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Gang of youths sets off multiple fireworks in city centre trapping terrified customers inside a bar

Footage filmed on October 31 in Coventry shows loud fireworks being set off and filling the area with smoke before multiple youths run away once West Midlands Police arrive.




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Gripping new TV drama views the Profumo scandal through the eyes of Christine Keeler

A new BBC1 six -part drama recounts John Profumo's 1963 affair with Christine Keeler, through the eyes of the aspiring actress. Their dalliance became the biggest scandal of the century.




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Tom Brady 'moves his family into $9 million Connecticut estate' two months before his deal expires

Tom Brady is still a member of the New England Patriots for the next two months, but he has reportedly moved his family to a $9 million mansion in Connecticut ahead of free agency.




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Patrick Schwarzenegger braves the open air sans mask and gloves with girlfriend Abby Champion

Patrick Schwarzenegger stepped out sans mask and gloves to grab fresh pastries with girlfriend Abby Champion on Sunday morning in Los Angeles.




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Bodies were delivered to Philadelphia's medical examiner office in the back of a PICKUP TRUCK

A Pennsylvania hospital transported corpses in the open bed of a pickup truck in broad day light, revealing the grim reality hospitals and morgues face across the country.




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Lithuania's capital is turned into vast open air café to enable social distancing in restaurants 

Lithuania's capital city Vilnius is turning into a massive outdoor cafe. The city has offered 18 locations where cafes and restaurants can lay extra tables in a bid to keep the businesses alive.




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Ashton Kutcher dons a face mask and gloves to pick up a to-go order for wife Mila Kunis and kids

Ashton Kutcher braved the open air to pick-up some well deserved takeout for his family at Black Market Liquor Bar in Studio City. Kutcher sported an N95 face mask and black disposable gloves.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Keir Starmer gets help he could do without

ANDREW PIERCE: Lord Adonis has called Sir Keir Starmer, Labour MP for ember of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras, Labour's 'only hope' and has urged people to join 'ASAP' and vote for him.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Chuka Umunna counts £30k cost of his Lib Dem switch 

ANDREW PIERCE: If Chuka Umunna lost in Streatham, which he represented since 2010, he would have been paid £33,500 redundancy with the first £30k tax-free.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Suspended Labour peer Lord Lea of Crondall's four-letter shame 

ANDREW PIERCE: The Labour Party suspended Lord Lea of Crondall last week after the House of Lords' standards watchdog found he sexually harassed two women working in Parliament.




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ANDREW PIERCE: No. 10's Dilyn bow wows the Garrick crowd

ANDREW PIERCE: How long before Dilyn the dog is standing in for Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions? I ask because the Jack Russell-cross is back in the spotlight.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Corbyn must hand over the reins at PMQs as performances go from bad to worse

ANDREW PIERCE: As he plods painfully through his six questions, there is an embarrassed silence on the Labour benches. Some Labour MPs say there is a way out.




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ANDREW PIERCE: I know from experience how hard it is to come out, and I salute Phillip Schofield 

ANDREW PIERCE: Tears pouring down my cheeks, I posted the letter to Mum and Dad. I had finally owned up to myself that I was gay. My parents were staunch, working-class Catholics.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Will John Bercow get a peerage?

ANDREW PIERCE: John Bercow is reeling from allegations of foot-stamping bullying by David Leakey. His chances of a peerage 'are now zero', a senior Commons official has revealed.




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Does she deserve a peerage? The claims that could cost Karie Murphy the ermine, writes ANDREW PIERCE

Four men and two women, will today sit in judgment in an anonymous office in the Whitehall edifice that houses the Treasury on the most contentious set of peerage nominations for a generation.




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'Maharaja of the Dales' with the £2bn father-in-law: ANDREW PIERCE examines Rishi Sunak 

Despite being repeatedly tipped as a 'prime minister-in-waiting' since entering the House of Commons less than five years ago, Rishi Sunak has always been better known in India than Britain.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Just what has happened to Diane Abbott's charity? 

