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• Erin West identified as teacher killed in shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin

  19-12-2024 06:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The teacher at a Wisconsin Christian school who was killed in a shooting Monday has been identified as Erin M West, 42.
  
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• Post Office Horizon scandal update issued as major change to compensation scheme considered

  19-12-2024 09:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Business minister Gareth Thomas said the Government has paid out £79m to 232 people from the Horizon convictions redress scheme
  
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• Bank of England set to keep interest rates on hold TODAY despite UK economy stalling after Labour's Budget raid - with fears over resurgent inflation

  19-12-2024 09:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Monetary Policy Committee is expected to keep the base rate at 4.75 per cent when its latest decision is announced at noon.
  
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• Major potato chip brand is recalled in two states over 'life-threatening' warning

  19-12-2024 09:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A eloved potato chip brandhas announced a recall in two states of certain bags of its snacks after learning of a potential allergen in its products and warned of potentially life-threatening side effects
  
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• Gisele Pelicot arrives with her family to see her rapist husband jailed for 20 years: Huge crowds gather outside court as judges announce verdicts for Monster of Avignon and his 50 'accomplices'

  19-12-2024 09:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 50 men from all walks of life face more than 600 years behind bars for their parts in Dominique Pelicot's ten-year campaign in which he watched his wife being abused while unconscious.
  
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• Ex-partner of Hollywood actor Jason Hoganson who was back behind bars 48 hours after being freed under Keir Starmer's early release scheme dies on day he was due to stand trial for assaulting her

  19-12-2024 09:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jason Hoganson was jailed in August for attacking his ex-girlfriend, Rachel Usher, in the street and breaching a restraining order.
  
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• Thames Water bills to rise 35% by 2030 as company handed £18.2million fine

  19-12-2024 09:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The regulator said the penalty was 'a clear warning to the whole sector' as the embattled water company tries to negotiate a bailout
  
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• Chilling scale of Putin's North Korean losses in Ukraine revealed in leaked phone call

  19-12-2024 09:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The audio messages, allegedly intercepted by Ukraine's Security Service, are between a nurse in a Russian hospital and her husband - who claim there are hundreds of injured or killed North Korean soldiers filling Moscow's hospitals
  
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• Dominique Pelicot rape trial: Updates as all 51 verdicts due in French case that shocked world

  19-12-2024 09:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dominique Pelicot, the now ex-husband of 72-year-old grandmother Gisele Pelicot, admitted that for years he drugged his wife Gisele so strangers he recruited online could abuse her while he filmed the assaults.
  
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• Man, 20, 'plotted coordinated attack with Wisconsin school shooter', FBI allege

  19-12-2024 09:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The FBI alleges that Alexander Paffendorf, 20, plotted to coordinate an attack with 15-year-old Nicole 'Samantha' Rupnow, who shot and killed two people at a Wisconsin school
  
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• Rail chaos hits Sydney over Christmas with bitter standoff between the government and union bosses reaching boiling point amid strike action threats

  19-12-2024 09:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Transport for NSW issued an alert on Thursday afternoon warning customers to be aware of disruptions across the network due to 'ongoing industrial action'.
  
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• Squeamish? Scared? How Tyson Fury will be affected by Oleksandr Usyk defeat

  19-12-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Fury must find a way to pick through the masterful Usyk (Picture: Getty)With Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury II upon us, Olympian and heavyweight contender Frazer Clarke breaks down the heavyweight title rematch and explains how ‘The Gypsy King’ can get it right the second time of asking.Eight months on from that historic night, Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury are ready to do it all again. A lot of people have been asking, did that first career defeat change Tyson? For me, absolutely not
  
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• Oleksandr Uysk, boxing’s Brit slayer, has already eclipsed legendary Klitschko brothers

  19-12-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Usyk is still undefeated after 22 fights (Picture; Getty0No other fighter in recent history has been so problematic for the hopes of British heavyweight boxing than Oleksandr Usyk.Since leaving the cruiserweight division undisputed and undefeated in 2019, the Ukrainian has laid to waste every challenger he has faced from these shores – an extraordinary list of fighters who have tried and failed to solve the puzzle that is Usyk.Derek Chisora was first up in what was the former Olympian&rsq
  
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• ‘I’m the little girl in The Holiday – but even my own daughter doesn’t recognise me’

  19-12-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Miffy Englefield is rarely recognised for her role in The Holiday (Picture: Nigel Davies)Miffy Englefield might not be a name you recognise – but fans of The Holiday will almost certainly remember her cherubic face as Sophie in the Christmas classic.Starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black, the film is a holiday favourite with Miffy taking on the role of Jude’s older and outspoken daughter.Almost two decades on, the now 25-year-old actress looks very different t
  
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• Emmerdale confirms Tom’s fate at long last as the verdict is revealed

  19-12-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  The end (Picture: ITV)The following article contains spoilers from an episode of Emmerdale that hasn’t aired on ITV yet, but is available to view on ITVX.Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) can finally breathe – Tom King (James Chase) has been sentenced to three years in prison.Tonight’s episode of the ITV soap focused solely on Tom’s trial. Alongside the likes of Belle, Tom, and Amelia (Daisy Campbell) being questioned, we also saw the jury attempting to reach an agreemen
  
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• Coronation Street confirms final goodbye as legend takes a fall in 54 pictures

