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Our defence is in crisis!
KEIR STARMER has been accused of failing to defend the nation – in a bombshell resignation letter from his defence secretary. After months of wrangling over a new military budget, John Healey quit, saying a meagre 0.08% boost until 2030 – around...
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Burning hatred no way to bring Stephen justice
THE family of maimed Stephen Ogilvie have called for peace after a night of rioting on the streets of Belfast – as his suspected knife attacker appeared in court. Sudanese asylum seeker Hadi Alodid, 30, was charged with attempted murder, threats to...
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Lieutenant in Kinahan gang jailed for hit
A SENIOR member of the Kinahan crime clan has been jailed for a ‘callous and cruel’ killing amid a gangland feud – as the net closes in on the feared family. Sean McGovern, 40, planned a hit on innocent Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan and a failed bid to kill...
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Thanks but ...no Yanks!
DAVID LAMMY has told US vice-president JD Vance he is wrong to blame a ‘mass invasion of migrants’ for the horrific death of teenage murder victim Henry Nowak. The student was handcuffed by police as he lay dying because his Sikh killer lied he was...
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Fifa sucking fans dry
WORLD Cup bosses have been accused of putting fans’ health at risk for a money-grabbing ruse – by banning reusable water bottles in stadiums. Days before the tournament kicks off, Fifa announced only water bought inside grounds will be allowed –...
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Yusuf, you wazzock!
REFORM UK’S Zia Yusuf has been mocked for an apparent race clanger amid the political storm about alleged ‘two-tier’ policing over the ordeal of teenage murder victim Henry Nowak. The party’s home affairs spokesman claimed a new NHS policy to invite...
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‘A dereliction of duty’ over Henry killing
A POLITICAL storm has erupted after video emerged of a dying teen being handcuffed as his killer accused him of a race attack – with calls for police to be prosecuted over a ‘two-tier’ approach. Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for the murder of Henry...
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Tube strikes to go ahead on four lines as talks fail
LARA CROFT superfan Amy Dyson has broken her own Guinness World Record for the biggest collection of Tomb Raider video games. She has 342, beating her 291 record tally last June. Her collection also includes a 6ft 7in cut-out of the adventure movie...
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Sturgeon: 25ft motorhome? I didn’t spot it
NICOLA STURGEON has insisted she never saw the £125,000 motorhome her husband bought with stolen party money – as it was parked at the back of her in-laws’ house. The ex-SNP leader and first minister in Scotland was repeatedly asked during an emotional...
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Behind spas!
TEN members of a cocaine gang who splashed their profits on lavish lifestyles will swap wellness spas for prison bars – after being jailed for a total of 52 years. Ringleader Paddy Nolan, 29, and his criminal associates even posed for a photo in their...
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Heating bills up? Britain’s gone balmy!
MILLIONS of families face a scorching 13% rise in bills for heating their homes from the end of next month. And as temperatures finally fell to a balmy 27C from Tuesday’s record 35.1C, many will be hoping for a warm July to keep bills down. Energy...
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My bro’s 7 months in Dubai hellhole
THE family of a British dad who claims he has been tortured in a Dubai jail is begging the government to find out why he was arrested – and to help free him. Ryan Pepper, 27, managed to smuggle out handwritten notes detailing his physical and mental...
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Bank hottest day Monday
MILLIONS have enjoyed – or endured – a record-baking Bank Holiday Monday, with a scorching 34.8C making it the hottest day ever recorded in May. The high, registered at Kew Gardens, west London, was hotter than the previous 32.8°C peak 82 years ago in...
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Immigration: It’s tit for stat
THE number of extra people living in the UK has fallen to its lowest level this century – with 171,000 more arriving than leaving, official figures show. It almost halved in a year, and is down from the 944,000 peak in 2023. Home secretary Shabana...
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Burnham rival’s rants revealed
REFORM UK has refused to investigate the candidate it hopes will derail Andy Burnham’s bid to become prime minister – despite his history of controversial social media posts. Plumber Robert Kenyon, 41 – a former army reserve combat engineer – had his...
