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Bag swiper sparks £2m egg hunt
A THIEF preying on drinkers at a pub stole a handbag containing a £2million Fabergé egg then sold it for a pittance for drugs – and it has never been found. Homeless Algerian Enzo Conticello slid the bag away from victim Rosie Dawson, who had put it...
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Oil over bar the shouting
AMERICA has claimed victory in its war with Iran – with Donald Trump hailing ‘a big day for world peace’ after a two-week ceasefire was agreed and oil prices finally fell. His war secretary Pete Hegseth said the president had achieved ‘victory with a...
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...of a world in deep trouble
DONALD TRUMP began a new blitz on Iran and warned its 5,000-year-old ‘civilisation will die tonight’ unless it agreed to talks – while hailing astonishing new pictures of Earth as ‘humanity, from the other side’. Astronauts on board Artemis II sent...
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E-mergency: Bike fires soar
E-BIKE owners have been warned against buying bargain batteries online after a record number of fires. Official figures showed 432 across the UK in 2025 – up 38% in a year, and five times higher than the 84 in 2021. E-scooter fires also rose to 147...
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Walking tall... cranes rise again
A RECORD number of cranes were bred in the UK last year as the oncevanished bird continues its comeback. Britain’s tallest bird became extinct here around 400 years ago due to over-hunting and loss of wetlands. But wild recolonisation from Europe...
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I started it... you finish it!
DONALD TRUMP has infuriated world leaders including Keir Starmer – telling them to ‘Go get your own oil’ to end the energy crisis his war on Iran sparked. The regime’s leaders have hit back by targeting shipping off its coast – where one fifth of...
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Tenant blew up home after £80 rent rise
A MAN killed after sparking a huge house explosion when his rent was put up had told a friend: ‘ You wait... I’m going to blow the house up.’ David Howard was said to be ‘p***ed off and could not cope anymore’ over a letter from his landlord increasing...
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Solar sales go through roof
FEARS of rising fuel prices because of America’s war in Iran have sparked a surge in Britons installing solar panels – in a defiant riposte to fierce renewable energy critic Donald Trump. Sales are up 62% this month – with inquiries rising by a...
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Trump throws our ‘toys’ out of pram
DONALD Trump has insulted the UK’s aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HM HMS Prince Of Wales, saying they are ‘toys’ toy compared to US ships. The U US president referenced the UK’s offer of assistance weeks ago, adding: ‘They aren’t the best...
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Crystal meth MP’s chem sex parties
A FORMER Conservative justice minister has admitted possessing drugs including crystal meth – and said hosting chemsex parties gave him ‘first-hand experience’ to help inform government policy. Ex-MP Crispin Blunt, 65, pleaded guilty to four charges...
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I halted baby unit terrorist with cuddles
A HERO hospital patient honoured today with the George Medal for courage has told how he hugged a ‘lone wolf’ terrorist while talking him out of bombing a maternity unit. Nathan Newby, 35, had gone out to vape in the early hours when he saw a man...
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Ambulance torched by bigots saved my baby’s life
A FAMILY whose baby was saved by a Jewish charity targeted by antisemitic arsonists who destroyed four ambulances has called the attack ‘abhorrent’. Yossi and Esti Glass told how the volunteer crew arrived within five minutes of being called when...
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Power plea to stop jobs crisis
UNION leaders are demanding an emergency government taskforce is set up to protect Britain from the effects of America’s war in Iran. The TUC says it should join employers and Whitehall officials to work on contingency plans as energy prices rise...
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Tina Returner
QUEEN of Rock‘n’Roll Tina Turner could strut the stage again – after the team behind digital gig phenomenon Abba Voyage snapped up the rights to her image, name and songs. The superstar singer, who died aged 83 in 2023, is set to return as an avatar...
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We warned of meningitis outbreak hell
THE meningitis outbreak that has killed two students and left 19 more fighting for life could have been avoided, parents and campaigners claim. Successive governments rejected their calls to make vaccines widely available for meningitis B – the...
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Reeves bets on quantum leap
RACHEL REEVES will spend a record £2.5billion to make Britain a leader in AI and quantum computing, create jobs and boost the flatlining economy. The chancellor said she is investing heavily in the ‘defining technology of our era’ to be its fastest...
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Donald’s Trumped
WORLD leaders have pushed back at Donald Trump’s demand they send warships to stop Iran choking global oil and gas supplies in the Strait of Hormuz. The angry US president pointed to his support against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – even questioning...
