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• Rail firm brings in airline-style baggage restrictions - urging passengers to limit themselves to just one 'sensible-sixed' suitcase as the make Christmas journeys

  18-12-2024 09:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Great Western Railway has urged customers to stop bringing 'super-sized' suitcases with them which 'blocks aisles, exits and seats'.
  
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• Will there be a Squid Game season 3? Latest Netflix series updates

  18-12-2024 13:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextPrevious PageNext PageThe time has finally arrived – Squid Game season 2 is just around the corner.It’s somehow already been three years since the South Korean TV series dropped on Netflix, quickly becoming a worldwide phenomenon when it launched in 2021.Now the second outing is just days away, which will see the lead character Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) enter the dead
  
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• Claire King desperate to reveal huge Emmerdale Kim Tate twist – but ‘would be shot’

  18-12-2024 13:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextPrevious PageNext PageEmmerdale actress Claire King was desperate to spill the beans on a top-secret Kim Tate twist during an interview on This Morning on Wednesday. The actress appeared on the ITV daytime show to speak about her character’s Christmas storyline, which will see Kim’s cheating husband Will Taylor’s (Dean Andrews) revenge plan come to a head.&nb
  
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• Netflix series axed yet again despite 97% Rotten Tomatoes score as star shares ‘heartbreak’

  18-12-2024 13:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  A series saved by Netflix has now been cancelled for a second time (Picture: Peacock Original)A series that was saved by Netflix has been cancelled for a second time.First airing in 2021, the musical comedy Girls 5eva was created by Meredith Scardino and executive produced by Tina Fey.It follows four women – Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Summer (Busy Philipps), Gloria (Paula Pell) and Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), who were part of a girl group in the early noughties before fading into
  
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• The Aussie hero working round the clock to save the lives of locals crushed under pancaked office block after Vanuatu is flattened by a series of massive earthquakes

  18-12-2024 13:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pacific island nation was hit by two huge quakes of magnitude 7.4 and 6.1 less that 24 hours apart, killing at least 14, with the death toll expected to soar.
  
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• Thousands across UK without water and schools closed after ‘technical issue’

  18-12-2024 13:12 via metro.co.uk
  
  A ‘technical issue’ at Southern Water has caused the disruption (Credits: PA)
  A fault at a Southern Water supply works has left thousands of people without water and forced schools to close.Residents in Hampshire have been left high and dry due to a lack of water this morning.Southern Water, the supplier, has said that the problem is affecting those in the Lordswood, Maybush, Upper Shirley, Millbrook and Lordshill areas of Southampton, as well as Totton, Calmore, Nursling, Hillyfiel
  
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• The world's most powerful passports in 2024 revealed: European countries dominate the top 20, but it's the UAE that's No.1, while the UK and the U.S slide further down the ranking

  18-12-2024 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global ranking indicates the number of countries citizens around the world can enter visa-free.
  
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• Self-styled lady of the manor who has changed gender three times sues NHS after 'botched' realignment op which 'left her in constant pain'

  18-12-2024 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lady Samantha Kane is thought to be the only person in Britain to have changed gender three times.
  
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• Glastonbury 2025 psychic predicts global megastar headliner will ‘bring hearts together’

  18-12-2024 13:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  A psychic has predicted Harry Styles will headline Glastonbury 2025 (Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for ABA)Celebrity astrologer and psychic Inbaal Honigma has made some seriously exciting Glastonbury 2025 predictions.The excruciating wait for Glastonbury headliners is well underway, and rumours are flying left, right, and centre about who could be taking to Worthy Farm’s Pyramid Stage in June.
  After tickets sold out in 36 minutes in November, lucky Glastonbury-goers are now trawling t
  
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• Supermarket with ‘first class food’ crowned best in UK for overall experience

  18-12-2024 13:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Do you agree it’s the best for customer satisfaction? (Picture: Getty Images)From Tesco, to Waitrose, M&S, Aldi and Lidl, the UK isn’t exactly short of supermarkets, but which one do you go to for your weekly shop?If your answer is Sainsbury’s, then we wouldn’t be all that surprised, as the retailer has just been crowned the best in the UK for customer satisfaction and convenience.New research has found that shoppers have the best overall experience when getting thei
  
