6 hours ago World's oldest meat market Smithfield holds its final Christmas Eve meat auction at its site of 900 years

The world's oldest meat market has welcomed crowds in central London for its annual Christmas Eve auction - just weeks after announcing it will soon close.

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9 hours ago World's fastest object completes NASA sun mission as historic 'as Apollo moon landing'

A NASA probe made history Christmas Eve after becoming the closest human-made object to the sun, a feat scientists say was as historic as the Apollo moon landing.

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11 hours ago Christmas Day opening times 2024: See hours for Target, Walmart and more

All Target and Walmart stores are closed on Christmas Day

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13 hours ago World's oldest meat market Smithfield holds Christmas Eve meat auction after announcing it will close

The world's oldest meat market has welcomed crowds in central London for its annual Christmas Eve auction - just weeks after announcing it will soon close.

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15 hours ago London stocks move higher before Christmas despite weaker housebuilders

The FTSE 100 finished 34.27 points, or 0.42%, higher to end the day at 8,136.99.

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16 hours ago M40 traffic: Motorway closed by crash as lorry overturns causing Christmas getaway chaos

One of the UK's busiest motorways has been forced to close in part - just one day before Christmas - after a lorry overturned, sparking travel chaos as people rush home for the big day

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18 hours ago Christmas market killer 'is a closet jihadist and undercover Islamist', AfD claim

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, spoke at a rally outside the cathedral in Magdeburg yesterday, near where Taleb al-Abdulmohsen smashed his rented SUV into crowd at the Christmas market.

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20 hours ago Nasa solar probe to make its closest ever pass of sun on Christmas Eve

Mission teams will lose direct contact with Parker probe while it passes 3.8 million miles from sun’s surface Nasa’s pioneering Parker solar probe is poised to make its closest ever approach of the sun on Christmas Eve, a record-setting 3.8m miles (6.2m km) from the surface.Launched in August 2018, the spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space weather events that can affect life on Earth. Continue reading...

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