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• Burnham to double spending on homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping by Christmas

  25-10-2026 23:30 via The Guardian
  Downing Street will allocate a further £432m in this week’s budget, bringing total funding for finding a ‘lasting solution’ to nearly £900mAndy Burnham is to double spending on ending rough sleeping to almost £900m by the end of the current parliament, as he steps up efforts to get people off the streets by Christmas.The prime minister has pledged to offer every rough sleeper in England a safe route off the streets or wider support as a central part of his premiership. Continue reading.
  
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• Kimi Antonelli storms to US F1 GP victory but is made to wait for title glory

  25-10-2026 23:21 via The Guardian
  Championship leader wins from Leclerc and Verstappen20-year-old should win title in next race in MexicoWith a calm assurance that belies his tender years, Kimi Antonelli delivered another masterclass at the US Grand Prix, ensuring that while he could not quite seal the Formula One world championship in the Texas sunshine, it is a coronation that is surely only delayed for a week. The 20-year-old has made it almost a formality that he will seal the deal at the next round in Mexico.Antonelli’s d
  
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• Two dead and tens of thousands of properties without power as Storm Boelo batters UK

  25-10-2026 23:19 via The Guardian
  Man aged 60 and another in his 20s killed by falling trees in Scotland and London as Met Office reports gusts of up to 84mphTwo people were killed and more than 800,000 properties left without power after Storm Boelo and Storm Austen battered the UK over the weekend.Two men, one aged 60 and the other in his 20s, were killed by falling trees on Sunday, police said. The 60-year-old died in south-west Scotland while the man in his 20s was killed in London. Continue reading...
  
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• Mbappé double secures Real Madrid late victory at Barcelona after Raphinha leveller

  25-10-2026 23:12 via The Guardian
  Thirteen years later, José Mourinho led Real Madrid into the Camp Nou as one team and them out again as another having secured the kind of late victory he loves and which opens up a whole new world. With just three minutes and the final reserves of energy remaining, a wonderful moment of skill from Jude Bellingham found Eduardo Camavinga and set them on one last run. Camavinga sprinted free, skilfully slipped Pau Cubarsí and pulled back for Kylian Mbappé to provide the finish, a little bit of
  
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• Adultery review – a risible tale of middle-aged car sex, rat poo and rickety furniture

  25-10-2026 23:05 via The Guardian
  Romola Garai and Dominic Cooper are far too good for this by-the-numbers tale of two people having an affair. It is a clattering bag of clichesHere are a few valuable life lessons to be gathered from the new six-part series Adultery, which is about adultery.One, don’t bother. Continue reading...
  
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• This City Is Ours review – the Liverpudlian gang drama is back … and the acting’s as terrific as ever

  25-10-2026 23:00 via The Guardian
  Nefarious doings, tiny-headed henchmen and sockless villains – the mob saga is back. And it’s as lovable as it is bloodyJust when we thought we were out, they pull us back in. Seventeen months after it huffed off in its Toyota Omertà, This City is Ours is back for a second series of high-stakes gangland bastardry. Which means, all things being equal, or at least Liverpudlian, we can expect more of the following: convoluted drug deals conducted over congealing ragu; shouting; tiny-skulled he
  
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• A Course Called Ireland review – why did Bill Murray ever agree to this Irish golf show?

  25-10-2026 23:00 via The Guardian
  The Hollywood star is so grumpy in this new travelogue it’s like he wishes he wasn’t there. Think sulky car journeys, strained encounters and the sense of a TV series implodingA Course Called Ireland is a new documentary in which Bill Murray golfs his way around the “Emerald Isle” while reflecting on everything from his great-grandmother to worms. The heart leaps. Bill Murray? The same Bill Murray whose genius for wounded obnoxiousness was so beautifully deployed in Groundhog Day and Los
  
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• Terland strikes late as United end Manchester City’s winning start in WSL

  25-10-2026 21:38 via The Guardian
  At long last, a weakness has been spotted. Finally, the 100% winning start ends for Manchester City, much to the pleasure of Manchester United, who struck late through Elisabeth Terland to claim a point in a well-contested and at times breathless derby.Khadija “Bunny” Shaw’s second-half strike – her 91st WSL goal on her 100th appearance in the division – appeared to have settled the game and kept the defending champions top of the table, and it had looked likely to be the same old stor
  
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• Macron accused of putting France’s right to protest at risk with ‘vandal’s law’

  25-10-2026 20:57 via The Guardian
  Making innocent protesters liable for damage would be bad for rule of law and play into far-right hands, say opponentsEmmanuel Macron has been accused by trade unions of trying to curb the fundamental French right to protest as the government fast-tracks a bill to make protesters pay for damage caused by vandalism at street demonstrations even if they did not directly cause it themselves.The French president, who leaves office next spring, has faced more than a month of protests in which high-sc
  
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• Has Healey’s military-style budget secrecy really played out so differently to past budgets?

