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• Stranded whale shot dead after no chance of rescue out of River Thames

  06-10-2024 23:47 via metro.co.uk
  
  Two pilot whales died after becoming stranded in a creek in Canvey Island, Essex (Picture: Stephen Huntley/HVC)A stranded pilot whale was shot dead after desperate attempts to save it from the River Thames estuary.The female pilot whale and her calf were reported stranded in shallow water off Canvey Island in Essex.
  The fire brigade and a team from the South Essex Wildlife Hospital were called to the scene.
  Vets, marine biologists and divers were called in and an operation was launched to assess
  
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• West Ham v Brighton, Ipswich v Newcastle, and more: football – live

  21-12-2024 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Updates from 3pm GMT kick-offs in England and beyondLive scores | Tables | Fixtures | Aston Villa 2-1 Man CityIpswich (4-2-3-1) Muric; H Clarke, O’Shea, Burgess, Davis; Morsy,Cajuste; Burns, Hutchinson, Szmodics; Chaplin.
  Subs: Walton, Phillips, Taylor, Al Hamadi, Johnson, Townsend, Greaves, Broadhead, J Clarke.Newcastle (4-3-3) Dubravka, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Tonali, Guimaraes, Willock; J Murphy, Isak, Gordon.Subs: Vlachodimos, Trippier, Barnes, Targett, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Lo
  
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• Germany Christmas market attack: Scholz condemns ‘terrible, insane’ act as five killed and hundreds injured – latest

  21-12-2024 17:52 via theguardian.com
  Child among five dead while 40 people remain in critical conditionBild, German public-service broadcaster ARD and other media are reporting that four people were killed and 41 were seriously injured in the attack.In addition, 86 people were treated with significant injuries in hospital, while 78 people suffered light injuries. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We’re figuring out cool ways of storytelling’: how TikTok is changing the way we watch musicals

  21-12-2024 17:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platformWhen Jorge Rivera-Herrans released part of Epic: the Musical last Christmas, he managed to push Taylor Swift off the top of the US iTunes album charts. So there is a lot at stake when the final instalment of his musical retelling of the Odyssey is released on Christmas Day.Rivera-Herrans’s project has already been an extraordinary success, with more monthly listeners o
  
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• At least 30 dead after horror crash between passenger bus and truck in Brazil

  21-12-2024 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officials in the South American country said the incident happened on the Minas Gerais stretch of road in the southeast of the country on Saturday.
  
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• Crystal Palace v Arsenal: Premier League – live

  21-12-2024 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-offLive scores | Tables | Fixtures | And you can email ScottCrystal Palace make three changes in the wake of the League Cup meeting between these clubs; Arsenal make seven. But Carabao teams are not real teams, so let’s do this properly.Palace make three changes to the starting XI named for last weekend’s 3-1 win at Brighton. Nathaniel Clyne, Daichi Kamada and Chris Richards are in. Trevoh Chalobah drops to the bench, while the suspende
  
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• Teen who ‘watched mum’s partner abuse her for years’ spared jail for stabbing him

  21-12-2024 17:33 via metro.co.uk
  
  Harley Bowring, 19, admitted GBH at Teesside Crown Court (Picture: Andrew McCaren/LNP/REX/Shutterstock)A teenager who stabbed his mum’s abusive ex-partner after having to watch him ‘belittle, humiliate and beat’ her for years has been spared jail.Harley Bowring, 19, admitted GBH after attacking Ben Vout at his mother’s home in Middlesborough on August 7 last year.But the judge agreed to suspend his 18-month prison sentence after being told of the ‘significant relev
  
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• Heathrow getaway chaos as 70 flights are cancelled and several more delayed due to 'severe' gales amid busiest Christmas travel season on record

  21-12-2024 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of passengers are facing Christmas travel chaos as 90 flights from Heathrow Airport are cancelled and 200 more delayed amid weather warnings for strong wind
  
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• UK teachers should be allowed to work from home, education secretary says

