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• 'Frozen' party slammed by parents as "shocking" after singer shows too much BOOB

  29-01-2015 19:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Angry parents blasted the £17 a ticket event as "shambolic" and a "farce"
  
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• Australia v England: Women’s Ashes second cricket one-day international – live

  14-01-2025 00:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Play in Melbourne starts 10.05am (AEDT), 11.05pm (GMT)Sign up for The Spin | Email James your thoughts hereBen Mimmack is an early contender in the OBO mailbag:“It’s probably not very interesting, seeing as almost everyone in the US seems to be moving here these days, but I’m following from Dallas, TX. It is far-flung from both the UK and Aus though and still a bit snowy from the winter storm we had last week. Cheers!” Continue reading...
  
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• California officials pre-deploy hundreds of firefighters as LA braces for ‘explosive fire growth’ – live

  14-01-2025 00:01 via theguardian.com
  Governor says ‘hundreds of firefighting assets’ are set across southern California as AccuWeather predicts wildfires could be costliest disaster in US historyTell us about the financial consequences you are facing due to the California firesWeather forecasters are predicting that the dry season in Los Angeles is likely to get worse in the coming weeks and that the drought which intensified last week across southern California will continue to worsen into March.Meteorologist Eric Holt
  
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• ‘Spiderman’ stalker pleads guilty to terrorising woman with gifts on doorstep

  13-01-2025 23:53 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mason Rogers’ gifts showed disturbing knowledge of the victim’s personal life (Picture: Sussex Police/SWNS)A stalker who terrorised a woman with disturbing gifts while in disguise faces jail after being unmasked.Mason Rogers, 22, left a series of items on the doorstep of a 24-year-old woman – who was not known to him – over a period of more than ten months.His campaign began in February 2024 when he left a limited-edition Valentine’s Day figurine in a bag outside t
  
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• Fresh humiliation for road rage Karen as she's seen in bizarre sequel video

  13-01-2025 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A sequel video has revealed another embarrassing blow for the unidentified 'Karen' who was body-slammed onto an icy road during a violent road rage incident on January 4 in Toledo, Ohio.
  
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• Thief gets MMA-style beatdown after robbing jewelry store

  13-01-2025 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A crime-fighting vigilante in Brazil was seen on surveillance footage racing to stop the suspect with moves that make a UFC fighter proud.
  
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• Couple left fuming after 30-year personalised car number plate deemed offensive by DVLA

  13-01-2025 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John and Jackie Cooke, from North Bristol, have had the same personalised number plate on their car for almost three decades, but it has now been revoked by the DVLA
  
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• Turmoil at the Treasury: Keir Starmer scrambles to shore up his flailing Chancellor Rachel Reeves amid bond market mayhem - as 'lame duck' Tulip Siddiq is mired in a corruption scandal

  13-01-2025 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir said that, despite stuttering growth, surging government borrowing costs and a growing business backlash, Ms Reeves was doing a 'fantastic job' running the economy.
  
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• Bruno Fernandes reveals clear demand Ruben Amorim has made to Manchester United squad

  13-01-2025 23:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ruben Amorim is working hard to get his message across (Picture: Getty Images)Bruno Fernandes says Ruben Amorim has been telling the Manchester United squad ‘a lot’ that they need to score more goals as he tries to spark the Red Devils back into life.It has been a difficult time for Amorim in charge at Old Trafford so far, but things have started to pick up, with an encouraging draw at Liverpool in the Premier League and a penalty shootout win over Arsenal in the FA Cup on Sunday.Th
  
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• How one in five young adults would prefer a despot to democracy

  13-01-2025 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report found 21 per cent of 'Gen Z' and 20 per cent of Millennials said 'the best system for running a country effectively is a strong leader who doesn't have to bother with elections.'
  
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• Labour's rush to Net Zero means Britain 'is teetering on brink of blackouts', Senior Tory warns

  13-01-2025 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew Bowie said the Government's 'ideological' drive to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 would leave Britain 'teetering on the brink of blackouts'.
  
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• Aussie swimmers warned about deadly brain-eating amoeba that lurks in some swimming spots

  13-01-2025 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'brain-eating' part makes it sound like an unlikely creature of science fiction, but sadly it's a real - and potentially deadly - organism.
  
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• Labour's controversial workers' rights bill risks becoming 'an adventure playground for employment rights lawyers', business chiefs warn

  13-01-2025 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rupert Soames urged ministers to think again about measures in the Employment Rights Bill, which he warned would cost jobs and damage growth.
  
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• How Tulip Siddiq boasted of campaigning alongside aunt in 2008 as pressure mounts on Keir Starmer to sack chaos-hit anti-corruption minister

  13-01-2025 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The City minister - who is in charge of fighting corruption - is now fighting to keep her job after using properties linked to 'despot' Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed from office last summer.
  
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• Brexit could help Britain's bid to become an artificial intelligence superpower, Keir Starmer claims - but questions remain on data security, job losses and energy usage

  13-01-2025 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite being an ardent Remainer, the Prime Minister acknowledged that the UK now has the freedom to develop its own approach to AI in what he described as the 'global race of our lives'.
  