  25-10-2026 20:35 via The Guardian
  Chancellor was said to be worried about market-sensitive leaks, yet significant policies have been heavily trailed in the mediaThe public has been told repeatedly that John Healey is so concerned about budget leaks that he has set up defence-style “compartmentalisation” to prevent the Treasury’s financial secrets escaping.The macho military analogies began in mid-August when Healey was said by the Telegraph to be “on a war footing” to stop the drip of information that he believed had b
  
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• Four-year-old girl dies after falling from east London tower block

  25-10-2026 20:25 via The Guardian
  Police say the incident at an address in Barking is not believed to be suspiciousA four-year-old girl has died after falling from a tower block in east London.She was injured after “falling from height” at an address in St Paul’s Road, Barking, on Saturday and died in hospital, the Metropolitan police said. Continue reading...
  
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• Manchester United board hold crisis talks over Carrick’s future and Howe approach

  25-10-2026 20:24 via The Guardian
  Job in balance after 3-0 home defeat by BournemouthHowe is director of football Jason Wilcox’s top candidateManchester United’s hierarchy are in crisis talks over whether or not to sack Michael Carrick as head coach after he oversaw another torrid defeat, against Bournemouth at Old ­Trafford on Sunday, that left his job in the balance.Carrick was defiant after the 3-0 humbling, insisting he was not expecting to be removed from his post. “I totally understand the situation,” Carrick sai
  
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• Emirati diplomat who helped deliver aid to Gaza enters UN secretary general race

  25-10-2026 20:00 via The Guardian
  Lana Nusseibeh has Palestine’s endorsement but faces criticism over UAE’s record on human rights and SudanAn Emirati diplomat who as UAE ambassador to the UN helped secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza has entered the race as a late contender to succeed António Guterres as the world body’s secretary general.Lana Nusseibeh, who is of Palestinian heritage, is widely noted for her advocacy of the Palestinian cause and the two-state solution and has won the endorsement of the state
  
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• Ella Baron on Trump’s admiration for Putin – cartoon

  25-10-2026 19:53 via The Guardian
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• Man killed by falling tree as Storm Boelo brings strong winds and heavy rain to UK - BBC

  25-10-2026 19:51 via news.google.com
  
  Man killed by falling tree as Storm Boelo brings strong winds and heavy rain to UK  BBCOne dead and 82,000 properties without power as Storm Boelo batters UK  The GuardianStorm Boelo causes disruption across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire  BBCStorm Boelo latest: Man killed by falling tree and 82,000 properties without power as 80mph gusts hit UK  The IndependentMan killed by falling tree as Storm Boelo brings more severe weather to UK  BBC
  
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• Brazil elections: Voters choosing between Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - BBC

  25-10-2026 19:49 via news.google.com
  
  Brazil elections: Voters choosing between Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  BBCBrazil election live: Lula and Bolsonaro face off in presidential runoff  ReutersBrazilians vote in presidential election runoff pitting leftist Lula against far-right Bolsonaro  The GuardianThe Left’s Last Great Survivor is Running Out of Road  PoliticoWhy Brazilian working classes are abandoning the Left  The Telegraph
  
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• Letter making claims about Meghan's father written by his first wife, BBC understands

  25-10-2026 19:38 via BBC News
  
  Roslyn Loveless, who has since died, divorced Meghan's father in 1975. Meghan said she had been informed about the "disturbing allegations" in 2018.
  
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• Power surge at major UK airport causes delays to hundreds of flights - Sky News

  25-10-2026 19:33 via news.google.com
  Power surge at major UK airport causes delays to hundreds of flights  Sky NewsLong queues after power surge at Stansted Airport  BBCPower cut at major UK airport as hundreds stuck in 'two-hour security queues'  The SunPower cut at Stansted Airport causes 'security queues up to two hours'  Metro.co.ukPictures show HUNDREDS stranded at Stansted Airport amid 'power surge'  Harwich and Manningtree Standard
  
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• Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models

  25-10-2026 19:25 via The Guardian
  Authentic Brands Group says AI company infringed on rights of songs by the King such as Can’t Help Falling in LoveThe owners of Elvis Presley’s music catalogue are suing artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic for allegedly using Presley’s songs to train their models without permission.Authentic Brands Group, the licensing organization that has ownership of both Presley’s music and likeness, is accusing Anthropic of infringing on the rights of 274 songs by Presley. The lawsuit, fi
  
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• Board of Deputies of British Jews declares Greens to be racist party

  25-10-2026 19:05 via BBC News
  
  The Jewish body's vote comes in response to the Green Party passing a "Zionism is racism" policy motion.
  
