34 h. ago Extra security at World Pie Eating Championships as cheat tries to sneak in funnel

Tony Callaghan, owner of Harry’s Bar, in Wigan, Greater Manchester, has ordered the increased surveillance after he was told that a competitor was planning to cheat

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47 h. ago Russell Grant's horoscopes as Scorpio told financial planning is in order

Today's stars have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant.

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66 h. ago P Louise told 'this is how you influence people' as founder shares Christmas plan

Paige Louise Williams, aka P Louise, has spent an enormous amount helping children across Greater Manchester have a fantastic Christmas alongside Cash for Kids charity

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6 d. ago Machado escape planner feared US strike on her vessel as it fled Venezuela

Special forces veteran Bryan Stern says he told US defence officials some of his planned route to reduce airstrike riskThe most dangerous moments came when salvation seemed finally assured.Many miles from land, the small fishing skiff carrying the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize laureate María Corina Machado had been lost at sea for hours, tossed by strong winds and 10ft waves. A further hazard was the ever present risk of an inadvertent airstrike by US warplanes hunting alleged cocaine smugglers. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Health and safety rules holding UK infrastructure back, says writer of government report

Exclusive: John Fingleton says regulators need to change their attitude to risk to end the country’s economic stagnationOverbearing health and safety rules are stopping Britain building new infrastructure, according to the economist whom Keir Starmer has cited as an inspiration for his growth strategy.John Fingleton, who recently wrote a report for government on how to encourage developers to build new nuclear power plants, told the Guardian regulators needed to change their attitude to risk if the country was to end its long economic stagnation. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Kilmar Ábrego García released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration

Ábrego plans return to Maryland as DHS pledges to appeal judge’s decision, calling ruling ‘naked judicial activism’Kilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday.Ábrego was released shortly before 5pm ET, his attorney told the Associated Press. He plans to return to Maryland, where he has lived for many years with his US citizen wife and child after first entering the country illegally as a teenager. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago NYC woman sues Chipotle and DoorDash, claiming she ‘bit into a rodent’ in her burrito bowl

Exclusive: ‘[T]he rodent was within the plaintiff’s mouth after biting into the meal,’ Gia Bernhardt’s lawsuit says, but Chipotle told The Independent that it plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against her claims

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9 d. ago King jokes former chancellor should ‘keep trying’ to make Britain ‘great again’

Sir Jeremy Hunt told the King of his plans to write a book on how to ‘make Britain great again’ when he was knighted at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

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1 week ago Panicked passengers are told to 'leave everything' and flee plane as it is engulfed by smoke from airport fire

Footage shows panicked travellers pushing their way to the exit of the LATAM Airlines aircraft as flames burn nearby.

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2 w. ago Teen cadets booted out of army camp & told ‘cease all activity’ for 600 migrants – as locals blast ‘dishonesty & deceit’

TEEN cadets have been booted out of an army camp and told to cease all activity to make way for 600 migrants. Plans to move 600 migrants to a military site on the edge of Crowborough, East Sussex are set to go ahead despite delays, leaving locals furious. The Ministry of Defence ordered Crowborough's No.8 detachment...

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2 w. ago Imran Khan’s disappearance was a ‘death test run’ to gauge public reaction, claims sister

In an exclusive interview with Independent Urdu, Aleema Khan says family had previously been told there was a plan to ‘eliminate’ the former Pakistani premier

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2 w. ago ‘I’m rapt!’: meatball chants but no mania as New Zealand assembles for first Ikea store

Overnight camping was banned and motorists were told to plan their journey as New Zealand finally joined the flatpack family“I’ve been waiting 25 years for this,” says Annie Sattler.A quarter of a century after she emigrated from Germany, and seven years since the store was first announced, Sattler was prepared to wait just a few hours extra to be among the earliest through the doors of Ikea’s first outlet in New Zealand. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'I'm fed up of my noisy neighbour yet he had the audacity to report me'

A woman was gobsmacked when her upstairs neighbour filed a noise complaint about something that was happening in her flat every day, while he had his own annoying 2am habit

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2 w. ago Jury trials to be axed for crimes with sentences under three years as 'swift court' plans announced

David Lammy told the House of Commons the plan for jury-free trials will take time to implement

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2 w. ago Emmerdale star 'couldn't even tell his wife' Lisa Riley was going on I'm A Celeb

Emmerdale’s Dominic Brunt revealed he was one of the only people Lisa Riley told before heading into I’m A Celeb, keeping her jungle plans a closely guarded secret

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2 w. ago Strictly's Alex Kingston's famous neighbour and 'village behind her' as sweet ritual revealed

Alex Kingston, who is competing alongside Strictly pro Johannes Radebe on the latest season, can reportedly count a famous neighbour as one of the fans she's generated in the local community

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2 w. ago Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi backtrack on plan to stay in UK while Trump is in power as couple plot return to sunny California to escape chilly Cotswold winter

Ms DeGeneres has told friends she and Ms de Rossi are planning to spend more time in sunny California because they 'miss their friends' and dread the thought of another British winter

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2 w. ago No 10 denies Reeves misled over black hole as OBR letter challenges warnings

The Chancellor was told in October by the Budget watchdog that her spending plans would no longer incur a black hole.

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2 w. ago Pensioner who built giant pirate ship in his back garden is told he needs planning permission after 'killjoy' neighbour reported him to council

Steve Coombs' huge boat features a captain's hideout, a moving ship's wheel, netting, and even a cannon but it has attracted local anger due to 'the number of visitors'.

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2 w. ago Man in planning row with neighbours after 'killjoy' reported pirate ship he built in his garden to the council

Steve Coombs' huge boat features a captain's hideout, a moving ship's wheel, netting, and even a cannon but it has attracted local anger due to 'the number of visitors'.

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