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• Ukraine war ceasefire holds while terrified evacuees head into the unknown

  30-10-2026 14:21 via Mirror - News
  
  Terrified locals say they are heading into the unknown as they board 25 buses fearing they could end up in a Russian concentration camp.
  
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• Jamie Carragher issues statement after Aston Villa threaten legal action over ‘unacceptable insults’

  31-10-2026 14:18 via Metro
  Carragher issued an apology the day after Villa’s threat (Picture: Getty Images)Jamie Carragher has issued an apology for his ‘clumsy language’ that prompted Aston Villa to threaten legal action against the Liverpool legend.The former defender this week suggested Villa boss Unai Emery would be interested in taking the reins at Manchester United should Michael Carrick depart Old Trafford.Carragher referred to ‘the chain in football’, explaining players and managers will consider moving
  
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• Female teacher, 36, is jailed for just five years after she admitted giving birth to 13-year-old student's child

  31-10-2026 14:17 via News | Mail Online
  
  Laura Caron, 36, pled guilty to having sex with a teenage student and bearing his child in a New Jersey courtroom on Wednesday.
  
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• Maya Jama’s reason for skipping Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked after King Kenny betrayal revealed

  31-10-2026 14:07 via Metro
  
  Maya Jama was the only original Traitor to make it to the final (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul Chappells)Maya Jama did not join the rest of her Celebrity Traitors castle-mates to film Uncloaked because she is currently filming The Gentlemen.The Love Island host’s representative confirmed to Metro that season three filming on the gangster drama is the only reason she did not tape the post-match debrief with the rest of the cast.Uncloaked host Ed Gamble explained to BBC viewers that Jama was
  
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• Kansas's panicked GOP senator reduced to claiming his Democrat rival is 'probably grooming children' as Trump jets in to help him amid polls predicting state will go blue for first time since 1932

  31-10-2026 14:05 via News | Mail Online
  
  Republican Senator Roger Marshall is facing backlash for saying his surging Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton is 'probably grooming children' after falling behind in the race.
  
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• Snooker champion Paul Hunter's daughter speaks publicly for first time 20 years after dad's death

  31-10-2026 14:02 via Mirror - News
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Three-times Masters winner Paul Hunter was snooker's poster boy, nicknamed 'Beckham of the Baize,' but he died from cancer 20 years ago, aged 27, when his daughter, Evie, was just 10 months old. In her first interview, she tells how she plans to present a trophy named in his honour
  
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• EastEnders’ Laila Morse’s secret cancer battle revealed by Lacey Turner

  31-10-2026 14:01 via Metro
  
  (Picture: BBC/PA Wire)EastEnders star Laila Morse secretly battled cancer for a second time in 2025, according to her co-star Lacey Turner.Laila, 81, first marched into Albert Square as Big Mo Harris in 2000, as ‘nan’ to the Slater sisters and rock to their dad Charlie. 
  The actress has dipped in and out of the soap ever since, and battled breast cancer in 2005. However, Lacey – who stars as Mo’s bolshy great-niece Stacey – has revealed Laila was struck with cancer again last year,
  
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• Scariest movie of all time according to science available to watch in the UK

  31-10-2026 14:00 via Metro
  
  Watch the scariest film ever if you dare (Picture: Everett/Shutterstock)It’s still creeping fans out 14 years after its release and has been voted the scariest film of all time – according to science.And, more importantly, it’s available to stream in the UK if you can handle it this Halloween. Ethan Hawke was best known for crime thrillers and comedies such as Training Day and Dead Poets Society, so a chilling horror like 2012’s Sinister felt like a bit of a curveball at the time. How
  
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• Jamie Carragher issues grovelling Aston Villa apology after club threaten legal action

  31-10-2026 13:54 via Mirror - News
  
  Aston Villa announced on Friday that they would be taking legal acton against Jamie Carragher, who angered the Premier League club by making what chairman Nassef Sawiris labelled 'unacceptable insults'
  
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• Man accused of sexually abusing Joanne Young says he was ‘just trying new things’

