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• Gavin Newsom gives scathing response to Trump after he blamed him for fires raging through LA

  09-01-2025 04:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gavin Newsom became emotional when asked about Donald Trump placing the blame on the California governor for the disastrous, killer wildfires that have ravaged the state.
  
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• Ex-Australia captain Michael Clarke names the ‘best fast bowler of all time’

  09-01-2025 17:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  Former Australia captain Michael Clarke (Picture: Getty)Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has hailed India star Jasprit Bumrah as the ‘best fast bowler of all time’ across all three formats.Bumrah underlined his status as the best bowler in the world during India’s recent defeat to Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.While India went down 3-1 – losing their second series on the bounce following a shock defeat at home to New Zealand and failing to qualify for th
  
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• People in Florida have been warned about iguanas falling from the sky

  09-01-2025 17:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextPrevious PageNext PageFlorida authorities have warned residents and visitors to look out for falling iguanas as temperatures plummet in the sunshine state.Snow, ice, strong winds and plunging temperatures in the US have led to dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states.A hard freeze is expected to reach further into Florida, which will be a shock to those seeking
  
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• Pizza chain expansion plans thwarted by council because town’s kids are ‘too fat’

  09-01-2025 17:02 via metro.co.uk
  
  The pizza chain had wanted to take over a building in Bacup, Lancashire (Credits: William Lailey / SWNS)A pizza chain has had its plans for expansion rejected by a local council who say the town’s children are ‘too fat.’Woody’s Pizza, a takeaway chain which currently operates two stores in the north-west, had applied for permission to open a third in the town of Bacup, 25 miles from Manchester.
  The Lancashire takeaway chain, which stressed it uses ‘minimal salt and
  
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• Coronation Street star confirms ‘emotional’ exit for Eileen as she leaves after 25 years

  09-01-2025 16:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextPrevious PageNext PageSue Cleaver recently announced she was leaving behind Coronation Street character Eileen Grimshaw after a ‘wonderful’ 25 years, and has now given an insight into her exit scenes.With her time on the cobbles coming to an end soon, she has already begun filming her final episodes and viewers are in for a treat.‘We started filming my exit storyl
  
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• Man behind ‘den of predators’ site that enabled mass rape of Gisèle Pelicot arrested

  09-01-2025 16:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  Gisèle Pelicot leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers(Picture: AFP)The man behind the anonymous website used by the ‘Monster of Avignon’ to recruit dozens of men to rape Gisèle Pelicot was arrested in Paris.Rapists and paedophiles lurked in the chatrooms of Coco.fr, openly sharing and discussing the depravity
  
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• Tube fan’s Surrey Underground map is so convincing people think it’s actually real

  09-01-2025 16:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Surrey Tube map lines feature names like Magna Carta and Turing (Picture: Lara Vaughan/Getty Images)A Tube enthusiast has created a map showing what Surrey would look like if it was on the Underground.While parts of Surrey are located within the M25, it is often not considered part of London and this means it is not on the Tube network.Now Lara Vaughan, a Tube superfan, has changed that – or at least given the people of Surrey a taste of what the county would look like on an Undergrou
  
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• Elon Musk ‘investigating how to get Keir Starmer ditched as PM’

  09-01-2025 16:45 via metro.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer has come under intense criticism from the world’s richest man (Picture: Getty/PA)Elon Musk is discussing with his allies how Keir Starmer could be ditched as British prime minister, according to reports.The world’s richest man has spent the first days of the new year attacking the PM and his government for an alleged lack of action on grooming gangs.In more than 200 posts on his social media site X, Musk has targeted UK politicians in often personal terms – includ
  
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• What are they talking about? Trump and Obama in VERY long conversation next to Melania at Jimmy Carter's funeral

  09-01-2025 16:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All five living presidents have arrived at National Cathedral for Jimmy Carter's funeral and two of them are getting along swimmingly.
  
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• Moment 'cruel' driver walks dogs from the window of moving 4x4 as RSPCA launches investigation into footage

  09-01-2025 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dashcam footage shows a pair of pooches - believed to be sighthound breeds - running alongside a grey Toyota RAV4 on a suburban road in Dartford, Kent on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Assassin’s Creed Shadows gets new parkour system as Ubisoft faces difficult year

  09-01-2025 16:38 via metro.co.uk
  
  Is this enough to encourage you into picking up Assassin’s Creed Shadows? (Ubisoft)Ahead of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ launch next month, Ubisoft has shared a surprisingly thorough breakdown of its revamped parkour mechanics.It is not hyperbole to say Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the most important release in publisher Ubisoft’s history, considering the tumultuous year it had in 2024.The company’s shares were already dropping all last year and between a str
  
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• Cutting insult leveled at 'murderess' over brazen jail interview by victims' friends

  09-01-2025 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Genesis Patricia Tanksley, 27, has been accused of killing her estranged husband Lazarus Tanksley on New Year's Eve after showing up a house and shooting him after an argument.
  
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• Solicitor who stole £146m from investors and spent it on boat, cars and Lake District shooting and fishing estate is told to pay back just £1m - or face spending 19 years in prison

  09-01-2025 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Timothy Schools, 65, was jailed for 14 years in August 2022 for pocketing cash invested into Cayman Islands-registered Axiom Legal Financing Fund.
  
