8 h. ago TikTok prankster with 31,000 followers launches 'wild animal' attack on man in shop

Gavin Davies, 38, who has 31,000 followers on TikTok, had been drinking after being released from prison and getting engaged

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9 h. ago TikTok prankster launched biting attack like 'wild animal' after getting engaged

Gavin Davies, 38, barged into a shop in Merthyr Tydfil without his top on and began smashing up the store before attacking a shopper who said he behaved like a 'monster'

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12 h. ago TikTok prankster unlaunched ferocious attack on man in shop like 'wild animal'

Gavin Davies, 38, who has 31,000 followers on TikTok, had been drinking after being released from prison and getting engaged before carrying out the unprovoked assault

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12 h. ago TikTok prankster launched ferocious attack on man in shop like 'wild animal'

Gavin Davies, 38, who has 31,000 followers on TikTok, had been drinking after being released from prison and getting engaged before carrying out the unprovoked assault

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3 d. ago ‘Mansplaining’ was once a contender for word of the year. Here’s why we should stop using it

‘Rage bait’ is Oxford word of the year in 2025. But I think we should be able to decommission words that have brought more trouble than they’re worth, starting with the 2015 runner-upThe Oxford word of the year has been chosen, and it’s “rage bait”. It was a close-run contest with “aura farming” – that just means charisma, for which a number of perfectly fine words already exist – and “biohack”, a non-specific lifestyle improvement in which you’ve somehow got into the mainframe of time itself, and made some aspect of your body immune to its ravages. Since “aura farming” is extraneous and “biohacks” are almost all bollocks, the competition can’t have been that close, but the neologism isn’t necessarily welcome.Rage bait, as you probably already know, is the publication, usually online, of material designed to make people angry. It’s not a made-up phenomenon; we’ve known for some time that online engagement is most strongly driven by out-group animosity, but nor is it a cute feature o...

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2 w. ago Tesco car park row led to wild knife attack in front of screaming shoppers

Pavel Stefanovic had a row at a Tesco in Stoke with another Lithuanian and viciously slashed at him with a knife in front of horrified shoppers, a court heard

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2 w. ago Moment knifeman who killed Porsche driver in 'Wild West' attack is tackled by police

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years for murder on Thursday

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3 w. ago 'Wild card' cartels could target tourists in resort bloodbath if Trump strikes Venezuela

Retired US Marines Colonel Mark Cancian told The Mirror it was not impossible "wild card" cartels could "attack a resort with US citizens" as revenge for strikes on Venezuela

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3 w. ago Man who stabbed Porsche driver to death in 'Wild West' attack on Edgware Road jailed for life

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, killed Mohamed Abdi, 19, during an outbreak of violence near Edgware Road station

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3 w. ago Greggs launches new smaller Bitesize shops as expansion continues

The high street bakery chain opened its first Bitesize Greggs in Sevenoaks Railway Station on Friday.

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