40 minutes ago EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE's Boxing Day Quiz on the stars, as quoted by the master columnist in 2024

Tis time to jettison that Christmas cracker crown and don the Hardcastle thinking cap, fire up the brain cells and tackle the first part of the annual quiz of what the stars said, as quoted by Effy, in 2024.

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1 hour ago Ozempic was handed to almost 400 prisoners this year: NHS paid £130,000 for lags' fat jabs

The total number of 396 was down from years before, with 575 Ozempic jabs given to prisoners in 2023 and 448 in 2022.

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1 hour ago 'We were offered more than double the value of our home to turn our land into a wind farm'

The couple were asked to sign an NDA and offered a huge sum of money, as well as a temporary £10,000-a-year payment, in exchange for their 'little paradise'

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2 hours ago The secret helpers trying to find Brits who go missing every 90 seconds

Around 170,000 people go missing in the UK every year but public appeals are not always the best way to find them - which is where Missing People's 'secret helpers' come in

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3 hours ago Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history’s worst natural disasters

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3 hours ago The train operators with the highest cancellations as performance plummets to joint record low

A total of 208,000 services were fully axed in the 12 months to November 9, in a sign of the overall network’s lack of reliability

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3 hours ago Train cancellations top 360,000 for the year as passengers face major disruption

Analysis of the latest Office of Rail and Road data found 208,000 services were fully axed in the year to November 9, with a further 161,000 part-cancelled

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3 hours ago 2024 small boat total 'nowhere near' worst fears in spite of improved weather

Latest Home Office figures reveal just over 35,000 people have made the dangerous journey across the Channel - far lower than the 50,000 ministers were warned of in July

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3 hours ago Train reliability hits the buffers as annual cancellations exceed 360,000

Reliability on Britain’s railways has sunk to its joint lowest level in figures dating back to March 2015.

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5 hours ago Twenty years after Boxing Day tsunami killed more than 270,000 people in 13 countries, how Mail readers have helped child victims turn trauma into triumph

The CWW Kannangara School in Galle, Sri Lanka, was torn to pieces by the terrifying 20ft wave that raged inland at speeds of up to 800mph on Boxing Day 2004.

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