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• King Charles' Christmas speech highlights huge differences between him and late Queen

  26-12-2024 11:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There are notable differences between the way King Charles and the late Queen Elizabeth delivered their annual Christmas Day speeches, according to a royal expert
  
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• BrewDog boss James Watt is mercilessly trolled online after declaring a work-life balance is only for 'people who hate their jobs' in video with his Made In Chelsea fiancee Georgia Toffolo

  14-01-2025 02:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Watt stood beside his fiancée, Made in Chelsea star Georgia Toffolo, as they encouraged everyone to aim for 'work-life integration' - combining your job and personal life.
  
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• Aussie bloke exposes soaring cost of living: Three jobs and still struggling

  14-01-2025 02:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'I have never earnt more money but I have never felt more broke'
  
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• Only a genius can solve pack of cards brainteaser causing non-stop arguments

  14-01-2025 02:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A brainteasing card challenge has left many baffled leaving people debating non-stop online, tossing out solutions but many have no idea and have been left dumbfounded
  
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• Labour's TWO lame ducks: Turmoil at the Treasury as Keir Starmer scrambles to shore up his flailing Chancellor Rachel Reeves amid bond market mayhem - while Tulip Siddiq is mired in corruption scandal

  14-01-2025 02:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir said that, despite stuttering growth, surging government borrowing costs and a growing business backlash, Ms Reeves was doing a 'fantastic job' running the economy.
  
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• Incredible story of heroic brain surgeon who saved his entire Malibu street from LA's wildfires holding flames at bay for five nights

  14-01-2025 02:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chester Griffiths, 62, had just finished performing brain surgery when he dashed to his car and drove across Los Angeles to save his beachfront home from being engulfed in fire.
  
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• Three MILLION dogs to be killed in Morocco ahead of the FIFA World Cup in a 'brutal clean-up of the streets'

  14-01-2025 02:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Campaigners claim that the animals could be killed in a brutal 'clean-up' operation to make cities more presentable to visiting football fans, reports The Mirror .
  
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• Police and jail chiefs have 'ceded the ­airspace' above two high-security prisons to 'organised crime gangs' - amid large numbers of illicit drone flights delivering drugs and weapons

  14-01-2025 02:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drones delivering drugs and weapons into jails pose a 'threat to national security', the prisons watchdog warns today.
  
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• New super-sized funnel web spider dubbed the 'Big Boy' is discovered - putting Aussies in one state on alert

  14-01-2025 02:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new species of the most venomous spider in the world can grow up to 4.5cm long - almost double the size of a regular funnel web.
  
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• Meet the $10k-a-day private firefighters who've ignited a burning resentment in LA...the city where the super-rich can pay to save their homes

  14-01-2025 02:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Chris Dunn (pictured), owner of private firefighting firm Covered 6, told the Mail his phone had been 'ringing off the hook' with pleas for help.
  
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• Reform UK support sitting just one per cent behind Labour Government, new poll finds

  14-01-2025 02:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the Conservatives on 22 per cent of vote share, the UK electorate may be about to usher in a new epoch of three-way party politics.
  
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• Dame Deborah James win as NHS lowers bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50

  14-01-2025 02:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dame Deborah James had campaigned under the Bowelbabe Fund for cancer research and was even given a damehood from Prince William for services to charity in 2022
  
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• Distraught family of two sisters who went missing in Aberdeen a week ago issue heartfelt plea for information on their whereabouts - as police continue search

  14-01-2025 02:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The family of two sisters who vanished a week ago have made a heartfelt plea for information, saying 'all we want is for them to be found'.
  
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• The five heartbreaking missed chances to save Kiena Dawes from her drill-wielding 'torturer' boyfriend... after her final message told the world 'I was killed by him'

  14-01-2025 02:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  During a six-week trial, Preston Crown Court heard how the hard-drinking, cocaine-snorting body-builder went from professing undying love to his girlfriend to physically and mentally breaking her.
  
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• Games Inbox: How much will the Nintendo Switch 2 cost?

  14-01-2025 02:05 via metro.co.uk
  
  Will we know the price this week? (Nintendo)The Tuesday letters page wants to know about the best games on Netflix, as one reader wonders how Dragon Age: The Veilguard will influence Mass Effect 4.To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected]
  The high cost of switching
  There seems a good chance the Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be unveiled this week, so let’s ask the most important question. Not about the hardware or the software but the one thing that can make or
  
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• I spray painted graffiti all over a politician's office - here's why more Aussies should follow my act

  14-01-2025 02:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zachary 'Zack' Edward Jaworowski Schofield took a can of red spray paint to Tanya Plibersek's office in December.
  
