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Council is accused of wasting taxpayers money by painting 'Thank you NHS' messages on roads

Swindon Borough Council has come under fire after it took to social media to reveal that its Highways Team had painted a 'thank you' message to NHS staff amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Captain Tom recalls fighting on the front lines in Burma in WWII and memories of VE Day

The former British Army Officer from Yorkshire fought on a motorbike and survived giant spiders and dengue fever during the Allied campaign in Burma, the 'Forgotten War' against Imperial Japan in 1942-45.




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BAME NHS workers on Covid-19 frontline should ask ask to be moved says Dame Donna Kinnair

BAME staff working on the front lines of the NHS should ask to move if they feel endangered, the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing has said. It comes after a popular pharmacist died last month.




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Nurse who gambled away £100,000 raised for terminally-ill son allowed to work due to Covid crisis

The original Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] tribunal heard Stacey Worsley gambled the money - meant for Toby Nye's neuroblastoma treatment - over a 15-month period.




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The most fitting of fly-pasts marks VE Day after Mail made the Spitfire tour possible

Although all general aviation remains out of bounds during the pandemic, the Daily Mail was granted an exemption by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to see spitfires take to the skies.




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VE Day 75: UK sings along to Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again'

Brits joined together on Friday night to sing Dame Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again. Voices rang out up and down the country to mark 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.




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Bake Off star Candice Brown reveals cake she made for Colonel Tom Moore's 100th birthday

The-35-year-old, described her 'proudest moment' as making a birthday cake for Colonel Tom Moore who turned 100 on 30 April.




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Rob Waugh reviews the Rayvolt Cruzer V3  

I'm mature enough to admit that, sometimes, the whole point of a gadget is the attention you get from using it in public.




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Wife of sex pest Josh Duggar marks 11-year wedding anniversary and says faith has helped them

The Florida-born Anna referenced the family's faith in surviving the bad times in her union with the Tontitown, Arkansas native: 'Through it all, God's kindness and grace has sustained us.'




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Harrison Ford has scruffy beard as he arrives at JFK airport in NYC ahead of holiday weekend

Ford made headlines during a trip to Gotham in September of 2017, when he exited a limo he was in to help direct traffic amid a jam caused by a nearby accident.




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Harrison Ford pays tribute to Star Wars co-star Peter Mayhew and Indiana Jones on Tonight Show

Harrison Ford paid tribute to his late Star Wars co-star Peter Mayhew and reflected on the legacy of Indiana Jones on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday.




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Harrison Ford's son gives tribute to his dad on Father's Day

Harrison Ford got a sweet message from his son Ben Ford on Father's Day.




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Harrison Ford wears shaggy beard, long hair on way to his plane in LA

Harrison Ford loves the natural look. The iconic actor was seen with long hair and a bushy beard on Wednesday as he headed to his private plane on the tarmac of the Santa Monica Airport.




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Harrison Ford, 77, says landing the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises was just dumb luck

The 77-year-old actor is one of the biggest box-office stars in cinema history - but Harrison thinks luck has played a significant role in his career, admitting he 'can't believe' the success.




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DR ELLIE CANNON: You DON'T need to lock yourself away for months during the coronavirus outbreak

There will be many more cases in the coming weeks. Up to eight in ten of us may contract Covid-19, according to some projections. Despite this, I believe this is not a cause for panic, says DR ELLIE.




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Kayla Mueller's parents say there is a chance she may still be ALIVE

In an emotional interview with Today on Wednesday morning, Carl and Marsha Mueller said they believed their volunteer daughter - who was taken hostage by ISIS in 2013 may still be alive.




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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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FBI chief Christopher Wray warns that social media and encryption is fueling domestic terror

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday in Washington: 'Terrorism today moves at the speed of social media' and the rapid development of technology has helped boost lone terrorists.




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Trump says he knows 'exactly' who mysterious new ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi is

Donald Trump bragged on Twitter that the US knows 'exactly' who Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi is after ISIS unexpectedly named him as their new leader, leaving terror experts stumped.




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Donald Trump blasts House Democrats and says their inquiry is 'an attack on democracy itself'

Trump's remarks came at a campaign rally on Friday night at the BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo, Mississippi, where he threw his support to the Republican in Tuesday's election for governor.




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New ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraish is a 'nobody', says US official 

The new leader of the Islamic State group is 'a nobody' with little apparent reputation even amongst adherents of the terror group, an anonymous US official said Wednesday.




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Arizona border sheriff says Mexican drug cartels pose ISIS-like threat

An Arizona border sheriff says Mexican drug cartels like the one behind the Mormon family massacre pose an ISIS-like threat as authorities fear the same group could be running drug operations in Utah.




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Relatives of slain Mormon family say Mexican cartels are 'worse than ISIS'

Funerals began on Thursday in Sonora state for three of the nine LeBaron family victims after the Mexican government said they were ambushed by drug cartels.




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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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Jeremy Corbyn says ISIS leader should have been ARRESTED

He questioned the US operation that wiped out the Islamist mass-murderer, saying: 'If we want to live in a world of peace and justice we should practice it as well'.