  21-12-2024 17:29 via theguardian.com
  Bridget Phillipson insists move to marking and class preparation out of school would help stem retention crisis‘We need a total culture change’: the teacher told to work 60-hour week or leave after having babyAll state school teachers should given the right to work away from the classroom on lesson preparation, marking and pupil assessment to stem a growing retention crisis in the profession, the education secretary says today.Bridget Phillipson told the Observer it was vital more sc
  
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• Viewers binge ‘captivating’ romantic drama as new episodes of Netflix’s longest-running show released

  21-12-2024 17:27 via metro.co.uk
  
  Netflix viewers are bingeing the latest episodes of a beloved romantic comedy (Picture: Netflix)Netflix viewers have declared ‘Christmas has come early’ as new episodes of a beloved romantic comedy are released.First released in 2019, Virgin River is based on the series of novels by Robyn Carr.It follows midwife Melinda ‘Mel’ Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) who moves to the remote Northern Californian town of Virgin River to ‘start fresh and leave painful memories
  
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• Justin Baldoni's cutting response to Blake Lively as she sues him for sexual harassment on set of It Ends With Us

  21-12-2024 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Justin Baldoni fired back after Blake Lively launched a lawsuit against her former costar over claims of sexual harassment.
  
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• Just Stop Oil protester, 77, recalled to prison as wrists too small for tag

  21-12-2024 17:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Just Stop Oil activist Gaie Delap, 77, was sentenced to 20 months behind bars before being released on curfew - but is now being recalled to prison because an electronic tag didn't fit her wrists
  
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• Shay Given criticises Manchester City for letting four players leave after Aston Villa defeat

  21-12-2024 17:20 via metro.co.uk
  
  Morgan Rogers shone as Aston Villa consigned Manchester City to a ninth loss in 12 matches (Picture: Getty)Shay Given has questioned Manchester City’s decision to let four of their academy players leave in the wake of the side’s crushing defeat at the hands of Aston Villa.The Premier League champions’ incredible slump continued in this afternoon’s lunchtime kick-off and Morgan Rogers, a product of City’s academy, was the star of the show as Villa secured a convinci
  
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• Albania bans TikTok for a year after fatal stabbing of teenager last month

  21-12-2024 17:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister announces move after meeting with parents’ groups and teachers over social media fearsAlbania has announced a one-year ban on TikTok following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social media on children.Edi Rama, the prime minister, confirmed the ban, part of a broader plan to make schools safer, after meeting with parents’ groups and teachers from across the country. Continue reading...
  
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• Disturbing details emerge after San Diego woman's body was found hidden in a freezer

  21-12-2024 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones' remains were found inside the freezer in their rear of the San Diego home she shared with her husband Robert Haxby last December.
  
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• At least 22 people killed as bus and truck collide in Brazil

  21-12-2024 17:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Further 13 people taken to hospital after vehicle crashed into lorry then burst into flamesAt least 22 people have been killed in a “tragic” traffic collision between a bus and truck in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the Associated Press reported, citing fire department officials who attended the scene.A further 13 people were taken to hospitals near the city of Teófilo Otoni. Continue reading...
  
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• Bird flu outbreak hits Britain's turkey farms as tens of thousands are culled and rest ordered to be kept indoors days before Christmas

  21-12-2024 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Avian influenza has reportedly been found in 11 sites across Britain since November.
  
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• Mystery over suspicious death at Vanderbilt mansion as cops release picture of woman's body

  21-12-2024 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The woman, believed to be in her 50s or 60s, was found on Vanderbilt Park Road on the mansion's historical grounds in Hyde Park, roughly 100 miles north of New York City, on December 6.
  