ANDREW PIERCE: Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott yesterday ruled out serving in the Shadow Cabinet of the next Labour leader.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Jack Straw's secret for handling the mandarins 

ANDREW PIERCE: Jack Straw - Tony Blair's first Home Secretary - revealed what Lord Baker, Home Secretary in Sir John Major's government from 1990-92, had told him when he took up the role.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Patel gets overwhelming support from Thatcherite Conservative Voice group

ANDREW PIERCE: Home Secretary Priti Patel was defended last week in a statement by 100 allies, including election guru Sir Lynton Crosby and William Shawcross, former chief of the Charity Commission.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Leftie Richard Burgon's secret life as a Tony Blair fan 

ANDREW PIERCE: In an interview with student newspaper Varsity in 2002, when he was chairman of the Labour group at Cambridge University, he backed the UK joining the euro.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Bold Rishi Sunak's rescue deal taxes the Left 

ANDREW PIERCE: Sunak's bold measures to tackle the economic devastation threatened by the coronavirus has found him allies in unexpected places.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Boris Johnson's little brother Labour's new leader

ANDREW PIERCE: Social media posts can be ever so revealing. Who is the unlikeliest fan of ­Labour's new leader Sir Keir Starmer?




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ANDREW PIERCE: For a karate black belt, Dominic Raab is wooden - but Boris Johnson can trust him

ANDREW PIERCE - Trust rust is key when talking about ambitious ministers who might one day fancy a permanent shot at the top job. He may be wooden, but Dominic Raab has Boris Johnson's backing.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Will Peer heed wife's demand to donate dosh?

ANDREW PIERCE - After her recent letter to the Times, Lady Marland has now left her husband, peer Lord Jonathan Marland with quite a conundrum to deal with regarding his personal wealth.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Cabinet hawks and doves are split on the UK's plan for how and when to lift lockdown 

ANDREW PIERCE: As countries across Europe start to ease themselves out of lockdown, there is a growing recognition in Boris Johnson's Cabinet that it, too, will have to make some hard decisions




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ANDREW PIERCE: Shamed Lord Truscott hunts down Covid spivs 

ANDREW PIERCE: Most politicians need a brass neck to survive in the Westminster jungle. But former Labour energy minister Lord Truscott is in a league of his own.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Spare us your winks and get a grip, Becky! 

ANDREW PIERCE: Sir Keir Starmer managed to find a place in his Shadow Cabinet for onetime 'Continuity Corbyn' candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey.




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Chris Froome lost FOUR pints of blood in six-hour surgery after horror crash

Chris Froome has insisted he is 'on the road to recovery' following his horror crash which saw him lose four pints of blood and required six-hours of surgery, and has admitted he feels lucky to be alive.




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Chris Froome out of hospital as he begins recovery from horror crash

Froome had been treated at the University Hospital of St Etienne, where he underwent a six-hour operation to repair a fractured right femur, broken hip, fractured elbow and fractured ribs.




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Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal pick up time on rivals for Team Ineos after Tour de France time trial

CHRIS MURPHY IN BRUSSELS: Geraint Thomas and his Ineos team-mates were beaten in a tense finish to Saturday's second stage of the Tour de France, a 27.6-kilometre time trial.




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Wheel high! Incredible video shows cyclist jumping OVER Tour de France riders

Valentin Anouilh, 21, spent six months training for the stunt which saw him soar over the heads of the elite riders as they sprinted through a valley near Saint Flour, Auvergne.




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Tour de France: Simon Yates capitalises on breakaway as British rider takes Stage 12

MATT LAWTON IN BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE: The race for the big prize might have failed to ignite here on the first day in the Pyrenees but there was no shortage of fireworks




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Thibaut Pinot takes 14th stage of Tour de France

Thibaut Pinot led a French one-two ahead of overall leader Julian Alaphilippe to win the 14th stage of the Tour de France, a 117.5-km mountain trek from Tarbes on Saturday.