  19-12-2024 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Daisy and Kit head out for a meal (Picture: ITV) Daisy and Kit head out for a meal (Picture: ITV) They're frustrated when Daniel and Bethany arrive (Picture: ITV) They're frustrated when Daniel and Bethany arrive (Picture: ITV) This could be incredibly awkward (Picture: ITV) This could be incredibly awkward (Picture: ITV) Kit arrives at the Bistro to talk to Toyah (Picture: ITV) Kit arrives at the Bistro to talk to Toyah (Picture: ITV) This looks tense! (Picture: ITV) This looks tense! (Picture:
  
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• Gisele Pelicot's family arrive to see justice for their mother... and their father jailed for 20 years: Huge crowds gather outside court as judges announce verdicts for Monster of Avignon rapist and his 50 'accomplices

  19-12-2024 08:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 50 men from all walks of life face more than 600 years behind bars for their parts in Dominique Pelicot's ten-year campaign in which he watched his wife being abused while unconscious.
  
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• Police are destroying 100 dogs every month since XL bullies were banned - with £25million of taxpayers' money spent keeping seized pets in kennels

  19-12-2024 08:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An investigation has found that police have destroyed more than three dangerous dogs a day on average since the XL Bully ban came in nearly a year ago.
  
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• Urgent search for waitress who vanished before sending ‘cryptic’ texts

  19-12-2024 08:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jessica Parkinson failed to turn up for a 4pm shift that day at barbecue restaurant Texas Joes (Pictures: Collect)An urgent search is underway for an Australian backpacker who disappeared from a London hostel two weeks ago.Jessica Parkinson, 29, has not been heard from since sending a ‘cryptic’ text message to a colleague on December 11.She failed to turn up for a 4pm shift that day at barbecue restaurant Texas Joes. When managers messaged asking where she was, she promised to be &l
  
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• A rounded history of Flat-Earthers: How mad theory popularised in the Victorian era has been parroted by celebrities including Freddie Flintoff

  19-12-2024 08:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, the great England cricket hero, gave credence to the belief that the Earth is flat, he was in good company.
  
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• Mikel Arteta makes brutal final transfer decision on £25 million Arsenal star

  19-12-2024 08:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mikel Arteta has made a decision on Kieran Tierney’s Arsenal futureKieran Tierney may have played his last game for Arsenal after the club opted against taking up an option to extend is contract.The Scotland international joined the Gunners from Celtic five years ago and quickly established himself as a firm fans’ favourite under Unai Emery.Tierney’s Arsenal career has, however, been heavily plagued by injuries to the extent that he was deemed surplus to requirements last seas
  
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• ‘Minor’ eye development could be major warning sign of high cholesterol

  19-12-2024 08:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Changes to the colour of your eye and skin around it could be the first indicators of a more serious condition
  
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• Google Street View CSI: The thieves, gangsters and killers who were brought to justice after getting photographed by the tech giant's camera cars

  19-12-2024 08:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline takes a look at other cases that were moved along due to Google Street View images.
  
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• Water bills to increase by 36% in the next five years, regulator Ofwat reveals

  19-12-2024 08:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  Protesters gathered outside the High Court today in protest over the Thames Water bailout (Picture: EPA/Shutterstock)Water companies have been given a green light to increase bills by more than a third in a move that has already branded a ‘bloody disgrace’.With Christmas just days away, this will be seen as a dagger in the heart of the public.It is estimated that household water bills in England and Wales will rise by an average £31 a year over the next five years.Regulator Of
  
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• Dominique Pelicot sentencing LIVE: Monster of Avignon rapist who urged 50 strangers to abuse his drugged wife faces 20-year prison term in French mass rape trial

  19-12-2024 08:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow live coverage of the Dominique Pelicot, known as the Monster of Avignon, sentencing after he invited dozens of strangers to abuse his drugged wife in France.
  
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• How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'

  19-12-2024 08:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tis the season for revenge! For President Joe Biden is spending the remaining weeks of his presidency settling scores.
  
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• Have-a-go hero boy pins down teenage girl with gun as she plots mass shooting at school

  19-12-2024 08:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lyedja Santos, an 11th-grade student from Brazil, had attempted to carry out a mass shooting at the E Berilo Wanderley School in Natal, Brazil, but was foiled by a hero classmate
  
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• Brits face water bills soaring by 36% - and some by more than HALF - as regulator gives the green light to firms hiking costs

  19-12-2024 08:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An eye-watering round of increases has been announced by regulator Ofwat, despite fury at the performance of operators.
  
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• Water bills to be hiked by £31 a year in major cost of living blow to UK households

  19-12-2024 08:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The regulator confirmed this morning that it would allow water suppliers to increase bills to fix the "twin crisis" of pollution and water shortages
  
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• Mark Dolan ‘permanently relieved from duties’ at GB News

  19-12-2024 08:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mark Dolan has shared a statement (Picture: GB NEWS)Mark Dolan has been let go from GB News after three years working on the channel.He unexpectedly released a comment, informing fans that he’d already presenting his last show.
  Taking to X, Dolan, 50, wrote: ‘STATEMENT GB News have made the decision to permanently relieve me of my duties at the channel I will speak publicly about this in due course.’The presenter, comedian and writer previously teased that he would be making a
  
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