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• Some cinematic turkeys are so bad they achieve a kind of trascendence. Last Christmas, for one | Kathryn Bromwich

  21-12-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  You can’t simply set out to create a so-bad-it’s-good classic. But this year’s thinly veiled Taylor Swift biopic, Christmas in the Spotlight, could be a contenderAs a lifelong enthusiast of the “so-bad-it’s-good” sub-strand of cinema, I approach every Christmas with a mix of excitement and trepidation. If at one end of the spectrum we have magical Christmas films (It’s a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Jingle All the Way), passing through the slurry of medio
  
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• Making an entrance: the experts share design ideas for your hallway

  21-12-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It is often a neglected space but the hallway is the backbone of any property and can set the mood for the whole homeOf all the rooms in the home, the hallway is arguably the most neglected. There are several reasons for this, but top of the list is that many people scoff at the very idea that a hallway is a room in its own right. Often it is seen as little more than a necessary linking corridor, one that invariably doubles as a dumping ground for coats, shoes, unopened post and the other detrit
  
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• It’s probably just a plane: drone experts advise calm over New Jersey sightings

  21-12-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Although politicians have called to shoot them down, experts say the lights are likely legal drones, planes – or starsAt first, in mid-November, the mysterious lights were seen blinking across the night skies of New Jersey. Then, they spread. Reports of incandescent flying objects were logged in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Bystanders in Virginia Beach said they saw an aircraft “unlike any other they’ve seen”. Sightings have now come from as far afield as Louisian
  
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• Netflix viewers divided over unsettling detail in new TV series

  21-12-2024 16:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  A strange detail in La Palma is catching the attention of fans (Picture: Netflix)Netflix viewers have been flocking to watch a new disaster series, La Palma this week, seeing it reach the number two spot on the streamer’s top 10 list.
  But while it’s resulting in some people ‘yelling at their screens’, others have been left feeling slightly unsettled after noticing this little detail.
  Taking to social media to discuss the Norwegian disaster series, which has bee
  
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• Court clears way for ‘the Slab’ office block to be built on London’s South Bank

  21-12-2024 16:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Judge dismisses challenge that argued development failed to provide housing and could damage London landmarksThe building of a controversial 25-storey office block nicknamed the Slab on London’s South Bank is to go ahead after the high court upheld a decision by the former communities secretary Michael Gove to approve the development.Mr Justice Mould dismissed a legal challenge by the Save Our South Bank group, which has been fighting the development since planning permission was first sub
  
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• UK's most dangerous prisoner locked in underground glass box for 51st Christmas behind bars

  21-12-2024 16:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Quadruple killer Robert Maudsley is feared so dangerous he has been given his own special cell and kept apart from other inmates for almost 17,000 days, or 46 years
  
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• ‘Mistaken Republican senator caught out by Attack of the Drones’

  21-12-2024 16:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror's US editor Christopher Bucktin reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his The Buck Stops Here column. This week, a classified secret turns out to be a Star Wars movie prop
  
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• Five-minute Terry's Chocolate Orange toast pie recipe is 'perfect' for Christmas

  21-12-2024 16:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Home cook Chloe has shared her unique recipe for the mouth-watering festive treat - and it only takes five minutes to create and cook in the air fryer
  
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• BBC Outnumbered fans left concerned over one star ahead of dramatic Christmas special

  21-12-2024 16:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The much-loved BBC sitcom is back after eight years - as the Brockman parents and kids gather for a festive lunch and learn about dad Peter's diagnosis
  
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• German Christmas market victims including nine-year-old child and four adults, officials reveal as murder and attempted murder charges are being prepared

  21-12-2024 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officials confirmed that at least five people have died after a car rammed into a massive crowd of shoppers at a Christmas market in Magdeburg at around 7pm on December 20 with a dark BMW.
  
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• 'Uncool' San Francisco neighborhood set to transform into booming property hotspot after controversial ruling

  21-12-2024 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A once-overlooked San Francisco neighborhood is on the verge of becoming a property hotspot following the approval of a contentious ballot measure.
  
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• Meat-eaters more likely to be disgusted by meat after taking part in Veganuary, study reveals

  21-12-2024 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Avoiding animal products – and alcohol – at the start of the year makes lasting changes more likely, say researchersMeat-eaters who abstain to take part in Veganuary are more likely to think that meat is disgusting after giving it up for the month, researchers have found.Studies by psychologists at the University of Exeter also found that some people identify less as meat-eaters after trying to avoid animal products during January. Continue reading...
  
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