69 m. ago Revealed: organiser of campaign to fly Union Jacks and England flags on Britain's streets was previously jailed over a plot to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country

Lee Twamley is part of a group calling themselves 'Churchill's Lions' which last week raised British flags along one of Manchester's main shopping streets.

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1 hour ago My aunt is a convicted child abuser... here is how she disguised her crimes

Jodi Hildebrandt's niece has revealed how her twisted aunt managed to get away with her abuse in the years before she was jailed.

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2 h. ago Master manipulator, 59, who battered his elderly fiancée, 70, before drowning her in bath is jailed

Clifford Cowen, 59, plied Rita Fleming, 70, with alcohol in her flat in Notting Hill, west London in a bid to make her death seem like a drunken accident, Kingston Crown Court heard.

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2 h. ago Prison officer shooting UPDATES as killer sentenced for murder over jail affair

Elias Morgan tracked down prisoner officer Lenny Scott after he was released from prison and shot the father of three six times as he was leaving the gym in Skelmersdale, on February 8, last year

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2 h. ago Man narrowly avoids jail after £41k of cannabis found during police raid in Coatbridge

Eduard Rapi, 46, admitted producing cannabis at his home in Hawthorn Drive on October 23 last year.

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2 h. ago Secrets of The Rock's body transformation: Expert reveals how Dwayne Johnson likely lost 60lbs to be 'taken seriously' in Hollywood

Famed for his huge stature, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stunned fans this week when he debuted a much slimmer frame during the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

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3 h. ago ‘It was a present to myself’: Southport house for sale with ball pit off bedroom

Seller of seven-bedroom house says she was inspired by Cara Delevingne to create space that is ‘so relaxing’It was the model Cara Delevingne who said you can never be sad in a ball pit – so why wouldn’t you install one in a room you don’t quite know what to do with?A large Victorian house for sale in Southport has gone viral not because it is, as estate agents say, a “hidden gem” and an “oasis of calm” with viewing “absolutely essential” but because just off the master bedroom is a vestibule that is “presently adorned by numerous plastic balls to create a ball pool all of your very own”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing fat jab alert with 'five stars at risk'

It has been claimed that five of the cohort of 15 celebrities taking part in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing are taking 'fat jabs' and there are worries they might struggle to perform week on week

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3 h. ago BBC Strictly stars 'on weight loss jabs' sparking fears about durability on show

A TV insider said that use of the fat loss injections is 'rife' among the Strictly Come Dancing stars this year

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4 h. ago 'My late husband lost our £120k life savings after falling victim to online scam'

A guest appeared on Tuesday's This Morning to raise awareness of online scams after her late husband fell victim to a fake investment scheme

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4 h. ago Murderer who slit inmate's throat and said he'd happily die in prison found dead in jail

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Brian Wade was already in prison on three life sentences when he was found dead last month, having admitted that he would happily die while in prison during a hearing in June

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4 h. ago Five Strictly Come Dancing celebrities ’taking fat jabs ahead of the new series’

Concerns have been raised about celebrities taking the drugs before the dance competition, which involves four-months of intense physical activity

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5 h. ago Council warns fake Labubu dolls pose choking risk to children

More than 230 'unsafe' counterfeit dolls seized by south-west London council in July and August

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5 h. ago More than 1,000 Palestine Action supporters are planning second mass rally in London despite arrests

Police have warned that anyone convicted of supporting Palestine Action faces six months in jail and a travel ban for EU countries

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6 h. ago Conman who swindled victims out of £8.5m to bankroll supercars and yacht jailed for ten years

Anopkumar Maudhoo span a web of lies to rake in millions, splashing out on supercars and a yacht

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7 h. ago Brit 'mum on the run' who was jailed after boasting about claiming UK benefits in Thailand jets home without son, 4, after being freed from hellish prison

Ellis Matthews, 32, was deported by Thai authorities after spending more than three months locked up in an overcrowded and squalid immigration prison with her son Cairo, 4.

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10 h. ago Five Strictly celebs taking fat jabs sparking fears over performance on gruelling BBC show

Celebs on the new series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing could strugglle to stay on their feet, if they are among those believed to be using the revolutionary fat jabs to cut weight

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11 h. ago Scots prison officer sacked over death of inmate fails in bid to sue jail chiefs

Kenneth Aitken, 65, argued he had been unfairly dismissed by the Scottish Prison Service for failing to make sure Iain Brown was properly monitored after a nurse suspected him of being 'intoxicated'.

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12 h. ago Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can we vaccinate our rarest species before bird flu gets to them?

Trial in only continent untouched by avian flu suggests jabs will be key to survival as migration season approachesIt is easy to imagine how it could happen. A petrel, flying east from the Indian Ocean at the end of the Austral winter, makes landfall at New Zealand’s southern Codfish Island/Whenua Hou. Tired from its long journey, the petrel seeks refuge in the burrow of a green kākāpō: a critically endangered flightless species that is the world’s fattest parrot.If the seabird intrudes when the kākāpō is primed to breed, the male parrot may attempt to mate with the smaller petrel, accidentally smothering it in the process. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Brit 'mum on the run' who was jailed after boasting about claiming UK benefits in Thailand returns home without son after being freed from hellish prison

Ellis Matthews, 32, was deported by Thai authorities after spending more than three months locked up in an overcrowded and squalid immigration prison with her son Cairo, 4.

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