2 h. ago Couple caught having sex in 'holy' church grounds by parishioners learn fate

Two people caught by shocked parishioners at a city centre church have learned their fate after pleading guilty to a 'lewd, obscene and disgusting act outraging public decency'

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7 h. ago 'I can't cook so eat takeaway for every meal – people are shocked at the cost'

A woman has left people gobsmacked at how much she spends on takeaways per month, because she doesn't cook for herself, and treats herself to yummy food every day

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42 h. ago Washington shooting LIVE: Two people killed in 'depraved anti

Terrorism police have rushed to the scene in Penn Quarter, Washington DC and have asked people to avoid the area while they investigate the shocking attack

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42 h. ago Washington shooting LIVE: Two Israeli Embassy staff killed in 'depraved anti

Terrorism police have rushed to the scene in Penn Quarter, Washington DC and have asked people to avoid the area while they investigate the shocking attack

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4 d. ago Warning as figures show one in 10 UK adults have no savings at all

Millions of people are vulnerable to rising bills and other economic shocks, according to the the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Financial Lives survey

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5 d. ago Law and Order's Mariska Hargitay's horror after discovering real dad after 30

Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay revealed Mickey Hargitay isn't her real father in her new documentary called My Mom Jayne, following a 30-year secret

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6 d. ago Coronation Street fans gobsmacked by Todd Grimshaw actor’s real accent

Coronation Street actor Gareth Pierce has been playing Todd Grimshaw for half a decade, but some fans have only just discovered what his real voice sounds like

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6 d. ago Major infection warning as record number of NHS staff reject flu vaccine

Patient groups described the level of uptake as 'shocking' and accused refuseniks of negligently fuelling sickness and putting vulnerable people at increased risk of death.

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7 d. ago People left shocked after discovering who Declan Donnelly's famous cousin is

During their show, Ant and Dec's DNA Journey , Dec discovered that he had a long-lost cousin who was pretty famous for what she did for a living over in the US.

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7 d. ago Almost 300m people at risk of death through starvation – report

Aid cuts, conflict, climate and economic shocks contribute to sixth consecutive rise in numbers facing ‘high levels of food insecurity’Acute food insecurity continues to rise at an alarming rate, with almost 300 million people at risk of death through starvation, new analysis reveals.Escalating conflict and cuts to humanitarian aid along with climate and economic shocks forced an additional 13.7 million people into chronic food insecurity last year. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Three in five Britons with £10,000 or more hold at least 75% of it in cash

Many people are teetering on the brink of falling into debt reliance if they were to be met with a shock bill. One in ten people have no cash savings to cover them in an emergency.

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9 d. ago 'I spotted chocolate bar item at car boot sale and price left me gobsmacked'

Becky's Bazaar is well known on social media for bagging good bargains and showing people round charity shops and car boot sales but she was shocked at the price of this item...

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1 week ago The three questions guaranteed to save your marriage (and lead to better sex), revealed by top psychologist GREGORY WALTON

As a psychologist at Stanford, I often find people are shocked when I tell them that marriages always get worse over time. Sadly the data backs it up.

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1 week ago SAS accused of executing handcuffed children and murdering unarmed people in their sleep in shocking new eyewitness claims of UK 'war crimes'

UK Special Forces veterans have come forward to describe seeing SAS soldiers executing a handcuffed child and Taliban suspects while they were asleep.

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1 week ago ‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high

It started out as a dance for men who risked arrest for indecency – and grew into a legs-flying, bloomers-revealing sensation. We go behind the scenes at Bottoms, a thrilling new show about the cancan‘Our chorus line was never going to look like the Moulin Rouge’s,” says Katherina Radeva. And everyone knows what that one looks like, don’t they? The high-kicking cancan chorus line with long legs flying up in a blur as women show off their bloomers to the sound of Offenbach’s irresistibly infectious music – a riot of frills, thrills, whoops and garters. Well, that’s certainly one version. But Radeva is talking about Bottoms, a show she has put together with co-director Alister Lownie and their company Two Destination Language. Bottoms takes the cancan as its muse, its creators having discovered that the real story of the dance phenomenon is much more interesting than the tourist-friendly cliche.It turns out that the identikit all-female spectacle that we know so well is the opposite o...

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1 week ago People shocked by bizarre items found in every room of a 'normal' detached house on sale for £305k

From the outside, there is nothing out of the ordinary about the detached suburban property in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

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2 w. ago ‘If it isn’t recorded it will disappear’: the Muslim photographer shining a light on Bradford’s Jewish community

When Nudrat Afza learned that her friend’s synagogue was closing she began a multi-year project to document the city’s declining Jewish population. ‘In Bradford people from different communities respect each other,’ she saysIn April 2013, Nudrat Afza, a Muslim woman from Bradford, gave her 90-year-old Jewish friend Lorle Michaelis a lift to the local Orthodox synagogue. “As Lorle got out of the car, she told me it would be the last service,” Afza recalls. “There were no longer enough people to run them. I was shocked. I knew the building would be sold or demolished.”Afza got out of the car and took a few quick photos of the synagogue’s exterior. Months later, she happened to be passing when the caretakers were coming out. “I put my foot in the doorway and took some pictures inside, to quickly record what was there,” she says. The Orthodox synagogue was sold and redeveloped in 2015. Afza didn’t know it at the time but the photos were the start of a multi-year...

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2 w. ago EastEnders' Nicola's 'real reason' for killing Shireen 'revealed' as Harry makes shock discovery

In tonight's episode of EastEnders, Harry made a heartbreaking discovery about his late ex-girlfriend Shireen and fans think they've worked out the 'real reason' Nicola killed her

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2 w. ago Major Microsoft service used by 2bn people permanently shut down TODAY after shock decision

Today, Microsoft shut down a major service used by 2 billion people after a 21-year-long run. The tech giant warned users they will no longer have access to their accounts from here on out.

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2 w. ago 'They want history to repeat itself': Prince Harry makes VERY sinister claim about Diana and his family in shocking interview which has left King 'frustrated and upset'

Prince Harry chillingly insinuated his downgraded security status could leave him and his family to suffer the same fate as the late Princess Diana, who died in a fatal car crash in Paris in 1997.

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