95 minutes ago Five memorable Sonia Jackson moments as EastEnders legend Natalie Cassidy quits soap

Natalie Cassidy has reprised the role of Sonia Jackson in EastEnders since 1993, during which time the character had a teenage pregnancy, come out as bisexual and had a cancer scare

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9 hours ago Man charged with stabbing Vegas showgirls and tourists pleads guilty but mentally ill to murder

A man charged with a deadly series of stabbings on the Las Vegas Strip in October 2022 has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder and terrorism charges

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1 hour ago UK's rarest WW1 coin worth a staggering £30k but there's a major catch

A 107-year-old gold coin dating back to the First World War has now been valued at £30,000 - but, finding such a 'fine specimen' might prove rather difficult.

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3 hours ago Evan Ferguson transfer hint dropped by Brighton boss as Arsenal ponder late move

Evan Ferguson, who has been hampered by a series of niggling injuries since bursting on to the scene as a teenager, has been linked with moves to Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen and West Ham during the January transfer window

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88 minutes ago Crime gangs targeting shops by using vulnerable kids costing hundreds of millions a year

Retailers Against Crime say problem is out of control and urgent education is needed, with stiffer penalties and more police patrols

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3 hours ago AP PHOTOS: The moment to restore broken baby Jesus figurines has come in Mexico

It might cost more to repair them than to buy new ones. But baby Jesus figurines have such sentimental value in families that every January an area in downtown Mexico City is full of people with the broken religious sculptures looking for a workshop for hands, legs, nose, eyes, eyelashes or fingers.

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16 hours ago NASA astronauts are 'harassed by 125ft aliens with wings who peek into space shuttles'

Self-proclaimed UFO expert Chris Bledsoe has spoken out about the moment that 'angelic beings' were looking into the space shuttle and smiling at NASA astronauts

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5 hours ago David Attenborough cameraman GORDON BUCHANAN relives the moment he walked with a pack of wild wolves

In 2014, for the BBC series Snow Wolf Family And Me, I travelled by helicopter to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.

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13 hours ago Get ready for take off! Moment tourists are blown into the sea after standing behind jet to get the perfect shot at 'world's scariest airport'

Dubbed one of the 'scariest' runways in the world due to its proximity to the sea, the airport in the Caribbean island of St Marteen is a hotspot for aviation enthusiasts.

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4 hours ago The most brazen shoplifters ever caught on camera: Shocking footage show 'kamikaze thieves' raiding stores in full view of staff and customers as offences surge to record levels

This footage, filmed at a branch on London 's Chancery Lane, is only one of countless examples of brazen shoplifting that have been caught on camera across the UK.

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17 hours ago Gruesome moment MMA legend removes his EYE during interview with UFC star

Early in his fighting career, Magomedov suffered an injury that went untreated and reportedly left him with just 60% vision in his right eye, something Bisping knows all too well.

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3 hours ago New London Police issue update on controversial policy regarding stray animal pickup

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12 hours ago Jurors shown videos of student allegedly raping nine women in China and London

Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of drugging and raping 10 women in total.

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22 hours ago Inside the life of The Apprentice's first Influencer candidate who used TikTok to build her seven

The Apprentice returns to screens on January 30, and among the power suits and cringe-worthy pitches is a viral sensation who has hit the headlines before the BBC show even begins.

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5 hours ago 'Wild, gross, undeniably energetic': The Literary Fiction to be reading now

Anthony Cummins reviews the best literary fiction out now.

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14 hours ago Royal Family welcome second new arrival as first cousin gives birth to baby boy after keeping pregnancy secret

It's the second royal baby to be born this week after Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi welcomed their baby girl, Athena.

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7 hours ago JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK: I spent many happy hours in the pub...Gen Z will miss the joy of propping up a bar (if not the hangovers)

As a teenager I often accompanied my father to a soulless space in St Andrews where men would gather on a Saturday after watching their rugby team play.

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29 hours ago Arsenal sent new Ollie Watkins transfer update with Aston Villa to be 'demanding' over striker

Gunners have made a shock late swoop for England striker and boyhood fan before Monday’s deadline

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5 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: elderly couples among nine killed in Russian drone attack

Thirteen people wounded, including eight-year-old girl, in Sumy apartment block attack. Sweden pledges $1.2bn in Ukraine military aid, its biggest pledge yet. What we know on day 1,073See all our Ukraine war coverageA Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday. Images distributed by the emergency services showed a gaping hole in the facade of the long block of flats and rescue workers digging through debris for survivors. “This is a terrible tragedy, a terrible Russian crime. It is very important that the world does not pause in putting pressure on Russia for this terror,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media. National Police later said the search operation had been completed after 19 hours, with rescuers finding nine bodies in the ruins, while 13 people were wounded. Among the dead were three couples – men and women between the ages of 61 and 74 – Ukr...

