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• Who is the major TV star who plays Vicki Fowler’s partner Ross in EastEnders?

  01-04-2025 10:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ross Marshall arrived this week (Picture: BBC)Two new characters have arrived in Walford in EastEnders, and one of them is played by a very familiar face.Alex Walkinshaw is no stranger to soapland, but it’s been a little while since he’s been on our screens.He’s now playing Ross Marshall, father of Joel (Max Murray) and partner to Vicki Fowler (Alice Haig), but what else has he been in?Let’s take a look.Who is Alex Walkinshaw and who did he play in The Bill? Alex played
  
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• King Charles and Queen Camilla make 'generous' donation to Myanmar quake appeal

  04-04-2025 16:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The UK's Disasters Emergency Committee appeal raised £7.5million on just its first day to help those impacted by the quake, which has left over 3,100 people dead in Myanmar
  
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• Council fined as worker left in wheelchair from freak accident installing Christmas tree

  04-04-2025 16:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Lyth, 34, was left with severe injuries while installing a 20-foot Christmas tree in Bury, Greater Manchester - the local council has now been slapped with a huge fine
  
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• 'Entitled dad ordered me to give up my plane seat to son for outrageous reason'

  04-04-2025 16:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man has been left fuming after he was allegedly asked to swap seats on a plane so a child could enjoy the view - and even claims the father was left 'glaring' at him
  
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• Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault

  04-04-2025 16:37 via bbc.com
  
  The 49-year-old has previously denied all allegations against him.
  
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• UK sees hottest day of the year, with parts warmer than Ibiza

  04-04-2025 16:34 via bbc.com
  
  Temperatures reach 23C in parts of the south of England, which is hotter than Ibiza, Rhodes and Cyprus.
  
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• Spice-fuelled killer savagely beat pensioner to death with his own walking stick

  04-04-2025 16:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bernard Fowler had gone to Harold Wood station in east London to pick up his newspaper when he was randomly attacked and killed by Miles Sekai who was high on the drug Spice
  
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• Prescot fire: 'Cherished' schoolgirl, 13, killed in blaze as five other kids escape

  04-04-2025 16:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Layla Allen died after a fire in Prescot just before midnight on Wednesday. Her family say she was a "shining light in the lives of everyone who knew her"
  
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• UK weather: Hottest day of year confirmed as 'mini heatwave' end date revealed

  04-04-2025 16:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brits had been expecting the hottest day of the year to land this week, with Met Office weather forecasters predicting sky-high temperatures above 20C as the country embraces spring
  
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• Family scream in horror as bungling cemetery workers drop coffin and nan's body falls out

  04-04-2025 16:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dead woman's family was gathering around her grave during her funeral, as workers began lowering the 86 year old's casket in. The moment the coffin dropped was caught on camera
  
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• Teenager guilty of murdering boy, 13, stabbed to death in his own home

  04-04-2025 16:17 via metro.co.uk
  
  Jahziah Coke suffered a six-inch deep chest woundA teenager has been found guilty of murder after a 13-year-old was stabbed to death in his own home.Jurors convicted the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, of the murder of Jahziah Coke by a 10-2 majority verdict.Jahziah, 13, was knifed to death at his home in Oldbury, West Midlands, on August 29 last year.He received a six-inch deep chest wound, which was inflicted with such force it almost completely cut through one of his ribs.The j
  
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• UK sees its hottest day of the year so far

  04-04-2025 16:07 via bbc.com
  
  Temperatures reach 23C in parts of the south of England, which is hotter than Ibiza, Rhodes and Cyprus.
  
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• How Paul Mescal’s ‘body transformation’ for Beatles biopic role could be dangerous

  04-04-2025 16:06 via metro.co.uk
  
  Paul Mescal is going from starring as a warrior in Gladiator II to portraying Sir Paul McCartney in the 1960s (Picture: Paramount Pictures/Aidan Monaghan. All Rights Reserved)Paul Mescal’s most recent role was as a burly Gladiator, and now he’s going to be playing a young Sir Paul McCartney in the much-anticipated Beatles biopic.This week it was announced Paul, 29, would be taking up the role of Band on the Run hitmaker, 82, for the Sony Pictures biopic, also starring Barry Keoghan
  
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• Trump tears into China for retaliating against him and vows that tariffs 'will never change' despite markets tanking

  04-04-2025 16:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump remained bullish about the effects of his his newly enacted tariffs on Friday, despite retaliatory actions announced by China.
  