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• Containment of Palisades fire proving impossible as blaze continues to rage out: Live updates

  09-01-2025 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow live coverage of the California fires as blazes continue to rage across Los Angeles.
  
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• Russell Howard reveals he's QUITTING television after 19 years - despite amassing a huge fortune through his BBC and Sky shows

  09-01-2025 16:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The comedian, 44, first debuted on screens as a regular on BBC panel series Mock The Week, and went onto host shows on both BBC and Sky.
  
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• Livid This Morning fans all have the same complaint as Britain's biggest family the Radfords share plans for plush holiday for mum Sue's 50th

  09-01-2025 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Noel, 54, Sue, 49, their 22 children and their grandchildren joined Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on the sofa to chat about their new TV show 22 Kids And A Wedding.
  
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• Completely free streaming service hits 97,000,000 users to rival Netflix and Apple TV

  09-01-2025 16:31 via metro.co.uk
  
  TV fans can watch several gripping shows on the site, including Gracepoint (Picture: Fox Image Collection via Getty Images)The queue of streaming services lining up to drain your bank account on a monthly basis seems to get longer and longer by the day.With huge movies and TV shows split between the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus, our wallets aren’t fat enough to keep up with our binge-watching desires.Instead we’re forced to pick a couple and ac
  
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• Revealed: The most turbulent flight routes and airports of 2024, with Mendoza to Santiago worst overall and Denver and Turin among the hubs where bumpy journeys are likely

  09-01-2025 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rankings have been drawn up by turbulence forecast website turbli.com, which analysed around 10,000 short and long-haul routes connecting the 550 largest airports in the world.
  
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• Richard Hammond reveals he's SPLIT from wife Mindy after 28 'amazing years together' - after he admitted he's never been the same since horror crash

  09-01-2025 16:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Hammond has revealed he's split from his wife Amanda, also known as Mindy, after 28 years together.
  
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• Joe Cullen is heading to the top of Kilimanjaro and taking his darts with him

  09-01-2025 16:26 via metro.co.uk
  
  Joe Cullen is tackling Africa’s highest mountain (Picture: Getty Images)Joe Cullen is taking on the challenge of climbing Kilimanjaro and hopes to be the first person ever to throw darts at the mountain’s summit.The world number 23 is heading to Africa next week to climb the highest free-standing mountain on the planet and is planning a unique celebration at the top.‘To my knowledge, I might be wrong, but to my knowledge no one has ever thrown darts at the top of Kilimanjaro,&
  
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• Keir Starmer vows to keep saying Liz Truss crashed the economy despite legal threat

  09-01-2025 16:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lawyers for the former PM, who was forced to resign in disgrace after a disastrous 49 days in office, sent a 'cease and desist' letter to Mr Starmer about "false and defamatory public statements you made about our client"
  
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• Famous Youtuber met with backlash for distasteful post about LA wildfires: 'The privilege is crazy'

  09-01-2025 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meg DeAngelis, 29, posted a pouty selfie on her Instagram Stories with an insensitive caption about the Los Angeles wildfires.
  
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• Five living presidents sit together and we’d love to know what the conversation is

  09-01-2025 16:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  The Clinton, Bush, Trump and Obama families were all present (Picture: AFP)All five living presidents were present at the Washington funeral of former US President Jimmy Carter today.Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, is being honoured today in the capitol before he will be buried in his small hometown in Georgia.
  President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign, will g
  
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• Labour shambles on grooming gangs probe: Andy Burnham says there SHOULD be a 'limited' national inquiry into scandal just hours after Cabinet minister insists the idea has been 'ruled out' - while PM is 'open-minded' despite ordering his MPs to block one

  09-01-2025 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manchester mayor Andy Burnham waded in just hours after Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested such a probe had been 'ruled out'.
  
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• Woman's 'freakin easy' mirror cleaning hack leaves people absolutely stunned

  09-01-2025 16:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman has shared her 'freakin easy' mirror cleaning hack on TikTok and people can't believe how simple it is - and that they've never thought of doing it before
  
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• Zookeeper instantly regrets grappling bear cub in heart-stopping footage

  09-01-2025 16:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The clip, which was recorded at Wuhan Wildlife Kingdom, Hubei province, central China, shows the 220-lb baby bruin suddenly getting the upper hand in the bizarre grappling game
  
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• 'I bought north London house for £850K but shock discovery now means it's worthless'

  09-01-2025 16:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Bruce and his neighbours were left with unsellable, uninsurable homes and their warranty provider is still yet to agree to a payout - despite persistent leaks and collapsing ceilings
  
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• Hero saved grandparents from UK floods by scooping pensioners up in his digger

  09-01-2025 16:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryan Wesley, 31, told his grandparents to sit inside the digger's bucket after helping them escape through a bedroom window of their bungalow in Billingborough, Lincolnshire
  
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• 'Entitled neighbour kept stealing my Wi-Fi to upload X-rated videos - my revenge stopped it'

  09-01-2025 16:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man has been hailed for teaching his 'entitled' neighbour a lesson after she kept stealing his Wi-Fi to upload her adult videos on to the internet - but his revenge put a stop to it
  
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• Dog trainer claims there's one breed that 'rarely make good pets' - especially around kids

  09-01-2025 16:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A dog trainer has taken to social media to share the one breed of dog that people should "absolutely not" own - and it's not the only breed that he would never get himself
  
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