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• Mystery of the giant pipes 8ft wide and 1,500ft long found washed up on English beach

  11-08-2017 12:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A total of 12 plastic pipes washed ashore and it later emerged they had come free while being towed on their way to Algeria from Norway
  
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• Man, 49, is charged with murder after two women, 28 and 38, are killed in Christmas Day knife attack that also left teenage boy injured

  27-12-2024 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man has been charged in a double murder investigation after two women were stabbed to death in Milton Keynes on Christmas day.
  
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• Wringing in the New Year! Revellers face a Hogmanay washout

  27-12-2024 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Revellers are set for a Hogmanay washout after forecasters warned of 'significant disruption' because of torrential rain, strong winds and snow.
  
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• Cyber-hacking is 'a very big threat' to Scots network, admit rail bosses

  27-12-2024 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scotland's rail network is vulnerable to cyber-hacking and 'unequipped' for the transition to digitally-controlled signalling, Network Rail bosses have warned.
  
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• Could the neighbourhood nightmare be over? Now council agrees to rehome artist's eyesore exhibition

  27-12-2024 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It seems Fife sculptor Denis Carbonaro's 'protest art' may have paid dividends - after his local council said it deserved to be displayed elsewhere.
  
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• SNP cuts blamed as jail staff suffer 250 attacks every year

  27-12-2024 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 250 assaults a year have happened on workers in Scotland's prisons, leading to concerns that violence in jails is 'out of control'.
  
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• Orchestra that allowed youths to film performances on their phones lets grime rappers Lady Leshurr and Big Dog Yogo into its ranks to boost classical music audiences

  27-12-2024 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has arranged a concert with two grime artists as part of its continued project to try to appeal to a younger audience.
  
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• Man killed 35 people because he was ‘unhappy with divorce settlement’

  27-12-2024 21:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  The site is now a mass memorial to those who died (Picture: PA)A man has been sentenced to death after killing 35 people by driving a car into a crowd.Fan Weiqiu went on the murderous spree because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, a court in the southern city of Zhuhai, China, heard on Friday.The victims were exercising at a sports centre when he attacked them last month. After ploughing through the crowd, he attempted to ‘stab himself’ with a knife.Fan pleaded guilty to
  
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• Horror and death after woman takes to Florida roads in Hummer 'while drunk'

  27-12-2024 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Susan Gayle Elman, 65, plowed a 2006 Hummer H3 into the side of a Mustang driven by Charlie Gilbert, 41, in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 2, and Gilbert died at the scene.
  
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• Trump accidentally shares cryptic message intended for Elon Musk with the world

  27-12-2024 21:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump sent a cryptic message to his billionaire tech friend Elon Musk on Friday hours after a brutal social media debate on immigration blew up in his face.
  
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• Seven killed and 17 injured after boat sinks off Haiti

  27-12-2024 21:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At least seven people were killed and 17 were injured after a ship, the Maelys Lome II, capsized at a port in Port-au-Prince Haiti on Monday.
  
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• NHS issues urgent two-day warning as cases of norovirus bug soar across UK

  27-12-2024 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The NHS has issued a stark warning to the public as cases of winter vomiting bug norovirus have been on the rise in the UK in recent weeks, with health officials saying the illness is at persistent levels
  
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• Former embassy worker is suing Spanish government after colleagues accused her of being a 'double agent' and repeatedly insulted British people

  27-12-2024 21:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lydia Lorenzo accused staff at the Spanish embassy on Belgravia Square of making 'disparaging' remarks about the UK government and Britons more generally.
  
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• Ultra-rare lobster is spotted in Maine supermarket's seafood tank

  27-12-2024 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On Christmas Eve, the Shaw Institute, based in Blue Hill, celebrated the arrival of a rare aquatic marvel: a split-colored lobster named Arnold Clawmer.
  
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• Russia ‘shoots down Santa’ in viral video days after alleged involvement in crash

  27-12-2024 21:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextPrevious PageNext PageA Russian video depicting Santa Claus being shot down as he entered Moscow airspace has gone viral on social media.
  The clip emerged shortly after Russia was accused of being involved in the crash of an aeroplane in Kazakhstan, which killed 38 people.Thirty-eight people were killed and there has been speculation that Russia was responsible for t
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo reveals his pick to win the Champions League

  27-12-2024 20:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo believes teams are ‘scared’ to play Real Madrid at the Bernabeu (Globe Soccer Awards)Cristiano Ronaldo has backed Real Madrid to win the Champions League again this season and insists Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City will overcome their slump.Carlo Ancelotti’s side, who beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final last term, have endured a difficult campaign in Europe this season securing just nine points from six games so far.Madrid currently si
  
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• Emmerdale legend accused of Will’s murder – and it’s not Kim Tate

  27-12-2024 20:55 via metro.co.uk
  
  Will suffered a heart attack on Christmas Day (Picture: ITV)Dawn (Olivia Bromley) and Billy Fletcher (Jay Kontzle) have become suspicious of the events surrounding Will Taylor’s (Dean Andrews) death in Emmerdale.Viewers of the ITV soap saw Will, the husband of soap icon Kim Tate (Claire King) perish earlier this week.The character clutched his chest and fell to the floor in pain shortly after Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) informed her all about Will’s vicious plan
  
