2 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr reacts to huge fine for missing weight as Conor Benn vows to 'take his head clean off'

Eubank Jr hits out at Benn, Eddie Hearn and Matchroom after being hit with £375,000 penalty for fractionally missing middleweight limit

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2 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr blames Conor Benn after £375,000 fine for missing weight

Chris Eubank Jr will be forced to pay £375,000 to Conor Benn after he missed weight by 0.05lb ahead of their showdown at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night

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7 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr fined £375,000 after missing the weight for Conor Benn fight

Eubank Jr had two attempts at weighing in at 160lb, missing his first try by 0.2lb before falling short again.

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8 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr misses weight by less than an ounce and faces £375,000 fine

Fight with Conor Benn still goes ahead on Saturday nightPair allowed to add more than 10lb in rehydration clauseBritish boxer Chris Eubank Jr will be fined £375,500 after missing the weight by just 0.05lb (0.8 ounces) for Saturday’s fight with Conor Benn.At Friday’s official weigh-in behind closed doors in London, Eubank Jr came in above the 11st 6lb limit and also just failed to meet the weight at his second attempt. Benn tipped the scales at 11st 2lb.More details soon Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr misses weight by less than an ounce and gets £375,000 fine

Fight with Conor Benn still goes ahead on Saturday nightPair allowed to add more than 10lb in rehydration clauseThe controversial and dangerous issue of weight cuts surrounding Saturday night’s fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn has intensified after the former missed two attempts to make the 160lb middleweight limit on Friday morning. The 35-year-old Eubank initially scaled 160.2lb and then, after he tried for a second time, 160lb 0.8oz.That marginal amount of 0.8oz will not force a cancellation of the bout but Eubank Jr has been fined $500,000 (£375,000) for failing to make the stipulated weight. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago State Pension rule can raise payments by £5,000 a year but some are 'missing out'

An FOI request by a pension provider has found that more than two million people are being boosted by a particular rule in the State Pension system

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4 d. ago ITV The 1% Club viewers all say the same thing over 'ridiculous' £96,000 question

Lee Mack's The 1% Club saw one lucky contestant walk away with a whopping £96,000 in Saturday's episode, but viewers were divided over the difficulty of the question that clinched the win

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5 d. ago ITV The 1% Club viewers slam Lee Mack over 'brutal' remark to contestant

The 1% Club viewers were left fuming at Lee Mack after the comedian made a cutting remark to a contestant during the tense ITV quiz show, which saw one player scoop up a huge sum of money

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5 d. ago The 1% Club viewers slam Lee Mack's 'insensitive' jibe at contestant's appearance

Lee Mack jokingly took aim at a contestant's appearance on ITV's The 1% Club, but viewers at home were far from happy and blasted the comedian for being insensitive

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8 d. ago Madeleine McCann probe budget is CUT: Met Police team tasked with finding missing toddler has £84,000 slashed from investigation

They have been granted a further £108,000 to carry on the search for her - a drop of £84,000 on the amount awarded last year, MailOnline has learned.

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9 d. ago Over 10,000 London children miss out on first preference primary school amid warning over tumbling birthrate

Overall, 87.9% of pupils in London received an offer from their first choice school, equivalent to 73,481 children, data revealed on Wednesday

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1 week ago Punter scoops stunning £25k jackpot after ambitious bet on Rory McIlroy triumph

A William Hill customer, who correctly forecast the winners of the Grand National and Lincoln, pulled off an inspired gamble when the golfer secured the final leg of the bet by winning at Augusta

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1 week ago Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists

Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or £37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions One day in October 2024, Chris Swales, 54, a smoked-salmon producer with a confident demeanour and a stubbled jaw, stood at the gates of an industrial estate in east London staking out the units. There were teenagers loitering about, knackered cars, XL Bullies; everyone seemed to have more than one phone. It didn’t seem like the sort of place where nine pallets of frozen fish would be delivered, but – he checked the address he had noted down from the courier – this was the place.A couple of months earlier, Swales couldn’t have imagined that he’d be sniffing around Walthamstow on the hunt for £37,000 in missing produce, yet here he was. In August, he’d received an email – subject: “Collaboration” – from a man named Patrick Moulin, who claimed to be the buyer for Ma...

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1 week ago 'I was a contestant on ITV's The 1% club and this wild reason is how I got on the show'

A contestant from ITV gameshow The 1% Club has shared the secret thing to tell producers to almost guarantee a spot on featuring on the show hosted by Lee Mack

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2 w. ago The 1% Club word riddle that only one ITV contestant managed to solve

Host Lee Mack asked the remaining characters what well-known phrase they could see from a bunch of letters.

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2 w. ago Ayrshire's councils fork out replacing more than 15,000 damaged and missing wheelie bins

Figures released under Freedom of Information laws found that Ayrshire's councils replaced more than 15,000 wheelie bins in 2024.

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2 w. ago ITV The 1% Club host Lee Mack taken aback at contestant's bizarre admission

The 1% Club saw one player with a bizarre claim leave host Lee Mack gobsmacked, as the presenter was left questioning whether the man was telling the truth.

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2 w. ago The 1% Club contestant misses out on £10,000 jackpot after taking a risky gamble on final question

Player Brett made his way through the trivia game easily but on the last round, he chose to take a risky gamble instead of walking away with the prize.

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3 w. ago The 1% Club contestant left baffled by question that cost him huge fortune

The 1% Club is known for its tricky questions but one brave contestant narrowly missed out on a huge sum of money in one of the most tense episodes to date

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3 w. ago Severe storms and tornadoes rip across US south and midwest, killing at least six people

Outbreak of tornadoes result in five deaths in Tennessee and one in Missouri as 213,000 households without powerViolent storms and tornadoes have torn across the US south and midwest, killing at least six people and downing power lines and trees, smashing homes, and upturning cars across multiple states.The outbreak of storms and tornadoes has resulted in five deaths in Tennessee and one in Missouri, with further fatalities expected to be confirmed. The storms are now tracking east, after leaving more than 213,000 households without power from Texas to Ohio. Continue reading...

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