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• BBC legend announces TV return ‘much to my surprise’ for iconic show

  21-12-2024 13:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Rip Off Britain has a new face on its panel (Picture: BBC)Louise Minchin is a former BBC star no longer after announcing her ‘surprise’ return to the broadcaster.The newsreader, 56, who co-hosted BBC Breakfast until 2021, has appeared on the likes of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity MasterChef.But there’s one show – or rather show’s presenters – that have taken her fancy so much it’s resulted in a retur
  
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• Lamine Yamal names Manchester United’s £25m transfer target as his toughest ever opponent

  21-12-2024 19:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  David Raum impressed against Lamine Yamal at Euro 2024 (Picture: Getty)Barcelona and Spain sensation Lamine Yamal has named RB Leipzig’s David Raum as his toughest opponent to date.Yamal has experienced a meteoric rise since breaking out of Barcelona’s academy ranks in August 2023, establishing himself as one of the most exciting young players in world football.In an outstanding debut season at the Camp Nou, Yamal played a key role to help the Catalan giants win La Liga and the atta
  
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• America's decaying downtowns where vultures circle zombie office buildings and locals are scared to venture

  21-12-2024 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Several US cities have made headlines since the pandemic about their drug-infested streets where businesses are quickly pulling out due to high crime rates.
  
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• Arsenal suffer Bukayo Saka injury blow against Crystal Palace

  21-12-2024 19:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Bukayo Saka appeared to sustain a hamstring injury against Crystal PalaceArsenal winger Bukayo Saka was forced off during the first half of Saturday’s Premier League game against Crystal Palace with an injury.
  The England international returned to the starting line-up after he came on as a second half substitute in Wednesday’s win over the same opposition.
  Saka’s evening, however, lasted only 25 minutes when he appeared to suffer a hamstring strain.
  ‘He put his hand up s
  
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• My wife abandoned our family for another man — now she’s begging to come home for Christmas

  21-12-2024 19:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  She walked out six months ago to be with a new man (Picture: Emily Manley/Metro.co.uk)At Christmas, people brush aside their differences to celebrate with family — but if there’s bad blood or unresolved issues, festive get-togethers don’t always go well.In this week’s Sex Column, we hear from a reader whose wife walked out on him and their two young children six months ago.Now things have gone south with the man she left them for, she wants to come back and rekindle the
  
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• Kemi Badenoch hands peerage to £2,500 donor she'd already given a plum job

  21-12-2024 18:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Last year, when Ms Badenoch was Business Secretary, she was criticised for giving Joanne Cash a job as a commissioner to the Equality and Human Rights Commission
  
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• Kemi Badenoch’s fans exchange homophobic WhatsApp messages - including one about Keir Starmer

  21-12-2024 18:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A group admin then told the group “let’s move on” before reminding members that the contents of the group could be “held up as representing Kemi’s supporters”
  
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• Christmas TV series hailed as ‘best horror’ now available on ITVX

  21-12-2024 18:45 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Zachary Quinto-helmed horror series has plenty of episodes to delve into (Picture: Zach Dilgard/AMC/Kobal/Shutterstock)The haunting Christmas horror series, NOS4A2, is the perfect late-night watch this festive season – and it’s just landed on UK TV.The two-season show (pronounced Nosferatu) is based on the novel by Joe Hill which follows the seductive immortal Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto) who feeds off the souls of children before trapping them in a ‘twisted, Christmas-th
  
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• Mum on mega mission to raise money builds hospice in memory of son, 8

  21-12-2024 18:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A mother of three, who lost her son to a rare brain tumour when he was only eight-years-old, raised money to pay for children’s palliative care services in Berkshire and ultimately a hospice to help families like hers
  
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• Top Tory goes on bizarre rant about alien life, UFOs and drone sightings

  21-12-2024 18:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  “There must be other life out there,” Barry Lewis, the Conservative leader of Derbyshire county council said in a Twitter thread that ran to more than 1,200 words.
  