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In hindsight, no wonder it went wrong
CHANNEL 4 has pulled every episode of hit show Married At First Sight over rape claims by contestants – as the show was called ‘horrifying’ and ‘an accident waiting to happen’. Influential MP Caroline Dinenage said: ‘It’s a TV show that almost expects...
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See-hole surgery!
PIONEERING surgeons have performed the first op to fix a brain aneurysm using keyhole surgery through an eye socket instead of drilling a hole in the skull. Asim Sheikh’s team made a ‘tiny’ incision beside Andrew Wood’s eye, and another on the outer...
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UK faces summer in limbo
THE battle to be prime minister will rumble on until autumn leaving Britain in limbo for months, politicians fear. Days after Wes Streeting quit as health secretary and said he will stand against Keir Starmer, culture secretary Lisa Nandy was asked if...
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Rivals’ toffs can’t get enough of each other... nor us of them
WHEN we return to the copulating county of Rutshire, it’s still high summer. The Cotswolds community remains a hive of bed-hopping, while the regional TV franchise war between manipulative Lord Tony Baddingham and upstart Rupert Campbell-Black rages...
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Wes, prime minister?
WES STREETING has told allies he will challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership, it is claimed – after a bombshell 16-minute face-to-face confrontation in No.10 Downing Street. The health secretary is set to resign today to start his campaign...
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Number 10 Doubting St
KEIR STARMER’S grip on power is weakening by the hour as a string of his ministers quit after he failed to win over doubters during a high-stakes Downing Street cabinet showdown. The prime minister refused to hear questions about his leadership in the...
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Starmer eyes British Steel as plots thicken
KEIR STARMER has faced even more calls to quit as prime minister and the first resignations of key aides – despite a make-or-break speech in which he vowed to prove doubters wrong and promised to renationalise British Steel. Days after Labour’s local...
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Fight or go, challenger tells Starmer
LONE wolf Labour rebel Catherine West has pledged to challenge Keir Starmer after the party’s local elections disaster – unless he vows to ‘fight for working people’ in a crucial speech today. The backbench MP sparked political chaos when she said she...
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I touched the hand that used to be my daughter’s
MUM Jackie Kirwan has met the transplant patient who received her daughter’s left hand – and says she would be ‘over the moon’ to see the difference the gift has made to Kim Smith. Georgie Peterson died at 33 last August after years of brain seizures...
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S.O.S. Save Our Summer
DONALD TRUMP has paused a military operation to free stranded ships off Iran as a possible peace deal emerges – giving millions of holidaymakers hope of a summer getaway after all. The nine-week Middle East conflict has seen fuel prices soar because...
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‘A target on the backs of UK Iran critics’
IRANIANS in Britain who oppose their country’s hardline regime fear they are on a kill list after their personal details were made public online. One activist told Metro he has ‘a target on my back’ – only a week after we revealed the Iranian embassy...
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Starmer walks EU tightrope
KEIR STARMER has risked a Brexit backlash in local elections this week amid claims he is to pay £1billion a year for closer trading links with the EU – a decade after Britain voted to leave. The prime minister avoided answering questions about the...
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Mayday! for landlords...
LANDLORDS face a May Day deluge of tenants handing in their notice today as the biggest law change in a generation sweeps away fixed-term rentals. The Renters’ Rights Act means all tenants in England can leave with just two months’ notice. It also...
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Bittersweet... but my Theo saved 4 lives
THE mother of a boy who died aged just eight has told of his ‘bittersweet’ legacy – after his organs saved four other lives. Theo Kempthorne’s heart was given to another child. His kidneys, pancreas and liver went to three people in their 30s – one of...
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Face facts: Op can’t turn you into an AI pic!