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• Scarlett Johansson's 'stalker' unveils terrifying new campaign against her and SNL star husband Colin Jost

  04-04-2025 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Joseph Branham - who has a large heart tattoo with Scarlett's name written across it - was arrested for being a threat and his 'personal obsession' with the Marvel actress.
  
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• Mum who killed her baby 'haunted' by secret for 25 years

  04-04-2025 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  Joanne Sharkey waited a quarter of a century for "a knock on the door" from the police.
  
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• Map shows where to see Banksy’s best graffiti in London after new artwork found

  04-04-2025 16:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  London is home to several Banksy murals (Picture: Gettybelindajiao/Metro)Banksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist who brings political street art to walls, bridges, and buildings worldwide.Since rising to fame in the late 1990s, the artist’s witty, satirical murals and daring pranks have earned him millions of pounds.Yesterday new piece of street art, believed to be Banksy was spotted on Thursday morning in Clerkenwell Green in Farringdon, London.
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• Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault

  04-04-2025 15:59 via bbc.com
  
  The comedian and actor has previously denied all allegations against him.
  
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• US trade war with China is 'single stupidest thing you’ll ever see’ says expert

  04-04-2025 15:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Political expert Ian Dunt has issued a scathing attack on Donald Trump after the US President announced a sweeping range of import tariffs on territories around the world
  
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• Putin's mouthpiece issues chilling four word threat directly to Brit soldiers in Ukraine

  04-04-2025 15:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Kremlin’s leading TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov issued the warning to British and French troops and claimed they “will all die” at the hands of invading Russian troops
  
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• Millions of UK workers see thousands slashed from pension pots in Trump's tariff turmoil

  04-04-2025 15:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Market mayhem continues with another £2trillion wiped off shares as experts warn it's 'not a good time' for UK workers whose pension pots have been hammered
  
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• Mary Berry's beef recipe has one ingredient that's the 'ultimate comfort'

  04-04-2025 15:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mary Berry has shared her recipe for beef bourguignon, a French beef stew braised in red wine, and says the wine is the secret to making it incredibly flavourful
  
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• Britain enjoys warmest day of the year so far as temperatures hit 24C in conditions closer to an average day in July amid ongoing wildfires risk

  04-04-2025 15:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sun-seekers headed to parks to make the most of the dry and bright weather especially in England which the Met Office said was closer to a typical day in July.
  
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• Train ploughs through car at level crossing after signaller forgets to close barriers

  04-04-2025 15:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A report into a crash between a car and passing train on a level crossing at Redcar has revealed a "disrupting" phone call at the heart of the frightening incident
  
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• When we discovered our son was different, my husband made an unthinkably cruel accusation. But I could never have imagined the evil he was capable of: TINA TALBOT

  04-04-2025 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After I gave birth to my son, Phillip, he became my only reason for existing. But within a few years, my husband began to make our lives hell - and it all started with the cruelest of accusations.
  
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• Shoplifting gang who filled up 857 trollies stealing £130,000 of goods handed themselves in after police sent them ultimatum letter

  04-04-2025 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For two years, the organised criminal crime gang toured Tesco supermarkets from Suffolk to Somerset, Surrey and Cornwall brazenly walking out each time after filling ten trollies to the brim
  
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• Much-loved family dog ‘picked up and stolen’ by stranger in pub car park

  04-04-2025 15:40 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageA family are ‘trying not to lose hope’ after their dog was picked up and allegedly stolen from a pub car park.CCTV footage shows Boston Terrier Skye being picked up by a stranger in the car park of The Old Crown Inn in Bartley Green, Birmingham.Skye’s owner Stacey Holland and four-year-old daughter Evelyn are devastated as the hunt for thei
  
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• Oldbury murder: Teen found guilty of stabbing 13-year-old Jahziah Coke to death

  04-04-2025 15:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The defendant, who cannot be identified because of a court order imposed due to his age, had claimed Jahziah Coke suffered a non-deliberate chest injury at a property in the Oldbury area on August 29
  
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• Jennifer Lopez stuns on red carpet with gender neutral child Emme in man's tux as her 'date'

  04-04-2025 15:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jennifer Lopez looked dressed for revenge as she wowed in a black gown  with a floor-length cape while attending opening night of Good Night, and Good Luck.
  
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• Iran prepares mass finger amputation of 'thieves' in brutal sharia punishment

  04-04-2025 15:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharfian and Mehdi Shahivand are waiting to undergo the 'cruel and irreversible' punishment of finger amputation as early as April 11.
  
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