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• Marvel Rivals interview – how to make a hit live service game

  14-01-2025 02:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Marvel Rivals – what lessons should Sony and others learn? (NetEase Games)After a year of live service flops how is it that Marvel Rivals has become such a massive hit? GameCentral talks to the game’s director to find out.Marvel Rivals has been a huge success since it was released in early December. The Overwatch-esque hero shooter has carved out a place for itself in the crowded world of live service games and the initial signs right now suggest that it will have staying power. Tha
  
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• Incredible manmade lake is huge 175-miles long and cost £540m to build

  14-01-2025 02:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shrouded in tragedy and history, the epic lake holds so much water (around 180 billion tons) it has actually caused earthquakes reaching over five on the Richter scale.
  
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• Fury as council spends £1.8million revamping school - and now plans to SHUT its doors due to a lack of pupils

  14-01-2025 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A council is planning to shut 'the most modern school in Scotland' after it reopened only last year following a £1.8million revamp.
  
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• CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews 24 Hours In Police Custody: A car full of drugs, sex toys, a Chinese takeaway. . . it was clearly quite a party

  14-01-2025 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Picture a drugs dealer and you might imagine a Mexican tattoo artist with a machete in his closet and a rucksack full of crystal meth.
  
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• ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: What is the story behind the harmonica player Max Geldray, who features on The Goon Show?

  14-01-2025 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Born Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz harmonica player.
  
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• Crew of nuclear submarine gave away their position and patrol schedule 'to Russia' by using Strava fitness app

  14-01-2025 01:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French navy crew members in a high-security military base have given away vital information by sharing details of exercises on a fitness app.
  
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• McDonald’s closing half of its CosMc’s stores in region after less than a year

  14-01-2025 01:58 via metro.co.uk
  
  Three of the six CosMc’s in Texas will be closed by McDonald’s (Picture: Getty Images)Less than a year after McDonald’s launched its beverage-focused concept CosMc’s in Texas, the fast food giant is shuttering half of them.McDonald’s announced on Thursday that it is closing three of its six CosMc’s in the Lone Star State, which has all but one of the special concept stores it opened in the US.
  The chain did not immediately share which locations will be axed.
  
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• Family baffled after 25-year-old woman last seen on doorbell cam found dead in woods

  14-01-2025 01:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heather Williams was found dead in the woods outside Fayetteville, North Carolina on Friday, days after she went missing from her home.
  
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• Ajay Rochester's son hailed a hero as he bravely fights the flames on the frontline of the Hollywood wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles

  14-01-2025 01:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Biggest Loser host Ajay Rochester's son, Kai Rochester, 25, has been working around the clock alongside firefighters for five days straight.
  
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• Mum horrified to witness three-month-old baby 'knocked out' amid violent attack

  14-01-2025 01:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Linton Weirich was reportedly set upon by a fellow inmate at HMP Swaleside - to which he was moved from HMP Wandsworth - and it is understood he was holding his baby at the time
  
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• Mark Selby earns glowing Ronnie O’Sullivan praise for Ali Carter thrashing

  14-01-2025 01:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mark Selby looked superb in a big win over Ali Carter (Picture: Getty Images)Mark Selby was in sparkling form as he demolished Ali Carter 6-1 at the Masters on Monday and old rival Ronnie O’Sullivan could scarcely have been more impressed.The four-time world champion made breaks of 62, 108, 93, 126 and 53 in a brilliant display to book a spot in the quarter-finals where he will play Mark Allen or Si Jiahui.The Jester from Leicester won the British Open in September but had been a little q
  
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• California governor Gavin Newsom faces recall for 'woefully unprepared' response to devastating LA fires

  14-01-2025 01:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hollywood loves a sequel and Gavin Newsom may be facing one, as a bipartisan group attempts to make the California governor face a recall for the second time.
  
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• Multiple lawsuits claim Southern California Edison equipment sparked deadly LA fire

  14-01-2025 01:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lawsuits claim SoCal Edison's electrical equipment started one of the major wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area, according to court filings.
  
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• Hamish Macdonald announced as new host of Sydney Mornings on ABC Radio

  14-01-2025 01:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ABC Radio has revealed who will host Sydney Mornings - months after sparking outrage for not renewing the contract of its star presenter.
  
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