PEOPLE seeking cosmetic procedures using AI-generated images of how they want to look are being ‘unrealistic’, a doctor has warned. Aesthetics expert Dr Ed Robinson, 33, said some people ask for ‘baffling and ridiculous’ work, suggested to them by...
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Iran embassy in chilling call for ‘martyrs’
IRAN’S UK embassy has called for Iranians here to become martyrs and ‘sacrifice life for the Homeland’ amid its war with the US. A message it posted on social media seen by Metro called for ‘compatriots’ in Britain to sign up and ‘offer our bodies to...
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Fears for king after third bid to kill Trump
SECURITY arrangements for King Charles’s state visit to the US are being reviewed after shots were fired at a dinner in Washington DC attended by Donald Trump. Darren Jones, chief secretary to the prime minister, said ‘ further discussions’ were...
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Get it #!!*@ ✱ right, I’m not even white!
A HECKLER who was told to ‘f*** right off’ and called a ‘white liberal’ by the home secretary has told Metro he is ‘not even white’. Joe came to the UK from Malaysia when he was four and says he wanted to protest against Shabana Mahmood’s ‘cruel’...
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Workshy Brits? Not this pair!
NURSE Sylvie Hampton is the antithesis of ‘workshy Britain’ – she puts in a 60-hour shift each week at the age of 80. The great-gran reckons she can work as hard as any 20-year-old, rarely take days off and said: ‘I feel as good as I did at 30. I...
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Peers pressure
DOWNING Street considered giving Keir Starmer’s ex-communications chief a diplomatic role months before he was suspended over links to a convicted sex offender, it has been alleged. The claim by a former top civil servant has heaped more pressure on...
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Incredible? Yes, prime minister
KEIR STARMER told MPs it was ‘staggering’ and ‘incredible’ he was not told Peter Mandelson had failed top-level security vetting before being made ambassador to the US. Pinning blame on unelected civil servants, the PM said he learned ‘for the first...
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Britain boots out grieving jet crash dad
A GRIEVING father has been ordered to leave the UK just months after his wife and daughter died in an aircraft crash. Mohammad Shethwala ‘lost everything’ when wife Sadikabanu and daughter Fatima, two, were among 260 people killed in the Air India...
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Posh breaks Brooklyn silence
VICTORIA BECKHAM said all she and husband David have ever tried to do is love and protect their children as she addressed their feud with son Brooklyn for the first time. ‘We love our children so much,’ the Spice Girl turned fashion boss said. ‘We’ve...
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PM’s case for the defence
KEIR STARMER has gone on the defensive after his own adviser – a former Nato secretary – accused him of ‘corrosive complacency’ on military spending. The prime minister has left the nation in peril and ‘underprepared’ for war, said Lord George...
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Cheers, Timmy!
HOLLYWOOD star Timothée Chalamet has been thanked for his shock slur that ‘no one cares’ about ballet or opera – after ticket sales soared. The Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme actor told an interviewer: ‘I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or,...
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Killer’s parents blamed for not stopping attack
THE Southport knife attacker who killed three children at a summer dance class could have been stopped – if his parents had ‘done what they morally ought to’, the inquiry into the tragedy has found. Alphonse Rudakubana and Laetitia Muzayire failed to...
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Government tackles oil crisis...
DEEP-FRIED dishes are to be banned from school dinners as the government launches a revolution to fight childhood obesity and tooth decay. Fish and chips – and food cooked in batter or breadcrumbs such as fish fingers and chicken nuggets – will be...
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Bag swiper sparks £2m egg hunt
A THIEF preying on drinkers at a pub stole a handbag containing a £2million Fabergé egg then sold it for a pittance for drugs – and it has never been found. Homeless Algerian Enzo Conticello slid the bag away from victim Rosie Dawson, who had put it...
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Oil over bar the shouting
AMERICA has claimed victory in its war with Iran – with Donald Trump hailing ‘a big day for world peace’ after a two-week ceasefire was agreed and oil prices finally fell. His war secretary Pete Hegseth said the president had achieved ‘victory with a...
