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• Northern Lights set to return to UK in ‘once in a decade’ event, says Met Office

  08-11-2024 09:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  British stargazers have been treated to the celestial light show a fair few times this year (Picture: Cairngorms Astronomy Group/PA)A ‘once in a decade’ solar event take place over the next few months – and it means you’ll get even more chances to see the Northern Lights.The neon spaghetti strings of green, red and blue have become an increasingly common occurrence in, of all places, people’s back gardens in London this year.But the Met Office say that the lights wi
  
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• UK supermarket announces ‘Aldi matching’ price changes in 1,400 convenience stores nationwide

  08-11-2024 12:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Sainsbury’s is the first supermarket to price-match Aldi in its smaller stores (Picture: Getty Images)Aldi continues to be the UK’s cheapest supermarket month after month, but it seems Sainsbury’s is about to give it a run for its money.The retailer has said it will match the price of up to 200 Aldi products in its smaller stores – the first time any supermarket convenience store has made such a promise.It means you no longer have to avoid your Sainsbury’s Local for
  
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• Farmers protest against inheritance tax on farms ‘blocked’ by police

  08-11-2024 12:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  Farmers protest outside the Northern Farming Conference in Hexham in Northumberland against the government’s proposals to reform inheritance tax (IHT) rules (Picture: PA)Farmers have been blocked from staging a protest against the government’s ‘tactor tax’, Jeremy Clarkson has claimed.The former Top Gear presenter was among hundreds planning to rally on November 19 against the Budget change to inheritance tax for farms.But the National Farmers Union (NFU) s
  
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• I won a £2,000,000 Omaze home — but I almost lost it for a pint

  08-11-2024 12:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tom and Carole Steenson won the £2,000,000 Devon property through Omaze (Picture: Omaze / SWNS)For as little as £10, hopeful homeowners can enter to win a house worth millions through Omaze. No stamp duty, no mortgage, and no solicitors’ fees. It’s a win-win situation, right?But for one dad, the dream to win a £2,000,000 luxury property was almost missed out on – all because he fancied a pint at the pub.Tom Steenson, 63, almost completely ignored the lifechang
  
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• Two people killed in house fire in early hours of this morning

  08-11-2024 12:03 via metro.co.uk
  
  The fire broke out on The Coppice in Coventry (Picture: Google)Two people have been confirmed dead in a house fire which erupted in the early hours of this morning.
  The blaze took hold at an address on The Coppice in Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry.The bodies were found following the fire, which broke out on the residential road at around 4.50am.A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: “Sadly, two people were confirmed dead at the scene and we are now working to identify them.“Our off
  
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• My husband got my birthday wrong on my plane ticket — then flew off without me

  08-11-2024 12:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jaime’s husband flew to Texas without her because he got her birthday wrong on her boarding pass (Picture: Jaime Wystub/TikTok)When mum-of-three Jaime Wystub turned up to Montana airport with her husband Matt, she expected to be getting on a plane to Austin, Texas.Instead, Jaime was left at the gate after being denied boarding. Why? Her husband got her birthday wrong when he made the booking.But what caused most outrage on TikTok was the fact that Matt still boarded the plane without her &
  
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• France says au-revoir to foie gras: Third town this year bans delicacy made from force-feeding geese in favour of 'ethical' varieties

  08-11-2024 11:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pessac has become the third town this year to ban foie gras from official receptions as consumers become increasingly concerned about the ethics of force-feeding geese.
  
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• Hotel worker and 'drug dealer' are arrested in Liam Payne death probe: Pair accused of supplying One Direction star with drugs before balcony fall - as his wealthy friend denies he's third arrested man

  08-11-2024 11:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police in Argentina believe they have uncovered drug dealing at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel where the One Direction fell to his death from his suite's third-floor balcony on October 16.
  
