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Queen's 'pro-EU' message from clothing worn for Speech

The Queen 93, addressed the nation wearing a royal blue dress coupled with a brooch that has been compared to the EU flag by academics including Dr James Anderson of the University of Reading.




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Pundits say Prince Harry will STAY in UK after offer from Queen

The Duke of Sussex, who announced the couple's plan in a statement over Instagram last week, is 'behaving like a teenager,' an insider told Vanity Fair magazine.




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Duchess of Cambridge in Kensington away from royal 'showdown'

The Duchess of Cambridge (pictured this afternoon) has remained in London while Prince William faced his brother at the Norfolk estate with the Queen and Prince Charles.




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Meghan says she was NOT barred from Sandringham summit

The couple's spokesman insisted Meghan was not shut out of the discussion and just left it to Harry, saying: 'In the end, the Sussexes decided that it wasn't necessary for the Duchess to join'.




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Serial shoplifter, 33, is banned from every shop in England except a Tesco Metro in Swindon

Anna Burns, 33, can only enter the Tesco Metro in Swindon town centre. She appeared in court yesterday where she was set to be sentenced for thefts from stores including Mothercare and Boots.




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Meet the woman who made a mint from posh nosh for pets

North London-based Henrietta Morrison, 51, founded Lily's Kitchen in 2009 and became the first to offer Advent Calendars for dogs. She shared advice on festive foods for dogs this Christmas.




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Shoplifter, 33, banned from every shop in England jailed after she stole £60 of make-up

Anna Burns appeared at Swindon Crown Court, in Wiltshire, for another offence, and when she was bailed she walked 750 yards to a Boots shop and stole £60 of make up.




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Tesco aims to ditch 67 MILLION pieces of plastic by removing wrapping from multi-packs

The landmark move, which applies to cans of baked beans, tuna, soup and other products, will eliminate 350 tons of plastic from the environment.




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Cat 'banned' from Tesco refuses to keep out as it takes up residence on the self-service checkouts

Ginger cat Pumpkin was a regular in Tesco's Drayton branch in Norwich, for well over a year before staff started 'gently encouraging him to go out', but he's recently returned to perch on the self-checkout.




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Child-snatcher fears as woman tries to grab two-year-old girl from mother's side

Hannah Rowe was left terrified when a woman 'came out of nowhere' in Fareham, Hampshire, and told her daughter, Alice, to 'come with me' just days after a man was spotted loitering outside a school.




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Boy, 13, is sent home from school for selling squirts of hand sanitiser to fellow pupils

A teenage 'Del Boy' (pictured) who capitalised on coronavirus fears by charging fellow pupils 50p a time to use hand sanitiser was suspended from school in Leeds for a day.




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Hole-in-the wall thieves use huge digger to rip two cash machines from wall in midnight ram-raid 

Thieves targeted the Tesco Extra store in Dover, Kent, yesterday at midnight. Kent Police said two vehicles were damaged as they tried to stop the robbers. No arrests have been made.




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'Selfish' Mercedes driver caught taking 30 rubber gloves from petrol station says he's sorry 

Steve Harrison captured footage of a Mercedes driver taking 15 pairs of gloves from a Tesco petrol station in Salford, Greater Manchester, prompting the motorist to apologise.




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Gordon Ramsay and his family risk further outrage from Cornish locals

The celebrity chef has been condemned by neighbours in sleepy Trebetherick on the Cornish coast after moving to the £4.4million property in mid-March.




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Campaigns launched to rescue London's best-loved pubs and clubs from going under

Crowdfunders set up to save London's best-loved pubs have raised thousands of pounds. Two of Soho's oldest establishments, The French House and Trisha's are asking for donations.




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Celebrity chef Pete Evans shares a video from conspiracy theorist David Icke

In a post to Facebook, My Kitchen Rules judge Evans shared a screenshot of the livestream and asked his followers to share their opinions.




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Ex-public schoolboy, 19, dies from a drugs overdose at home

Former Winchester College pupil Maximilian Charles Saunders-Stoner, 19, was found dead at home in West Meon, Hampshire. A local shop owner said: 'I knew him very well. It is very sad.'




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Police called to seize two club cars worth over £100k each from ex-Charlton chairman Matt Southall

SIMON JONES: The ugly row behind Charlton Athletic's ownership has taken another twist after police were called in to recoup two club cars from former chairman Matt Southall.




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Colourised pictures from Spanish flu 100 years ago show people wearing almost identical Covid masks

Face masks became a vital piece of equipment in 1918 - be it for those out for a stroll on a street, Red Cross nurses treating the injured or a worker spraying the top of a London bus.




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Moment two playful foxes in London steal newspaper from front doorstep as their mother 'keeps watch'

A pair of mischievous foxes got their daily dose of news when they stole a paper from Kate Fisher's doorstep in East London. They join a number of foxes making the most of emptier streets.




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Child, five, is in hospital after falling from a window in North London 

The child was injured after falling from the window in Maygrove Road in Kilburn, London on Tuesday afternoon and was taken to hospital. Pictured: The crew trapped inside the basketball court.




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Brazen gang steal items worth millions from homes of Frank Lampard and late Leicester City owner

The gang stole more than £1million from the late Leicester owner's house in Knightsbridge, west London, which has been left as a shrine since his death in a helicopter crash in October 2018.




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Ashley Benson posts moody photo to Instagram following rumored split from Cara Delevingne

The photo looked to be taken in a hip eatery with peeling posters on the brick walls. She gazed at the camera over the top of a pair of white framed sunglasses.




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Blake Lively takes a day off from glam as she goes makeup-free at Disneyland Paris

The wife of Ryan Reynolds was seen posing with Mickey Mouse at Disneyland Paris as she appeared to have no makeup on and was wearing her unbrushed hair down.