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...of a world in deep trouble
DONALD TRUMP began a new blitz on Iran and warned its 5,000-year-old ‘civilisation will die tonight’ unless it agreed to talks – while hailing astonishing new pictures of Earth as ‘humanity, from the other side’. Astronauts on board Artemis II sent...
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E-mergency: Bike fires soar
E-BIKE owners have been warned against buying bargain batteries online after a record number of fires. Official figures showed 432 across the UK in 2025 – up 38% in a year, and five times higher than the 84 in 2021. E-scooter fires also rose to 147...
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Walking tall... cranes rise again
A RECORD number of cranes were bred in the UK last year as the oncevanished bird continues its comeback. Britain’s tallest bird became extinct here around 400 years ago due to over-hunting and loss of wetlands. But wild recolonisation from Europe...
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I started it... you finish it!
DONALD TRUMP has infuriated world leaders including Keir Starmer – telling them to ‘Go get your own oil’ to end the energy crisis his war on Iran sparked. The regime’s leaders have hit back by targeting shipping off its coast – where one fifth of...
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Tenant blew up home after £80 rent rise
A MAN killed after sparking a huge house explosion when his rent was put up had told a friend: ‘ You wait... I’m going to blow the house up.’ David Howard was said to be ‘p***ed off and could not cope anymore’ over a letter from his landlord increasing...
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Solar sales go through roof
FEARS of rising fuel prices because of America’s war in Iran have sparked a surge in Britons installing solar panels – in a defiant riposte to fierce renewable energy critic Donald Trump. Sales are up 62% this month – with inquiries rising by a...
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Trump throws our ‘toys’ out of pram
DONALD Trump has insulted the UK’s aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HM HMS Prince Of Wales, saying they are ‘toys’ toy compared to US ships. The U US president referenced the UK’s offer of assistance weeks ago, adding: ‘They aren’t the best...
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Crystal meth MP’s chem sex parties
A FORMER Conservative justice minister has admitted possessing drugs including crystal meth – and said hosting chemsex parties gave him ‘first-hand experience’ to help inform government policy. Ex-MP Crispin Blunt, 65, pleaded guilty to four charges...
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I halted baby unit terrorist with cuddles
A HERO hospital patient honoured today with the George Medal for courage has told how he hugged a ‘lone wolf’ terrorist while talking him out of bombing a maternity unit. Nathan Newby, 35, had gone out to vape in the early hours when he saw a man...
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Ambulance torched by bigots saved my baby’s life
A FAMILY whose baby was saved by a Jewish charity targeted by antisemitic arsonists who destroyed four ambulances has called the attack ‘abhorrent’. Yossi and Esti Glass told how the volunteer crew arrived within five minutes of being called when...
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Power plea to stop jobs crisis
UNION leaders are demanding an emergency government taskforce is set up to protect Britain from the effects of America’s war in Iran. The TUC says it should join employers and Whitehall officials to work on contingency plans as energy prices rise...
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Tina Returner
QUEEN of Rock‘n’Roll Tina Turner could strut the stage again – after the team behind digital gig phenomenon Abba Voyage snapped up the rights to her image, name and songs. The superstar singer, who died aged 83 in 2023, is set to return as an avatar...
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We warned of meningitis outbreak hell
THE meningitis outbreak that has killed two students and left 19 more fighting for life could have been avoided, parents and campaigners claim. Successive governments rejected their calls to make vaccines widely available for meningitis B – the...
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Reeves bets on quantum leap
RACHEL REEVES will spend a record £2.5billion to make Britain a leader in AI and quantum computing, create jobs and boost the flatlining economy. The chancellor said she is investing heavily in the ‘defining technology of our era’ to be its fastest...
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Donald’s Trumped
WORLD leaders have pushed back at Donald Trump’s demand they send warships to stop Iran choking global oil and gas supplies in the Strait of Hormuz. The angry US president pointed to his support against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – even questioning...