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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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Irish suspected ISIS bride Lisa Smith, 38, spends 20 hours a day locked in her cell

Lisa Smith, 38, was charged with ISIS membership earlier this month in Dublin. She reportedly wears a black traditional abaya robe in her cell where she spends 20 hours a day.




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ISWAP kills 11 Christian captives in Nigeria on Christmas Day

The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) claim they killed the captives to avenge for the killing of their leaders Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir in Iraq and Syria.




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Donald Trump says 'Squad' Democrats 'hate the Jewish people' as he riffs about faith at megachurch

Donald Trump turned a mega-church revival meeting into a campaign rally on Friday, riffing at a Miami gathering of politicall friendly evangelicals on meandering topics including claims of Democratic Party anti-Semitism and the U.S. airstrike that killed a hated Iranian general.




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US general Petraeus says killing of Suleimani is 'MORE significant than Osama bin Laden'

US general David Petraeus, who led the CIA from 2011 to 2012, said Friday's killing of Qassem Suleimani by Baghdad International Airport was also more important than ISIS's al-Baghdadi's death.




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Norway's PM poses for a selfie with her new team

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Friday announced the biggest shake-up of her Cabinet since she took office in 2013, replacing or repositioning two-thirds of ministers.




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Donald Trump earns a standing ovation from Kayla Mueller's parents during State of the Union

Carl and Marsha Mueller, parents of US aid worker Kayla who was captured and killed by ISIS in Syria, gave Trump a standing ovation as he honored their daughter in his speech on Tuesday.




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Ex-Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher says he'd campaign for Trump's re-election as he shows off THAT knife

In an interview with 60 Minutes, the disgraced veteran (inset) spoke of his gratitude to the president, who he claims saved him from life in prison.




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Prosecutors order Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to pay the US $12.7 BILLION

Based on prices for drugs quoted by various witnesses, Guzman's 25-year reign atop the Sinaloa cartel netted sales of some $11.8 billion in cocaine, $846 million in marijuana and $11 million in heroin.




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Ted Cruz says government should spend 'every penny' of El Chapo's billions to build the border wall

Ted Cruz said he wants Mexican drug lord El Chapo's money to be used to construct the southern border wall. 'We should use every penny of that money to build the wall and secure the border.'




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US prosecutor says Honduran president took fortune in drug bribes

The accusations were made at the opening of President Hernandez's brothers' trial on Wednesday afternoon by US prosecutor Jason Richman.




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Mexican president says the army released El Chapo's son to prevent all-out war

The violence began when cartel leaders including Ovidio Guzmán López, one of El Chapo's sons, who were hiding in a house in Culiacán, opened fire on a group of soldiers on Thursday.




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Bolivian government says former President Evo Morales gave parliament access to El Chapo's son

In 2015, Bolivia's ex-president Evo Morales gave parliament access to El Chapo's son, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, who also took aircraft pilot classes before he disappeared.




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Drug kingpin El Chapo's 'untouchable' son, 36, gives away CARS, locals in Mexico

The son of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán treated residents in the family's home state of Sinaloa with a car giveaway, concert and food during an event ahead of Christmas.




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Mexico extradites 'Lord of the Tunnels', who designed secret passageways to the U.S. for El Chapo

José 'The Lord of the Tunnels' Sánchez Villalobos is accused by a federal California court of building and operating two tunnels for El Chapo that connects Tijuana and San Diego.




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DEA says the Sinaloa Cartel is the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S. with El Chapo in jail

The DEA says El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel poses a threat to the United States like no other Mexican criminal group even with the notorious leader sitting behind bars in the U.S.




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Secret documents may help prove UK is paying terrorists with taxpayer cash

UK foreign aid money is said to have funded 'salaries' to Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel. Recipients reportedly include bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti whose attacks killed 67 people.




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Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools paid for with UK taxpayers' cash are closed

Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools, paid for with British aid, have closed as they are not fit for use. An estimated 115,000 children are left taking classes outside or in overcrowded rooms.




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Millions of pounds in foreign aid may be being wasted

Hundreds of millions of pounds in foreign aid may be being wasted because nobody is keeping track of how effectively the money is being spent, a damning report claims.




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Britain's £4.2bn foreign gender equality budget must be managed better, says National Audit Office

Foreign aid chiefs have been told to improve how they manage the £4.2billion being spent on boosting gender equality overseas. In the past £4million has been spent on Yegna, Ethiopa's answer to the Spice Girls.




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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff to meet Lewis Hamilton on Tuesday in hopes he will sign £60m deal

They will come face to face when Hamilton, whose contract is due for renewal at the end of the season, returns to work at the Silver Arrows' Northamptonshire factory on Tuesday morning. 




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'Lewis Hamilton says that Max Verstappen's Mercedes comments are a sign of weakness

Lewis Hamilton has hit back at criticism from Red Bull rival Max Verstappen , calling the Dutchman's comments 'a sign of weakness' after he recently lit the fire ahead of the upcoming season.




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F1 considers two-day Chinese Grand Prix in between Brazilian and Abu Dhabi races

The Chinese Grand Prix could be rescheduled for November as part of a two-day event sandwiched in between the Brazilian and Abu Dhabi races after the original race was postponed.




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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.