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• Thousands gather at Stonehenge for 5,000-year-old tradition

  21-12-2024 18:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  Pagans, druids and tourists all gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice today (Picture: ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge today to mark the shortest day of the year – the winter solstice.From pagans, to druids and tourists, the neolithical monument attracts people from different walks of life each year.The Stonehenge was built around 3,000 BC to align with the winter solstice sunset, and people have gathered to mark the shortest d
  
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• Guinness bosses delve into Irish emergency stocks to beat Christmas shortage and North American supplies could be next as UK demand outstrips St Patrick's Day

  21-12-2024 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For a brand that once traded on the notion that good things come to those who wait, Guinness seems awfully keen to ensure that British drinkers do not have to cool their heels between pints.
  
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• Sick couple raped four daughters nine times a day after running out of money for prostitutes

  21-12-2024 18:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disturbing evidence heard in court told how the couple raped the four daughters up to nine times a day after the father ran out of money to pay prostitutes for threesomes
  
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• Outrage as homeowner is jailed after calling cops on squatter... and is told to 'think about it from their point of view'

  21-12-2024 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Georgia homeowner was arrested and charged with criminal trespass after attempting to move back into her home, which was being occupied by an alleged squatter.
  
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• James Corden emotionally reveals the significance of Gavin and Stacey’s ‘last line’

  21-12-2024 18:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  James Corden and Ruth Jones have shared some emotional details about the Gavin and Stacey finale (BBC/The Graham Norton Show)With just days until the long-awaited Gavin and Stacey Christmas special airs on BBC, it seems fitting that James Corden has shared an emotional detail with us.
  The comedy series first hit screens in 2007 and followed Mathew Horne’s Gavin Shipman and Joanna Page’s Stacey West relationship as their families – f
  
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• Heartbreaking footage of adorable girl, 6, left in coma after crash 'caused by man who tried to assassinate Trump'

  21-12-2024 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mia Rosalie Monreal, 6, suffered severe injuries during a car crash which took place when police had to shutdown the I-95 to apprehend suspect Ryan Routh.
  
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• Ipswich 0-4 Newcastle, Brentford 0-2 Nottingham Forest, and more: football – live

  21-12-2024 18:07 via theguardian.com
  Updates from 3pm GMT kick-offs in England and beyondLive scores | Tables | Fixtures | Aston Villa 2-1 Man CityIpswich (4-2-3-1) Muric; H Clarke, O’Shea, Burgess, Davis; Morsy,Cajuste; Burns, Hutchinson, Szmodics; Chaplin.
  Subs: Walton, Phillips, Taylor, Al Hamadi, Johnson, Townsend, Greaves, Broadhead, J Clarke.Newcastle (4-3-3) Dubravka, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Tonali, Guimaraes, Willock; J Murphy, Isak, Gordon.Subs: Vlachodimos, Trippier, Barnes, Targett, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Lo
  
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• Alexander Isak’s hat-trick fires Newcastle past outclassed Ipswich

  21-12-2024 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Sir Bobby Robson adored both of these clubs but, in their first Premier League meeting since his passing, it was Newcastle whose display would have made the old master’s eyes twinkle. This was, put bluntly, men against boys and the away side would not have been flattered by a heavier win. Ipswich, truly pummelled for the first time this season, could plead a fair degree of mitigation but Eddie Howe’s players will rarely be allowed to run amok like this away from home.They scored with
  
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• Pep Guardiola reveals why Manchester City let Morgan Rogers leave after Aston Villa defeat

  21-12-2024 18:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Morgan Rogers inspired Aston Villa to a 2-1 win over Manchester City (Picture: Getty)Pep Guardiola says it’s ‘obvious’ Manchester City would love to have a player of Morgan Rogers’ quality during their current crisis – but fierce competition for places blocked the youngster’s path at the Etihad.Rogers left City for Middlesbrough in search of regular playing time last year and the 22-year-old has gone on to establish himself as one of the finest young players
  
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• Inside the squalid council flat where tragic Lovers' Guide star Wendy-Ann Paige spent her final years living on £5 benefits handout a day after squandering £8m fortune

  21-12-2024 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the squalid Essex council flat where once-millionaire sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige spent her final years, penniless and living on disability benefits of just £5 per day. 
  