  31-10-2026 13:51 via Metro
  
  Four men are on trial accused of sexually abusing Joanne Young, pictured (Picture: Wiltshire Police/PA)One of four men accused of sexually abusing the wife of a former Tory councillor who was drugged and raped told police he was ‘just a young guy trying out new things’, a court has heard.Philip Young, 50, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of drugging and sexually abusing his wife, Joanne Young, over a 13-year period at their home in Swindon, Wiltshire.Four other men are currently on tr
  
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• Election guru Nate Silver makes his final midterm elections prediction... giving the GOP a glimmer of hope: Live updates

  31-10-2026 13:50 via News | Mail Online
  
  There are only three days left until the highly anticipated 2026 midterm elections, and this weekend is shaping up to be dramatic. Follow along with the Daily Mail's live blog for all key updates:
  
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• Bearded Oxford University lecturer teaches female students while wearing large fake breasts, low-cut tops, red lipstick and nail varnish

  31-10-2026 13:48 via News | Mail Online
  
  Matt Rattley, a lecturer in biochemistry at St Hilda's College, (pictured) has already attracted online controversy thanks to his bizarre appearance, which also involves female clothes and makeup.
  
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• Major bank closes app as customers have until today to switch before service closes

  31-10-2026 13:41 via Metro
  
  Haliax began phasing out its app at the start of (Picture: Shutterstock/Jevanto Productions)Halifax customers have until the end of today to switch banking apps before the lender shuts down its digital service.The high street bank began phasing out the Halifax app at the start of October, with customers being told to move to the Lloyds Bank app instead.Lloyds Banking Group said the change was designed to make its banking services ‘simpler and more consistent’.From November 1, customers will
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham lashes out at trolls while defending ‘perfect’ wife

  31-10-2026 13:38 via Metro
  
  Brooklyn Beckham has challenged the trolls who taregt his wife Nicola (Picture: Laurent VU/SIPA/Shutterstock)Brooklyn Beckham has pre-empted cruel comments targeting his ‘perfect’ wife after sharing a photo of her on Instagram.
  Last night, Brooklyn shared a photo of his wife, Nicola Peltz, on Instagram stories along with the caption: ‘Yeah, I am obsessed with my wife. Bring on the comments, I don’t care, she’s perfect xxx’.What prompted Brooklyn to share this message is unknown, but
  
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• Maine and the unmaking of the blue tsunami: How the Democrats botched handling of a sex abuse scandal could be the thing that ends their Senate dream

  31-10-2026 13:36 via News | Mail Online
  
  Troy Jackson, the 58-year-old Democrat logger-turned-politician, is hoping to unseat 73-year-old Collins, the longest-serving Republican woman in Senate history.
  
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• I cleanse the UK’s most haunted houses for £8,400-a-year

  31-10-2026 13:33 via Metro
  
  Kofi Masdammer spends his spare time ridding homes of spirits (Picture: Kofi Masdammer / SWNS)From doors slamming to unexplained footsteps, Kofi Masdammer has spent eight years cleansing the UK’s most haunted homes.The 24-year-old has always been interested in the spirit world, and taught himself how to heal haunted homes, before performing his first cleanse on his own home, aged 18.
  The audio visual engineer from New Cross, London, now makes up to an extra £700 a month with his ghostly side
  
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• Gibraltar chief wades in on Brexit and says Andy Burnham has courage 'to tell the truth'

  31-10-2026 13:31 via Mirror - News
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Fabian Picardo backed the PM to deliver a better deal for Britain, and claimed the issue of European membership could 'once again be before the British people'
  
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• Martin Lewis' MSE card everyone needs in their wallet - it's free

  31-10-2026 13:26 via Mirror - News
  
  The Money Saving Expert (MSE) founder has explained how it works - it can save money and regret
  
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• British Gas, Octopus, EDF share how to claim up to £2,000 energy grants and free heated throws

  31-10-2026 13:25 via Mirror - News
  
  Many households are dreading the winter weather but help is available - here's what British Gas, EDF, OVO, Octopus, E.ON and ScottishPower are offering
  
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• Man dead and another injured after attack at centre housing migrants in Ireland

  31-10-2026 13:24 via Mirror - News
  
  Gardaí have launched an investigation after an assault at an International Protection Accommodation Services centre in Tralee, Co Kerry, left one man dead and another injured.
  