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15 hours ago I have entered ‘nanna mode’ – bring me all your movies and shows about older women | Rebecca Shaw

I lost my grandmother a couple of years ago. My grief’s sharpness has worn down, and I’m ready to lean into the soft landing of older ladiesI recently had a realisation about myself: I have entered “nanna mode”. This does not mean I’m knitting, drinking enough cups of tea to kill Paddington Bear, or showing the ceiling instead of my face on video calls – nonetheless, I have become steeped in Nanna.I’ve always had a soft spot for older ladies (and ladies of all ages). But I had this lightbulb moment while watching Matlock, a reboot of an 80s TV show starring Kathy Bates as a lawyer in her 70s coming out of retirement – and getting up to shenanigans. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago The full snow moon will illuminate skies next month. Here’s when to catch it

The full moon rises in typically chilly mid-February

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21 hours ago 'I was told to lock away the paracetamol. My own child became a stranger': A terrifying portrait of the secret lives of today's teenage girls from a mother and daughter who went through it all

Christie Watson started to suspect something was wrong with her 16-year-old daughter when she found her in bed, smoking cigarettes, at two in the morning.

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11 hours ago Tottenham in advanced talks with Bayern Munich over £50m Mathys Tel deal

Teenage forward keen to leave German giants in pursuit of first-team football

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29 hours ago Bayern Munich confirm Mathys Tel wants to leave after Chelsea transfer interest

Manchester United, Tottenham and Arsenal also linked with teenage forward

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5 hours ago ‘Epidemic’ of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse – report

National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordinationAn “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly critical report from Whitehall’s spending watchdog has said.The National Audit Office report comes four years after a major government response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) was launched after the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard.The Home Office did not have “centrally coordinated funding” for VAWG, unlike that for the 2021 illegal drugs strategy, and had underspent on its own VAWG budget by an average of 15% between 2021-22 and 2023-24.There was no consistent definition for VAWG – the Home Office includes all victims, while police forces only include women and girls – which “made it difficult to measure progress in a consistent way”.While 78% of the commitments in the strategy had been met by July 2024, several we...

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18 hours ago Olivia Attwood reveals the thing that made her break down in tears while filming 'most shocking series' of her ITV show Getting Filthy Rich and shares what she really thinks of sex workers

The TV personality, 33, revealed series three is the 'most shocking yet' and forced her to step outside her comfort zone.

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7 hours ago Manchester United ease into last 16 as Dalot and Mainoo see off Steaua

On 68 minutes Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho combined for the Manchester United second that sealed passage into the last 16: over went a delivery from the No 17 and there was Mainoo to finish coolly.For two young talents who are on the market for the right price here was a satisfying moment that showed Ruben Amorim what can be harnessed if each are retained beyond Monday’s deadline. Continue reading...

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28 hours ago 'I was told to lock away the kitchen knives. My own daughter became a stranger': A terrifying portrait of the secret lives of today's teenage girls from a mother who went through it all

Christie Watson started to suspect something was wrong with her 16-year-old daughter when she found her in bed, smoking cigarettes, at two in the morning.

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16 hours ago European Central Bank cuts interest rates to support growth as eurozone economy stagnates

Live coverage of business, economics and financial news as ECB cuts main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points in effort to support growthIt was a flash reading on the Eurozone economy, so we don’t have the details on what the drivers were. But it’s clear that it was a weak end to 2024.But the European Central Bank might be able to spur a bit of economic growth in the eurozone with looser monetary policy.This marks a weak end to last year, following positive growth in the first three quarters of 2024. As a result, first estimates suggest that the currency bloc as a whole grew by 0.7% in 2024. Declining activity in Germany – the Eurozone’s largest economy – has weighed on the bloc’s growth, with German GDP contracting by 0.2% on the quarter. This suggests Germany has now seen annual declines in activity for two consecutive years.In 2025, further loosening of monetary conditions is expected to provide a modest uptick in activity for both Germany and the Eurozone, with growth expecte...

