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The Great British Bake Off, review by Jim Shelley 

It was the semi-final of The Great British Bake and Patisserie Week - a mouth-watering prospect, particularly when Paul Hollywood smiled that combining them was 'pretty cruel.'




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Curse of Star Baker strikes Great British Bake Off final: David wins

Steph Blackwell had been vying to become the first contestant in the history of the show to be Star Baker four weeks running.




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Harrison Ford tried to get Admiral Ackbar puppeteer Tim Rose fired from Return Of The Jedi 

The puppeteer who brought Admiral Ackbar and other Star Wars characters to life reminisced on a podcast about the time Harrison Ford tried to get him fired from Return Of The Jedi.




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DR ELLIE CANNON: Are my new heart pills turning me bald at 61?  

A 61-year-old reader has asked DR ELLIE CANNON whether his new heart pills could be responsible for his sudden hair loss as all the men in his family had a full head of hair into old age.




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DR ELLIE CANNON: Will my wife's carers be banned from visiting due to the coronavirus outbreak?

A reader asks DR ELLIE CANNON whether his wife's carer will still be allowed to call to the house during the coronavirus outbreak or will he have to cope with this situation on his own.




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Terror experts warn of 'surge' in pro-ISIS social media posts after Baghdadi death

The Counter Extremism Project said the jihadists had been posting 'regular propaganda' after ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (pictured) died in a U.S. special forces raid in Syria.




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Jimmy Kimmel creates mash up of Obama-Trump addresses

Jimmy Kimmel created a mash up of Trump and Obama's televised national addresses following the killings of the Al Qaeda and ISIS leaders.




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Donald Trump's acting chief of staff was kept in the dark about al-Baghdadi raid

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney was kept in the dark about the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and did not learn of it until it was already under way. 




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Donald Trump tweets photoshopped picture of him giving medal to dog that cornered al-Baghdadi

President Trump tweeted a photoshopped image of him placing a medal around the neck of Conan, the hero dog who chased down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before he blew himself up.




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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'was betrayed by a top security official out revenge'

Kurdish SDF commander Mazloum Abdi claimed his forces were fed information about Baghdadi's whereabouts by a top security official who wanted revenge against the ISIS leader.




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Pentagon provides first detailed account of Baghdadi raid

The Pentagon on Wednesday released the first photos and video clips of the nighttime raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdad's Syrian compound that ended with his death.




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Pentagon releases video of raid on ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's Syrian compound 

Marine Corps General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr, commander of U.S. Central Command, released the footage at a press conference on Wednesday at the Pentagon.




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Turkey warns it will send IS fighters captured in Syria back to their home countries

Interior minister Suleyman Soylu warned the nation 'is not a hotel' for captured terrorists and said it will repatriate any they capture while in Syria' in a televised address from Ankara on Saturday.




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Turkey claims it will start sending ISIS fighters back home on Monday

Interior minister Suleyman Soylu (pictured), who has warned that Ankara will send jihadists back home even if they have lost their citizenship in the West, vowed that extraditions would begin on Monday.




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ISIS 'matchmaker' Tooba Gondal 'is set to be deported from Turkey

French national Tooba Gondal, 25, is among four women and seven children being transported from Turkey to France in line with Ankara's plan to expel foreign fighters from Turkish prisons.




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Tories warn 'security risk' Jeremy Corbyn would roll back terror laws

Tories warned Jeremy Corbyn would not 'keep the country safe' as PM after comments were highlighted in which he suggested branding ISIS jihadis 'terrorists' was a 'value judgement'.




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Australia is urged to take back three ISIS terrorists because Turkey can't afford to pay for them 

The Australians are among 959 foreign IS fighters and families in Turkish custody in northern Syria.




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Captured ISIS fighters in Syria could be brought back to UK for trial, says top security adviser

Captured British Islamic State fighters could be returned to the UK from Syria to face justice, according to top security adviser Sir Mark Sedwill who was speaking in Bahrain on Saturday.




