1 hour ago The 'Farminator' who rounds up illegal migrants: Farmer reveals he dealt with 5,000 stowaways on his land and says Keir Starmer 'treats them like royalty'

Chris Gadsden, 70, hit the headlines ten years ago as he collared hundreds of suspected stowaways sneaking into his fields in Bedfordshire.

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2 h. ago Pensioner is hit with £24,000 electricity bill... and ordered to pay back £2,000 a WEEK

Lin Lawler, who owns Grange Farmhouse in Hainford, Norfolk, uses the five-bedroom house and adjoining annex as a holiday rental for just over 100 days a year.

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2 h. ago Defiant Iran boasts all its nuclear material is 'in a safe place' after Trump dramatically backed down on war

'Israel hit Natanz, Isfahan, Khandab, and Arak but they were already evacuated',  Iranian commander Mohsen Rezaei said on Thursday.

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2 h. ago Canadian rescuers rush to a remote part of Banff park following reports that a rock slide hit hikers

Rescue crews, police and paramedics scrambled to a remote Canadian Rocky Mountain region of Banff National Park amid reports that a group of hikers were hit by a rock slide, causing possible injuries and deaths

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2 h. ago Katie Price shows off the results of her 'painful' botched BBL in a VERY skimpy polka dot bikini as she hits the beach in Ibiza after sparking concern with her weight loss

Heading to the beach for a spot of sunbathing on Wednesday, the former glamour model, 45, left little to the imagination in a skimpy coral bikini with a black spotted print as she soaked up the sun.

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3 h. ago Fat Joe denies sex acts with minors after former hype man’s $20 million lawsuit

Rapper is behind hits like ‘What’s Luv?’

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3 h. ago UK could record another warmest day of year as temperatures up to 33C forecast

Temperatures are forecast to reach the low 30s and could potentially hit 33C on Friday, the Met Office said.

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3 h. ago West End passersby see Rachel Zegler sing Don’t Cry For Me Argentina on balcony

The actress plays Eva Peron in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of hit musical Evita at the London Palladium.

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3 h. ago Boy rushed to hospital after being struck by lightning in Central Park duing freak storm

The teenage boy was conscious and alert when he was rushed to hospital following the incident, it is believed the electric current transferred to his metal chain after hitting a nearby tree

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4 h. ago Fat Joe accused of sex acts with minors by former hype man in $20 million lawsuit

Rapper is behind hits like ‘What’s Luv?’

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4 h. ago Council's cavalier attitude criticised as Stevie Wonder and Alanis Morissette music events are set to take over city centre park

Council leader Huw Thomas hit back highlighting the economic contribution the events will have on the city

Culture

5 h. ago Coronation Street team hit by huge new blow as budget cuts trigger more setbacks

The Coronation Street cast have been hit by a fresh blow amid the ongoing budget cuts - which have seen a number of changes in the long-running ITV soap throughout the year

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6 h. ago One dead and another rushed to hospital after small plane crashes on residential street outside Boston

Officials said a single-engine Mooney M20 aircraft hit the ground on Sam Fonzo Drive in Beverly, on the north-east outskirts of Boston, just before 9am on Thursday.

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6 h. ago Kyogo set for surprising transfer as Celtic hero 'lined up' for Birmingham City move by Brendan Rodgers ally

The Hoops sold the hitman for £10million to Rennes in January but he could be set to move again inside six months

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6 h. ago Tributes paid to one of Stockport's most loved characters who's joyous, toothless pub dancing made him an international hit

Dennis Taylor - whose Tuesday night karaoke dancing put The Chestergate pub on the map - has died. He was 72.

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6 h. ago I was torn apart online after yelling at cyclists for riding side

In a case that divided the nation, Chellce has now hit back at the critics and argued the rules are 'confusing' and 'conflicting'.

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6 h. ago Carlos Alcaraz beats the heat in epic comeback against Munar at Queen’s Club

Top seed into quarter-finals with 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5 winAlcaraz victory longest match at Queen’s in 34 yearsOn a day of hot heads and high emotion, Carlos Alcaraz proved once again to be a master of escapology in the longest match at Queen’s Club for 34 years. With temperatures hovering over 30C on Andy Murray Arena, the Spaniard was 4-2 down in the final set, having lost four games in a row. To add to his sense of peril and woe, his serve was also misfiring and he had just hit his 50th unforced error. Yet he found a way – just as he had during the French Open final earlier this month.A few minutes – and a series of inspired winners – later Alcaraz was shaking hands with his compatriot Jaume Munar having won 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5 in an epic that lasted a little under three hours and 30 minutes. It was the longest match at Queen’s Club since MaliVai Washington faced Mark Keil in 1991, with the second set alone taking an hour and 42 minutes. As Alcaraz pithily wrote on the BBC TV courtside...

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7 h. ago From Beersheba to Babylon: Netanyahu casts himself as liberator of Iran

Speaking at a hospital hit by an Iranian missile, the Israeli prime minister invoked ancient Persia as he hinted at a historic missionIt was in the Beersheba, about a thousand kilometers and 2,500 years from Babylon, that Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Thursday that the time had come for the Jews to repay their ancient debt to Cyrus the Great and bring liberation to Iran.The Israeli prime minister had just made a tour of Beersheba’s Soroka hospital which a few hours earlier had sustained a direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile on one of its buildings. It was for that reason the scene of an escape which was already being dubbed miraculous by Israel’s leaders. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Duhan van der Merwe hits back at ‘SpringJock’ jibes: ‘I know how hard I’ve worked to get here’

Flying winger brushes off allegiance jibes and cannot wait for Australia after a testing Lions tour in 2021Duhan van der Merwe does not want to shake hands. It is not that the hulking Scotland winger is being rude – he is polite to a fault – but after a gruelling gym session the British & Irish Lion has blisters as big as golf balls. A fist bump – a touch daunting given the size of his biceps – must suffice.Van der Merwe’s war wounds are the first indication that public perception about him can be misleading and there are many to follow in the ensuing half-hour. From an impassioned response to accusations he is a “SpringJock”, to discussing why he runs roughshod over England once a year, Van der Merwe is illuminating company. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Gennaro Gattuso seeks ‘family’ ethos in bid to avoid World Cup unthinkable

Hero of 2006 World Cup was second choice behind Claudio Ranieri and has not had a successful career as managerGennaro Gattuso said all the things he was expected to say at his first appearance as Italy manager. He talked about the need to restore enthusiasm to an Azzurri side whose morale has been dented by recent setbacks, as well as that sense of shared purpose that bonded him to teammates in the World Cup-winning side of 2006.The word he kept coming back to was “family”, insisting: “That’s the most important thing, more than tactics or formations.” His is not a vision of paternalistic authority but of a group close enough to speak hard truths to each other’s faces. Continue reading...

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