
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• Brit, 85, 'violently murdered' in French village is named as major update issued

  29-09-2026 11:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A 60-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of retired British wood carver John Agner, 85, in rural France
  
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• Graeme Dott sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing children

  29-09-2026 11:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Graeme Dott was sentenced in Edinburgh on Tuesday (Picture: REUTERS)Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty last month of sexually abusing two primary school age children.The former snooker world champion was found guilty of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour at the High Court in Glasgow last month and sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday.The 49-year-old subjected a girl and a boy to multiple incidents of abuse, with the girl target
  
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• Britain’s rental hotspots revealed and they’re not all where you might expect

  29-09-2026 11:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Moving home is always stressful, but Gumtree have come up with one way to help as their survey reveals demand for rented properties has gathered pace across the UK
  
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• Ex-snooker world champion Graeme Dott jailed after abusing primary school age children

  29-09-2026 11:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott, 49, subjected two primary school age children to horrific abuse in the Glasgow area - he has now been jailed
  
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• EastEnders star who left in 2010 is back filming for huge storyline

  29-09-2026 11:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  Libby Fox is back again (Picture: BBC)EastEnders star Belinda Owusu has returned to the BBC One soap.The actress, who is 37, joined the show back in 2006 as Libby Fox, the daughter of Denise Fox (Diane Parish) and sister to Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams).Libby departed Walford life in 2010 after securing herself a place at Oxford University. She made a few brief returns to Albert Square between 2014 and 2017.At the start of this year, viewers got confirmation that Libby would be back on our scre
  
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• Hidden blood pressure change that triples risk of death, new study finds

  29-09-2026 11:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New research has looked at 57,000 people in the UK and found some were at a higher risk of dying or suffering a stroke
  
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• Documentary lifting the lid on God's Influencer saint Carlo Acutis, 15, whose preserved body is displayed in Italian church becomes 'miraculous' hit

  29-09-2026 11:01 via dailymail.com
  
  A documentary detailing the life of 'God's Influencer' saint has become a major hit in Italy. 
  
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• Angela Rayner blasts 90s trance hits from DJ decks at Labour conference

  29-09-2026 11:01 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 PageIf the Labour Party’s annual conference was all staid speeches from Cabinet ministers setting out their priorities for the coming year, it wouldn’t attract quite so many people.Among party members and other attendees, the event is just as renowned for its aftershow parties which can often stretch late into the night.And for a select few, those pa
  
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• Met Police arrest 17 in huge operation targeting suspected organised crime group: More than 800 officers deployed in dawn raids across London and four counties

  29-09-2026 10:59 via dailymail.com
  
  The dawn swoop was part of an investigation by specialist Met detectives working alongside HMRC and the Financial Conduct Authority into a suspected organised crime group.
  
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• Latest Covid and flu symptoms as cases rise

  29-09-2026 10:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Flu and Covid cases are on the rise this autumn, though are at expected levels for the time of year
  
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• Will Labour scrap its Palestine Action terror ban? Ed Miliband says ministers did not mean to criminalise 'elderly people, vicars and grannies' after group gatecrashes his dinner

  29-09-2026 10:55 via dailymail.com
  
  The Foreign Secretary defended 'the right to peaceful protest' after hundreds of supporters of the outlawed group were arrested outside the party's annual conference in Liverpool.
  
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• Forget good looks or grand gestures: The top 10 things Brits look for in a partner

  29-09-2026 10:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There are lots of ways to show your affection to someone you care about - and finding how to cut costs is one where energy company EDF has come up with a way to help
  
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• Russia issues nuke warning to UK in bizarre response to hypothetical Sky TV show

  29-09-2026 10:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  Russia has been incensed by a new Sky TV miniseries called The Wargame (file image) (Picture: Getty Images)Russia warned against any attempts to target its Baltic Sea enclave following a fictional plot line featured in a new British miniseries.
  Putin’s Russia appears to have been riled up by a new Sky One miniseries The Wargame.
  The five-part show, which premiered last week, centres around a fictional Russian attack against the UK and the ensuing hostilities.
  When Britain is left to fend
  
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• New vape rules start on Thursday with £2.20 per 10ml tax added to cost

  29-09-2026 10:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Major changes begin this week
  
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• Should state pension triple lock be sacrificed for universal free social care? Take our poll and have your say

  29-09-2026 10:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham is expected to float the possibility of scrapping the pension triple lock after the general election - but is it the right thing to do to finally fix the UK's social care mess?
  
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• Three men are convicted after Cambridge student was tortured in Egyptian 'cemetery of the living' prison before having his neck broken

  29-09-2026 10:38 via dailymail.com
  
  Three men have been convicted over the death of a Cambridge University student, who was brutally tortured in an Egyptian prison dubbed the 'cemetery of the living' a decade ago. 
  
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• Spanish pensioner, 87, is allowed to return home after she was evicted by riot cops after investment brothers pushed her rent up by 275%, sparking nationwide fury

  29-09-2026 10:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Maricarmen Abascal was carried out of the Madrid flat where she had lived for 70 years on a stretcher on 23 September.
  
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• Desperate Putin signs decree increasing armed forces to 2.4million as thousands continue to die on meatgrinder Ukraine frontline

  29-09-2026 10:36 via dailymail.com
  
  The expansion, which follows a similar increase ordered in August, will see the number of active servicemen increase by 15,500.
  
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• Russia directly threatens nuclear strike on UK and NATO in response to Sky TV show

  29-09-2026 10:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Russia has directly threatened to unleash nuclear weapons on Britain in a statement from its UK embassy referencing a new TV show on Sky
  
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• New Lidl £35 casserole dish similar to £315 Le Creuset version out Thursday

  29-09-2026 10:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lidl shoppers sticking to a budget could enjoy using a seasonal kitchen item that looks more expensive than it really is
  
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• Coronation Street star’s children in bits as they watched their dad get shot dead

  29-09-2026 10:27 via metro.co.uk
  
  Parental guidance required! (Picture: ITV/Danielle Baguley/Shutterstock)What do Tristan Gemmill’s Coronation Street exit and the Grinch have in common?
  They both almost ruined Christmas!His character, Robert Preston, initially appeared all the way back in 1996 played by Julian Kay, having met future-femme fatale Tracy Barlow, then played by Dawn Acton, with the two having met in London.They later married and moved away, and when Tracy came home, now played by Kate Ford and fully in her ub
  
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• ‘Organised crime’ raid as 800 cops storm homes in 5 UK counties and officer stabbed

  29-09-2026 10:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 800 officers from the Met Police launched dawn raids at 24 properties across five counties in the UK as part of a major organised crime probe this morning
  
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• What is the triple lock pension? Everything to know as Andy Burnham hints at social care reform

  29-09-2026 10:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The state pension triple lock has become a political albatross in the years since it was introduced due to its cost and perceived unfairness, with parties having been unwilling to touch the issue
  
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• Politician ‘beaten to death’ after speaking about Ebola on radio

  29-09-2026 10:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ebola responders in DRC have been attacked due to misinformation and false claims about the disease (Picture: AP Photo/Sebastien Kitsa Musayi)A DRC politician is said to have been beaten to death after speaking about the Ebola outbreak on the radio.
  Marie-Celestin Karondwa, the acting president of UDPS party in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was reportedly attacked in his neighbourhood after the radio show.
  The politician had promoted disease prevention measures to tackle the spread of Ebola
  
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