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• Corrine Lee-Cheu: Broken mother of 13-year-old girl says bullies are still tormenting her daughter more than a year after her tragic suicide

  16-11-2024 06:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Corrine Lee-Cheu, 13, was a happy-go-lucky kid who loved fishing with her dad and brother on their rural property until she began to experience 'bursts of anger' after being targeted by bullies at her school.
  
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• I was at Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson – unhappy fans all said the same thing

  16-11-2024 09:32 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson in a one-sided and underwhelming fight (Picture: Getty)The noise could only mean one thing. Clearly, the crowd inside the 80,000-capacity AT&T Stadium had just got their first glimpse of Mike Tyson, one of the greatest, most controversial athletes in history, just hours away from his first pro fight in almost two decades. A quick glance up at one of the huge screens hovering about the ring confirmed my suspicion. Iron Mike, 58 and ripped, was being filmed
  
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• Boxing fans convinced Mike Tyson fight was scripted after shock Jake Paul admission

  16-11-2024 09:21 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson on points in a one-sided fight (Picture: Getty)Boxing fans were left convinced Jake Paul’s eagerly anticipated bout against Mike Tyson was ‘scripted’ after the the YouTuber’s shock post fight admission.The eight-round bout, which took place at the AT&T Stadium in Texas and was streamed on Netflix, was scored 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73 in favour of Paul.Tyson looked every day of his 58 years as he was being schooled by his younger opponent and app
  
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• Donald Trump's cousin reveals what he was like in 97-second visit to ancestral home

  16-11-2024 09:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mary Anne MacLeod, Trump's mother, left her family home in the Outer Hebrides in the 1930s in search of a better life, but the president-elect still has relatives at the ancestral croft
  
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• Thousands petition to keep pub’s name after row erupts over ‘hate speech’

  16-11-2024 09:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Greene King’s Midget pub in Oxfordshire is named after an iconic MG carThousands of people have signed a counter-petition to keep an Oxfordshire pub’s name the same after complaints it was offensive.The Midget, a Greene King pub in Abingdon, was named after the MG Midget EX 127 car once manufactured in the town.A petition started by Dr Erin Pritchard, a disability lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, who has dwarfism, received 1,300 signatures. But a counter-petition to restore the
  
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• Thousands petition to keep Greene King pub’s ‘offensive’ name

  16-11-2024 09:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Greene King’s Midget pub in Oxfordshire is named after an iconic MG carThousands of people have signed a counter-petition to keep an Oxfordshire pub’s name the same after complaints it was offensive.The Midget, a Greene King pub in Abingdon, was named after the MG Midget EX 127 car once manufactured in the town.A petition started by Dr Erin Pritchard, a disability lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, who has dwarfism, received 1,300 signatures. But a counter-petition to restore the
  
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• 'I went to have my leg amputated - when I woke up surgeons had taken the wrong one'

  16-11-2024 09:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jason Kennedy, 48, said he woke up from surgery in 'disbelief' after quickly realising doctors amputated the wrong leg following the scheduled operation in Manitoba, Canada
  
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• Residents urged to stay indoors after abandoned pub goes up in flames blowing toxic smoke across city

  16-11-2024 09:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Residents urged to shut their windows and remain indoors after mysterious pub blaze sends toxic smoking billowing over city.
  
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• What I Rent: I pay £2,400 a month for my compact Battersea one-bed — now I’m upsizing

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Welcome to Wandsworth! (Picture: Belinda Jiao)Welcome back to What I Rent – Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield.This week, we’re in South London visiting 28-year-old Adam Michael Howie, who lives in a one-bedroom flat in Wandsworth with his girlfriend.The couple were actually one of the first to move in last year, and have loved living in their apartment building so much that they’re now moving i
  
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• The futuristic technology that is changing the way crimes are solved