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• Mother who had stroke at 34 is lying helpless in Spanish hospital as family try to raise £12,500 to fly her home to UK

  21-12-2024 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robyn Taylor cannot speak, is paralysed on her right-hand side, blind in one eye and is given food and water via a tube into her stomach.
  
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• How a serial killer was snared after he appeared on Bullseye... He committed chilling murders but police were baffled. Then came the extraordinary twist: He was caught because he appeared on the the TV programme and his wife hemmed his shorts

  21-12-2024 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In many ways, John Cooper's appearance on the Eighties television show Bullseye was quite unremarkable. But it would not be the last the public would hear of him.
  
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• Trapped with a killer for 77 minutes: Devastating new book gives definitive bullet-by-bullet account of one of America's deadliest school shootings

  21-12-2024 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This tragedy is now added to a growing list of school massacres in America - and it evokes memories of the worst, including the 2022 shooting in the small border town of Uvalde, Texas .
  
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• Four-month-old boy found dead in caravan with man arrested for ‘neglect’

  21-12-2024 18:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  A 41-year-old man has been arrested for criminal offences, including child neglect (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)A man has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after a four-month-old baby boy was found dead in a caravan.
  Police were called to an address in Plymouth, Devon, over concerns for the welfare of those inside.
  A 41-year-old man has been arrested for criminal offences, including child neglect, Devon and Cornwall Police has said.
  Det Insp Dave Egan said: ‘The death of a
  
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• On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

  21-12-2024 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For the past decade, the Barcelona-based visual artist Xavi Bou has devoted his work to revealing “the hidden beauty of natural movement”. His initial focus was birds; now he’s moved on to insects. In collaboration with US entomologist Adrian Smith he’s created an eye-popping series that captures – by merging multiple frames into a single image – the rhythmic flutterings of butterflies and chaotic leaps of spittlebugs and treehoppers. As well as their beauty,
  
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• Why Raheem Sterling isn’t in Arsenal squad for Crystal Palace match

  21-12-2024 17:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Raheem Sterling’s loan move to Arsenal hasn’t worked outRaheem Sterling is not in the Arsenal squad for Saturday’s Premier League clash against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
  The England international joined the Gunners on loan from Chelsea on transfer deadline day but he has struggled to make an impression under Mikel Arteta.Sterling made a rare start in Wednesday night’s Carabao Cup tie against Palace but was substituted midway through the second half.
  The 30-year-ol
  
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• West Ham v Brighton, Ipswich v Newcastle, and more: football – live

  21-12-2024 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Updates from 3pm GMT kick-offs in England and beyondLive scores | Tables | Fixtures | Aston Villa 2-1 Man CityIpswich (4-2-3-1) Muric; H Clarke, O’Shea, Burgess, Davis; Morsy,Cajuste; Burns, Hutchinson, Szmodics; Chaplin.
  Subs: Walton, Phillips, Taylor, Al Hamadi, Johnson, Townsend, Greaves, Broadhead, J Clarke.Newcastle (4-3-3) Dubravka, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Tonali, Guimaraes, Willock; J Murphy, Isak, Gordon.Subs: Vlachodimos, Trippier, Barnes, Targett, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Lo
  
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• More than 10,000 British soldiers on festive standby to spend Christmas away from families

  21-12-2024 17:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Our brave military men and women are in 44 countries from the Middle East to the Falklands, forced to spend Christmas away from their families this year
  
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• Germany Christmas market attack: Scholz condemns ‘terrible, insane’ act as five killed and hundreds injured – latest

  21-12-2024 17:52 via theguardian.com
  Child among five dead while 40 people remain in critical conditionBild, German public-service broadcaster ARD and other media are reporting that four people were killed and 41 were seriously injured in the attack.In addition, 86 people were treated with significant injuries in hospital, while 78 people suffered light injuries. Continue reading...
  
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• 'If it was my child missing — I'd want people rushing to help me too'

  21-12-2024 17:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An investment banker from London leads a double life, where he is also on call 24/7 as a volunteer with London Search and Rescue to help find missing people in the city
  
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