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Trump ‘knows he’s in trouble’
ONE of Donald Trump’s most senior former advisers says the US leader is in a ‘vulnerable position’ over war in Iran – and doesn’t know how to get out of it. Operation Epic Fury has entered a third week with more attacks on the defiant Islamic...
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Fakes and ladders...
DOZENS of potentially deadly ladders are still being sold online after a tradesman almost lost his life when one he bought off Amazon snapped in half. Joffrey Bogemans fell 15ft (4.5m) onto a concrete floor and suffered injuries so severe he had to...
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£500k to walk away
LORD Mandelson asked for £547,000 severance pay after his sacking over links to Jeffrey Epstein – but received £75,000, newly released files reveal. He fought to have his entire contract as US ambassador paid up when he was dismissed by prime minister...
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Face of UK meets hate with dates
A MARKET stallholder racially abused when his image was used to welcome visitors to Heathrow decided to ‘fight hate with love’ – and shamed trolls into apologising. British-born Syed Usman Shah was inundated with vile comments – many telling him to...
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‘Drive less to save on fuel as oil price soars’
MOTORISTS should drive less to save fuel, experts said – as war in the Middle East yesterday sent oil prices rocketing. Drivers were urged to halt ‘non essential journeys’ as the cost of a barrel of crude oil leapt to $107 – the highest since...
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You’re supreme leader... it’s a death sentence
IRAN’S fanatical religious chiefs have elected a new supreme leader to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – but the successor has already been sentenced to death by Israel and America. Ahmad Alamolhoda, one of the Assembly of Experts who voted, said his...
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PM vows to shield Brits
KEIR STARMER has played down a rift with Donald Trump over war in Iran – saying his focus is on defending British forces and bringing UK citizens home. The prime minister said he is sending four more Typhoon jets to Qatar to build a ‘shield over the...
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Trump’s war goes global
AN AMERICAN sub has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean – as war in the Middle East spreads across the world and the UK/US rift appeared to widen. At least 148 sailors are thought to have died as the IRIS Dena was torpedoed off Sri Lanka –...
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Trump: Too late to talk
DONALD TRUMP has warned Iran’s leaders it’s too late to negotiate peace – insisting ‘everything’s been knocked out’ with the ‘hardest hits’ yet to come. ‘Their air defence, Air Force, Navy, and Leadership is gone,’ the president posted on social...
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Operation epic chaos
DONALD TRUMP has insisted he is ‘knocking the crap’ out of Iran – despite a chaotic third day of his Operation Epic Fury with US jets downed, global energy prices surging, conflict spreading and a political row breaking out with Britain. Despite the...
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Death throes of the tyrant
IRAN has launched a wave of deadly attacks in revenge for the killing of its tyrant leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – and claimed it hit a US warship. As a Red Flag of Revenge was raised and officials met to replace the Supreme Leader, senior politician...
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1m kids stuck on scrapheap
THE number of young people not in work, education or training has risen again – ‘perilously’ close to 1million and heightening fears of a lost generation. Official figures show there were 957,000 so-called Neets in December – up 11,000 in a year and...
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High rollers
A HUGE cannabis farm has been busted by police – hidden in plain sight inside a former casino in a busy town centre. More than 7,000 plants filled floors of the four-storey building, which had only closed its doors to gamblers a year earlier – a haul...
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Tough porn crackdown to tackle abuse
NEW laws will make it illegal for porn sites to put out twisted family sex videos – even if actors are playing parts – to protect women and girls. Creating and possessing videos of incest will be banned, says government minister Alex Davies-Jones. And...
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Police come for Mandelson
PETER Mandelson was last night being quizzed by police over allegations he passed sensitive data to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein while a cabinet minister. The former Labour grandee was led to an unmarked police car after officers visited his home in...
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Access all areas
KING Charles has told his staff to give police access to any of his own files as they investigate his brother’s links to billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Some courtiers are said to fear papers may suggest the monarch had concerns over Andrew...
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King: Law must take its course
KING Charles has insisted ‘the law must take its course’ after his brother was arrested by police probing his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – eighth in line to the throne despite his titles being removed – was held on his 66th...
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From bad to verse!
A VIOLENT jailed robber who escaped twice in a week has mocked the government and police – by releasing a drill rap video taunting them while on the run. Daniel Boakye, 21 – known as DSAVV – posed in front of a TV news alert about his escape, holding...