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6 hours ago New London police 'trying to work out' solution to stray pet policy sparking heated debate

New London police 'trying to work out' solution to stray pet policy sparking heated debate  Fox11online.com

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24 hours ago Video shows horrifying moment plane explodes in midair collision near Washington DC

A plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members crashed into the Potomac River in the US shortly after 9pm local time at the Ronald Reagan National Airport

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8 hours ago From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film

The music star was also an electrifying screen presence, from The Girl on a Motorcycle to Marie AntoinetteMarianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted asOn the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an icon or a muse. Maybe her very real success in music ruled her out of a serious acting career in the eyes of some, but Faithfull for a while occupied the epicentre of the late-60s pop culture zeitgeist, for an intense flashbulb moment she found herself in the overlapping worlds of music, movies and the explodingly important world of celebrity itself.The famous photograph of her in 1967 on a couch between Alain Delon and Mick Jagger absolutely captures her magnetism: Delon is entranced by her, Jagger (her boyfriend) is jealous, looking grumpily down: she and Delon were starring toge...

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18 hours ago Police record almost half a million shoplifting offences in England and Wales

The Office for National Statistics published the latest crime figures on Thursday.

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6 hours ago New London Police Department in talks with organizations amidst stray pet capacity issue

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8 hours ago Fury as TV star sparks outrage as she buys daughter, 12, a sex toy for her birthday

Brazilian actress and singer Claudia Raia made an appearance on live television where she made the shocking confession of gifting the sex toy to her young daughter

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6 hours ago Our young daughters are finally home after being held hostage by Hamas while paraded as battered and bloodied

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: For a moment, imagine you are Agam Berger's mother, Meirav. Nearly five hundred days ago, her then 19-year-old daughter was captured by Hamas.

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10 hours ago Miriam Margoyles 'will never forgive herself' for devastating incident when she was young

Comedian and actress Miriam Margoyles said, 'I will never forgive myself' as she recalled a moment of 'frustration and rage' while looking after her beloved mum following a stroke

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7 hours ago Washington plane crash: Air traffic control tower 'understaffed' during deadly collision, FAA report finds

Shock report revealed after Donald Trump suggests diversity hiring to blame for tragedy which left 67 dead

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11 hours ago Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life• News: Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78It is difficult to think of a moment in pop history less receptive to a 1960s icon relaunching their career than in 1979. At that point, British rock and pop resolutely inhabited a world shaped by punk: it was the year of 2-Tone and Tubeway Army’s Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, of Ian Dury at No 1 and Blondie releasing the bestselling album of the year. And it was a central tenet of punk that the 1960s and their attendant “culture freaks” were, as Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren put it: “fucking disgusting vampiric the most narcissistic generation there has ever been,” and that the decade’s famous names should no longer be afforded the kind of awed reverence they had enjoyed for most of the 70s. “No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones,” as the Clash had sung.And yet Marian...

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7 hours ago Major emergency response as police and fire crews called to Sale Water Park

Police, fire crews and paramedics were called to the scene shortly after 10pm

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11 hours ago Biohacker Bryan Johnson 'no longer injecting son's blood' as he adopts new method to de

Tech billionaire and biohacker Bryan Johnson has revealed that he's moved on from injecting himself with his teenage son's blood to something even more extreme in his bid to de-age himself

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7 hours ago As a human rights lawyer, I fight against discrimination in all its forms. Witnessing the recent anti

In the face of those who refuse to see our humanity, I choose to imagine that we are humane enough to believe in theirsMy grandmother, Holocaust survivor Olga Horak OAM, passed away in August 2024 just days after her 98th birthday. Just one week before, she attended her great-granddaughter’s Jewish day school to share her remarkable story of survival with the Year 6 students. Her parting message was simple: “Never forget. Don’t hate”. Although she could no longer stand up straight, in her decades-long commitment to Holocaust education as a volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum, she was indefatigable until the end.When she died, we lost an empire of knowledge. Just as we do whenever we lose a survivor. Her strength of character, her disarming candour, her twinkly eyes, her testimony and her light have secreted themselves in the hearts of the thousands of people she touched, like little mirrors reflecting flashes of her life. A giant photo mosaic. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Heartbreaking tributes as boy, 13, whose body was found at school pictured for first time

Connor Slade, 13, died on the grounds of Melin Primary School, in Neath, South Wales, with an investigation launched by police into what happened as his family paid tribute

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7 hours ago 'Traumatised' young teacher’s tragic spiral before being found dead having been locked in police cell naked

Jorja Watt faced an ongoing mental health battle which is said to have deteriorated after she was left 'traumatised' from being stripped and locked in a police cell

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12 hours ago From balabonnets to hoods – what’s behind the trend for grownup bonnets?