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• Fernandes gamble leaves Carrick to carry the can for United’s institutional failures | Will Unwin

  25-10-2026 18:56 via The Guardian
  Leaving out his captain was doomed to fail but so are the club under the current leadership and the fans at Old Trafford know that all too wellDropping your captain, who has held the team together for most of the past five years, is a bold move from a man whose job is on the line. It was very much a make-or-break decision from Michael Carrick to leave out Bruno Fernandes against Bournemouth. It did not work and Carrick knew the consequences if it failed and will probably pay the price for it, bu
  
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• Government failure to protect the elderly was 'negligence on an almost criminal scale'

  25-10-2026 18:53 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  OPINION - Nick Ferrari says Boris Johnson's government allowed Covid-19 to spread 'like wildfire' through care homes
  
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• Manchester United: Michael Carrick head coach on brink of losing job after Bournemouth defeat - Sky Sports

  25-10-2026 18:46 via news.google.com
  Manchester United: Michael Carrick head coach on brink of losing job after Bournemouth defeat  Sky SportsMichael Carrick Man Utd future: Eddie Howe and Julian Nagelsmann expected frontrunners if head coach departs  Sky SportsCarrick has mixed emotions after Bournemouth defeat  Manchester UnitedTeam A v Team B: How the players rated  BBCManchester United - Michael Carrick future as manager under major threat  BBC
  
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• The Guardian view on adult education: learning should be for all ages | Editorial

  25-10-2026 18:30 via The Guardian
  Teenagers and young adults are not the only people in need of new skills and a sense of purposeThe neglect of adults was, David Blunkett said in a recent interview, his biggest regret about education policy under New Labour. Spending on classroom-based adult learning in England has fallen steadily, from a high point of more than £5bn in 2003-04, to less than £2bn last year. We should not expect two decades of decline to be reversed quickly. But the upcoming report from Alan Milburn on young pe
  
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• Marcus Smith produces timely reminder of his class as Harlequins sink Saracens

  25-10-2026 18:30 via The Guardian
  Harlequins 33-15 SaracensEngland fly-half marks 200th appearance in styleMarcus Smith celebrated his 200th Harlequins match in magnificent style. Perhaps there is a danger, at times, of taking his immense talent for granted, but he was unstoppable here. A powerful visiting Saracens side barely got a look-in, with Smith reminding us all of his ability on the day Steve Borthwick named his England squad for a packed November.Smith’s sensational running, distribution and tactical kicking masterful
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson makes Argentina joke that 'could reignite Falklands row'

  25-10-2026 18:28 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Jeremy Clarkson has sparked controversy after making a joke about an Argentine Formula One driver.
  
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• The Guardian view on Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation: cities should be designed around people, not cars | Editorial

  25-10-2026 18:25 via The Guardian
  The transformation of Europe’s busiest shopping street should be a case study in making cities greener, less congested and more inviting places to liveSadiq Khan has been trying to pedestrianise Oxford Street since he first became the mayor of London in 2016. On Monday, after numerous setbacks, his plan will finally come to fruition. The busiest stretch of the nation’s famous shopping street will be closed to traffic in a scheme designed to improve the area and make it more attractive to ped
  
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• Plan to drag UK back into EU single market slammed as 'total betrayal'

  25-10-2026 18:14 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Andy Burnham said he wants an "honest discussion" about re-joining the EU ahead of a summit with European leaders next month.
  