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FBI offers $5m reward for Wisconsin-born leader of African terror group al-Shabab

Officials unsealed a new indictment against 37-year-old Jehad Serwan Mostafa on Monday, claiming his leadership of the terrorist outfit al-Shabaab has led to the slaughter of hundreds.




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Major setback for ISIS bride Shamima Begum's fighting to return to Britain as citizenship hope hit

Islamic State bride Shamima Begum's hopes of having her British citizenship restored have been dealt a severe blow by the High Court after denying two terrorists their UK passports restored.




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Barack Obama welcomed leader of US embassy attack at the White House

Hadi al Amiri joined Iraq's then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as his Minister for Transport when he stood in the Oval Office in December 2011.




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Obese ISIS 'mufti' is arrested in Iraq… and is so heavy he has to be loaded onto the back of a truck

Shifa al-Nima, a big capture, was hauled from his bolthole in Mosul, Iraq, by security forces. Dubbed the terror group's Jabba the Hutt, the so-called religious leader had ordered executions.




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'Jabba the Jihadi' 40st cleric claims he received funding from a terror financier in BRITAIN

Shifa Al-Nima, who was dubbed 'Jabba the Jihadi' on social media, has told investigators that he received £4,500 from a man using the nom de guerre Abu Mustapha Al-Najmawi.




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ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses first round of fight to win back her British citizenship 

Begum - one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join ISIS in 2015 - lost her UK passport after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp last year.




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Escape room based on El Chapo's infamous 2015 prison break opens in Mexico City

For a weekday entrance fee of $15, visitors in Mexico City of all ages take part in a 60-minute game where they take on role of infamous drug trafficker Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.




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El Chapo's glamorous wife enjoys European vacation while her husband rots in hellish super-max jail

While Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán rots in a hellish supermax prison in Colorado, his glamorous wife Emma Aispuro Coronel is vacationing in Italy.




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Mexico's rival drug gangs battle it out over El Chapo's lucrative tunnels

In February, Guzman, 62, was found guilty of trafficking $12 billion worth of cocaine, heroin and marijuana during his reign as the Don of the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, beginning in the late 1980s.




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Mexico's 'new El Chapo' 'has ordered the murder of pregnant women and babies' amid cocaine war

Nemesio Osegura Cervantes, 'El Mencho', has picked up where the infamous Joaquin Guzman, formerly El Chapo, left off in Mexico, according to federal investigators.




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Gun battles rock Mexican city after El Chapo's son detained

The brief apprehension of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's son, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, triggered a raging gun battle on Thursday in the Mexican city of Culiacan.




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Mexican police arrest El Chapo's heir... but have to hand him back after bloody gunfight 

The Mexican city of Culiacan turned into a warzone as Mexican police arrested El Chapo's son, only to have to hand him back after a bloody clash with gang members on Thursday.




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'Pablo Escobar of Heroin' arrested in Colombia

Carlos Alberto Salazar was captured by the Colombian police in January while buying tickets for Colombia's 2020 Olympic soccer qualifier match.




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Mexican official 'who was bribed by El Chapo' offers $2million bail because he fears coronavirus

Genaro García Luna, who allegedly took millions in bribes from El Chapo's cartel, wants a New York federal court judge to put him under house arrest over fears that he will die if infected with coronavirus.




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Esther McVey 'blames GMTV Labour cabal for her feud with Lorraine Kelly' 

Conservative leadership candidate Esther McVey and Lorraine Kelly have made headlines after Kelly appeared to snub her former GMTV colleague live on air when she was on Good Morning Britain.




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Giuliani claims U.S. embassy would not stop a Ukraine corruption scheme funneling money to Soros

Rudy Giuliani alleges the U.S. Embassy - led by then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch - 'quashed' corruption probe into the disappearance of foreign aid that was going to George Soros.