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Thibaut Pinot's team in barb at Ineos as they eye emotional home win at the Tour de France

MATT LAWTON IN NIMES: There is a reluctance in France to imagine how the scenes on the Champs-Elysees might compare to the night of the 1998 World Cup final.




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Tour de France 2019: Egan Bernal steals a march to pile pressure on team-mate Geraint Thomas

MATT LAWTON IN VALLOIRE: To some extent it felt like normal service had been resumed here in the Alps, the sight of five Team Ineos riders leading the yellow jersey group up the final climb.




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Thibaut Pinot's Tour de France dream dies as Frenchman retires through injury during Stage 19

Thibaut Pinot's dream of becoming the first French winner of the Tour de France for 34 years is over after the Groupama-FDJ rider was forced to abandon early on stage 19 to Tignes.




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Cycling legend Eddy Merckx in intensive care at hospital after falling off bike with friends

The most successful cyclist in history, Eddy Merckx, is in intensive care after falling during a bike ride with friends. He was admitted to Dendermonde hospital in Belgium on Sunday.




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Tour de France STILL set to go ahead despite coronavirus lockdown, says France's sports minister

French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu looked to clarify the situation around the biggest race in cycling, which has already been rearranged to take place on August 29.




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Welcome home the car that beat the Nazis to Olympic gold in 1936

A British sports car, whose determined lady driver beat the Nazis to win Olympic gold at the Berlin Games of 1936, has revved into London 2012.




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Table manners please! Motor-bike champion's table-top ride takes the biscuit at the stately home of dashing speed-king Lord March

RAY MASSEY: As controversial table-manners go, it certainly beats resting on your elbows. This remarkable stunt came as the dashing Earl of March hosted a sumptuous sponsors and press dinner.




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Citroen's Grand C4 Picasso is best in class for families

Ray Massey, motoring editor, gets to grips with the award-winning family car, Nick Clegg's push for electric cars and the biggest dangers on the road.




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A great week for speed fans: Ferrari deliver 'superb levels of performance' and Jose Mourinho picks up the first Jaguar F-type coupe

The 200 mph California T is set to roar into Britain from September after its world debut at next month's Geneva Motor Show, whilst the Jaguar F-Type sports coupe was launched this week.




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Citroen Grand 4 Picasso: A French masterpiece

Motoring editor Ray Massey takes the new Citroen Grand 4 Picasso Exclusive e-HDi 115 Airdream for a mini test and gives you the lowdown.




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Melanie Sykes picks up something petit and perky to zip around in

Melanie Sykes, who is the new presenter of BT Sport's MotoGP TV coverage, has opted for the nippy Fiat 500 super-mini convertible.




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Hyundai's iX factor: Ray Massey takes the iX35 for a spin

Ray Massey tests the Hyundai iX35 Premium 1.7 CRDI 2WD Manual, a car with kerb appeal




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Ray Massey takes the MG3 3STYLE for a spin

It was with a sense of nostalgia that Ray jumped into the newest MG on the block — the MG3 five-door hatchback




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RAY MASSEY takes the Porsche Macan S for a spin

Recently voted Auto Express's best compact SUV of the year, the Porsche Macan S is priced from £43,000




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A cactus poised to bloom: RAY MASSEY takes the Citroen C4 Cactus Flair 1.6 Blue HDi 100 for a spin

This French back-to-basics family car combines simplicity and efficiency with practicality, low ownership costs and quirky looks. It also boasts a 1.6 litre HDi four-cylinder in-line turbodiesel engine.




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Nissan takes over from Ford with new four-year deal as the main motoring sponsor of the UEFA Champions League 

It's been an electric week for motoring. A fleet of 100 electric vehicles was ferrying VIPs at the UEFA Champions League in Berlin last Sunday where Spain's FC Barcelona triumphed over Juventus.




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Star-studded car launches and jaw dropping stunts: Jaguar Land Rover shakes rivals with a display of cars from the Bond films

Jaguar Land Rover left its German rivals shaken and stirred with a star-studded James Bond car launch and a jaw-dropping stunt at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show.