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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: What, more cycle lanes? On yer bike!

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Let's hear it for White Van Man. And Black Van Man, and every other shade of van man and woman. Where the hell would we have been without them over the past few weeks?




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Fury as Sir Keir Starmer asks 'have you got what you need' when applauding the NHS

New Labour leader Keir Starmer sparked a row on Twitter after asking the media 'have you got everything you need' at the end of the 8pm 'clap for our carers'.




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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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Millions of Britons mark seventh weekly 'Clap for Carers' event

Clap for Carers is now in its seventh week, with Britons up and down the country stepping onto their doorsteps, balconies and front gardens to applaud frontline workers at 8pm tonight.




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Katie Price and her son Harvey join John Torode and Lisa Faulkner as stars clap for the carers

Stars were seen joining the nation outside their home for the weekly applause which has rang out across the country each Thursday for the last seven weeks.




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Men are TWICE as likely to die from coronavirus as women

Elderly, obese and black people are also substantially more likely to fall victim to the illness, according to the NHS England analysis of 17.4million patient records.




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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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Rita Ora's mother Vera, 56, winds down with a yoga session in her garden

The doctor, 55, displayed her impressive technique with a downward dog pose as she stretched out on a bright pink mat.




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Human laboratory that could defeat coronavirus

Retired teacher Beverley Attwood lives with her husband Bob in a picturesque cottage festooned with VE Day bunting in Brighstone, one of the prettiest villages on the Isle of Wight.




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PPE pirates shamelessly buy up vital safety gear and ramp up prices for NHS and carers

Shameless opportunists are buying up supplies of personal protective equipment and hiking prices by as much as 10,000 times, a Mail investigation has found. 




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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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Johnny Vegas delivers food parcels to NHS staff and vulnerable residents of his hometown St Helens

The comedian, 49, has teamed up with local charities to ensure the needy residents are getting their essentials during the coronavirus lockdown.




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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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Holly Willoughby auctions herself as lunch date after joining fundraising effort

The This Morning host, 39, took to Instagram on Friday to make the announcement to her followers.




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Lawyers warn lack of PPE could result in corporate manslaughter charges

Lawyers have warned the lack of PPE for NHS and care workers could result in corporate manslaughter charges as 54 Covid-19 healthcare deaths were reported to the Health and Safety Executive.




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Hour heroes! Smartwatches that don't make you like you have an electronic tag on your wrists

These Fossil watches are about the best Android Wear watches out there, and they work well (you swipe up, sideways and down to open alerts, see your calendar or see fitness data)




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The VZ Fit will entertain you at the gym, but you will look even less flattering!

What could be more undignified than donning unflatteringly tight gym wear and cycling in a frenzy on an exercise bike? Answer: doing the same, but wearing a virtual reality headset




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ROB WAUGH: The new Bower & Wilkins headphones are 'pleasingly cosy'

They're less bulky than over-ear headphones, and offer noise-cancelling and Bluetooth without making you look like one of Doctor Who's cyborg foes




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Google's new Nest system is an upgrade of its three-year-old wi-fi system

There's really not much lower you can sink as a human being once you've found yourself excited by a wi-fi router. But that's the tragic situation I find myself in




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The Ruark R5 is a seriously high-specced, do-it-all machine

The Ruark 5 is a wireless streamer, but it also packs a CD player and FM radio. That it looks absolutely gorgeous doesn't hurt, with a wooden surround and a strokeable cloth face plate




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ROB WAUGH: Pleasingly rounded sounds from the Orbitsound Airsound One

Occasionally tech firms come up with a buzzword so surreal that you surreptitiously Google it just to make sure they're not taking the mickey




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2019's top ten? Tech your pick

Event's tech expert Rob Waugh rounds up the best new gadgets on the market. Looking for that last minute gift? Our man has you covered




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The Roborock S6 is exactly what robot vacuum cleaners should have been all along 

The Roborock is simple to set up, unlike a lot of rivals, and trundles off to clean any flat space, without fear of it plunging to its doom down the stairs




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The BlueAir Pure 411 air purifier leaves your room feeling clean and cool

There's a rash of these things about, but BlueAir's gizmos have won awards, removing airborne bacteria, chemicals and pollution from the air




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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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The ideal gift for the impossible-to-buy-for middle-aged man in your life

The hip-dac is far cheaper than many Dacs (you can pay up to £8,000 if you're completely bonkers), and it sounds belting