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• Cutting welfare to pay for work support is all wrong | Letters

  25-10-2026 18:14 via The Guardian
  Priya Sahni-Nicholas on a proposal by Alan Milburn to help those not in education, employment or training. Plus letters from Ruth Lister and Alan CoppinAlan Milburn correctly identifies that the nation’s 1 million young people not in education, employment, or training (Neet) represent a crisis of “youth detachment” deeply intertwined with mental ill health (Cut benefits to fund work support for young people, says Neet review author Alan Milburn, 18 October).However, his proposal to cut wel
  
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• Plague risks in Russia and a dangerous delay on WHO pandemic agreement | Letters

  25-10-2026 18:13 via The Guardian
  Responding to an editorial on a potential plague outbreak, Dr Darren Mann deplores delays to the agreement, while Kent Buse says Britain could do moreYour editorial on the silence from Siberia after a worker died at a plague research institute there is right that the lack of information is the real worry (The Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information, 18 October). But the deeper failure is not Russian. It is that, six years after Covid, we still have no
  
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• People taken to hospital after scaffolding falls on busy London high road - London Evening Standard

  25-10-2026 18:12 via news.google.com
  People taken to hospital after scaffolding falls on busy London high road  London Evening StandardStorm Boelo: Race to stop Aberdeen scaffolding crashing down in extreme wind  Press and JournalTwo people crushed by collapsing scaffold in high winds of Storm Boelo  Metro.co.uk'Fallen scaffolding' forces closure of major south London road  London NowTwo rushed to hospital after being crushed by falling scaffolding in Storm Boelo  The Sun
  
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• On dementia, we need to tell it how it is | Letter

  25-10-2026 18:12 via The Guardian
  David Lee responds to a letter questioning the use of language about people with dementiaSally Byers takes Polly Toynbee to task (Letters, 19 October) for using what she considers to be “deeply troubling language” about people with dementia, in particular the phrases “glazed stares or sleeping mouths agape” and “that terrible human vacancy” in Toynbee’s article (In Liverpool I saw the tough choices Louise Casey faces on social care – starting with who will pay?, 13 October).I lo
  
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• Tech firms should pay the creators whose work they use | Letter

  25-10-2026 18:11 via The Guardian
  It could raise up to £300m a year, providing UK creators with additional income, write Barbara Hayes, Tayyiba Nasser, Christian Zimmermann and Paul SeheultAnthropic’s proposal (AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’, 19 October) raises an important question: who should benefit from technological progress? Before pledging money for the public good, AI companies such as Anthropic should first pay the creators whose work they use.Device manufacturers have a separa
  
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• Exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela - The Guardian

  25-10-2026 18:00 via news.google.com
  Exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela  The GuardianVenezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile  BBCExiled Venezuelan opposition leader announces shock return to the country  Sky NewsOpposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela from exile  CNNVenezuela’s Leading Opposition Figure, María Corina Machado, Returns Home  The New York Times
  
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• ‘If it was up to me it wouldn’t end like this’: Jimmy Anderson confirms Lancashire exit - The Guardian

  25-10-2026 17:53 via news.google.com
  
  ‘If it was up to me it wouldn’t end like this’: Jimmy Anderson confirms Lancashire exit  The GuardianJames Anderson stops short of retiring after Lancashire exit  BBCJames Anderson to conclude Lancashire playing career at end of current contract  Lancashire Cricket ClubJames Anderson: Lancashire decision to release England great 'incredibly difficult' says Paul Farbrace  BBCJames Anderson confirms Lancashire exit was not what he wanted: 'If it was up to me it wouldn't have ended li
  
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• England stunned after Shadab Khan’s miraculous century delivers one-wicket win for Pakistan

  25-10-2026 17:49 via The Guardian
  England blow victory chance after hosts were 154 for nineShadab makes unbeaten 113 in thrillerShadab Khan whipped the rug from under England’s boots with an ­eye-popping 113, a blitz of boundary peppering when hope was lost, the one-wicket win guaranteeing Pakistan a place in the tri-series final. England, for the second time in four days, watched a sure thing swirl down the drain.With Pakistan 154 for nine in their run chase, 88 away from victory, queues were beginning to build at the Gaddaf
  
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• Liverpool 2-0 Brighton: Alexander Isak scores again as Reds beat in-form Seagulls in Premier League - BBC

  25-10-2026 17:44 via news.google.com
  
  Liverpool 2-0 Brighton: Alexander Isak scores again as Reds beat in-form Seagulls in Premier League  BBCLiverpool 2-0 Brighton: Alexander Isak continues goalscoring hot streak as Reds win at Anfield  Sky SportsIraola era at Liverpool finally has lift off thanks to big-money forwards  ESPNIsak, Barcola and Wirtz turn up - player ratings for Liverpool v Brighton  BBCLiverpool vs Brighton predictions: 11-2 Bet Builder tip, team news and odds  Racing Post
  
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• Osula and Barnes strike as Newcastle pile pressure on lacklustre Palace

  25-10-2026 17:29 via The Guardian
  The first half was dreadful. The pass completion rate was a meagre 72.8%, although it felt lower. There were only two shots on target. The sun kept popping out from behind the clouds to take a look, and then going back in again, appalled. And the really bad news for Crystal Palace is that, for them, that was the good bit.Newcastle were much improved after the break. Will Osula touched in a Jacob Murphy cross two minutes after half-time, Joe Willock had an effort ruled out for a marginal offside
  
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• UK airport power cut chaos as hundreds face 'two-hour security queues' and baggage delays

  25-10-2026 17:23 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Passengers have been left waiting in lengthy queues at the busy airport.
  