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• Thug is convicted of killing graduate who was waiting for kidney transplant after punching him in Asda petrol station row

  08-11-2024 11:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The assault occurred in December 2017 when Polish national Bernard Hirsch pulled into the Asda petrol station on Marsland Road in Manchester, Sale to fill up his car with fuel.
  
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• Mass Effect TV show is happening but the writer is a big red flag

  08-11-2024 11:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Commander Shepard is hitting the small screen (EA)Amazon’s TV adaptation of Mass Effect is finally getting off the ground, as EA celebrates a quieter N7 day due to Dragon Age: The Veilguard.Hollywood has been kicking around the idea of adapting Mass Effect for years, with early whispers of a movie stemming way back to May 2010 – only a few years after the first game was released.While a film never materialised, those rumours morphed into rumbles of a TV series in 2021, with reports t
  
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• Second Spanish city hit by devastating floods that wash cars down road

  08-11-2024 11:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextSpain woke up to more flooding chaos today as another deluge of rain swept cars down a street.Around 30 cars were washed away in the town of Cadaques in Girona, Catalonia its mayor confirmed this morning, with several seen piled up on top of each other by a bridge.It comes just over a week after the country was hit by Spain’s worst flooding in living memory, leaving at least
  
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• Home Bargains shoppers warn customers after buying 9ft Christmas decoration

  08-11-2024 11:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gingerbread archway looks spectacular - but there's a potential problem that shoppers say is important to know
  
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• Cars pile up in Spain as country hit by more flooding chaos

  08-11-2024 11:52 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextSpain woke up to more flooding chaos today as another deluge of rain swept cars down a street.Around 30 cars were washed away in the town of Cadaques in Girona, Catalonia its mayor confirmed this morning, with several seen piled up on top of each other by a bridge.It comes just over a week after the country was hit by Spain’s worst flooding in living memory, leaving at least
  
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• Mysterious cold case disappearance of young schoolgirl who vanished without a trace more than four decades ago is reopened

  08-11-2024 11:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lisa Mott, 12, was last seen crossing a railway line to Forrest Street, in Collie, in WA's south-west on the night of October 30, 1980. She never came home.
  
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• Netflix is quietly erasing a new format that aimed to change how we watch TV

  08-11-2024 11:49 via metro.co.uk
  
  Netflix is set to remove most of its interactive content (Picture: Shutterstock / MAXSHOT.PL)It was billed as revolutionary but now Netflix appears to be abandoning plans to make interactive entertainment a staple of its content offering.
  These titles allowed viewers to participate in the story by making a series of choices that determined the outcome of the overall narrative, but the streaming giant is very quietly removing 20 of their 24 interactive movies and shows from their platform.The onl
  
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• Israeli football fans were attacked by marauding 'anti-Jewish scooter gangs' in Amsterdam says mayor - as riots leave 10 injured and 800 police deployed

  08-11-2024 11:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu's office stated that two planes were being sent to bring Israelis home safely as violence on the streets of Amsterdam left at least 10 injured.
  
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• Dozens of monkeys escape research facility after caretaker left doors open

  08-11-2024 11:40 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextResidents have been warned to lock windows and doors after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina.The troupe of female monkeys burst out of an Alpha Genesis building in Yemassee on Wednesday after a caretaker ‘failed to secure doors’, police said.Greg Westergaard, CEO of Alpha Genesis, told CBS News: ‘It’s really like follow-the-leade
  
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• 'Donald Trump humiliated me after shaking my hand- but didn't do it to men'

  08-11-2024 11:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Katie Perrior, who was communications director in No10, has spilled the inside details of meeting the President-elect in 2017 - and has given some advice to Keir Starmer
  
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• Yet another Badenough leader for the dirty word party who must not be named

  08-11-2024 11:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror political columnist Paul Routledge dreams up new names for the Conservative Party after their own poll guru suggested Tory had become a dirty word
  
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• Liam Payne's concerns for son Bear's future - and Cheryl Cole's big dream for him