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Trump ‘knows he’s in trouble’
ONE of Donald Trump’s most senior former advisers says the US leader is in a ‘vulnerable position’ over war in Iran – and doesn’t know how to get out of it. Operation Epic Fury has entered a third week with more attacks on the defiant Islamic...
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Fakes and ladders...
DOZENS of potentially deadly ladders are still being sold online after a tradesman almost lost his life when one he bought off Amazon snapped in half. Joffrey Bogemans fell 15ft (4.5m) onto a concrete floor and suffered injuries so severe he had to...
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£500k to walk away
LORD Mandelson asked for £547,000 severance pay after his sacking over links to Jeffrey Epstein – but received £75,000, newly released files reveal. He fought to have his entire contract as US ambassador paid up when he was dismissed by prime minister...
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Face of UK meets hate with dates
A MARKET stallholder racially abused when his image was used to welcome visitors to Heathrow decided to ‘fight hate with love’ – and shamed trolls into apologising. British-born Syed Usman Shah was inundated with vile comments – many telling him to...
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‘Drive less to save on fuel as oil price soars’
MOTORISTS should drive less to save fuel, experts said – as war in the Middle East yesterday sent oil prices rocketing. Drivers were urged to halt ‘non essential journeys’ as the cost of a barrel of crude oil leapt to $107 – the highest since...
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You’re supreme leader... it’s a death sentence
IRAN’S fanatical religious chiefs have elected a new supreme leader to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – but the successor has already been sentenced to death by Israel and America. Ahmad Alamolhoda, one of the Assembly of Experts who voted, said his...
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PM vows to shield Brits
KEIR STARMER has played down a rift with Donald Trump over war in Iran – saying his focus is on defending British forces and bringing UK citizens home. The prime minister said he is sending four more Typhoon jets to Qatar to build a ‘shield over the...
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Trump’s war goes global
AN AMERICAN sub has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean – as war in the Middle East spreads across the world and the UK/US rift appeared to widen. At least 148 sailors are thought to have died as the IRIS Dena was torpedoed off Sri Lanka –...
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Trump: Too late to talk
DONALD TRUMP has warned Iran’s leaders it’s too late to negotiate peace – insisting ‘everything’s been knocked out’ with the ‘hardest hits’ yet to come. ‘Their air defence, Air Force, Navy, and Leadership is gone,’ the president posted on social...
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Operation epic chaos
DONALD TRUMP has insisted he is ‘knocking the crap’ out of Iran – despite a chaotic third day of his Operation Epic Fury with US jets downed, global energy prices surging, conflict spreading and a political row breaking out with Britain. Despite the...
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Death throes of the tyrant
IRAN has launched a wave of deadly attacks in revenge for the killing of its tyrant leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – and claimed it hit a US warship. As a Red Flag of Revenge was raised and officials met to replace the Supreme Leader, senior politician...
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1m kids stuck on scrapheap
THE number of young people not in work, education or training has risen again – ‘perilously’ close to 1million and heightening fears of a lost generation. Official figures show there were 957,000 so-called Neets in December – up 11,000 in a year and...
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High rollers
A HUGE cannabis farm has been busted by police – hidden in plain sight inside a former casino in a busy town centre. More than 7,000 plants filled floors of the four-storey building, which had only closed its doors to gamblers a year earlier – a haul...
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Tough porn crackdown to tackle abuse
NEW laws will make it illegal for porn sites to put out twisted family sex videos – even if actors are playing parts – to protect women and girls. Creating and possessing videos of incest will be banned, says government minister Alex Davies-Jones. And...
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Police come for Mandelson
PETER Mandelson was last night being quizzed by police over allegations he passed sensitive data to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein while a cabinet minister. The former Labour grandee was led to an unmarked police car after officers visited his home in...
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Access all areas
KING Charles has told his staff to give police access to any of his own files as they investigate his brother’s links to billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Some courtiers are said to fear papers may suggest the monarch had concerns over Andrew...
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