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• Hunt for masked raider targeting homes of families as more than £100k in gold jewellery is snatched

  30-03-2025 16:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cops are hunting a masked raider after he was caught on CCTV entering a property in York, in one of ten shocking heists.
  
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• The new LookFantastic x Color Wow bundle will take care of all your hair woes

  03-04-2025 19:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  If you’ve always wanted to try Color Wow products, but couldn’t justify the price? Now’s your chance to bag a box worth over £140! (Picture: Metro/LookFantastic/Getty)
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• If the leaked line-up is true, Celebrity Big Brother will be spectacular

  03-04-2025 19:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  What last year’s series really missed, and what so often gets overlooked, is a hero (Picture: Getty / REX / ITV)Celebrity Big Brother could be about to return with one of its best line-ups of all time.ITV launched its first ever Celebrity Big Brother in 2024 and only really gave us two reasons to tune in – Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne.After a surprisingly triumphant civilian series, strangely, the celebrity version didn’t manage to capture the same magic.Louis was unashamed
  
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• Michael van Gerwen forced to withdraw from Premier League Darts in Berlin

  03-04-2025 18:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Michael van Gerwen is out of Thursday’s Premier League Darts in Berlin (Reuters)Michael van Gerwen has withdrawn from Premier League Darts in Berlin on Thursday night due to a shoulder injury.A statement from the PDC read: ‘His scheduled quarter-final opponent, Gerwyn Price, receives a Bye through to the semi-finals under tournament rules, taking 2 league points and +1 leg difference.‘Van Gerwen receives no league points and -6 leg difference.’More to follow…For m
  
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• New York woman, 31, left brain dead after trying to have popular cosmetic procedure reversed

  03-04-2025 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A phony doctor in New York City has been arrested after he allegedly performed illegal plastic surgery on a woman and left her 'brain dead' in hospital.
  
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• British Catholic missionary, 83, and his assistant are 'brutally abducted' by 'unknown armed men' in Cameroon

  03-04-2025 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British missionary Huub Welters and his assistant Henry Kang were captured on Tuesday in Bambui - a town located in Cameroons separatist conflict-hit anglophone northwest.
  
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• Labour ignored education department plea to delay VAT on private school fees until new year so Government could net almost £1bn extra from families

  03-04-2025 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lawyers for the Government have told the High Court bringing forward the date by eight months would raise 'an additional revenue of over £900 million'.
  
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• Brit missionary, 83, and assistant 'brutally abducted' by 'unknown armed men' in Cameroon

  03-04-2025 18:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A British missionary, aged 83, and his assistant have been brutally abducted by an unknown group of armed men in the town of Bambui, Cameroon, his church group has said
  
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• Donkey Kong artist tells angry fans to ’embrace change’ after Switch 2 redesign

  03-04-2025 18:47 via metro.co.uk
  
  A new era for Donkey Kong (Nintendo)The man behind Donkey Kong’s original 3D design has given his thoughts on the ape’s new look in Donkey Kong Bananza.While Donkey Kong’s redesign was revealed back in 2022, in the lead up to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it was only given a full showcase in the Switch 2 Direct on Wednesday.The ape’s revamped look was given the spotlight with the announcement of Donkey Kong Bananza, a new 3D platformer which is set to be released on July
  
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• Pervert contacted me on SpareRoom and offered to be my sugar daddy in 'sex for rent' deal - these are the disgusting things he wanted me to do

  03-04-2025 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jasmine Emery, 20, from Lowestoft, Suffolk, is calling for more stringent laws to be put in place to protect people from being taken advantage of by rogue landlords
  
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• Former Man Utd star admits it ‘hurts watching football’ after being brutally cut

  03-04-2025 18:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  Brandon Williams has been a free agent since July 2024 (Picture: Getty)Brandon Williams admits that it ‘hurts watching football’ after being released by his boyhood club Manchester United last summer.The 24-year-old came through the United academy and made a total of 51 first-team appearances after making his debut in September 2019.Williams, who mainly plays as a left-back, is still a free agent and remains without a club since his exit from Old Trafford in July.Capped once by Engl
  
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• Factory worker dies on birthday after red-hot metal shards pierce him ‘like bullets’ in horror accident

  03-04-2025 18:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Tafa died on his 22nd birthday at a factory in near Venice in Italy when he was hit by red-hot metal shards while operating a machine that moulds industrial steel gears
  
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• It would be 'disastrous' if Trump's America abandons its position as leader of the free world, politics expert Bernard-Henri Lévy tells the Mail's 'Apocalypse Now?' podcast

  03-04-2025 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lévy is a French politics expert who was one of the first journalists to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy after his very public falling out with Donald Trump in the White House.
  
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• Disgraceful behavior of glamorous cop hours before she 'struck young motorcyclist and killed him'

  03-04-2025 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sarah Clasen, 35, consumed so much alcohol before driving into Jhoser Sanchez, 20, that her blood alcohol content - tested six hours after the crash - was more than double the legal limit.
  
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• Warped secrets of transgender Nashville school shooter...including her creepy fondness for stuffed animals

  03-04-2025 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Audrey Hale was fatally shot by police after she killed three children and three teachers when she opened fire at The Covenant School on March 27, 2023.
  