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• Keir Starmer hails 'new era' in relations with Iraq amid crunch asylum return talks

  13-01-2025 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer will host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani at No10 as he pushes for a new returns agreement allowing the UK to send back failed asylum seekers
  
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• Melania Trump reveals where she and Barron will live as Donald returns to White House

  13-01-2025 23:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Former first lady Melania Trump (left) revealed that the primary residence of Barron Trump (right) and herself will not be the same (Picture: AP)Incoming First Lady Melania Trump has broken her silence on where she and her son Barron will reside as her husband Donald Trump returns to the White House.Questions had been swirling around where Melania, 54, would live reside given that Barron is a freshman at New York University.Melania said, as many suspected, that she will be splitting time betwee
  
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• FBI warns of potential ‘copycat or retaliatory’ New Orleans attacks

  13-01-2025 23:21 via theguardian.com
  Agency and DHS report possible threat from extremists in response to attack that killed more than a dozen peopleThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday warned of a potential public safety threat from violent extremists in response to the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, Louisiana.“The FBI and DHS are concerned about possible copycat or retaliatory attacks due to the persistent appeal of vehicle ramming as a tactic for
  
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• America's unluckiest family lose their most precious possession to LA wildfire

  13-01-2025 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Holding back the tears, Giorgi and Leonardo Antinori revealed how they lost something that's impossible to replace when the Palisades Fire ripped through their neighborhood.
  
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• Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage

  13-01-2025 23:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungsLos Angeles wildfires – live updatesLos Angeles wildfires: full reportThe Los Angeles wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 24 people and have burned more than 100,000 structures. While the focus is understandably on avoiding the flames, another immediate danger lurks across the county and beyond, one more difficult to escape: smoke.The most dangerous component of wildfire smoke is fine parti
  
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• Teenage driver smashed head-first into Jaguar while ‘showing off’ to female passenger

  13-01-2025 23:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Teenage driver Gareth Jones was ‘showing off’ and driving too fast around a bend when he crossed onto the wrong side of the road and crashed head on into an oncoming red Jaguar (Picture: WalesOnline/Media Wales)A newly-qualified teenage driver was ‘showing off’ to his female passenger when he lost control on a bend and ploughed into an oncoming car, a court has heard.Gareth Jones, then 17, was behind the wheel of a white Dacia when he collided head-first into an oncoming
  
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• Furious Coors Light fans are all saying the same thing about latest advert: 'How does this happen?!'

  13-01-2025 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Coors Light fans were quick to notice a glaring error made it the beverage company's advertisement on January 13.
  
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• Sloane Ranger disaster! End of an era for royal grocer Patridge's amid Labour's tax on workers

  13-01-2025 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Partridges is to close its flagship fine foods store off Sloane Square in Chelsea, west London, next month amid Labour's tax raid.
  
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• Bezos and Musk battle it out in the billionaire space race – but who is winning?

  13-01-2025 23:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk took an early lead in the race for space supremacy but Jeff Bezos is looking to catch up (Picture: Getty; Reuters)Anyone up early to watch the debut launch of Jeff Bezos’s rocket this morning would have been disappointed, because after being pushed back several times, it was eventually cancelled.Blue Origin said it was ‘reviewing opportunities’ for the next launch attempt for New Glenn.
  Live stream footage turned out to be a damp squib rather than a dramatic narrowin
  
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• Grindr thieves steal £100,000 from unsuspecting victims who think they're meeting a dating app match

  13-01-2025 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Five men have been jailed for a collective 80 years after a 10-month spree which saw them prey on victims through apps like Grindr before holding them hostage and robbing their money and belongings
  
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• Further humiliation for body-slammed road rage Karen in bizarre sequel video

  13-01-2025 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A sequel video has revealed another embarrassing blow for the unidentified 'Karen' who was body-slammed onto an icy road during a violent road rage incident on January 4 in Toledo, Ohio.
  
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• James Haskell ‘finds love again’ with Chloe Madeley lookalike after marriage split

  13-01-2025 23:02 via metro.co.uk
  
  James Haskell has reportedly moved on with a new woman after splitting from Chloe Madeley (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX)It seems James Haskell is off the market once again, as he has a new love interest following his split from Chloe Madeley.Rugby player James, 39, and personal trainer Chloe, 37, who is the daughter of Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, announced their separation in October 2023.The pair have remained amicable as they continue co-parenting their daughter Bodhi
  
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• Boy, 16, left with brain injuries after being chased by mob of bullies at Minneapolis YMCA

  13-01-2025 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A teenager in Minneapolis, Minnesota was brutally attacked while playing basketball at a local YMCA.
  
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• Three injured in Dreamworld drama - as police launch an urgent investigation

  13-01-2025 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After a crash outside the park on Monday afternoon, the occupants of one vehicle were chased into the park grounds.
  
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• Beloved American Airlines flight attendant, 71, meets horrific fate during Denver layover

  13-01-2025 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Celinda Levno, 71, who recently celebrated 35 years working as a flight attendant, was one of four victims attacked in Denver's 16th Street Mall over the weekend.
  
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