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• Arrest made in Emmerdale following April Windsor’s disappearance

  27-12-2024 20:55 via metro.co.uk
  
  Amelia remains missing (Picture: ITV)Evil Jade (Twinnie-Lee Moore) has been arrested in Emmerdale following Marlon Dingle’s (Mark Charnock) investigation into the disappearance of his daughter April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan).Marlon’s heart dropped over Christmas when he went up to April’s bedroom, only to find she wasn’t there.The teenage found herself caught in the middle of Ross Barton’s (Michael Parr) trouble with Jade a few weeks ago, which resulted i
  
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• 'Cockroaches crawl all over me at night – I can't sleep in bed or cook in kitchen'

  27-12-2024 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Council tenant Karen Barrett, 65, from Birmingham, said that she now has nowhere to sleep because of insects and is also reliant on takeaway meals as she can't cook in her flat
  
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• Holocaust survivor, 83, is 'stabbed to death' outside her nursing home in Israel by 'Palestinian terrorist who was former West Bank informant before his cover was blown'

  27-12-2024 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ludmila Lipovsky was attacked while waiting for her daughter to pick her up to take her to a medical appointment in the city of Herzliya on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on Friday morning.
  
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• Azerbaijan Airlines crash: How brave pilots battled to save jet after being 'hit by Russian missile'

  27-12-2024 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pilots were able to guide the doomed Flight 8432 from Russian airspace following an 'explosion' that prompted panic inside the cabin, eventually crashing the aircraft in Kazakhstan
  
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• Wallace and Gromit achieves incredibly rare Rotten Tomatoes score after smashing Christmas ratings

  27-12-2024 20:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  The new film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has debuted with an impressive rating (Picture: Netflix/ AP)The latest Wallace and Gromit film has debuted with an impressive 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.This week, on Christmas Day, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl aired on the BBC.It was the sixth film following the eccentric inventor and his loyal beagle, with the pair faced with an old foe – penguin Feathers McGraw – who takes revenge on them by reprogramming Wal
  
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• Milton Keynes stabbing: Police issue major update after two killed in Christmas Day attack

  27-12-2024 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thames Valley Police have issued an update following a Christmas Day knife attack in Milton Keynes in which two people were killed and two others were injured - it was previously reported that a dog also died after the attack
  
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• Haunting final words of flight attendant on doomed passenger plane 'shot down by Russian missile' over Kazakhstan on Christmas Day

  27-12-2024 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These are the heartbreaking last words of a flight attendant on board the doomed Azerbaijan Airlines plane that was reportedly shot down by a Russian missile on Christmas Day.
  
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• Trump makes cryptic post about Elon Musk and his son X

  27-12-2024 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump sent a cryptic message to his billionaire tech friend Elon Musk on Friday hours after a brutal social media debate on immigration blew up in his face.
  
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• Human legs wash up along upscale shoreline

  27-12-2024 19:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  Two human legs and a femur were found along the Palos Verdes Peninsula (Picture: Getty Images)Two human legs and other body parts have turned up on a shoreline in a swanky neighborhood of California.A hiker found a human leg along the Palos Verdes Peninsula on Thursday. Authorities also discovered a femur, Palos Verdes Estates police Captain Aaron Belda told the Los Angeles Times.The grisly discovery was made a day after a human leg washed ashore on the 800 block of Paseo Del Mar on Christmas D
  
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• Seann Walsh overcomes Strictly scandal hell and returns to BBC primetime

  27-12-2024 19:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Seann Walsh is back on BBC primetime (Picture: BBC)Seann Walsh has bagged himself a guest starring role on one of the BBC’s primetime shows.The comedian will be featuring in the hour-long Christmas special of Beyond Paradise as a maverick inventor called Colin.Arriving at this big moment didn’t seem so conceivable just seven years ago when Seann, 39, was at the centre of one of Strictly’s biggest scandals.However, after showcasing his personality on an entirely different reali
  
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• Three sisters die after mass food poisoning at family gathering

  27-12-2024 19:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  The cake is believed to cause the food poisoning (Picture: Jam Press)Three people from the same family have died after they fell seriously ill from eating a cake.On December 23, the dos Anjos family gathered in Torres, Brazil, to celebrate Christmas.
  Two women from the family, Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos, 43, and Maida Berenice Flores da Silva, 58, passed away the same day of consuming the dessert.Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjo, 65, was hospitalised
  
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• Moment tourist punches ‘particularly vicious’ monkey

  27-12-2024 19:46 via metro.co.uk
  
  The duo got into a heated disagreement (Picture: Jam Press)A tourist and a macaque got into a brawl at a national park after the monkey tried to steal a bag.The cheeky animal thought it had food inside and tried to snatch it from under the tourist’s nose, but ended up in an altercation.
  The man stood on his bag to prevent the monkey from running away with it but appeared to kick the animal with his spare foot.The monkey scaled a nearby fence and began snarling and baring its fangs, as the
  
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• Fife plane crash: Pilot killed two days before Christmas named as 'inspiring' family man

  27-12-2024 19:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Denison-Pender, from Perthshire, has been named as the pilot of a light plane that crashed near to Fife Airport, Kinglassie, two days before Christmas
  
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