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Fireworks are returning to the capital for New Year (Picture: Getty Images) Londoners will once again be able to ring in 2023 with a spectacular fireworks display in the capital, with crowds returning to watch the spectacle for the first time since before the pandemic. The plaza in front of the London Eye will welcome…
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The wave of industrial action shows no sign of abating (Picture: Metro.co.uk) Border Force staff, London bus workers, road traffic officers and Environment Agency employees are all set to walk out today as the wave of industrial action shows no sign of abating. Further strikes are due in January by a number of unions, including…
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More than 1,000 people from a range of fields have been recognised for their contributions (Picture: PA/Getty) Hundreds of people have been recognised for their contribution to society in the New Year Honours list. England’s history-making Lionesses football team, Queen guitarist Brian May and actor Stephen Graham are among some of the more familiar faces…
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Phil Whitehouse spoke about how a botched hair transplant ‘ruined his life for two years’ (Picture: Mittal Hair Clinic) A hair transplant surgeon believes ‘someone is going to die’ if the industry does not become more regulated. Dr Manish Mittal, who runs his own hair transplant clinic in London, is worried about the ‘sustained increase’…
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The Imperial War Museum is seeking to fill the gaps in its collection of wartime stories (Pictures: Imperial War Museum/Getty) The stories of minority soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I need to be preserved before they are lost forever, a leading historian has said. Alan Wakefield, Head of First World…
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Ten men are wanted by police following investigations into crimes against women and girls (Picture: File images from UK police forces) They are wanted in connection with serious crimes against women and girls ranging from murder to a high value romance fraud. The 10 men on this list have been identified as a result of…
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Zarith, an asylum seeker, has spent at least 150 days in a hotel as he awaits his claim (Picture: Laura Martinez) Zarith, 25, doesn’t get out much. He doesn’t much of a choice, though. After applying for asylum when he arrived in the UK by plane last year, Zarith was placed in a small hotel…
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Phoebe Grime, 20, took her own life in 2021, and mum Hilary is now dedicated to stopping further suicides (Picture: Hilary Grime) A devastated mum who lost her ‘precious’ 20-year-old daughter to suicide claims she was ‘failed’ by Newcastle University and two police forces. Hilary Grime, 57, suffered pain ‘beyond her human capacity’ when university…
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The worrying prediction came as further strikes were announced by ambulance workers for the New Year (Picture: Getty) This Christmas could be one of the NHS’s darkest ever, trust leaders have forecast, warning that strikes threaten to exacerbate an ‘already deeply challenging situation’ in the health service. The worrying prediction came as further strikes were…
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Damien Bendall has been jailed for life for the murders of Terri Harris, and her two children, John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey Bennett, 11, as well as Lacey’s friend Connie Gent, 11 (Picture: SWNS/PA) A man who killed his pregnant partner and three children in a ‘brutal, vicious and cruel attack’ at a sleepover,…
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