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• Proof that Syrian 'prisoner' discovered and freed by CNN crew was one of Assad's ruthless henchmen as ex-intelligence officer is now missing

  18-12-2024 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A shocking image of the Syrian 'prisoner' who was discovered locked up Damascus prison by journalists proves that he was actually one of former dictator Bashar al-Assad's henchmen
  
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• 'Be careful making Christmas dinner - I burnt myself on boiling goose fat and needed skin grafts'

  18-12-2024 12:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
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• Andrew Tate rages that 'this is not justice' as police win bid to seize more than £2m from influencer and his brother Tristan in unpaid tax case

  18-12-2024 12:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Devon and Cornwall Police made a legal bid to seize the money, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the Tate brothers and a woman identified only as J.
  
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• Inside MasterChef star Grace Dent’s career and private life as she replaces Gregg Wallace

  18-12-2024 12:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  Here’s everything we know about new MasterChef judge Grace Dent ( Picture: David Hartley/ Shutterstock)After much speculation, it’s been confirmed Grace Dent will be replacing Gregg Wallace on MasterChef.Earlier this month it was revealed the BBC had launched an investigation into historical allegations of misconduct by Wallace, 60, who hosted the show since it launched in 2005.Soon after it was announced he had stepped aside, with rumours quickly swirling who could be set to step u
  
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• Chelsea successfully convince wonderkid to sign new deal amid Real Madrid links

  18-12-2024 12:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  Enzo Maresca was desperate to keep Josh Acheampong at Chelsea (Picture: Getty)Chelsea have successfully convinced their wonderkid Josh Acheampong to sign a new long-term contract at the club, according to reports.Acheampong had attracted transfer interest from Spanish champions Real Madrid as well as a number of other clubs, including Bayern Munich.Real Madrid were very much considering a move for the English teenager, viewing him as a short-term right-back option and a future superstar.But Ach
  
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• Aldi is sued for copyright (again): Cider giant Thatchers goes back to court over claims supermarket 'copycatted' one of its products

  18-12-2024 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Somerset-based drinks firm Thatchers has lodged an appeal against a high court ruling dismissing its claim that the discount supermarket chain Aldi 'copycatted' the British firm's cloudy lemon cider.
  
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• Second unmarked mass grave containing babies’ bodies found in cemetery

  18-12-2024 12:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  Two mass graves have been discovered at the same site in Oldham, Greater Manchester (Credits: © Glen Minikin)A mass grave has been discovered in a British cemetery just months after a ‘landfill for babies’ was found at the same site.
  In September, a mass grave holding the bodies of 145 stillborn infants, 128 babies and young children and 29 adults was found in an unmarked 12ft by 12ft plot in Royton Cemetery, Oldham.That gravesite was situated on the south-eastern side of the c
  
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• Parents of babies found in mass grave in UK town were told 'pretend nothing has happened'

  18-12-2024 12:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The discovery of another mass grave of babies' bodies in Oldham, Greater Manchester, is due to a grim practice that took place before the mid-1980s when parents were told to 'carry on as though nothing had happened'
  
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• State of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's future together is 'now an open secret' in America

  18-12-2024 12:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts have suggested that 2025 will be a make or break year for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid questions over their plans for the future and their roles in the US
  
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• Iceland is selling whole cooked lobster for Christmas for less than a tenner

  18-12-2024 12:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Iceland's Luxury Canadian Whole Cooked Lobster is a must-try for seafood lovers and is an affordable way to enjoy the luxury ingredient at home this Christmas
  
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• Private stock market Pisces moves a step closer as consultation launched

  18-12-2024 12:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pisces will allow people to buy and sell shares in private companies in a similar way to a public stock exchange like the FTSE 100
  
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• It’s time to talk about the link between childhood abuse and rape

