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• Pro-Palestine protestors lock down major London station creating rush hour commuter chaos

  31-10-2023 19:24 via express.co.uk
  
  A sea of people have been pictured in the centre of London's Liverpool Street station, many of which are armed with emotively written banners.
  
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• Fury as UK island given outdated poppies for Remembrance Day to use up stock

  31-10-2023 18:10 via express.co.uk
  
  This year poppies will be plastic-free and recyclable for the first time in a move to cut down on single-use plastics.
  
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• BLM organiser jailed for spending £30,000 donations on herself – including £6,000 on Ubers

  31-10-2023 18:04 via express.co.uk
  
  An organiser of the BLM protests which toppled slave trader Edward Colston's statue in Bristol has been jailed for fraud after spending nearly £6,000 on Ubers.
  
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• Sadiq Khan humiliated in surge of fake ULEZ signs playing Wombles and porn

  31-10-2023 16:56 via express.co.uk
  
  Following the incident Hertfordshire Council said some residents had fallen for the fake payment website and reminded residents that they have no ULEZ zone.
  
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• Sugar plum jazz: The Nutcracker at London’s new Tuff Nutt club – in pictures

  31-10-2023 16:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Go backstage at Drew McOnie’s swinging version of the festive favourite, staged in a pop-up nightspot on the South Bank Continue reading...
  
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• Students 'run for their lives' as mindless yobs 'launch fireworks at halls'

  31-10-2023 16:47 via express.co.uk
  
  Students have said the incident has left them "scared to leave their flat after dark".
  
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• Manchester police probe as cops filmed 'tearing down posters of Israeli hostages'

  31-10-2023 16:47 via express.co.uk
  
  Video appears to show an officer from Greater Manchester Police pulling down posters for Israeli hostages captured by Hamas gunmen.
  
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• Ballon d’Or controversy, Rubiales and a view from South America – Women’s Football Weekly

  31-10-2023 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Moyo Abiona and Tim Stillman discuss a busy international break full of talking points – plus Júlia Belas Trindade shines the spotlight on South AmericaOn today’s pod: Anyone for tennis?! No – sorry – we’re a football podcast aren’t we?!Not for the first time, the Ballon d’Or awards have caused some controversy – not in terms of the winner – congratulations to Spain’s Aitana Bonmatí –
  
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• Vile yobs launch firework attack on 73 year old pensioners

  31-10-2023 16:15 via express.co.uk
  
  This is the shocking moment two pensioners were attacked and hospitalised by a group of teenage thugs at a community firework event.
  
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• Woman horrified after buying 'good as new' joggers with very suspicious stain

  31-10-2023 15:12 via express.co.uk
  
  The TikToker said she had received the ‘worst Vinted order in history' and was in shock as she explained the ‘rancid' finding to her followers.
  
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• Migrant 'tried to kill himself' in car park after plans to move him onto Bibby barge

  31-10-2023 15:04 via express.co.uk
  
  A 23-year-old man tried to take his own life in a car park after being told he was being transferred to the Bibby Stockholm barge.
  
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• Mum describes heartbreaking moment she collapsed to floor after boy, 13, found dead

  31-10-2023 14:59 via express.co.uk
  
  DISTRESSING CONTENT WARNING: Nia Owen told an inquest she "fell to the floor" after police informed her of her son's death in 2020.
  
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• Bellingham bosses the clásico but how long can he keep this up? – Football Weekly

  31-10-2023 14:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Sid Lowe and Lars Sivertsen to round up the biggest stories from across EuropeRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: Jude Bellingham scores both goals as Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 in the clásico this weekend. The win keeps Madrid top and the panel ask, for just how long can Bellingham keep this u
  
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• I lost myself looking after my dad with dementia: how home carers enabled a daughter to regain her independence

  31-10-2023 13:33 via theguardian.com
  
  When Katina Sheehan’s father and then mother needed additional support, she initially tried to do it all herself. She tells Rachel Williams why she wishes she’d introduced a ‘liberating’ professional care package sooner“I lost myself,” Katina Sheehan says of the period she spent struggling to look after her father, Michael, at home as dementia took hold of him, while still trying to work and care for the rest of her family. “I was just so caught up in th
  
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• What could near-death experiences teach us about life, death and consciousness? – podcast

  31-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seeing a bright light, floating above your body, being guided by an angel. All of these are common elements of reported near-death experiences, but what’s really going on? Ian Sample meets Sam Parnia, an intensive care doctor and associate professor at NYU Grossman school of medicine in New York City who has spent his career exploring the boundary between life and death. He tells Ian how he believes these experiences can be explained and what medicine can learn from them Continue reading..
  
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• S5 E6: Mary McCartney, photographer

  31-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Joining Grace for some generous, multi-layered Comfort Eating is the photographer and TV chef, Mary McCartney. Hailing from one of the most famous families of 20th-century culture, Mary lets us into the culinary secrets of the McCartney family – from her dad Paul’s perfect mash to her mum Linda’s ice-cream cake – and the family trips to New York where they’d hit pizza restaurants in search of that perfect slice. Grace and Mary share their love of evenings on the sof
  
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