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The 1st Duke of Wellington was a celebrated military hero before entering politics, and his extensive battlefield experience shaped his leadership style.

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16 hours ago Four air fryer tips that can save you from potential health risks shared by TV doctor

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4 hours ago Coronation Street bosses 'face revolt from stars who say they're worked like dogs and fear being axed to cut costs'

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20 hours ago Manchester United may already possess the goalscoring gem that will save them millions

United are in need of more goalscoring firepower but they may already have the gem ready to uncover in their ranks

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38 minutes ago Melissa Rivers saves late mother Joan Rivers' Emmy before losing home in devastating LA fires

Melissa Rivers revealed that she was able to save her late mother Joan Rivers' Emmy before losing her Pacific Palisades home in the devastating L.A. fires.

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4 hours ago Inside Mr Tumble star Justin Fletcher's life off screen including huge net worth and why he never married

Mr Tumble has been a kids TV hero for decades, but what do we know about Justin Fletcher, the man behind the slapstick CBeebies character, and his life offscreen?

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12 hours ago Winter fuel payments: The cold weather support available for pensioners after new rules introduced

Everything you need to know about the changes to the winter fuel payment

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94 minutes ago Mangled trees, charred homes and ashen land: inside a community leveled by the Palisades fire

Where once kids played and a California neighborhood gathered, the land is now devastated by a ferocious fireIn Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood, street after street is laden with carnage that tells part of the story of the ferocious firestorm that swept through the area over the last two days.Buckled trees and telephone poles are strewn across roads, their piled branches and hanging wires a testimony to the winds that whipped the flames. Intersections are flooded with water, even after the loss of water pressure hampered efforts during the harrowing firefight. Mansions lining the yellow beaches hollowed out, homes in the neighborhoods’ canyons reduced to dust. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist

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13 hours ago Shoppers 'get compliments' whenever they wear 'beautiful' Versace perfume now £24

The huge offer at Boots will save fans of the luxury designer fragrance money - but the deal isn't going to last forever

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2 hours ago UK snow map: Where and when heavy snow, rain and flooding will hit the strongest

Heavy snow and rain causes widespread disruption as cold temperatures return this week

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9 hours ago Council leaders call for Government to ‘wake up’ to floods after major incident

A letter signed by Leicestershire council leaders has asked for funding after severe flooding hit the county.

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13 hours ago Older people can claim two benefits which boost annual income by nearly £10,000 this year

Pensioners no longer due Winter Fuel Payments could increase their annual income by thousands of pounds.

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3 hours ago Inside the safe consumption room tasked with helping to drive down Scotland's drug deaths epidemic

Team behind UK first centre aim to save lives and improve public health

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10 hours ago This Ancestry discount code for January 2025 saves 50% on your membership

Dive into your past with a 12-month membership for half-price

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14 hours ago Thousands of Scots pensioners on DWP disability benefit to move to new devolved payment from April

Social Security Scotland will write to claimants to let them know when it is time for them to transfer.

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4 hours ago US Olympic hero Gary Hall Jr. says he lost everything, including his 10 medals, in California fires

It’s difficult to save things when ‘you’re running for you life,’ said champion swimmer

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10 hours ago This easyJet discount code could save you hundreds of pounds on your next holiday

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14 hours ago New online calculator can help people save £128 on streaming subscription services this year

The UK Subscription Savings Calculator can help cut costs of all entertainment, food and fitness services.

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8 hours ago Pensioner killed and eaten by neighbour's pig on Christmas Day as locals left 'confused'

Police in Ohio in the US think a woman found dead on her front porch on Christmas Day was eaten by pigs - concerns were raised when the pensioner did not show up to a family event

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11 hours ago Households face squeeze as pound tumbles to lowest level against US dollar for over a year

With many people already booking holidays for 2025, some travellers may find their money doesn't go as far. However, there could be a silver lining for pensioners purchasing an annuity, a type of retirement income

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15 hours ago Father who snagged £2.5m Omaze mansion puts it on the market just months after winning it

Chris Milnes, 60, scooped the 5,000 sqft new-build property last June after entering the Million Pound House Draw without telling his wife and children.

