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• Will the UK actually ration diesel and petrol?

  28-09-2026 17:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  Empty pumps at a petrol station in London in April (Picture: EPA)For most drivers, the thought of pulling up to a petrol station and looking at how much diesel costs easily fills them with dread.And their fears aren’t without reason. Diesel prices have hit an all-time high of 199.18p per litre, new figures released today show.
  Now news reports today say that emergency fuel shortage plans have been unveiled and could soon be brought in.They include ‘diesel rationing’, reducing
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fitting electronic tags on offenders is taking up to five months as delays putting victims at risk by creating 'false sense of assurance', report finds

  29-09-2026 09:59 via dailymail.com
  
  Almost half of the ankle tags used to track criminals' movements are not fitted in a timely manner, according to an early briefing of the report.
  
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• Sainsbury's issues urgent 'stop using' caution over 'serious chemical risk'

  29-09-2026 09:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The supermarket has issued an urgent recall notice
  
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• 'Scary £2K matcha addiction left me in a dark room being sick'

  29-09-2026 09:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Isabella Wilson, 19, says she 'wasted an unbelievable amount of money' on the drink, even finding her own questionable supplier to satisfy her cravings
  
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• Will Burnham choose PIP over pensioners? PM could signal end of 'triple lock' in Labour speech vowing nationalisations… but go soft on benefits

  29-09-2026 09:38 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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• Reserve Bank boss's answer to Daily Mail question will send shudders through Albo's ranks: PETER VAN ONSELEN

  29-09-2026 09:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Interest rates have soared to a 15-year high after the Reserve Bank board handed down its decision on Tuesday.
  
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• Louis Theroux admits to ‘surprising’ nightly drug habit that went on for years

  29-09-2026 09:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Louis Theroux wasn’t completely committed to his healthy lifestyle (Picture: BBC/Mindhouse)Louis Theroux has revealed he smoked cannabis every night for years to help him sleep – an admission that appeared to take even those around him by surprise.The 56-year-old documentary maker opened up about his former drug habit during a candid conversation with Katherine Ryan on her What’s My Age Again? podcast.Looking back at his younger years, Theroux revealed he had a ‘nightly
  
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• King Charles' former university town bans street drinking over 'wild west' anti-social boozing

  29-09-2026 09:36 via dailymail.com
  
  Drunken young men in Aberystwyth, where King Charles studied for a term before his investiture as Prince of Wales, have been accused of 'dominating' the town centre.
  
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• Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard hits out at Bernardo Silva – ‘He completely lost his head’

  29-09-2026 09:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Martin Odegaard was furious with the former Manchester City midfielder (Picture: Getty)Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard was left furious by a late kick on his ankle by Portugal’s Bernardo Silva in stoppage time of a Nations League game Sunday.The pair had years of rivalry in the Premier League and Silva, who joined Real Madrid in the offseason from Manchester City, left a mark on the Gunners skipper that got just a yellow card in Portugal’s 2-1 win in Oslo.Odegaard was filmed repeate
  
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• 'I tried the incredible new Lego Masters Experience - but made one big mistake'

  29-09-2026 09:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Legoland Windsor may be a popular spot for UK Lego fans, but there's another spot that also needs to be on your radar for the ultimate Lego weekend
  
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• Tennessee to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years: Murderer tortured and killed teenage 'love-rival'

  29-09-2026 09:27 via dailymail.com
  
  Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. 
  
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• Spanish fighter jets scrambled with Romania 'alert' as Putin launches huge attack

  29-09-2026 09:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two F-18 aircraft from the Spanish Air and Space Forces were launched to minitor the threat after Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine overnight
  
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• RAF Fairford suspected terror plot involved a foreign actor, says Marco Rubio

  29-09-2026 09:15 via dailymail.com
  
  In a TV interview, the top diplomat mentioned Iran by name, pointing out it had threatened to attack US interests, but did not directly blame it for the weekend incident in Gloucestershire.
  
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