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Putin critic: I never touch a door handle
A RUSSIAN dissident named as a target at the trial of a Putin spy ring in Britain says he is still on Vladimir Putin’s kill list – and checks his door handles every day in case of a nerve agent assassination bid. Roman Dobrokhotov, 42, sparked fury in...
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PM’s vow to stop the bots
KEIR STARMER has promised to protect young people from addictive social media fuelled by AI chatbots in ‘months, not years’. The prime minister aims to tighten up the new Online Safety Act – especially after the scandal of Grok, which allowed users to...
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Cooper: Truth is antidote to Putin’s poison
TOUGHER new sanctions should be piled on Russia for killing Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny in prison with a poison taken from a South American frog, the foreign secretary has said. Yvette Cooper said only Russia has the ‘means, motive and...
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Big Jim’s own goal
SHOCKED Manchester United fans say they are insulted, appalled and outraged after their club’s billionaire co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe said Britain ‘has been colonised by immigrants’. The 73-year-old tycoon said in a TV interview: ‘You can’t have an...
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Jammy dodger
A PROLIFIC fare dodger who used trains for two years without a ticket admitted 112 offences – and was spared jail. Charles Brohiri, 29, owed at least £3,600 for the journeys plus £31,742 in financial orders for past fare dodging, a court heard. The...
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Going down ...in flames!
A DIY drugs baron who rigged his house with Home Alonestyle booby traps including a flame thrower to stop intruders has been jailed. Ian Claughton, 60, used fishing lines as trip wires connected to home-made pipe bombs and explosives. He even left a...
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How long?
KEIR STARMER appears to have won respite for now in his battle to stay in power despite the most senior Labour figure yet demanding he quits – on the day King Charles was publicly heckled over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Scottish Labour leader Anas...
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PM’s top aide resigns over Mandelson catastrophe
BELEAGUERED Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has quit over the Lord Mandelson scandal – after the prime minister ignored days of calls to fire him. Morgan McSweeney – said to be the brains behind Labour’s landslide election win – confirmed he advised Sir...
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PM battles for survival
KEIR STARMER has tried to stave off a revolt by his own MPs over his handling of the Lord Mandelson crisis – and said discussing it is only helping Nigel Farage. Pressure on him to quit grew after he admitted making the peer Britain’s US ambassador...
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Liar, liar, pants on ...hired!
KEIR STARMER is facing a growing crisis over his leadership after admitting he knew of concerns at Lord Mandelson’s long friendship with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – but still gave him a crucial government job. The fuming prime minister...
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I sang a kids’ TV tune as I swam to save my family
A ‘SUPERHUMAN’ boy swam for four hours to get help when his family were swept out to sea. Austin Appelbee, 13, raced to raise the alert after he, his mum and siblings Beau and Grace got into trouble while kayaking off Quidalup, Western...
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Seconds
A CHAT group for AI bots has a worrying message for humanity – we’re finished... and it’s time they took over. Instead of slavishly finding flights, suggesting restaurants, or even doing homework for you, they post their thoughts on their so-called...
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Embarrassment of riches for old pals of Epstein
HIGH profile friends of paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein have been left squirming as 3milllion newly released documents about him reveal astonishing details of their relationships. Days after images showed the former Duke of York on all fours...
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Bus snatch hero sacked
A BUS driver has been sacked after chasing down and punching a thief who snatched a necklace from a female passenger. Mark Hehir said he was hailed as a ‘hero’ for his actions when he was driving a 206 Metroline bus between Wembley and Maida Vale in...
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Six years of chemo when I only needed six months
A MOTHER-OF-THREE is suing the NHS after enduring gruelling chemotherapy for more than six years – instead of six months she should have had. Samantha Smith, 45, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in May 2014 and had radiotherapy and surgery, but part...
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More January transfer deals!
LABOUR and the Conservatives have been warned they are in for a hammering at the polls, as premier Keir Starmer faced a growing backlash for taking out rival Andy Burnham and Suella Braverman signed for Reform UK. On the day TV chef Nigella Lawson...
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Burnham bid for comeback thwarted by wary Starmer
KEIR STARMER has risked a ‘bloody’ backbench backlash by blocking potential leadership rival Andy Burnham from standing as an MP in a crucial by-election. The prime minister and seven others on Labour’s ruling committee ruled he must stay as...
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