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• 'It could kill' - doctor's warning to never pluck hairs from one part of your face

  31-10-2026 13:23 via Mirror - News
  
  The doctor says while many pluck out annoying hairs there is one part of the face you should leave well alone
  
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• 'I was screaming': Ex on the Beach star Pala Negara's shockingly candid account of why she chose home births and refused medical help during a gruelling 60-hour labour - as police investigate newborn son's death

  31-10-2026 13:19 via News | Mail Online
  
  A confronting interview reveals why Pala Negara lost faith in hospitals and refused to seek medical help during a 60-hour labour - as police investigate the death of her newborn son.
  
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• The first non-Muslim to be caned under Indonesia's sharia law - a Christian 60-year-old woman given 28 lashes for selling alcohol

  31-10-2026 13:16 via News | Mail Online
  
  This year marks a decade since Remita Sinaga became the first non-Muslim to be caned under Islamic law in Indonesia in April 2016.
  
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• Prisoner leaves snoring cellmate with broken bones in ‘well over the top attack’

  31-10-2026 13:12 via Metro
  
  David McLaughlin snapped over the noise and carried out a sustained assault which the court heard was ‘well over the top’ (Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)A prisoner enraged by his cellmate’s snoring launched a brutal attack and left him covered in blood.David McLaughlin snapped over the noise and carried out a sustained assault which the court heard was ‘well over the top’.McLaughlin, who has a history of violent offending, launched the attack after taking exception to his inmate’s
  
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• Gran dies on Turkey holiday days after getting all-clear from cancer as family faces £33k bill

  31-10-2026 13:10 via Mirror - News
  
  Anne Morris, 63, died while on holiday in Turkey just days after being given the all-clear from lung cancer, leaving her family facing a £33,500 hospital bill.
  
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• Is this America's Loch Ness Monster? Tourists claim to spot strange phenomenon linked to mysterious legendary sea monster named Champy living in spectacular lake

  31-10-2026 13:04 via News | Mail Online
  
  The visitors filmed a 24-second video on the phone and said the strange creature was gliding at the speed of a small motor boat.
  
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• Woman immortalized in Pulitzer-winning Vietnam photo is stunned to receive POW bracelet after 53 years

  31-10-2026 13:03 via News | Mail Online
  
  The womanwas photographed at the Travis Air Force Base in California when her father had returned from Vietnam. The photo won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize.
  
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• New England 'Paradise City' torn apart over plans for bike lanes that will take five years to construct with mom and pop businesses fearful they won't survive the construction chaos

  31-10-2026 13:03 via News | Mail Online
  
  The divisive project is expected to cost $43.3 million and has been blasted by one resident as 'a kiss of death for downtown.'
  
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• Magic Men male strip show in Swansea cancelled for being ‘too raunchy’

  31-10-2026 13:00 via Metro
  
  A male strip show has been banished from Swansea (Picture: Will Parfitt/Magic Men)Swansea Council has been branded a ‘spoil sport’ after cancelling a ticketed male strip show for being ‘too raunchy’.It comes after an unrelated incident where a semi-professional football club, in a sleepy Oxfordshire town, was forced to apologise for hosting a male stripper night which turned into a ‘Roman orgy’.The Magic Men Australia World Tour, similar to the likes of the West End show Magic Mike
  
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• I woke up in my date’s bed in a pool of my own wee

  31-10-2026 13:00 via Metro
  
  The mattress was sodden (Picture: Getty Images/Image Source)I was having the most amazing dream. I was sitting on a toilet and peeing. Emptying my bladder had never felt so good. Then I woke up and realised it hadn’t been all in my mind.
  Even worse, I was in my date’s bed and the mattress was sodden. Safe to say, I’ll never forget that night. I’d met Christian about a month previously, when I was browsing a clothing store with a friend.Christian approached us, and we started chatting
  
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