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The hologram of Bernadett ‘Betty’ Szabo has been put up in Amsterdam to try and solve her murder that happened in 2009 (Picture: Amsterdam Police)A life-size hologram of a sex worker who was murdered 15 years ago is set to be put on display to try and catch her murderer.Bernadett ‘Betty’ Szabo, 19, was stabbed multiple times in Amsterdam, on February 19, 2009, and was ‘brutally murdered in her workplace’.She had also given birth to a baby boy just three months
  
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• The futuristic technologies that are changing the way crimes are solved

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Scientists are now using a host of futuristic methods to track down criminalsModern technology is offering investigators new and improved means of catching criminals.Forensic technologies in 2024 are so advanced at helping to solve crimes that they seem like something from a science-fiction thriller.
  In fact, crimes too are evolving with modern technology. For instance, earlier this year, police investigated a ‘virtual rape,’ which allegedly occurred when a group of men attacked a yo
  
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• ‘I was in one of the biggest 90s boybands but this is when it stopped being fun’

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The boyband star reveals when the cracks began to show (Picture: Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)Boybands Forever is the new documentary from Louis Theroux starring members of the biggest boybands of the 90s and 00s who realised their dream of pop stardom was actually a nightmare.Ritchie Neville is among the heartthrobs to feature as member of Five, the chart-topping group also made up of Abz Love, Scott Robinson, Sean Conlon and Jason Paul Brown or ‘J’ as he was best known to fans.Afte
  
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• 'I rescue exotic animals from dangerous homes - it's surprisingly easy'

  16-11-2024 09:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Living in harmony on a 60 acre site, complete with lovingly made shelters, these incredible exotic animals have been liberated from often appallingly cruel conditions in this country, where they have been misguidedly kept as domestic pets
  
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• Everything we know about Liam Payne’s death one month on

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  One month ago today, Liam Payne died in Buenos Aires (Picture: Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage)Singer and former One Direction member Liam Payne tragically died age 31 exactly one month ago, after falling from a balcony.In the short weeks since his death on October 16, new information has come to light surrounding the circumstances leading up to the fateful day, including three arrests being made in connection to his passing. Payne died while staying at the Ca
  
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• Brits will be flocking to this ‘pretty’ winter travel hotspot over Christmas

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  It might not be your first choice, but it’s well worth a visit (Picture: Getty Images)Jetting off on holiday is not as easy as it used to be. With countries cracking down on holiday lets, hiking tourist taxes, charging for popular attractions and imposing curfews, going abroad is becoming more expensive and less convenient. It’s tempting to head far away from the UK around this time of year, in search of warmer climates and smilier faces, but we often forget about the magical de
  
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• A phone reminder completely changed the way I raise my children

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  I wanted to start capturing the moments that really matter, explains Kirsty (Picture: Sian T Photography)Last year, when Google alerted me to my account being over 80% full, I must admit that I thought about paying for more storage.As, let’s face it, that would’ve been an easier option than going through my three Gmail accounts and deleting old emails.However, deep down, I knew that my inboxes (although in desperate need of a clean-up…) weren’t the biggest issue.Rather,
  
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• ‘A crime of the past’: How bank robbers who tried to steal £8,000,000 were stopped at the final hurdle

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Heists are increasingly rare in the 21st century(Credits: Getty/PA/Evening News)It’s almost 50 years since one of the world’s largest ever bank heists in Mayfair, when robbers ransacked a whopping £8 million from Bank of America.Then the largest bank burglary ever, the Bank of America heist of 1975 has gone down in history – and the man behind the masterplan is still on the loose.When the bank employed Stuart Buckley as an electrician at their Mayfair branch in the early
  
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• 00s TV show fans slam ‘unnecessary’ reboot 13 years after finale

  16-11-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The programme first launched in 2006 and aired for five years (Picture: NBC)Fans of a sports drama TV series have slammed plans for a reboot.Based on the 1990 novel of the same name by H.G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights was first adapted into a 2004 movie before being turned into a TV series.Running for five seasons between 2006 and 2011 it followed a high school football team in the fictional town of Dillon, a small, close-knit community in rural West Texas.It starred Kyle Chandler and Connie
  
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• Euromillions winners reveal the first thing they bought with £115,000,000 jackpot

