3 hours ago Special effects expert who staged crazy bank heist... straight out of one of his movies

Gary Robert Hill stormed into the Arab National Bank in Mayfair last summer with an imitation firearm after he hit financial hardship when he was forced out of his job in special effects

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53 minutes ago Cocaine dealer kept stash in fake soup tin and had 'invoice book' of customers

Police found cocaine worth more than £6,000 and thousands of pounds in cash at 58-year-old Tracey Crew's house

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6 hours ago Vanity Fair blasts Harry and Meghan with 10 bombshell revelations since quitting firm

The popular fashion magazine has put Prince Harry and Meghan on blast for their actions over the past five years, criticising their life living the 'American dream' and their Netflix and Spotify cash grabs

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4 hours ago Ministers to announce plans to claim back money from benefit fraudsters

Liz Kendall has said that legislation will ‘make sure’ that people who ‘seek to cheat’ the system are held accountable.

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1 hour ago Bank of England interest rate cuts and how you may be affected amid inflation change

This week has seen inflation figures drop, changing many economists' outlook on future interest rate changes

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13 hours ago Murdered teenager’s father says killer rapper has ‘no remorse’ after recall to jail

Barry Mizen fears prisoners are coming out worse than they went in as he hit out at BBC for using tax-payer cash to promote killer’s music

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7 hours ago Arsenal’s scrambled brains and missed chances will really hurt Mikel Arteta | Jonathan Wilson

Eight minutes of nonsense have all but put paid to manager’s title dreams after draw with Aston VillaMikel Arteta dropped to his haunches, laid his hand on his brow and let his head slump. When he looked up again, he had his thumb and forefinger to his eyes. It was the fifth minute of injury time, Leandro Trossard had just rolled a shot wide and Arsenal’s final chance had vanished. With it, perhaps, so had their hopes of winning the league. At the very least, the gains of Wednesday were handed back.As it turned out Trossard, who had been Arsenal’s most dangerous forward, may have been a fraction offside anyway, which perhaps would have been the most fitting conclusion. In the previous eight minutes, Mikel Merino had seen a goalbound shot deflected in off Kai Havertz’s hand and hit the inside of a post. There was a sense in those closing stages of the fates, or at least Arsenal’s chronic inability to seize the moment, being against them. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Chinese rival app Xiaohongshu is overwhelmed by ‘TikTok refugees’ in US

Social media accounts blocked for breaking Beijing rules as millions of users join up before ban takes effectNine invaluable things I’ve learned from TikTokWhen Angelica Oung received the notification that her Xiaohongshu account had been blocked for violating the social media app’s code of conduct, her mind started racing.The only picture she had posted on her account, apart from her profile headshot, was of herself wearing an inflatable polar bear suit, holding a sign saying: “I love nuclear”. What could be the problem with that, wondered Oung, a clean energy activist in Taiwan. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Wetherspoons closes more pubs in UK – see which boozers have called last orders

Wetherspoons' 2024 report reveals the chain sold over two dozen pubs, raking in a multi-million-pound cash boost as it continues to downsize its portfolio

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6 hours ago Man City scrap transfer plan as they advance on £250m move NOW for Pep Guardiola

Manchester City's answer to their relative struggles is to splash the cash in the January transfer window, with £250million committed to re-energising Pep Guardiola's squad, and scrapping plans to wait for the club's new director of football

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25 hours ago Inside terrible plight of woman scammed into thinking she was dating Brad Pitt

Anne parted with nearly £700,000 as the AI scam led her to think she was dating Hollywood legend Brad Pitt, who she believed required the cash for cancer treatment

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10 hours ago I'm A Celebrity's Myles Stephenson rushes daughter, two, to hospital as she turns blue after seizure

Former X Factor star Myles Stephenson has shared his horror after his two-year-old daughter, Sahara, was rushed to hospital after suffering a seizure and a high temperature

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12 hours ago Mike Tyson buys $13m mansion in exclusive Florida enclave as boxing icon spends Jake Paul fight cash

The 58-year-old boxing legend returned to the ring at AT&T Stadium in Texas for an eight-round bout with Paul, 30 years his junior, in Netflix's first live boxing event.