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8 hours ago Scene of devastation as sports ground left underwater in Didsbury floods

An urgent appeal has been launched after the Didsbury Sports Ground was damaged when the bank of the River Mersey collapsed

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11 hours ago New Scots MP Alison Taylor says not all WASPI women should get compensation

Alison Taylor spoke out after Labour politicians were accused of hypocrisy after their UK Government denied thousands of women compensation over state pension changes.

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16 hours ago I got a £170 parking fine after a broken machine meant I couldn't buy a £1 ticket

Berkeley Bathurst, pictured, claims he was unable to pay the fee to park at the car park in Hornchurch, East London.

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9 hours ago Marvel Rivals Season 1 countdown – exactly when you can play the hero shooter's biggest drop yet

The countdown until Marvel Rivals Season 1 lands has begun, as fans grow desperate to try out its new mode, characters and maps.

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12 hours ago Olympic icon Duncan Scott swaps the pool for pulling pints after being spotted behind bar at Scots pub

Olympic hero Duncan Scott delighted pub goers in Stirling this week after he was spotted at a popular watering hole within the city's ancient City Walls.

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16 hours ago I got a £170 parking fine after a broken machine meant I couldn't buy a £1 ticket for a 10

Berkeley Bathurst, pictured, claims he was unable to pay the fee to park at the car park in Hornchurch, East London.

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10 hours ago Coronation Street twist as fans 'work out' unlikely resident saves Carla from kidney failure

Coronation Street fans are convinced they know who will save Carla Connor from her devastating kidney failure after she was stabbed by Scott Emberton's son Johnny.

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12 hours ago Former Rangers star Andy Halliday and wife Jilly Isabella share baby gender reveal

Scottish influencer Jilly Halliday and the ex-Rangers player have been flooded with support on their happy pregnancy news, which comes after the pair tied the knot in Glasgow last year.

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17 hours ago Energy firm breaks into widower's home to inspect smart meter: Pensioner thought he'd been 'burgled' after E.ON obtained warrant to check 'tampered' device

A widowed pensioner was left feeling like he'd been 'burgled' after energy provider E.ON sent a group of engineers along with a locksmith into his house to inspect his smart meter.

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13 hours ago Adam Jones picks his dream rugby team including six Wales legends and 'unbelievable' cult hero

The legendary Wales prop has shared the pitch with some of the greatest players to ever play the game

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17 hours ago DWP urged to increase Basic State Pension to £221 each week for nearly nine million people

The full Basic State Pension is currently worth £169.50 each week.

Economics

12 hours ago How to find your signature style: Using what you already have in your wardrobe

Ready to define a style that feels authentically you? Join personal stylist Clare Chambers to discover practical strategies for creating a wardrobe that saves you time, money, and stress—while looking effortlessly polished.

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14 hours ago The wrong trousers: how sporting dress codes can create an image problem | Emma John

Magnus Carlsen’s jeans put the spotlight on chess’s sartorial intransigence but it is not the only sport struggling to adaptWallace and Gromit is a festive TV staple in many a household – but it wasn’t their wrong trousers that scooped the post-Christmas headlines. That honour belonged to Magnus Carlsen, disqualified from a chess tournament in New York for wearing jeans.The orld No 1 – who also happens to be the only current chess player most people can name – had balked when he was told to change his attire ahead of his third-round match at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships. Walking out of the event, Carlsen shrugged that he would “probably head off to somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer”. Instead, he returned three days later after governing body Fide had agreed a more “flexible approach” to its dress code. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Shoppers praise £35 Debenhams tower heater that 'saves putting main heating on'

The oscillating heater has two settings and costs approximately 51p per hour to run

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13 hours ago Specialist divers to check Conwy Valley Railway bridge for flood damage before it can re

Buses have been replacing trains since damage was caused by the turn-of-the-year floods which have become an all too common problem in the area and beyond

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16 hours ago Expert shares exact day you should book your summer holiday to save money

Some days are better than others when it comes to bagging a bargain

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15 hours ago Moment heroic grandson rescues grandparents from their flooded home by carrying them in the bucket of his digger

Ryan Wesley, 31, managed to help the couple in their 80s to escape through the window of their bungalow in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, on Monday.

