29 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing star says they've 'won' the show as they exit competition fourth

Who left Strictly Come Dancing? The fourth couple to leave the BBC One dance contest has been confirmed

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30 minutes ago Paul Merson is eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing: Former footballer becomes the fourth star to leave the show with his pro partner Karen Hauer

Paul Merson became the fourth celebrity to depart the dancefloor in Strictly Come Dancing 2024 during Sunday night's results show. 

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42 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing's Paul Merson takes final swipe after brutal axe from BBC show

Former Arsenal player Paul Merson was the fourth celebrity to be booted off Strictly Come Dancing - and he couldn't resist making a parting dig at Tottenham Hotspur

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45 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing sees fourth celebrity leave the show after tense dance

Former footballer Paul Merson has become the fourth celebrity to leave Strictly Come Dancing after he and his professional partner Karen Hauer faced the dance off

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75 minutes ago Chris Hoy is one of sport's greats and his devastating news will make world a poorer place

Olympic cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy has revealed he has just two to four years to live, with the multiple gold medalist opening up on his terminal cancer diagnosis

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77 minutes ago Shooting at university in Georgia leaves one person dead and five wounded

Shooting at Albany State University is one of two at the weekend that shattered homecoming-related activitiesA mass shooting during homecoming weekend at Georgia’s Albany State University left one person dead and five others wounded on Saturday night, according to school officials.Earlier Saturday in Mississippi, authorities said three people were killed and eight others were injured near Lexington, Mississippi, when at least two people fired guns at a group of several hundred people who were at an outdoor trail celebrating a high school football team’s homecoming game victory.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

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1 hour ago AP Top 25: Oregon is No. 1 for first time since 2012; Vanderbilt enters poll and Michigan drops out

Oregon has become the fourth team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press college football poll

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2 hours ago Moment young 'furry' wearing a leash is taken into Moscow bar before MEOWING at puzzled patrons

Baffling footage captured the incident, which saw the young woman on all fours in the establishment pouncing up towards patrons who walked past her.

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2 hours ago Law firm boss who badgered junior colleague for two months and claimed speaking to her was better than sex is banned for five years

Takeshige Sugimoto, a partner at the firm, was sacked after sending the junior legal consultant almost 1,000 messages in two months.

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2 hours ago The Guardian view on North Koreans in Ukraine: a Russian war is using foreign labour | Editorial

Moscow is relying on soldiers and workers enlisted from abroad to keep its war goingAround 1 million soldiers are believed to have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war in Ukraine. In addition to the vast Ukrainian civilian and military toll, average Russian casualties reportedly rose to a new height of more than 1,200 soldiers a day in September. Russia has four times as many men, but a war described by its own fighters as a “meat grinder” is rapidly diminishing the ranks, and using conscripts has a political cost. On some estimates, seven times more Russian soldiers have died since the invasion than Soviet troops died in Afghanistan in a decade.Valerii Zaluzhnyi, formerly Ukraine’s commander in chief and now its ambassador to the UK, remarked recently that in war “the only thing that...

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