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26 hours ago Homeless TikTok star who was 'exploited for likes' dies in street: Charity blasts Gen Zers who gave woman, 34, cash and alcohol to sing, dance and swim in fountains for the camera

Keeley Thorton - known as 'Sheffield Keeley' on social media platform TikTok - was reportedly found unconscious in the city centre on Tuesday, January 14.

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17 hours ago The UK has lost a millionaire every 45 minutes since Labour came to power, study claims

Rachel Reeves’ Budget, which hit employers with tax hikes, as well as crackdown on controversial ‘non dom’s’ blamed for the exodus

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14 hours ago You could get £150 free cash after DWP rule change – check if you're eligible

Through the Household Support Fund scheme, some councils are giving homes £150 cash if they are no longer eligible for the Department for Work and Pensions Winter Fuel Payment

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18 hours ago Octopus Energy overtakes British Gas to become Britain's biggest energy supplier as survey blasts BG's performance

Launched nine years ago by its CEO Greg Jackson, Octopus now serves nearly one in four British households with more than 12.9million household accounts, according to analyst Cornwall Insight.

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14 hours ago 'I thought I was being scammed but I actually inherited a stranger's £400k estate'

When heir hunters tracked Lorraine Gesell down at her home she was convinced they were fraudsters.

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18 hours ago Netflix The Bank of Dave 2 star Amit Shah's life from romance to Happy Valley confession

Amit Shah, who plays Oliver in Netflix's The Bank of Dave 2, has been a regular on our screens for the past two decades - but there's a lot more to know about the actor.

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14 hours ago Paul O'Grady's furious neighbours accuse widower of trying to 'cash in' on 'best house in Kent' after slashing asking price of £3.5m Edwardian mansion following holiday let row

Paul O'Grady's widow has infuriated neighbours again by knocking almost £1 million off the price of the star's mansion.

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21 hours ago Prime Target: Leo Woodall is TV’s most charmless man in this rollickingly silly maths thriller

This entertaining, high concept drama rattles along at quite the pace. It’s very watchable, even if its main character is a sullen grump – and it can feel like prestige TV by numbersEvery actor needs a speciality; Leo Woodall just happens to be really good at portraying total arseholes. In the irresistibly grubby second season of luxury hotel-based The White Lotus, he was smarmy Essex boy Jack, the “naughty nephew” of an apparently affluent British expat. But as his poor gullible mark Portia discovered, this cheeky chappy was, in fact, a manipulative conman. Next, he starred as Dexter Mayhew in Netflix’s note-perfect adaptation of David Nicholls’s romantic odyssey One Day. The handsome, privileged Dex was just about bearable until he became a TV presenter – at which point his natural talents for narcissism, cruelty and carelessness really started to shine through.By all accounts, Woodall’s talent for playing unpleasant men bears no relation to his actual personality – but the 28-yea...

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19 hours ago 'Dumb' woman scammed into giving fake AI Brad Pitt £700,000 now homeless and penniless

A French woman who was scammed out of nearly £700,000 by a fraudster using AI to pose as Brad Pitt is now homeless and penniless after being hounded by online trolls

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19 hours ago The £4.5m haul of designer fakes seized at Britain's border: From knock

EXCLUSIVE: Experts warn fakes can also pose a potentially deadly threat to buyers, with faulty electrical items at risk of suddenly catching fire.

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21 hours ago Households getting £150 this month after losing out on Winter Fuel payment

Most recently, some local councils announced that they would be giving cash to households no longer eligible for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Winter Fuel Payment

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22 hours ago Jessica Alba's divorce from Cash Warren 'complicated' thanks to film career and $640M Honest Company

Alba's money comes not just from her high-profile movie career which includes films such as Honey, but it also is from her success as the founder of Honest Company.

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