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• Happy Diwali! Full guide to the festival of light with greetings, wishes and quotes

  31-10-2024 08:41 via metro.co.uk
  
  Diwali is a Hindu festival celebrated annually (Picture: REX)Diwali is upon us, which means skies are set to be filled with fireworks, and beautiful candles will be displayed in homes.Also known as Divali or Deepawali, Diwali is celebrated over five days in many parts of the world, with the main festival day kicking off from Thursday 31 October.But, what is the festival celebrating and how long does it last? And how you can wish someone a Happy Diwali?
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• Top WWE group reunites in AEW as former champion makes shock debut

  31-10-2024 11:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Bobby Lashley has joined AEW months after leaving WWE (Picture: AEW/Lee South)Bobby Lashley is officially All Elite and the Hurt Business is back.The 48-year-old former WWE Champion, who left the company earlier this year and has been open about frustrations with his position, debuted on AEW Dynamite this week as he reunited with Shelton Benjamin and MVP.There has been plenty of speculation about the All Mighty over the past few months, but now his future plans have been confirmed.Benjamin beat
  
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• Fans convinced Premier League star pooed himself in the middle of match

  31-10-2024 11:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Micky van de Ven ‘actually s*** himself’, according to fans (Picture: Getty/@wfurnell)Eagle-eyed football fans are convinced that Tottenham star Micky van de Ven had a poo during Wednesday’s Carabao Cup game against Man City.Goals from Timo Werner and Pape Matar Sarr helped Spurs beat Pep Guardiola’s Premier League champions 2-1 as the north London club booked their spot in the quarter-finals.Van de Ven, one of Tottenham’s key players, started the match in central d
  
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• The 10 most surprising songs you never knew were Halloween number ones

  31-10-2024 11:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  You’ve heard of Christmas number one – now get ready for Halloween (Picture: Shutterstock/Getty Images)Halloween is the ultimate time to get your spook on. Freaky costumes everywhere, ghost stories, witches and trolls – it’s what the festival is for.And over the years, the pop world has welcomed Halloween with open arms, with some of the biggest names in music writing horror classics for October 31.
  Michael Jackon’s Thriller, Rockwell’s Somebody’s Watchi
  
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• Black Arsenal’s beautiful history from Paul Davis and Ian Wright to Bukayo Saka

  31-10-2024 11:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Paul Davis, Ian Wright and Bukayo Saka have had huge impacts on Arsenal and it’s Black local community (Picture: Getty)Lauren, Ashley Cole, Kolo Toure, Patrick Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Sylvain Wiltord and Kanu. The names who made history on September 28, 2002, when Arsenal became the first club to field nine Black players in the same Premier League starting lineup.While it may not have meant much to the players at the time, 22 years on, the moment still resonates with the club’s
  
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• Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk admits he was ‘nowhere near’ level of Arsenal defender William Saliba

  31-10-2024 10:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk (Picture: Getty)Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk admits he was ‘nowhere near’ the level of an Arsenal star William Saliba at the same age.Saliba, 23, has drawn comparisons with Anfield hero Van Dijk, 33, following his impressive rise with Arsenal over the last three seasons.After being signed by the Gunners for £27m in 2019, Saliba’s career threatened to stagnate as he spent the next three seasons back in France on loan.Mikel Arteta finall
  
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• Who killed Joel in Coronation Street?

  31-10-2024 10:51 via metro.co.uk
  
  Who killed Joel? (Picture: REX/Getty/ITV)It’s official: Coronation Street villain Joel Deering (Calum Lill) has been murdered.October 14’s instalment of the ITV soap saw Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) break the news to DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) and Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) that Joel’s body had been found, and the post-mortem later revealed that two blows to the head was what finished him off.With the police having declared this a murder investigation, there is no shortage of ch
  
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• We'll have to raise pub prices after the Budget: Bosses warn punters will be hit in the pocket to cover millions more in costs after chancellor's £40billion tax raid - as businesses warn of threat to jobs and wages

  31-10-2024 10:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A boss at one of the UK's biggest pub groups has claimed they will have no option but to raise the prices in venues next year after Labour's record budget upped their costs by £1.7million.
  