No longer the preserve of newborns, the bonnet is having its own catwalk moment this season. But is their cosy revival driven purely by practicality, or something deeper?Hej! Greetings from Copenhagen. I am in the Danish capital for fashion week, now regularly referred to as the “fifth fashion week” after New York, London, Milan and Paris – such is its influence in the industry and beyond.While some of the catwalk trends have divided opinion (not everyone is down for a ballet flat/sneaker hybrid) on the streets, one item gets a firm yes: the bonnet. Yes, the head covering typically associated with newborns has been seen on everyone from the street-style set outside shows to the Danes queueing at bakeries for their morning buns. It’s not just in Denmark, either. The accessory is thriving and bumping beanies off the headgear charts in London and New York. One TikTok user summed it up: “Brat summer, bonnet winter”. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Police release on bail the driver of a Land Rover that crashed into primary school killing two eight

Police have released on bail the driver of a Land Rover, Claire Freemantle, 48, that ploughed into a primary school and killed two young girls 

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13 hours ago Russian honeytrap 'agent' who fell in love with another spy on trip to Spain to find anti

Vanya Gaberova, 30, claims she believed she was being used by her lover to conduct police surveillance on a corrupt journalist and denies being a Russian spy.

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8 hours ago Tiny Welsh village is scene of two protests in two nights outside property as police issue warning

Two men were arrested but have both been released on bail with conditions pending further investigations. It's understood the protests are linked to separate legal proceedings against an individual

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13 hours ago Cardiff looks to introduce tourism tax and may add premium on event days

It will be up to councils to decide whether to bring in the policy

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8 hours ago Teens jailed for life unmasked after murdering dad in 'senseless' killing

Presiding judge Mr. Justice Constable condemned the crime, calling it a "dreadful attack, shocking not just for its brutality and senselessness, but because it was orchestrated and carried out by children."

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13 hours ago Princess Kate says 'would you like me to' in sweet moment with little girl she met on poignant royal visit

The Princess of Wales visited Ty Hafan children's hospice near Cardiff on one of her first public engagements since her cancer diagnosis.

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8 hours ago Anguished face of former Olympics star Nancy Kerrigan, whose skating club lost six members to DC plane crash

'It's a shock. I was watching all night (on television) and when you find out you know some of the people on the plane it is an even bigger blow,' she said through her tears.

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13 hours ago Where To Watch Oscar Films: Here's how you can see all 10 Best Picture contenders

Need to catch up on the most critically-acclaimed films of the last 12 months?

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9 hours ago All the signs Natalie Cassidy's EastEnders exit was sealed months before shock announcement

Natalie Cassidy, who has played Sonia Jackson on EastEnders for 32 years, has announced she is leaving the BBC soap after 11 years back on the Square

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13 hours ago Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he is no longer injecting himself with his teenage son's blood but has a new extreme way to stay young

Bryan Johnson, 47, from California , has become infamous for his mission to reverse his age, in which he spends millions of dollars each year on doctors and medical procedures.

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9 hours ago The Voice star Ryan Whyte Maloney died by suicide at 44 after shocking argument with fiancée

The Voice star Ryan Whyte Maloney died by suicide aged just 44 after an argument with his fiancee about her jacket.

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13 hours ago Young people say they'd elect a 'strong leader'. I say give more of them the vote | Polly Toynbee

Given what gen Z have been through, it’s no wonder they’re not impressed by democracy. But giving them a real stake in it could change everythingFor God’s sake don’t give them the vote! Many people said that after a shocking poll published this week appeared to show young people rejecting democracy. But that’s utterly wrong. On the contrary, this should prompt Labour to accelerate its manifesto pledge to give 16- and 17-year-olds the vote. They need more democracy, not less, and soon.The Channel 4 poll found that 52% of 13- to 27-year-olds think “the UK would be a better place if a strong leader” were in change “who does not have to bother with parliament and elections”, and 33% thought the country would be better run “if the army was in charge”, among other dark impulses.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Plane crash: Radar footage shows moment American Airlines plane crashed with chopper

Footage of an air traffic radar screen shows the American Airlines flight making a routine landing when the US military Black Hawk suddenly moves into its path - leading to the deadly crash

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14 hours ago Barclays hardens stance on hybrid working as staff told to come into office more

The bank is the latest large company to roll back its flexible working policies brought in during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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10 hours ago Heartfelt family tribute after 'cheeky' teenage boy found dead at primary school

"Connor have really left a huge hole in a lot of people's lives! He was a fun loving out going cheeky little chap!"

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14 hours ago Woman startled after she finds out who childhood penpal really is 10 years later

A woman took to TikTok to share her horror after finding out the identity of a penpal she had written to for years when she was a teenager. She only found out who they really were 10 years on

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10 hours ago Pilots' harrowing last words as plane plummeted in deadliest ever American Airlines disaster

Just two months after 9/11, Flight 587 plunged from the sky on November 12, 2001, killing everyone on board as well as five on the ground

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