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• Drivers may NEVER return to Hammersmith Bridge because of eco-friendly cost-effective reopening plan

  30-03-2025 00:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of drivers in the capital will be frustrated by the eco-friendly cost effective proposals to prevent traffic from returning to the bridge.
  
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• Abandoned department store transformed into the UK’s biggest charity shop — with 120,000 square feet of bargains

  02-04-2025 13:04 via metro.co.uk
  
  Charity shopping can often secure you a brilliant bargain. (Picture: Getty Images)We love a good charity shop find in the UK and, for shoppers in the north-west, you’ve got pretty great odds of scoring a bargain.That’s because the biggest charity shop in the country has recently opened its doors in Preston — and it’s absolutely massive.Based in an old Debenhams department store, a local homeless charity, Emmaus, recently brought the site back to life, spending ten weeks
  
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• Inside Polygon Live – the UK’s newest and most immersive festival (that you could win tickets to!)

  02-04-2025 13:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageThis May, a brand new festival will arrive in the UK. Promising a 360º immersive experience, music lovers won’t want to miss out on Polygon Live LDN — and you could be one of them.We’ve teamed up to give away 20 pairs of tickets to the festival, which is opening in London’s Crystal Palace Park on May 2 for an epic
  
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• Celebrate Easter with Dunelm’s affordable decorations – with prices from just £1

  02-04-2025 13:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  If you’ve got the family over this Easter, or putting on some picky bits for friends, then make sure you pay Dunelm a visit for all your table needs – and more! (Picture: Metro/Dunelm/Getty)
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• Violent football fans from Chelsea and Manchester City barred from Club World Cup

  02-04-2025 12:55 via metro.co.uk
  
  Man City fans clashed with police in Portugal in 2021 (Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images)Football hooligans from two top English clubs will have to hand over their passports for more than a month to stop them stoking violence at the Club World Cup.Around 150 fans of Manchester City and Chelsea could have their summer holiday plans ruined, as the move will prevent them leaving the country between June 9 and July 13.Everyone affected by the decision has a football behaviour o
  
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• Millions of travellers now need a £10 permit to enter the UK — here are the rules

  02-04-2025 12:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arriving from the EU? You now need an ETA (Picture: Getty Images)Every year, the UK welcomes a staggering 38 million tourists to its shores.But if you’re one of those travellers heading to Old Blighty in 2025, there’s a new visa scheme you’ll need to take note of.The Electronic Travel Authorisation has been launched for Europeans visiting the UK, after previously coming into force for non-Europeans in January.Prior to the ETA, visitors from the EU’s Schengen area (a bord
  
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• Bodyguards hired by council to stop tourists from groping and touching buxom bronze statue

  02-04-2025 12:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For years, her statue has stood proudly in Dublin, an embodiment of Ireland's spirit and culture. But now a bronze of folk hero Molly Malone is to be guarded after complaints of people groping the sculpture.
  
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• Vegan activist nearly killed lamb after kidnapping it from a field and giving it a shampoo wash and food bought off Amazon - before putting it in a nappy and making it live in her bedroom

  02-04-2025 12:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Louise Murguia, 49, kidnapped the lamb from farmer Stuart Ludwell's land overnight on March 23, 2024 because she thought she could take better care of it.
  
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• Sad reason why schools in Victoria will ban uniform items

  02-04-2025 12:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ban follows government consultations with school groups and peak bodies.
  
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• 'Bored club girl' who was turned into internet meme reveals why she made that famous face - as new photos show what she looks like now

  02-04-2025 12:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lucia Gorman, best known as the face of the 'bored club girl' meme, was enjoying a night out at the Milk Club in Edinburgh in 2018 when the viral moment unfolded.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II's godson dies aged 79: Tory peer who served as Page of Honour to Her Majesty passes away after suffering head injury

  02-04-2025 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conservative peer Lord Charles O'Hagan served as a Member of European Parliament for Devon twice, from 1973 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1994. He was also a Page of Honour to the late Queen.
  
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• Full list of countries Trump’s tariffs could affect on Liberation Day revealed – and why

  02-04-2025 12:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that there wouldn’t be a ‘cutoff’ (Picture: Reuters)Today is ‘Liberation Day’ – the day Donald Trump has pledged to rid the US of reliance on other countries for products in supplies, and arguably the pinnacle of his ongoing trade war.But questions remain over what countries will be hit with tariffs – and which ones will be spared.Trump told reporters yesterday he would begin the tariffs with ‘all co
  
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• Tom Fletcher taken to hospital after looking like he’d been ‘smashed in the face’

  02-04-2025 12:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tom Fletcher suffers with an eye condition called uveitis (Picture REX / @tomfletcher)Tom Fletcher went to A&E this week after his autoimmune condition uveitis flared up out of nowhere.
  The McFly singer, 39, suffers from the rare eye condition, which if left untreated can lead to vision loss and blindness.
  Taking to Instagram, Tom took a selfie of the flare up and explained how hewill have to take six weeks of eye drops.
  Showing his asymmetrical face with one eye squinted and downcast, the
  
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• Old Etonian who tried to throw ex-partner down a 20ft well jailed for 24 years

  02-04-2025 12:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  Douglas Clifton Brown was previously found guilty of attempted murder (Picture: PA)An Old Etonian who tried to throw his estranged partner down a 20ft well has been jailed for 24 years.Douglas Clifton Brown, who was previously found guilty of attempted murder, had argued with Camilla Welby in the car after drinks at a friend’s house then attacked her in August 2023.Clifton Brown, 56, who was driving, changed routes and instead of heading to her house he drove to H
  