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• Man, 40, forced woman to miscarry by spiking her orange juice with abortion drugs before begging his mates to get more pills

  31-10-2024 10:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stuart Worby, 40, crushed a tablet of the abortion pill mifepristone into the woman's- drink without her knowledge on August 3 2022.
  
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• Palestinian student, 20, who boasted she was 'full of pride' at October 7 Hamas attack wins appeal against Home Office decision to revoke her visa

  31-10-2024 10:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dana Abuqamar, 20, was a law student at the University of Manchester, when she attended a pro-Palestine protest just one day after Hamas swept into Israel and killed over 1200 people.
  
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• Britain's most haunted art: A 'cursed' charity shop painting, the 'crying boy' prints linked to hundreds of house fires and an eerie portrait blamed for to two DEATHS feature in spooky Halloween exhibition

  31-10-2024 10:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Visitors to the new temporary 'Screamfest: House of Curses' display in Soho have to sign a waiver to see 'The Unknown Girl' (above), which was returned to a charity shop in Sussex.
  
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• Terrifying moment family's £50,000 electric Mercedes explodes into flames while it is charging overnight at home

  31-10-2024 10:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the shocking moment the Bayliss family's £50,000 electric Mercedes burst into flames as it charged on their driveway in Spratton, Northamptonshire.
  
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• Bangkok gang leader ran £6.5million supercar theft ring that stole Lamborghinis, Porsches and Range Rovers to order from UK dealerships and shipped them to Thailand

  31-10-2024 10:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Intarasak Techaterasiri, 40, who went by the alias Boy Unity, employed people in Britain to attend high-value car dealerships and purchase finance-to-buy vehicles which they had no intention of paying off.
  
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• Tiger King star Joe Exotic announces engagement to fellow inmate from federal prison

  31-10-2024 10:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joe Exotic announced he's engaged to be married to fellow inmate Jorge Marquez while being in thethe midst of a 21-year federal prison sentence.
  
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• Coronation Street star Paddy Wallace now has a very different career – but stays in touch with TV legend

  31-10-2024 10:43 via metro.co.uk
  
  Paddy played Jude in Coronation Street for three years (Picture: ITV)Former Coronation Street star Paddy Wallace has a surprising second job – but still keeps in touch with one of the actors.The actor, 45, played Mary Taylor’s (Patti Clare) son Jude Appleton between 2016 and 2019.After being abandoned on the doorstep of a hospital by his mother when he was a baby, she later traced him down to South Africa and the family moved to Weatherfield.Jude was later revealed to be a serial lia
  
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• Pensioner, 85, 'gobsmacked' after being barred from solo midweek trip to Butlin's

  31-10-2024 10:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Malcolm, 85, said he called the holiday resort regarding a few nights on his own at the site in Skegness, but was told he was not allowed to come alone Monday to Friday.
  
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• Ashley Roberts transforms into noughties Kylie as she joins Myleene Klass' Wonder Woman and Amber Turner's sexy bunny look in leading the stars in the UK celebrating Halloween

  31-10-2024 10:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ashley Roberts kicked off Halloween in style as she shared some incredible snaps of herself as noughties Kylie from her 2001 Can't Get You Out Of My Head video.
  
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• Anger at Labour's £600m stealth raid on savers as tax-free ISA limit is frozen for 13 YEARS

  31-10-2024 10:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A £20,000 ceiling on how much adults can put into the tax-free vehicle each year has been in place since April 2017.
  
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• Brits will be paid less after Labour's Budget, admits Rachel Reeves as she refuses to rule out MORE tax hikes and economists warn growth will be crushed record burden

  31-10-2024 10:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves refused to rule out further rises as she toured broadcast studios this morning in the wake of her extraordinary £40billion raid.
  
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• Who is Jimmy and Nicola’s son Carl Holliday’s real mum in Emmerdale?

