2 hours ago Storm Bert's trail of carnage: Urgent search underway for 'dogwalker swept away by floodwater' after killer storm leaves three people dead as weather map reveals where 16 inches of snow and

Eight yellow weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office , covering the entirety of Wales, the south west and the south coast of England.

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2 hours ago Alesha Dixon 'splits from partner Azuka Ononye after 18 years' as she shares sad confession

Alesha Dixon and Azuka Ononye have been together since 2006 and the pair share two children together aged 11 and 6

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2 hours ago Gangs of black eyed ghost children terrorise Brits in UK’s most haunted woods

Terrifying reports from Britain's most haunted woods Cannock Chase warn the paranormal beings are getting braver as some locals say they have been touched by the ghouls

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3 hours ago Nine Premier League clubs in transfer scramble for teenager as selling club target record sale

Slavia Prague and Senegal's 19-year-old left wing-back El Hadji Malick Diouf is the subject of huge interest from both the Premier League and Europe ahead of the January transfer window when he is sure to be one of the hottest young talents on the market

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3 hours ago Abandoned Scots museum which cost £4m to build on sale for just £150,000

Blackadder and Time Team star Tony Robinson opened the attraction in 1997.

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4 hours ago The Observer view: Selling a piece of fruit for £4m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

The sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, to a crypto entrepreneur is a grim concept that has little to do with disruptionPaulina Brandberg, the Swedish minister for gender equality and work life, has a phobia of bananas so severe, her aides check rooms for the fruit before she’s due to enter them. Like other sufferers of this most unlikely of conditions, she is triggered by the merest traces of banana: a skin mouldering in a far-off wastepaper basket; a lingering smell; the sense that until recently something bendy and yellow lurked next to the perfectly innocent apples and oranges in the bowl on that coffee table.We can only hope, then, that the minister was – trigger warning – nowhere near the big auction house news of last week, in which a banana sold for $5.2m (£4.1m) at...

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4 hours ago Where Storm Bert will strike next: Terrifying weather map issued after killer storm leaves three people dead and kids are saved from landslide as 16 inches of snow and

Eight yellow weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office , covering the entirety of Wales, the south west and the south coast of England.

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4 hours ago Paddy McGuinness' warning to website over claim he stopped off at Michelin starred restaurant during £9million Children in Need cycle ride

EXCLUSIVE: Sources close to the BBC star told the Mail he began proceedings on Thursday night after the weekly newsletter accused him of taking a helicopter to L'Enclume in Cumbria.

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4 hours ago Phillip Hughes: depth of loss even 10 years on speaks to the cricketer he was | Jonathan Horn

The young batter’s death stirred the public in ways we’d never before seen and remains a reminder that sport is ultimately a shared experienceThat day, that week, that helpless, hopeless fortnight comes at you 10 years later in a blur of images – the bowler cradling Phillip Hughes’ head, the teammate removing his pads, the orderly assembly of cricket bats on front porches, the detached explanation of the neurosurgeon, the mourners fanning themselves in the high school gymnasium.It was a basal subarachnoid haemorrhage – a sick fluke. We’re largely inured to such tragedies now but occasionally they get in your marrow. A child is struck by a car crashing into a playground. A family is blown to bits by a missile. A young girl is murdered and dumped in a tip. A cricketer is killed at the cre...

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