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Boris Johnson will not axe the foreign aid department as he scales back proposed Whitehall shake-up 

The Department for International Development will now not merge with Foreign Office and a borders and immigration ministry, separate to the Home Office, is unlikely in the cabinet reshuffle.




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MPs will hold urgent debate over 'jihadi textbooks' handed out at schools in Palestine

Nine-year-olds study maths by adding the number of martyrs in Palestinian uprisings in textbooks illustrated with pictures of their funerals.




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Valtteri Bottas to start Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at back of the grid

Lewis Hamilton's team-mate, Bottas, will have a new engine for the season-finale on Sunday after an oil leak brought an early end to his race in Brazil last time out.




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Charles Leclerc vows to keep cool head at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after crash with Sebastian Vettel

JONATHAN McEVOY IN ABU DHABI: Ferrari's squabbling drivers have been let off scot-free for crashing into each other in Brazil last week and are still free to race each other.




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Charles Leclerc signs new Ferrari deal until 2024 as F1 team put faith in him over Sebastian Vettel

Charles Leclerc has signed a five-year contract to remain with Ferrari following a successful maiden campaign with Ferrari, rewarding the Frenchman with a new and improved deal.




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Charles Leclerc insists he and Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel will not crash again

Following a number of on-track disputes last season - the pair's first together at Ferrari - their battle reached boiling point when they crashed into each other at the Interlagos circuit.




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Ferrari 'not considering' move for Lewis Hamilton after confirming Sebastian Vettel as first option

Hamilton, whose Mercedes contract is set to expire at the end of the year, had held informal talks about joining Ferrari last year but any move now looks dead in the water.




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Sebastian Vettel skips first day of F1 pre-season testing in Barcelona with illness

Sebastian Vettel has fallen ill on the opening day of Formula One testing after posing for group pictures on the starting grid with the other drivers. The four-time champion was due to test Ferrari's new SF1000.




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Mercedes' reinvention of the steering wheel banned one day after its release

Mercedes' reinvention of the steering wheel has been banned just a day after it broke cover. Not that Lewis Hamilton and his boffins will mind because it won't be outlawed until 2021.




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Max Verstappen gets stuck in the gravel after coming off the track during F1 testing in Barcelona

The Dutch driver, heading into his seventh season in Formula One, lost control and spun around, going off the track at turn five. He was unharmed in Thursday morning's session in Barcelona.




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Lewis Hamilton's pre-season testing in Barcelona cut short as power failure causes car to shut down

Lewis Hamilton's decision to get out of the car saw a red flag deployed on the session so that the car and the British driver could be retrieved and taken back to the Mercedes garage before action resumed.




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Nico Rosberg backs young stars of Formula One to unseat reigning champion Lewis Hamilton

Nico Rosberg has backed one of Formula One's crop of exciting youngsters to make a breakthrough this season and seize the Formula One title.




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Renault eye up potential swoop for Sebastian Vettel if they lose Daniel Ricciardo

Many drivers are out of contract at the end of the season, including Vettel and his former Red Bull team-mate, and Renault fear Ricciardo could leave for Ferrari if they fail to make significant progress.




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F1 bans teams from developing their 2022 cars this year in bid to save costs

Formula One have banned teams from developing their cars in line for the 2022 season when a revamp of rules and regulations are set to kickstart a new era for the sport.




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Sebastian Vettel admits F1 shutdown pain, opening up on talks with rivals on fan-free 'ghost' races

Sebastian Vettel is feeling the lockdown strain as yet another would-be Formula One race weekend breezes by with drivers still holed up at home. Vettel should be in Shanghai for round-four of the season.




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Celebrity Apprentice: Real Housewives star Teresa Giudice puts bankruptcy behind her

She's never had any trouble spending cash, but Teresa Guidice is hoping to prove she has earning power too on the new series of Celebrity Apprentice. The 39-year-old Real Housewives of New Jersey star, who first filed for bankruptcy with her husband Joe Giudice in 2009, joined the new line of up of contestants in New York today.