Events

16 hours ago ‘I’ve seen women suffer’: Malawi’s religious leaders fight for legal abortions

Deaths from backstreet abortions have united pro-choice Christian and Muslim clerics around ending the strict banThroughout his ministry, the Rev Cliff Nyekanyeka has led funeral services for women who died after an illegal abortion in Malawi. He has visited hospitals where doctors have shown him the aftereffects of such procedures, including pictures of what he describes as “rotting uteruses”. And he has seen women struggling with unwanted pregnancies.It is this lived experience that has led Nyekanyeka to advocate for a woman’s right to choose, and to campaign for change in a country with one of the world’s strictest abortion laws. In Malawi, women seeking an abortion can be imprisoned for up to seven years and anyone administering an abortion to a woman could face 14 years in prison; it is permitted only to save a woman’s life. The law was introduced by the British under colonial rule. Continue reading...

Politics

16 hours ago Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don reveals he and wife were ‘flooded in’

The TV presenter said he has lived in Herefordshire for 34 years and noticed that flooding in the area has ‘definitely got worse’.

Events

16 hours ago Andy Murray jokes he'll 'sabotage' Novak Djokovic's Australian Open dreams from the inside

The Scots hero - who failed to get his hands on the title in Melbourne - has joined forces for the first time

Politics

17 hours ago Warning half a million people will miss out on April state pension increase

Some 453,000 state pensioners who have retired abroad won’t see the increase, because there is no agreement in place to boost state pensions yearly in certain countries

Events

17 hours ago BBC The Traitors fans say 'if only' as they 'work out' how Kas could have been saved

They think he could have been saved as he was banised following the latest dramatic roundtable

Politics

18 hours ago Dick Van Dyke, 99, 'carried' away from Malibu fires after trying to save mansion

Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke had to be escorted away from his lavish home in Los Angeles by emergency services as wildfires continue to rage through the A-lister-filled city

Events

17 hours ago Coronation Street fans 'work out' pregnancy twist and who saves Carla Connor

Fans have prediction a pregnancy twist and who saves Carla as the lives of the Underworld boss and the Swains continue

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18 hours ago Gavin and Stacey star left 'mortified' after she's caught stripping off in awkward mishap

Gavin and Stacey actress Joanna Page recalled trying to save her co-star Melanie Walters from the hilarious mishap, which left the latter "mortified"

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18 hours ago Coronation Street fans spot plan to 'save' soap as they plead for 'more' after announcement

Amid a string of exit news, the ITV soap gave fans a huge return announcement

Politics

21 hours ago 'Simple but effective' radiator foil saves on bills and keeps rooms warm in winter

The SuperFOIL Radpack Radiator Insulation Reflective Foil is a no-thrills purchase that will make your heating more efficient and save you money in the long run, according to the 4,465 five-star buyers' reviews

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20 hours ago Buying secondhand refurbished items can save the planet – and you hundreds of pounds

The Mirror's environment editor set herself a task of not buying any new clothes for 12 months to reduce her carbon footprint and saved herself hundreds of pounds

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26 hours ago Strictly's Wynne Evans shares heartbreak following death of 'hero' brother

The Welsh opera singer has paid a touching tribute to his sibling

Events

21 hours ago 'Ban pesticides to save British bees from extinction' say 1.6 million Brits

Experts have warned that without bees we may lose all the plants that bees pollinate, all of the animals that eat those plants and so on up the food chain wreaking havoc with ecosystems

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