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• Body found in search for man who fell overboard from ferry - BBC

  25-10-2026 17:14 via news.google.com
  
  Body found in search for man who fell overboard from ferry  BBCSearch for man who fell overboard from CalMac ferry stood down  BBCJim Wither: Body found in search for 82-year-old who fell overboard from Scottish ferry  The IndependentBody found in search for missing pensioner who fell overboard from ferry  STV NewsBody found on Scottish beach in search for man who 'fell from' CalMac ferry  The National Scot
  
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• Horror as girl, 4, dies after falling from tower block

  25-10-2026 17:13 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Emergency services rushed to the location of the incident but the young child unfortunately died in hospital.
  
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• ‘He’s not going to punk me. I’ll trick him’: Ali G: Who Iz I? stooge says he was in on joke but didn’t tell Sacha Baron Cohen

  25-10-2026 17:13 via The Guardian
  Exclusive: Joshua Loudermilk says suspicions first raised during filming by gun shaped like wearable plastic bottom: ‘You’re gonna put a butt on top of a butt? You can’t run in that’• This article contains spoilers for Ali G: Who Iz I?Joshua Loudermilk, one of two men apparently discredited by the new Ali G movie Ali G: Who Iz I?, has said that he was in on the joke, but that the film-makers didn’t realise this.Loudermilk, a 54-year-old aspiring actor from North Carolina, has told th
  
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• Isak applies finishing touch as Liverpool bring Brighton’s winning run to an end

  25-10-2026 17:12 via The Guardian
  Brighton’s impressive run was blown off course at Anfield where Liverpool performed with an appetite and urgency at both ends of the pitch that showed Andoni Iraola’s methods taking root. It was Liverpool, deserving winners on home soil for the first time in the Premier League this season, who looked upwardly mobile.There was more evidence of the expensive trio of Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak and Bradley Barcola feeling at home and adapting to Iraola’s demands. Wirtz was instrumental in a
  
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• Police will allow offenders to breach tag conditions without arrest

  25-10-2026 17:03 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The move means offenders who might previously have faced arrest over breaches of their court-imposed conditions could avoid immediate police action.
  
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• Tom Gauld on the modern romantasy novel – cartoon

  25-10-2026 17:00 via The Guardian
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• Matthew McConaughey has read all his bad reviews – and I applaud him | Polly Hudson

  25-10-2026 17:00 via The Guardian
  The Hollywood actor revealed he once read two-decades’ worth of pans in one fell swoop, during two days in the desert. It’s the kind of preposterous self-flagellation we can all learn from and enjoyTo assume makes an ass out of you and me, but as sweeping generalisations go, this seems fairly uncontroversial: nobody likes hearing themselves being criticised. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule – no kink shaming here – but most people aren’t fans.Which is why a recent admission f
  
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• Is having urine the color of Mountain Dew normal?

  25-10-2026 17:00 via The Guardian
  A Trump administration doctor says neon yellow urine is normal because of diets consisting entirely of meat and fermented foods. Here’s what experts sayA doctor who advises several Trump cabinet members on their diets rhapsodized this summer about having urine the color of Mountain Dew, thanks to a diet consisting entirely of meat and fermented foods.What you consume does determine what you see in the toilet. But should urine be neon yellow – or some other hue? Here’s what you need to know
  
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• Man 'stabbed in face' in broad daylight during Tube station horror as cops arrest suspect

  25-10-2026 16:53 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  A man in his 40s has been arrested.
  
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• Golden Demon 2026 winners revealed at SPIEL Essen - Warhammer Community

  25-10-2026 16:52 via news.google.com
  Golden Demon 2026 winners revealed at SPIEL Essen  Warhammer Community
  
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• Lone women 'flashed near supermarket toilets’ — man, 72, arrested

  25-10-2026 16:40 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The suspect allegedly lingered near the supermarket toilets before targeting lone women.
  
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