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• How JK Rowling's doctor husband has become her rock in the face of an avalanche of death threats from militant trans activists - and even helped out on her latest book series

  09-01-2025 03:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The social media post JK Rowling penned to mark the occasion of her 23rd wedding anniversary was short, understated and heartfelt: 'Married 23 years today' alongside a single heart emoji.
  
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• See Mercury up close and personal in ‘incredible’ new images

  09-01-2025 15:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mercury stuns in new photo (Picture: ESA)Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life.A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and Japan made its final fly-by over the planet’s barren, pockmarked surface yesterday.This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration.BepiColombo’s three monitoring cameras snapped detailed black-and-white photographs as it drifted just 295km above the inn
  
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• Charlotte Tilbury has opened HUGE beauty wonderland in London’s Covent Garden with new flagship store

  09-01-2025 15:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  You’ll find us in here for the foreseeable. (Picture: Metro/Charlotte Tilbury)
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  Hold on to your makeup brushes beauty lovers as Charlotte Tilbury has just opened her biggest – and most fabulous – store right in the middle of Lond
  
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• Warwick Davis sues London hospital for ‘negligence’ after wife’s death

  09-01-2025 15:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  Samantha Davis died last year at the age of 53 (Picture: Getty/instagram)Harry Potter star Warwick Davis is suing the London hospital that treated his wife before her death last year for ‘medical negligence.’Samantha Davis, 53, died on March 24, 2024.Warwick, 54, has retained law firm Irwin Mitchell to represent his family in the case.
  He’s also instructed specialist medical negligence solicitor Madeline Nugent, who is working with the family to get as much information as poss
  
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• Labour minister Steve Reed faces shouts of 'coward' as he's whisked away from a farming conference amid fresh protests over inheritance tax raid

  09-01-2025 15:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cabinet minister was given a police escort as he left the Oxford Farming Conference amid fresh protests over Labour's inheritance tax raid.
  
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• Rail baron Mick Lynch on £140k-a-year while presiding over strikes that struck misery for millions retires - and is set for bumper pension payout

  09-01-2025 15:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mick Lynch - famously dubbed 'The Hood' after the Thunderbirds character - is retiring from the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) union aged 63 after four years as general secretary.
  
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• Friends fans just discovering major character had ‘secret’ cameo

  09-01-2025 15:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Friends fans are somehow just discovering a significant character made a brief appearance in the show previously (Picture: J. Delvalle/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)A new generation of Friends fans are discovering that a major character previously appeared in the 90s sitcom.Actor Giovanni Ribisi, 50, was an extra on the show before being cast as Phoebe’s (Lisa Kudrow) half-brother Frank Jr.Some eagle-eyed viewers on Reddit have just noticed he briefly crop
  
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• Gov Gavin Newsom's infuriating reaction after being asked why fire hydrants ran out of water during LA wildfires

  09-01-2025 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California governor Gavin Newsom passed the buck after he was asked why fire hydrants ran out of water in Pacific Palisades as wildfires devastated the LA area.
  
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• Astonishing video shows LA's scorched earth: Mile after mile of smouldering ruins of what used to be multi million dollar mansions as fires still rage out of control

  09-01-2025 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drone footage reveals how block after block of idyllic upscale LA homes are now nothing more than smouldering ruins with only charred tree stumps and building struts left standing amid the detritus.
  
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• Russell Brand fined £3,457 after pleading guilty to driving offence

  09-01-2025 15:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  Russell Brand has been fined after a speeding offence last year (Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage)Actor and comedian Russell Brand has pleaded guilty to speeding.The 49-year-old was caught driving his Mini at 95mph on the M4 motorway on June 16 last year near Slough in Berkshire, breaking the 70mph limit.He also drove the Mini at 37mph in a 30mph zone in Shiplake, near his Oxfordshire home on March 23, High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court heard.Brand, who did not attend the short hearing, was
  
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• Harry Potter star Warwick Davis sues London hospital for medical negligence after the death of his beloved wife Samantha

  09-01-2025 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Warwick, 54, has instructed law firm Irwin Mitchell to represent his family following Samantha's death.
  
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• Louis Saha names surprise team who have the best midfield in the Premier League

  09-01-2025 15:40 via metro.co.uk
  
  Louis Saha has been impressed with Newcastle’s midfield this seasonNewcastle forward Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon have been hogging the headlines of late but Louis Saha believes Eddie Howe’s midfield should be getting more credit.
  The Magpies have surged up the Premier League table in recent weeks and have one foot in the final of the Carabao Cup after Tuesday night’s 2-0 semi-final first leg win over Arsenal.Isak and Gordon were on target again but it was the Newcastle m
  
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• Couple's wedding venue cancelled on them four hours before their ceremony and now they are £750 out of pocket after owners ceased trading

  09-01-2025 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ivan and Lottie Clifford were due to have their celebrant wedding ceremony at the Grade II-listed The Hidden Barn at 94, based in Knutsford in Cheshire, last on December 30.
  