  18-12-2024 12:51 via metro.co.uk
  
  Can a traumatic childhood ever be used to explain, mitigate or simply understand, harmful, criminal acts? (Picture: CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)Jerome V, 46, described himself as an ‘unwanted’ child.He had a poor relationship with his parents and he spent little time with either: his father was authoritative and his mother often belittled him, denting his confidence.He was bullied at school, he claimed: he was made the ‘class’s scapegoat’ and was once all
  
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• Brits ‘among thousands of bodies found in mass graves’ in Syria

  18-12-2024 12:51 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextPrevious PageNext PageWarning: this article may contain disturbing imagesMass graves containing more than 100,000 people forcibly disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s killer regime have been uncovered in Syria.The scale of Assad’s organised killings is something not seen ‘since the Nazis’, according to former US war crimes ambassador Stephen Rapp.Rapp visited th
  
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• Nosferatu is so terrifying that its star ‘never wants to play something this evil again’

  18-12-2024 12:50 via metro.co.uk
  
  Actor Bill Skarsgård plays Count Orlok in Nosferatu, a vampire horror film remake 102 years later (Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage)Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård has hit the limit of his capacity for portraying wickedness with his latest movie, proclaiming he ‘never wants to play something this evil again’.In the upcoming horror film, directed by Robert Eggers and which has earned rave reviews and currently sits on an impressive 94% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomat
  
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• Everything you need to know before watching the Gavin and Stacey finale

  18-12-2024 12:44 via metro.co.uk
  
  It’s time to say goodbye to Gavin and Stacey (Picture: BBC/Toffee International Ltd./Tom Jackson/PA Wire)There’s only one place to be on Christmas day at 9pm – sitting on the sofa, watching the final ever episode of Gavin and Stacey.17 years since two families from Billericay and Barry Island first captured our attention, their stories will be drawing to a close, but not before creators Ruth Jones and James Corden give them the ultimate send-off with a 90-minute special.It has
  
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• Avoid Christmas family arguments with genius phrase if someone gaslights you

  18-12-2024 12:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  While spending Christmas with family and friends can be a joyous occasion, it is not uncommon for their to be disagreements - and a lawyer and argument expert has shared how to deal with a gas lighter
  
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• Iconic lorry firm founder Eddie Stobart dies aged 95

  18-12-2024 12:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Stobart haulage is a familiar sight on most UK roads (Pictures: PA)The founder of one of the UK’s most iconic lorry firms has died at the age of 95, his family announced.Eddie Pears Stobart died on November 25 at the age of 95, his family said, after founding his family business in 1946.The agricultural business initially distributed fertiliser, but pivoted to haulage, allowing them to own more than 2,700 vehicles.
  Stobart drivers were known for wearing collars and ties, and waving and ho
  
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• 7 best London locations in Netflix thriller Black Doves includes £40,000,000 penthouse

  18-12-2024 12:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Black Doves has rivalled Die Hard as the go-to Christmas thriller (Picture: Stefania Rosini/Netflix via AP)Black Doves has become the most talked about Netflix thriller of the Christmas season – and not just beause of its twisty ending.The drama follows Keira Knightley’s spy Helen, who becomes entangled London’s criminal underworld as she seeks to avenge her lover Jason’s (Andrew Koji) death.She is joined by best friend and hitman Sam (Ben Whishaw) as
  
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• ‘I’m an Arsenal legend’s son – but this is why I signed for Chelsea’

  18-12-2024 12:41 via metro.co.uk
  
  Arsenal and Chelsea are fierce London rivals who often compete for new signingsShaun Wright-Phillips has revealed he nearly signed for Arsenal and followed in the footsteps of his famous father Ian Wright.
  The former England winger made his big breakthrough at Manchester City and was one of the Premier League’s hottest properties by the time the London rivals were bidding for his services.
  A move to Highbury, a stadium so synonymous with his dad, appeared inevitable only for Arsene Wenger
  
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• UK house prices and rents surge, with rental price inflation reaching record high

  18-12-2024 12:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'Average rent increases continue to be highest in London while annual rent inflation reached a record high for England'
  
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