  31-10-2024 10:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  She was last seen in 2021 (Picture: ITV)Carl Holliday (Charlie Munro Joyce) has found himself involved in Tom King’s (James Chase) storyline in Emmerdale, and it’s left many fans of the ITV soap making a new discovery about him.The young lad is the son of Jimmy King (Nick Miles) and half-brother of Angel (Rebecca Bakes) and Elliot (Luca Hoyle), meaning Nicola (Nicola Wheeler) isn’t his biological mother.With that, here’s everything you need to know about Carl and who is r
  
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• Sienna Miller fronts new M&S party collection that's set to sell out–with luxe £99 dress

  31-10-2024 10:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  M&S' brand ambassador Sienna Miller has just dropped a luxe partywear collection with the high street giant. Inspired by Studio 54 it's a disco diva's dream. Here's how you can shop it...
  
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• Mount Fuji just broke a 130-year record and we should all be worried

  31-10-2024 10:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mount Fuji is still snowless (Picture: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)The snow-capped peak of Mount Fuji is one of the most iconic sights in Japan.But this year the volcano’s slopes have remained bare – the latest date since records began 130 years ago.On average, Mount Fuji’s snow cap starts to form on October 2. Last year, it began forming on October 5.The country has seen warmer temperatures than usual this year, its meteorological office said, contributing to the late snowfal
  
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• Valencia floods: Sickening moment woman swept away by torrential rain pouring down street

  31-10-2024 10:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Devastating new footage shows onlookers helplessly waving their arms as the woman is swept down the street by raging floodwater following huge downpours in Valencia
  
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• Family’s £50,000 Mercedes ‘destroyed after going into thermal runway’ while charging

  31-10-2024 10:28 via metro.co.uk
  
  Flames came dangerously close to Scott and Georgina Bayliss’ front door (Picture: SWNS)A family is lucky not to have lost their home when their £50,000 Mercedes exploded on their driveway.
  Dramatic footage shows the luxury EQA model explode just feet away from Scott and Georgina Bayliss’ front door.The blaze was so intense it set fire to the garage and caused smoke damage to the front bedroom, prompting a large response from firefighters in Spratton, Northamptonshire on Septemb
  
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• £50,000 electric car bursts into flames on family’s driveway

  31-10-2024 10:28 via metro.co.uk
  
  Flames came dangerously close to Scott and Georgina Bayliss’ front door (Picture: SWNS)This is the shocking moment a family’s £50,000 Mercedes burst into flames on their driveway.Dramatic footage shows the luxury EQA model explode just feet away from Scott and Georgina Bayliss’ front door.The blaze was so intense it set fire to the garage and caused smoke damage to the front bedroom, prompting a large response from firefighters in Spratton, Northamptonshire on S
  
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• Qantas in legal battle after pilot is accused of ultimate betrayal

  31-10-2024 10:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Captain Luke Fogarty resigned from his position as a manager in Qantas' headquarters in Sydney Airport in September.
  
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• Prince Harry speaks to the NATO Military Committee via videolink from his Montecito mansion about the Invictus Games

  31-10-2024 10:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prince Harry has addressed the NATO military committee via videolink on the role of his charity Invictus in supporting wounded, injured and sick service members and veterans.
  
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• Spain floods: Heartbreaking photo shows man with baby and wife killed in Valencia disaster

  31-10-2024 10:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Antonio Tarazona, 59, watched on helplessly as his wife and three-month-old baby girl were swept away on the roof of the family car during the devastating floods in Valencia
  
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• Kate Middleton and Prince William's wedding triggered 'great regret' for senior royal

  31-10-2024 10:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The marriage of Prince William and Princess Kate was a joyous occasion for many. But for one senior royal, the ceremony brought back some painful memories
  
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• Hollywood actor makes huge comeback 3 years after ‘abuse and cannibalism’ accusations

  31-10-2024 10:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  Armie Hammer will be in an upcoming Western film three years after he was accused of ‘rape, emotional abuse, and violence’ by multiple women (Picture: Christopher Polk/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)Armie Hammer has announced a career comeback after a series of damaging accusations were made against him three years ago.
  The 38-year-old was at the height of his fame – best known for starring in Death on the Nile and Call Me By Your Name – when he was acc
  
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