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• Celebrity osteopath who spied on students changing ‘agrees to work with police’

  09-01-2025 15:39 via metro.co.uk
  
  Torben Hersborg (left) with celebrity Mads MikkelsenA celebrity osteopath who has already pleaded guilty to spying on female students is under further police investigation after more recording devices were found.
  Torben Hersborg was due to be sentenced for three charges of voyeurism today after he made at least 60 videos of women over four years.
  The 63-year-old was even holding carrying a camera and a telescope when he was arrested, and was also wearing black gloves with the back seat of his c
  
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• UK snow: Weather forecaster gives exact date 'snow threat' ends amid Met Office warnings

  09-01-2025 15:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Met Office placed much of the UK under yellow weather warnings this week as plummeting temperatures brought snow and ice to huge swathes of the country
  
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• LA wildfires victim, 66, died clutching a hose as residents blast city for running out of water - live updates

  09-01-2025 15:38 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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• Father-of-three loses bid to dig up rubbish tip in search of '£569m Bitcoin fortune mistakenly thrown out by his girlfriend'

  09-01-2025 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Crypto expert James Howells, 39, launched a legal bid in an attempt to force the council to allow him search the landfill site in order to retrieve his lost hard drive.
  
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• Biden gives $500million more in weapons to Ukraine before leaving office

  09-01-2025 15:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is warning it would be 'crazy' to disassemble the alliance assembled to protect his country, as the Biden administration sends $500m more in aid.
  
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• My 80-year-old father spent 40 hours on bed in hospital corridor and didn't get treated properly for a week - he's upset and angry at state of the NHS

  09-01-2025 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colin Gray's daughter, Kirsty, described seeing ambulances queuing outside while the emergency department in Wirral, Merseyside was 'absolutely rammed'.
  
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• Primark's new 'gorgeous' £18 Pilates set has shoppers racing to stores

  09-01-2025 15:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gym-goers are convinced Primark's matching sets are perfect for Pilates classes, with one set in particular drawing lots of praise
  
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• Insurers dropped fire coverage for thousands of homeowners in Palisades just months ago as experts fear devastation could cost $60bn

  09-01-2025 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move from State Farm Insurers came due to the growing frequency and severity of wildfires in the state.
  
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• Elon Musk makes stunning admission about DOGE and his plan to save taxpayers $2 trillion

  09-01-2025 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk changed his previous projection of how much he can save the U.S. in his new role as co-head of Donald Trump 's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
  
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• LA wildfire victim died clutching hosepipe as sister reveals last words to him

  09-01-2025 15:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Victor Shaw, 66, was named as one of the five victims of LA’s ferocious fires after his family discovered his lifeless body on the street outside his home in Altadena, Los Angeles
  
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• Fears for baby boy who vanished 10 days ago from Wollongong with a 43-year-old woman and has not been seen since

  09-01-2025 15:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seven-month-old River Tille was last seen in the Wollongong suburb of Warrawong south of Sydney on December 31.
  
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• 2025 video game release dates for PS5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC

  09-01-2025 15:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Freedom Wars Remastered is as big as this week’s releases get (Bandai Namco)The most up to date video game release schedule for 2025 continues this week, with Freedom Wars Remastered.Last year wasn’t overburdened with big name releases but 2025 is clearly going to be very different, if only for the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 and the Nintendo Switch 2.As ever, a lot of games are supposed to be scheduled for 2025 but don’t actually have a release date yet, including not just G
  
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• BBC appoints 'impartiality champions' to bolster 'trust' among viewers amid claims of bias

  09-01-2025 15:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The BBC has appointed 'impartiality champions' amid criticism of allegedly biased coverage.
  
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• EastEnders' Patsy Palmers life in LA from beating addiction to fleeing wildfire

  09-01-2025 15:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  EastEnders star Patsy Palmer now lives a very different life to her early London days as a single mother, having bravely overcome drug and alcohol addictions and moved to LA
  
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• Prison romp scandal rocks Germany as teenage inmate 'seduces two different jail officials' with both women in love triangle caught trying to secure his early release

  09-01-2025 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahmad J., then 17, allegedly had a sexual relationship with a prison psychologist, 31, and a department head, 27, for months at the youth prison in Schleswig, northern Germany.
  
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• Tragedies of RuPaul's Drag Race stars before The Vivienne's death

  09-01-2025 15:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  RuPaul's Drag Race fans are mourning the loss of The Vivienne in the latest tragedy for the show's stars
  
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• Optimism among UK finance firms declines at fastest rate in two years, survey finds

  09-01-2025 15:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The survey found that levels of optimism across the financial services sector fell rapidly in December, marking the sharpest decline since September 2022
  
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