  08-11-2024 11:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As three people are charged in relation to the tragic death of Liam Payne, the Mirror takes a look at the poignant thoughts the One Direction star had when it came to son Bear's future - and Cheryl's wholesome wish
  
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• David Baddiel worries he can’t continue comedy as it might ‘kill him’

  08-11-2024 11:36 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextDavid Baddiel is worried that if he continues to do stand up comedy forever it could ‘kill him’.The comedian, 60, has opened up on Good Morning Britain about stand up being an ‘all consuming’ job, to the point where he worries one day it will be the end of him.‘Stand up and making people laugh live is psychologically very all-consuming, and you someti
  
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• Angela Rayner continues Labour's love-bombing of Donald Trump (who she once called an 'absolute buffoon') as Deputy PM chats with incoming 'hillbilly' vice president JD Vance

  08-11-2024 11:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Deputy Prime Minister revealed she and Mr Vance, a self-proclaimed 'hillbilly', discussed their 'plans for the future' and how they would be 'working together'.
  
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• David Lammy says Labour is ready to take on Donald Trump on trade as Bank of England boss Bailey warns new president's protectionism may trigger 'fracturing of the world economy'

  08-11-2024 11:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Lammy said that the UK government would warn that 'hurting your closest allies cannot be in your medium or long term interests' if he goes ahead with pledges to hinder free trade.
  
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• Nurse who tried Mounjaro becomes first confirmed UK death linked to NHS weight loss jab

  08-11-2024 11:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Susan McGowan, 58, took just two injections before her death in September after the new generation of drugs were hailed as an answer to Britain’s obesity crisis
  
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• New Lupus treatment offered in ‘groundbreaking’ NHS trial

  08-11-2024 11:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Trial patient Katie Tinkler, 50, said the treatment could be ‘life-changing’ (Picture: PA)Three lupus patients in the UK have received ‘groundbreaking’ new treatment which could end the need for lifelong drugs.A new NHS trial is assessing the effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapy – previously only used on cancer patients – as a one-off treatment against the most serious form of lupus.The auto-immune disease can cause potentially fatal damage to the heart, lungs,
  
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• Mum given devastating cancer diagnosis after being told 'go and enjoy your life'

  08-11-2024 11:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-two Tanya Farrel fought with the "will power and strength of an ox" to successfully beat cancer, but was recently given heartbreaking news by her doctors
  
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• ‘Lovely to be back!’ TV legend huge in the 90s staging big comeback

  08-11-2024 11:26 via metro.co.uk
  
  Todd Carty will play King Tucker in Sleeping Beauty at Lighthouse in Poole (Picture: Lighthouse Poole)EastEnders legend Todd Carty is heading back to the theatre this Christmas in a new panto role. The actor – best known for playing Mark Fowler in the BBC soap – will be appearing in a production of Sleeping Beauty in Poole this festive season. And in a nod to one of his other iconic roles, his character is called King Tucker. Many will remember that Todd star
  
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• Major Coronation Street character saved from death by unexpected hero in impossible twist

  08-11-2024 11:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Billy was in a dangerous situation (Picture: ITV)This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) was in a dangerous situation in tonight’s Coronation Street after collapsing in a drunken stupor outside the factory.The vicar got drunk at Paul Foreman’s (Peter Ash) ashes launch, and made a scene in front of the whole pub by declaring the event a farce and confessi
  
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• Coventry house fire: Two bodies found after horror blaze as police launch probe

  08-11-2024 11:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Midlands Police have confirmed that two people have tragically died following a house fire in Coventry. Firefighters raced to the address in the Stoke Aldermoor area of the city at around 4.50am
  
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• Queen Camilla's attendance at two major events in doubt at Palace issues statement

  08-11-2024 11:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Royal Family is all set to join together this weekend for a series of events honouring the nation's war dead - but it appears Queen Camilla's attendance at them is in doubt
  
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