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• We've been blocked from getting onto our own driveways by the council's new cycling safety 'wands' - and they've only made things more dangerous for everyone

  05-11-2024 15:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 1ft tall posts on Wimborne Road in Poole, Dorset, are making pulling in to and reversing out of driveways much more difficult, in some cases trapping locals in.
  
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• ‘I accidentally forced the best TV show of 00s to get rewritten’

  05-11-2024 20:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Breaking Bad ran for five seasons and has been declared the best series ever (Picture: AP)Breaking Bad has gone down in history as one of the best TV shows to have aired, but it turns out that bosses had to take on last minute rewrites at one point, changing a popular character’s storyline.The gritty drama ran for five seasons between 2008 – 2013, and followed chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) as he becomes a drug kingpin with the help of former student Jesse Pinkman (A
  
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• £42m Manchester United star told rival Brighton player is ‘100 per cent better’

  05-11-2024 20:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jan Paul van Hecke is battling with Matthijs de Ligt for a place in the Netherlands national side (BSR Agency/Getty)Brighton centre-back Jan Paul van Hecke is a better player than Manchester United’s Matthijs de Ligt, according to Dutch pundit Valentijn Driessen.Van Hecke was playing for NAC Breda in the Eerste Divisie – the second-highest tier in the Netherlands – when he was signed by Brighton in September 2020.Following loan spells at Heerenveen and Blackburn Rovers, Van Hec
  
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• I visited Washington D.C during election year — it’s so much more than politics

  05-11-2024 20:24 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kate spent five days in America’s capital (Picture: Kate Rice)The 2024 United States presidential election is now in its final hours, with polls across the USA closing this evening.And, as Americans decide who will take the keys to the White House, Washington D.C is the city on everyone’s lips. To find myself visiting the country’s capital city in an election year, when its presence looms larger than ever, was a surreal experience. When you think of Washingt
  
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• Conor McGregor ‘strangled and raped woman in hotel room’, court hears

  05-11-2024 20:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  Conor McGregor in court accused of raping woman in hotel room (Picture: PA)A woman who has accused Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of raping her thought the 36-year-old was going to kill her, and said he ‘wasn’t taking no for an answer’, a court in Dublin has heard.Nikita Ni Laimhin, who is also known as Nikita Hand, is claiming civil damages against Mr McGregor and another man, alleging she was sexually assaulted in December 2018.Ms Ni Laimhin has accused Mr Mc
  
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• Fans slam ‘dystopian’ method to watch first seven minutes of hit new horror movie

  05-11-2024 20:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextParamount has faced backlash from fans after forcing viewers to ‘smile’ at their computer camera to access the entire first seven minutes of the new horror movie Smile 2.The latest hair-raising installment – starring Charlie’s Angels actor Naomi Scott as popstar Skye Riley – hit cinemas in October and has wowed at the global box office, earning $109 m
  
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• Georgia poll worker arrested for mailing bomb threat to voting station

  05-11-2024 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Georgia poll worker has been arrested by federal officials for allegedly mailing a letter threatening other poll workers with rape, a 'beatdown' and a bomb threat.
  
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• Election Day 2024 live: Trump camp prepares for no result tonight as Georgia polling station hit by 'Russian' bomb threats

  05-11-2024 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  U.S. ELECTION DAY LIVE BLOG: Follow all the developments with just hours until the first results of the 2024 race are announced.
  
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• Hospital trust vows to investigate nurse photographed in her scrubs at pro Palestine demonstration where she appeared to join in chants

  05-11-2024 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jo Jo Forsythe, a phlebotomist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, was identified after being photographed and videoed in her uniform at the demonstration.
  
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• Olympic boxer Imane Khelif hits back at Donald Trump hours before Election Day over bizarre ad blasting athlete

  05-11-2024 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Olympian's attorney, Nabil Boudi, has blasted the former president for 'attacking' his client and 'exposing her to yet another campaign of cyber harassment'.
  
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• Readers discuss Labour’s uni fee
increase and if Kemi will swing further right?

  05-11-2024 20:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Labour has raised tuition fees to £9535 potential students could have a choice to make… (Credits: Getty Images)Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments.Labour has raised university tuition fees higherWith the advent of Labour’s increase in university tuition fees – up 3.1 per cent to £9,535 from next October 
(Metro, Tue) – Philip Duval’s comment in MetroTalk, also yesterday, that George Osborne and Nick Clegg sad
  
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• Broadway hit by embarrassing fiasco over plans to dim lights for star who died of cancer

  05-11-2024 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Broadway star, Gavin Creel, died from an aggressive form of cancer at the age of 48 on September 30.
  