  16-11-2024 08:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Frances Connolly and Patrick Connolly won the prize back in 2019 (Picture: PA)The winners of a £114.9million EuroMillions jackpot have revealed the incredibly mundane thing they bought first after scooping the jackpot.
  Patrick and Frances Connolly from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, won the £114,969,775 on New Year’s Day in 2019.
  It was the fourth biggest UK lottery prize ever claimed at the time, and the couple have since moved to Hartlepool and have given £60 million
  
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• I'm a Brit who went grocery shopping in America for the first time - here is what surprised me most

  16-11-2024 08:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alex, from Preston, Lancashire, often appears in videos alongside his partner Tay, who is from the US in a tandem that has seen the couple notch up over 50,000 followers on Instagram.
  
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• Gran who runs Christmas grotto from her bungalow slams 'jealous' mums who claim she should be SHUT DOWN

  16-11-2024 08:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: A Christmas-loving gran who runs a grotto from her bungalow has hit back at trolls who branded her a 'weirdo' for welcoming kids into her home.
  
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• The thousand-strong cannibal cult 'that ate raw brains and made penis soup out of their sex-crazed witchdoctor victims'

  16-11-2024 08:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The horrors came to light when 29 members of the cult, including a 13-year-old boy and eight women, were arrested in the remote village of Biam in July 2012, accused of killing seven people.
  
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• The horrifying truth behind Wolf Hall: BBC drama shows beheadings, torture and burning at the stake, but the real dark side of Henry VIII's reign was even more gruesome (and forks were a rarity at the Tudor dinner table!)

  16-11-2024 08:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The BBC show, an adaptation of the mega-selling series of novels by the late Hilary Mantel, is at times gruesome as it depicts executions and torture.
  
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• 'I won £115m on EuroMillions - you'll never guess the first thing I bought'

  16-11-2024 08:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Frances Connolly and her husband Paddy won nearly £115 million on EuroMillions in 2019, and has revealed what they did immediately after their huge win - including telling their daughters
  
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• Brits at holiday hotspot ambushed by 'plague of bed bugs' - and hotel bosses have wild explanation

  16-11-2024 08:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sun-seekers have slammed the “disgusting” conditions at the four-star Blue Sea Puerto Resort Hotel, in Tenerife - Martin and his wife Donna splashed out £2,000 for a 14-night stay
  
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• I was taken to court for £2k by a rail firm after making an honest mistake - it's disgusting how I've been treated

  16-11-2024 08:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adedoyin Ogunekun has slammed staff at Chiltern Railways and accused them of 'bullying and interrogating' her when she got off her train at London Marylebone Station.
  
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• Former caretaker's closet that's less than 2.5ft wide hits the market for an eye-watering £250K

  16-11-2024 08:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Just a stone's throw from the Natural History Museum in south Kensington, the miniscule property measures a mere nine metres squared [96 sq ft] and is just 75cm [2.4ft] wide in parts.
  
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• Man who turned front garden into a makeshift tip with tonnes of rubbish is KICKED OUT of his home by council after neighbour complained it made their children sick

  16-11-2024 08:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Steven Glover has now been banned from living at or visiting his rented property after a council was granted an official closure order at court, MailOnline can reveal.
  
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• Sex with fairies, girls pimped out by their dads and pornographic language: I spent a week reading the 'spicy' books young women go wild for on TikTok and I was shocked...they make 50 Shades look tame

  16-11-2024 08:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Parenting author and mother-of-two Tanith Carey spent a week reading the hot new trend in 'spicy' romance literature and was 'shocked' by the offerings aimed at younger women.
  
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• GK Barry jokes she will 'bring nothing' to the I'm A Celebrity camp and is there to make friends and bag more presenting gigs: 'I'm just here to have a relaxing couple of weeks!'

  16-11-2024 08:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The TikTok star, 25,has has playfully joked she will 'bring nothing' to the I'm A Celebrity camp and is there to 'have a couple of weeks sitting in a hammock'.
  
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