11 h. ago Londoners queue for 24 hours to win 'lifetime' of free Popeyes chicken meals

The offer includes 12 vouchers for a free chicken sandwich every 12 months for 50 years

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3 d. ago Man who took fake gun to McDonald’s and stole food avoids prison

David James Vauls was handed a six-month suspended sentence for the “error of judgment” while attempting to buy a chicken nugget meal deal.

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5 d. ago Scotland heroes spotted keeping the World Cup qualification party going in Glasgow pub 24 hours after epic Denmark win

IT'S not often international players are allowed off the leash these days. But some of Scotland's heroes couldn't resist the temptation to extend the World Cup qualification party into a SECOND day in the wake of that mammoth 4-2 win over Denmark on Tuesday night. We told you how pretty much the entire Scotland squad...

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9 d. ago Best Australian player was wearing Irish colours, Wallabies coach says after heavy loss

Joe Schmidt says 46-19 defeat to Ireland is ‘a tough one to take’Australia on brink of first winless Europe trip in 67 yearsThe beleaguered Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt has ruefully admitted that the best Australian player on the pitch in his side’s latest calamitous defeat was playing in Irish green.Mack Hansen, the ex-Brumby who grew up in Canberra and was snapped up by his mother’s home country, scored his hat-trick of tries within the first half-hour to kickstart Ireland’s record 46-19 win over Australia in Dublin on Saturday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ATP Finals live: Alcaraz completes stunning comeback to beat Fritz and seize control of No 1 race

Alcaraz beat Fritz in almost three hours, 6-7 (2-7), 7-5, 6-3, to win an all-time classic at the ATP Finals

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2 w. ago Revealed: Smirking Ukrainian refugee, 33, who sexually assaulted a woman in busy London station after fleeing war claimed he was 'stressed about the conflict'

Andrii Starovoitov, 33, launched his attack after joining the queue for the female toilets at London Bridge station just after 7pm on October 26 last year.

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2 w. ago ‘I’m never surprised when I read about a woman murdering a man’: Helen Garner on her Baillie Gifford prize

Her first book outraged Australian critics – but now she’s scooped the UK’s top nonfiction prize. She talks about female anger, becoming cool at 82 – and why winning made her feel like a stunned mulletWhen Helen Garner was announced as the winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction in London on Tuesday night, the 82-year-old Australian author was 16,000km away in Melbourne, watching the ceremony on a live stream at home on what was for her Wednesday morning. When the big moment came, she heard “the winner is ” – and then the feed froze. “We were going, ‘Oh God!’ Running around. We didn’t know what to do. The timing was like something in a comedy.” Congratulations immediately rushed in, which is how she knew she’d won the £50,000 (A$100,000) prize for How to End a Story, an 800-page collection of her astoundingly frank diaries, kept between 1978 and 1998.Garner is still grappling with her win when we speak a few hours later. “I’m a stunned mullet,” she says, sitting in her st...

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4 w. ago Martin O'Neill backed Celtic rivals to win league hours before replacing Brendan Rodgers

Martin O'Neill has been appointed as Celtic's interim manager following Brendan Rodgers' resignation, but he backed the club's rivals to win the title just hours before

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4 w. ago Martin O'Neill backed rivals to win league title just hours before Celtic appointment

Celtic have seen Brendan Rodgers resign from his post and bought in Martin O'Neill on an interim basis - but only hours beforehand he was tipping Hearts to claim the Scottish title

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