19 h. ago Chinese takeaway raises eyebrows with saucy viral Facebook post

"Spat my coffee everywhere!"

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47 h. ago Council slams ‘insulting’ comments on non binary persons’ day Facebook post

Bury council has urged people commenting on its posts to ‘keep the conversation civil’

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3 d. ago People smugglers offering 'summer deals' post clips on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook to lure migrants into crossing Channel as July is set to be the busiest month ever for arrivals

Adverts are still being shared on platforms including TikTok , Facebook and Instagram despite social media giants promising to clamp down on the content.

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7 d. ago ‘One in a million’: teen surfer found on remote island 14km off Australian coast

A search involving Marine Rescue NSW, police, PolAir and locals on and around Wooli beach led to Darcy Deefholts, 19, being rescuedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 19-year-old surfer is stable in hospital after being found safe on a remote island off the northern New South Wales coast of Australia in an outcome his dad described as “one in a million”.Darcy Deefholts’ family were “fearing for the worst”, his father, Terry, said in an urgent post to Facebook calling for rescue help on Wednesday night.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Canadian couple’s message in a bottle found 13 years later in Irish bay

Facebook post helps track down Anita and Brad, who had been dating for a year at time of message and wed in 2016In September 2012, a young couple capped a romantic date in Newfoundland, on Canada’s eastern tip, by putting a message in a bottle and dropping it into the Atlantic.“Anita and Brad’s day trip to Bell Island. Today, we enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other, at the edge of the island,” it said. It asked whomever might find the message to “please call us”, followed by a scribbled number. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago EastEnders' Natalie Cassidy horrified as 'disgusting' fake breast cancer claim sparks concern

EastEnders legend Natalie Cassidy has condemned a false Facebook post that wrongly claimed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, calling the hoax 'disgusting and disgraceful'

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3 w. ago Kay Mason Billig: Norfolk Tory chief in Facebook 'poor people' joke storm

Norfolk County Council leader Kay Mason Billig has defended the Facebook post - in which she took a picture of a tomahawk steak - claiming it was a "private joke"

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4 w. ago Influencer, 27, found dead after chilling Facebook post calling for 'help'

Zaria Khadejah Carr, 27, was brutally stabbed to death at a property in Georgia, US - her husband, Shamarcus Jameal Carr, took his own life after police discovered he was behind it

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4 w. ago SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project

Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it underwent ‘catastrophic failure’ while on standOne of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starships has exploded during a routine test in Texas, authorities said, in the latest setback to the billionaire’s dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species.The Starship 36 underwent “catastrophic failure and exploded” at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11pm on Wednesday (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by the Cameron County authorities said. Continue reading...

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