74 m. ago Government teams up with TikTok influencers over cosmetic surgery warnings

The initiative is part of a wider Government drive to tackle so-called medical tourism

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3 h. ago Popular UK pub shut down after 'mafia style' violence and 77 police calls in 15 months

The North Eight pub has been the scene of numerous violent incidents, with the committee adding that the "current operation of the licence undermined" all four licensing objectives

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3 h. ago California governor calls for a special election to introduce new US House maps – live

Gavin Newsom announces plans to ask voters to approve new congressional maps in response to a redistricting plan by TexasMelania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and has threatened to sue if he does not.Biden, the son of the former president Joe Biden, alleged in an interview this month that Epstein introduced the first lady to Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago VJ Day 80: Remembering the brothers who died as Prisoners of War

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, historian Geoff Pugh has tracked down the graves of every person called Pugh who died in WW2 and WW1 including two brothers who were Japanese Prisoner of War.

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4 h. ago People say I'm a Short King... I told a girl my height on a dating app and her rejection was horrible

A man who is 5'6 is opening up about the way that he was rejected by a woman - calling it a 'humiliation ritual.'

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5 h. ago Texas Democrats say they are prepared to return to state after two

Chair of state’s house Democratic caucus said they will return once California submits new congressional map to offset losses in TexasUS politics live – latest updatesTexas Democrats said on Thursday they are prepared to return to the state under certain conditions, ending a nearly two-week-long effort to block Republicans from passing a new congressional map that would add five GOP seats.The lawmakers said they would return as long as the legislature ends its first special session on Friday, which Republicans have said they plan to do. Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, has said he will immediately call another special session. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Donald Trump lashes out at people calling him a dictator then defends rewriting history

Donald Trump hit back at people calling him a dictator over his unprecedented takeover of police in Washington DC - before defending his plan to force museums to present history to align with his views

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5 h. ago Peter Andre hits out at ex Katie Price’s ‘lies’ in furious social media rant amid Princess feud

Singer’s tirade came hours after Price called for peace talks to end their feud over daughter Princess

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5 h. ago The end is near: Megadeth to release final album and embark on farewell tour

Call it a symphony for dissolution

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5 h. ago California moving forward with partisan redistricting effort to counter Texas' move

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a special election on November 4 to introduce new U.S. House maps

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5 h. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman found dead in street

Police were called after a 36-year-old woman was found unconscious with serious head injuries

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5 h. ago Peter Andre livid as he shares bombshell statement about Katie Price

Peter Andre took to social media to hit out at ex-wife Katie Price and call out her 'repeated lies' as he says he is ready to speak out after staying silent for 16 years

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5 h. ago John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’

Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novellaThe gender-critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Adventure calling!: Everything you need for a travel gap year

Prep, plan and pack: the essential items to take on your world tour

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6 h. ago Ronan Keating calls for stronger fatal car crash sentences and voices his 'disappointment over broken system' after man who caused death of his brother avoids prison

The singer, 48, voiced his 'disappointment over Ireland's broken system' after a man escaped a prison sentence for causing Ciaran's death.

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7 h. ago Teen boy arrested in connection with rape and murder of teen girl

The boy also faces charges in connection with the rape of another girl, aged 16. Emergency services were called to a property in Huddersfield at 11.36pm on Monday, August 11.

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7 h. ago Married mother reveals every giddy detail of her night with Zayn Malik and Harry Styles: Zayn said he liked my breasts... how could I say no to their call for 'booty'! Here are the pictures, texts

The identity of the fan who One Direction star Zayn Malik invited up to his hotel room in a leaked phone call has been revealed - and now the woman is speaking out for the first time.

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7 h. ago ‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes about the terror of urban homelessnessIt’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have undertaken with their new thriller Night Always Comes, adapted from the taut novel by Willy Vlautin. Caron and Kirby met nearly a decade ago when he directed episodes of The Crown, in which she played the young Princess Margaret from behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.Now Kirby stars as a former sex worker called Lynette, toiling in multiple jobs and living with her disabled brother (Zach Gottsagen) and their wrecked, wayward mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They have cobbled together the funds to buy their dilapidated house at a snip, only for Lynette’s mother to recklessly blow her half on a new car. Cue one manic night in which Lynette ...

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7 h. ago Lou Teasdale breaks silence on Andy Carroll split rumours after his very public gesture

Lou Teasdale has broken her silence on the rumours she has split from footballer Andy Carroll, after it was claimed the pair had called time on their romance following a series of toxic rows

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7 h. ago Will Ferrell in Scotland: Hollywood star shocks staff on visit to Aberdeenshire castle

Braemar Castle staff called the Hollywood star a ‘true gentleman’.

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