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• Gang member 'loses' after trying to disguise 10kg of MDMA worth £300,000 as bath salts

  05-11-2024 19:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A parcel of MDMA worth a street value of around £300,000 that was disguised as bath salts was intercepted, and a gang member expecting the package sentenced to jail
  
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• BBC has left employees 'dangling' after they complained about misconduct by colleagues, corporation's chairman says

  05-11-2024 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Giving his first major speech since he took up the role in March, Dr Samir Shah admitted there was a 'sense that powerful people 'get away with it'
  
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• Why the world needs Donald Trump to lose: Policies, Ukraine and how he could hurt democracy

  05-11-2024 19:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump in 2024 is not the same as Donald Trump in 2016 - he's older, angrier - and Democrats fear he's a threat to democracy itself. Here's some of his most troubling policies and obsessions - and why they'd be bad for the world.
  
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• US Election 2024: All the key photos from Donald Trump mugshot to Kamala Harris with Oprah

  05-11-2024 19:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Here The Mirror looks the key photos from the US presidential election race - from Donald Trump's mugshot, to Joe Biden's disastrous debate, and stars coming out in support for Kamala Harris
  
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• AOC slapped with fake news warning on X after sharing photo of Kamala Harris' 'Puerto Rican supporters'

  05-11-2024 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The New York congresswoman posted a picture on Sunday of a massive crowd in Puerto Rico comparing the size to presidential rallies.
  
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• Rioter caught with his tracksuit bottoms filled with vapes from a store he had just looted is jailed

  05-11-2024 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brian Gilby from Sunderland who was caught red handed wearing tracksuit bottoms filled with as many vapes as possible from a looted store has been jailed.
  
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• Not an Ugg boot in sight! Britain's strictest pub shares picture of packed bar after huge backlash for dress code that banned Ugg boots, gilets, 'big chains' and bubble trainers

  05-11-2024 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Wobbly Goblin rolled out its new policy last month which prohibits a number of items of clothing and even face tattoos prompting some social media users to express their disapproval.
  
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• Spain floods: Disease fears in dirty waters as Valencia begins clean up operation

  05-11-2024 19:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts say victims of the floods and volunteers helping in the clean up are all now at risk of suffering mosquito-borne diseases and skin infections, as well as gastroenteritis and Hepatitis A
  
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• US election 2024: Polling station chaos amid reports of man with gun and bomb squad swoop

  05-11-2024 19:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People have been told to evacuate a polling station in Jacksonville, Florida, over reports of a "suspicious package" and members of the bomb squad have rushed to the scene
  
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• ‘I’ve been the secret star of Bake Off since day one – you’ll never see me’

  05-11-2024 19:30 via metro.co.uk
  
  The man behind everyone’s favourite part of Bake Off has been revealed (Picture: Channel 4/Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon/PA Wire)There is a star of The Great British Bake Off who you’ve never seen on TV, despite playing a key role on the show for the past 14 years.Ever wondered who creates all those incredible illustrations of the bakes? The answer is Tom Hovey, an illustrator who lives in South Wales and has worked on Bake Off since its first episode in 2010.Tom is the creator of
  
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• Prince William warns of the 'troubling reality' of the crisis facing the natural world in passionate speech

  05-11-2024 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a passionate speech later at the United for Wildlife Global Showcase, the future king spoke about the 'troubling reality' of the crisis facing the natural world.
  
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• Election Day 2024 live: Trump camp prepare for no result tonight as Georgia polling station hit by 'Russian' bomb threats

  05-11-2024 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  U.S. ELECTION DAY LIVE BLOG: Follow all the developments with just hours until the first results of the 2024 race are announced.
  
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• Trump shuts down reporter in feisty exchange over whether his supporters will be violent

  05-11-2024 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump quickly shot down a reporter for asking if he should tell his supporters to not be 'violent' on Election Day.
  
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• The ten states where abortion is directly on the ballot in the election

  05-11-2024 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abortion is on the ballot in ten states as voters head to the polls for the 2024 November election.
  
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• London junior lawyers being asked to work 70-hour weeks by US firms to justify their £170k salaries

  05-11-2024 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research conducted by the website Legal Cheek found that American firms dominated the table on working hours among younger lawyers in the Square Mile, taking the first eleven places.
  
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• Conman, 42, who swindled partners, friends and women he met on dating sites out of thousands to feed his online gambling habit and luxury lifestyle is facing jail

  05-11-2024 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Higgins -a conman who swindled women he met on dating sites, friends and partners out of thousands of pounds to fuel his luxury lifestyle and gambling habit faces possible jail time.
  
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• Families battle to stop church which preaches 'abhorrent views' including that being gay is 'a trap of the devil' from being set up in the heart of their community

  05-11-2024 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Almost 100 residents in Ashford, Kent have objected to the opening of Winner's Chapel in the town, after homophobic comments made by Pastor Faith Abiola Oyedepo came to light.
  
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• Big Brother removes another episode after previously editing out pro-Palestine T-shirt

  05-11-2024 19:15 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up NextBig Brother seemingly removed an episode of their spin-off show Late and Live from their catch-up service, ITVX, just weeks after editing and reuploading an earlier instalment.The latest episode originally aired on November 4 and was available to stream online after it finished airing.However, viewers claimed they were temporarily unable to watch the show, presented by Will B
  
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