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Trump says Macron's claim that Europe needs an army to protect itself from the U.S. is insulting

Seconds after his plane was wheels down in Paris, Donald Trump attacked host Emmanuel Macron for suggesting that Europe needs to raise a standing army to protect itself from China, Russia and the United States.




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York Minster cathedral's rise from the ashes of 1984 fire inspires hope for Notre Dame

Devastating scenes of the historic Notre Dame being ravaged by a huge blaze last night will bring back memories for those who remember the 1984 York Minster fire (the aftermath, pictured).




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Notre Dame was just THIRTY MINUTES from collapse - minister reveals

Laurent Nuñez, the French junior interior minister, said a group of around 20 firefighters managed to stop the blaze from spreading to the church's belfries.




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Ivanka Trump spends Christmas away from Donald in Paris

The first daughter is in Europe with husband Jared Kushner for Christmas Day. They are expected to join the rest of the Trump family at Mar-a-Lago Thursday.




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Laura Trott: That's a bit of an error! Royal Mail to put golden post box for Team GB's Laura Trott in wrong town... 13 miles away from where it should be!

Despite her astonishing success in the cycling team pursuit yesterday, not everything has gone to plan for Laura Trott.




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Bataclan massacre survivor on how he protected his girlfriend from Paris gunmen

Hero David Nolan, 32, from Cork, used his body to shield his girlfriend Katie Healy from the bullets when gunmen opened fire on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last month.




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Terrified parents clutch their children as they are evacuated from school after four officers are injured in shootout in Brussels between police and Paris massacre jihadists 

Worried parents (pictured) led their children away from an evacuated primary school in the Forest district of Brussels, where police were hunting a jihadi cell linked the Paris terror attacks.




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Web of terror from Paris to Brussels and how police missed their chances

Belgian authorities have had the names and addresses of nearly 100 suspected Islamic militants weeks before the Paris atrocities. Here we reveal the links of the Molenbeek cell police missed.




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Paris drops from top-five romantic destinations rankings for Valentine's Day after attacks

The French capital has fallen from being Brits' second-favourite Valentine's Day hotspot, to their eighth. It ranks behind Amsterdam, Rome, New York, Barcelona, Prague and Reykjavik.




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Duckling plucked from nest into a heron's beak in Leeds

Christian Rawson spotted the heron at Adel Dam Nature Reserve outside Leeds, Yorks, and trained his camera on it because he thought it was poised to catch a fish.




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Brit books flight to wrong San Jose 4000m from destination

Steven Roberts, 31, from Leeds, was mean to be flying out to San Jose in Costa Rica with his friends, but managed to book a flight to San Jose in California.




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'Gun-wielding raider' dies from head injuries in Leeds

The victim was believed to have been carrying a firearm when he was attacked at 4.36pm yesterday in Seacroft, Leeds.




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Police launch urgent hunt for missing 12-year-old boy from Leeds

George Blanchard, 12, (pictured) was last seen at 12.12pm on Monday in the Chapeltown area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, but has not been seen since and police are becoming 'very concerned'.




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Bodies of father and son are recovered from water in Leeds

The father and son who were tragically found dead in a stretch of water after going on a fishing trip have been named locally as Martin, 43 and Jack Andrews, 19 from Pudsey in Leeds, West Yorks.




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Body of teenage boy is pulled from River Aire in Leeds

Panicked onlookers called the emergency services at 6.45pm and reported that the teenager had failed to return to shore at the river near Cardigan Fields, Kirkstall (divers pictured on the scene last night).




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Police seize huge drugs haul from Leeds Festival revellers

An officer at the event - whose headline acts included Kendrick Lamar and Sum 41 - tweeted a picture of a huge number of ecstasy tablets which had been seized.




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Man jumps from tower block where students were making a short film

The man jumped from the eighth-floor of the tower block in Leeds, West Yorkshire, at around 10.30am. A group of students had been there making a short film.




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Moment Australian jockey is thrown from his racehorse - but somehow manages to cling to the saddle 

Jarrod Lynch (pictured), 26, was racing on his horse Euroman in Grand National Hurdle at Morphetville racecourse in Adelaide at 1pm on Saturday.




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All racing in Britain will be suspended from Wednesday until the end of April

The decision, which follows the announcement by the Jockey Club on Monday evening to cancel the Randox Health Grand National, will place the sport under considerable financial strain.




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Gush galore from the odious toady

In all, Kenneth Rose wrote six million words of diaries, of which his appointed editor has selected roughly half a million for publication. If these are the gems, I dread to think what the duds were like




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Just two of the unbelievable but true stories from 2019's weirdest book of the year

Did you know that in 2019 a Belgian man broke the record for sitting on the toilet for the longest time - 116 hours?




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Pin-sharp satire from a modern-day Dorothy Parker. What a pity it curdles into agitprop...

With this, her first novel, Naoise Dolan proves she is a wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in the caustic, knock-'em-off, knock-'em-down tradition of Dorothy Parker




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Woody's fightback... from self-lacerating gags to a howl of pain

What a bizarre book this is: three parts funny to one part stark, staring horror




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More than 200 Central American migrants escape from detention facility in Mexico

Mexican authorities recaptured 100 of more than 200 that fled an immigration station on Monday in southern Mexico as hundreds more remained stuck on the Suchiate River's shore.




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Social care workers 'will not be exempt from tough post-Brexit immigration rules'

The Home Secretary apparently set out on Tuesday that there will be no so-called 'carve outs' under Boris Johnson's Australian-style points-based immigration system.




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Downing Street rebukes UK businesses for seeking 'unlimited labour from the EU' after Brexit

Downing Street has rejected a big business demand to allow low-skilled migration from the EU to continue after Brexit, telling companies to focus on training UK workers instead.