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• Baggage handler strips off and climbs into plane turbine for 'stupid and vain' TikTok video

  02-04-2025 12:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lawyers representing Preslie Ginoski, 23, claimed that he had been trying to emulate trends circulating on social media when he got in front of the engine turbine at Sydney Airport in Australia
  
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• British 'murder-suicide' couple were 'dream neighbours' and the wife 'had felt unsafe in London before moving to New Zealand', local reveals

  02-04-2025 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The couple, believed to have been in their 50s, were found late on Monday after police forced their way into a rented property in Roseneath, Wellington
  
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• Staff at notorious prison said lags 'need to be broken' in 'horrifying leaked messages'

  02-04-2025 12:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prison officers from HMP Parc in Bridgend, Wales, have been caught in text messages mocking some inmates who were hurt behind bars as well as self harm incidents
  
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• Mum of dine-and-dashers who fled restaurant after £80 meal returns to pay bill

  02-04-2025 12:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageA Chinese restaurant in London thought they had lost £80 when a family of four allegedly sped away in a car without paying after a meal.But in an unexpected twist, Pangs in Hillingdom say the women’s apologetic mum came to the restaurant to settle the bill.Footage from inside the restaurant showed two woman, one of them carrying a child in her ar
  
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• Terrifying moment cruise ship slams into enormous 40ft waves with passengers falling into walls during voyage through notorious Drake Passage

  02-04-2025 12:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lesley Ann Murphy, a travel blogger aboard Quark Expeditions' Ocean Explorer ship, captured footage of the moment the vessel made its way through the giant waves and crashing water.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth's godson Lord Charles O’Hagan dies after suffering head injury

  02-04-2025 12:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lord Charles O'Hagan, a godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II and a Conservative peer who served as a Member of the European Parliament, has died at the age of 79
  
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• Tiffany Pollard’s Celebrity Big Brother return confirmed 9 years after ‘David’s Dead’

  02-04-2025 12:34 via metro.co.uk
  
  Celebrity Big Brother star Tiffany Pollard is returning to the ITV reality show nearly a decade after pure TV gold moment, ‘David’s Dead.’In 2016, Tiffany crumpled as her fellow housemate Angie Bowie whispered in her ear after being informed by producers of her ex-husband David Bowie’s death from cancer: ‘You can’t say a word, David’s dead.’The Flavor of Love star collapsed on the floor and wailed in disbelief as she had mistakenly confused one of
  
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• Parents blame Easter bunny for 'missing chocolate' they've eaten themselves

  02-04-2025 12:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From blaming the bunny to light-fingered leprechauns, British parents have no end of excuses for 'vanishing' eggs which they've secretly snaffled themselves
  
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• 'Super-gonorrhoea' warning to UK tourists issued by UKHSA

  02-04-2025 12:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Worrying figures suggest that specific treatment-resistant cases have risen from around two per year until 2021 to two per month in 2024
  
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• Vengeful mother-of-four, 32, accused ex-boyfriend of 'running her over' after she banged her elbow against his car while she abused him

  02-04-2025 12:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sascha Collier, 32, waged a hate campaign against Aaron McDarmaid spreading ant killer over his home, emptying bins on his driveway and pouring flammable liquid on his front door.
  
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• I’m an autistic trucker with 700,000 miles clocked up in a job I wasn’t meant to have

  02-04-2025 12:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Stuart Harvey behind the wheel of one of his dad’s lorries (left) before going into the job as a professional as an adult (Picture: Stuart Harvey)An autistic trucker has clocked up 700,000 road miles after defying expectations that he would never even be able to have a job.  Stuart Harvey, 32, has been in the haulage industry for 11 years despite being laughed at in primary school when he said he wanted to get behind the wheel for a living. His high-functioning Asperger&rsq
  
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• The Sims Project Rene has new footage and fans still hate it

  02-04-2025 12:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Is Project Rene doomed before it’s even out? (EA)EA continues to face an uphill battle with its upcoming The Sims game for mobile as another playtest yields new screenshots and footage.While EA has said it will never make The Sims 5, choosing to instead continuously update The Sims 4, the company still intends to release new Sims games, including Project Rene.Billed as The Sims but with multiplayer, EA has yet to give it a proper name or release date. But leaked info from private playtest
  
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• Michael Sheen and Channel 4 embroiled in 'copying' legal row over debt documentary with film-makers who say they did it four years ago

  02-04-2025 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of independent TV producers have hit out over 'Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway', which they claim bears a striking resemblance to a rejected documentary they pitched.
  
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• Dramatic moment police bikers knock off-road nuisance off his motorbike as he tries to flee them in chase

  02-04-2025 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the dramatic moment police bikers knocked an off-roader from his motorcycle as he tried to flee them in a chase in Solihull.
  
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• Meghan Markle reveals price of her raspberry jam - and it's more expensive than Charles'

  02-04-2025 12:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After weeks of waiting, Meghan Markle has finally revealed the prices for the first batch of her products from her lifestyle brand As Ever and revealed how fans can buy them
  
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• Stephen Hendry frustrated with young star: ‘In the commentary box I threw the mic down’

  02-04-2025 12:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Stephen Hendry is all about players going on the attack (Picture: Getty Images)Stephen Hendry was left frustrated by the performance of Si Jiahui in defeat to Mark Selby at the Tour Championship on Tuesday, stunned by the youngster’s lack of aggression.Selby picked up a 10-6 win over Si at Manchester Central, which was little surprise as the 22-year-old has never beaten the four-time world champion before.However, what was something of a shock was how many shots the Chinese star was refus
  
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