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The Rodecaster Pro is the ideal piece of kit if you're considering joining the podcast revolution 

If you are thinking of subjecting the world to half an hour of your opinions on, say, Mongolian throat singing, the Rodecaster Pro does a fairly passable impression of an actual radio studio




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ROB WAUGH: The Pixelbook Go is deliciously slim and worth the money

Google's Pixelbook Go is a Chromebook (basically running a browser, but with a few additional apps). I realised that it can actually do pretty much anything from word processing to website editing




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ROB WAUGH: A ludicrous, lovely toy for the rich and childless 

So I regard the Philips OLED+984 Ambilight with wistful longing. There's little point in bringing such a majestic device into a home where the biggest workout it's going to get is Paw Patrol binges




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These headphones sound brilliant but they do make you look like a Teletubby!

'You look like a Teletubby!' These are words no man wants to hear. I suppose at least they didn't say I looked like the one with the handbag. I'll admit that Grado's headphones are on the large side




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Try these apps and games to get you through self-isolation

Like many people, I'm now facing the possibility of several weeks confined with my four-year-old, a prospect only marginally less alarming than being cooped up with Frankenstein's monster




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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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Homeland Security agents raid Josh Duggar's rural Arkansas car dealership

Duggar, who rose to fame with his family on their TLC show but resigned after admitting that he molested four of his sisters when they were all underage, works at a car dealership in Arkansas.




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Sex pest Josh Duggar and his wife Anna count up to six with the birth of their new daughter Maryella

Josh Duggar, who allegedly admitted to molesting multiple underage siblings when he was teenager, welcomed a daughter Maryella, his sixth child with his wife Anna.




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Celebrity MasterChef review by Jim Shelley 

Celebrity Masterchef saw the most famous name in this week's heat and the whole series make it through to Wednesday's show.




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Vicky Pattison's cooking skills miraculously transformed on Celebrity Masterchef, by Jim Shelley 

Friday's Celebrity Masterchef was the best of the three the week as always, and not just because it took only half an hour.




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Joey Essex invented a dish mixing stir-fry with risotto on Celebrity Masterchef, by Jim Shelley

Joey Essex and Kellie Maloney were cruelly eliminated in the first 'semi-final' of Celebrity Mastermind - punished primarily for being different.




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Steph's hat-trick of Star Baker awards was only the second in the show's history

The Great British Bake Off may be younger and groovier these days, having rid itself of no-nonsense Yorkshiremen, lovely old ladies, and anyone with 'a proper job.'




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Your heart went out to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice, by Jim Shelley

Its special opening episode (set in South Africa) was slightly longer than the usual hour and evidently so incredible the notion of just cutting it by five minutes was unthinkable.




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The Great British Bake Off: The latest episode is recapped by Jim Shelley

The bookies' favourite to win The Great British Bake Off, Steph Blackwell, narrowly failed to make history and become Star Baker for a remarkable four weeks running.




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Lord Sugar wasn't impressed on The Apprentice, by JIM SHELLEY

The Apprentice was basically a lesson in how to ruin an ice-lolly. And then mess up selling them.




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Vicky Pattison struggled to stop Greg Rutherford winning Celebrity Masterchef

JIM SHELLEY: Vicky Pattison and Neil Ruddock had more chance of beating Greg Rutherford at long jump than they did of defeating him in the kitchen tonight.




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Henry was the judges' victim (unfairly) on The Great British Bake Off, by Jim Shelley 

After nine years and ten series, even the best contestants on The Great British Bake Off still had no answer to their nemesis, the show's famous, merciless, adversary.




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The Apprentice, review by Jim Shelley 

The Apprentice usually makes it impossible not to conclude that the candidates' only actual talent is getting dressed quickly.




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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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Jim Shelly on this week's The Apprentice

Lord Sugar dubbed this week's task on The Apprentice 'the Great British Bike Off.'




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Sir David Attenborough set a new Personal Best in Seven Worlds, One Planet, by Jim Shelley

Mother Nature was certainly not very… maternal and some parents almost as harsh as the conditions of minus 40 degrees and winds of 70mph.




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The candidates were so inept you feared for Lord Sugar on The Apprentice, by Jim Shelley

After last week's million pound triumph, The Apprentice reverted to type with its traditional task featuring the teams sourcing and purchasing a list of nine items.




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BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials wasn't dark enough by JIM SHELLEY

His Dark Materials was disappointing: ironically, not really that dark, or not dark enough - at least so far.