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• US President Donald Trump's tariff bombshell wipes £2TRILLION off global stock markets

  03-04-2025 18:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Financial markets have been rocked by fears President Trump's trade tariffs could lead to recessions around the world, as one expert warned of "full-scale economic warfare
  
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• Labour MP on Trump Tariffs: Britain needs to "keep calm and carry on"

  03-04-2025 18:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Veteran and MP Mike Tapp commended Keir Starmer’s “statesman-like approach” to handling Trump’s tariffs
  
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• Three Americans have death sentences commuted in Congo...but now a lifetime of suffering begins

  03-04-2025 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three Americans have been spared the death penalty, but will spend the rest of their lives in a brutal prison in Congo after participating in a failed coup.
  
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• Skincare serum that targets post-acne marks has shoppers raving it ‘removes age spots like magic’

  03-04-2025 18:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Whether you're struggling with post-acne hyperpigmentation or stubborn age spots, shoppers have found just the ticket for banishing dark spots and leaving a clearer, smoother complexion
  
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• Grand National golden girl Rachael Blackmore involved in nasty fall as her horse suffers fatal injuries at Aintree

  03-04-2025 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grand National winner Rachael Blackmore suffered a nasty fall in the Grade 1 Juvenile Hurdle at Aintree on Thursday.
  
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• Gene Simmons says it’s better to be ‘rich and miserable’ after charging $12,000 to be his assistant

  03-04-2025 18:20 via metro.co.uk
  
  Gene Simmons would rather be rich and miserable than poor (Picture: Didier Messens/Redferns)Gene Simmons has declared it’s better to be ‘rich and miserable’ than be poor after charging fans $12,000 to be his personal assistant.The KISS legend came under fire after offering fans the chance to act as his roadie for the day – at the cost of a cool $12,495 (£9,678).As part of his US solo tour, the I Was Made For Lovin’ You hitmaker gave one fa
  
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• Mars fans rejoice as chocolate bar dubbed ‘absolute heaven’ spotted in UK stores

  03-04-2025 18:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  An Australian Mars bar flavour variation has returned to the UK and you’ll love it or hate it (Picture: Getty Images)First it was the addictive Tim Tam that made its way from Australia to UK shelves. And now the land down under has blessed us with another sweet treat rarely available in British stores.Raspberry Smash Mars bars have recently been spotted in B&M for the first time since 2022, with fans going absolutely crazy for the fruity twist on the icon.Filled with raspberry flavour
  
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• Milton Keynes shooting: Knifeman shot dead by police at train station is named

  03-04-2025 18:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Joyce, aged 38, has been named as the man who was shot dead by armed officers at Milton Keynes railway station on Tuesday after running towards with with a knife
  
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• The uninhabited islands targeted by Trump tariffs

  03-04-2025 18:16 via metro.co.uk
  
  Heard Island’s seal population doesn’t seem to have a trade relationship with the US (Picture: Fred BELTON/AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION/AFP)The world has been left reeling after US president Donald Trump announced huge, sweeping tariffs on trade yesterday – and not even the penguins are safe.Trump claims his new ‘reciprocal’ tariffs will ‘make America wealthy again’ – but there are major concerns the plans will cripple world trade.Nervous go
  
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• 'Activist judges' should face action, say Tories, in wake of 'inadequate' court ruling over Pakistani man who's lived in Britain illegally for 16 YEARS

  03-04-2025 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The first-tier immigration tribunal has been blasted for ruling Pakistani national Muhammad Arshad should be allowed to remain in Britain on human rights grounds.
  
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• REAL BRITAIN 'I tried to kill myself after son's birth sparked debt - paternity rules must change'

  03-04-2025 18:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As tomorrow marks the 22nd anniversary of Labour’s introduction of Statutory Paternity Leave, this week Real Britain talks to fathers about paternity pay and shared leave
  
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• Mexican band's hilarious groveling after Trump canceled their visas for serenading cartel bosses

  03-04-2025 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Mexican band has issued a cringeworthy apology after they were banned from performing in the US over using mugshots of cartel leaders in their concerts.
  
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• Nintendo Switch 2 battery life almost identical to original console

  03-04-2025 18:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Be aware of which Switch 2 games you choose to play while undocked (Nintendo)In the wake of the big Nintendo Switch 2 showcase, further details about the console have been shared, such as its battery life and improved controllers.While yesterday’s Nintendo Switch 2 showcase unveiled a lot of information about the upcoming console, including its release date and price, there were still a few details left unexplained.Some time was spent on the Switch 2’s specifications, such as how it
  
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• Fears Trump’s ‘harmful’ 25% tariff on beer will be unsustainable for UK brewers

  03-04-2025 18:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  The announcement could hit US fans of British beer too (Picture: Getty Images)A new 25% tariff on beer exports to the US could prove an existential threat to UK breweries, industry bosses have warned.Donald Trump’s administration revealed yesterday that beer imports from the rest of the world would be included in tariffs covering steel and aluminium.The announcement was overshadowed within hours by the US President’s ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ speech revealing sweeping
  
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• Everton vs Arsenal: Latest team news, predicted lineups and injuries

  03-04-2025 18:04 via metro.co.uk
  
  Saka was back with a bang on Tuesday (Picture: Getty Images)Arsenal are reeling from news that Gabriel Magalhaes is out for the rest of the season ahead of their Premier League clash with Everton this weekend.The Brazil international limped off after just 15 minutes in Tuesday’s victory over Fulham with the club since confirming he will have no further role to play this term.The timing could not be worse for Mikel Arteta’s side who host Real Madrid in the first leg of their titanic
  
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