Tag: metro
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Competition heats up for Disney’s Frozen merchandise
Yours for a mere £2,899 (Picture: eBay) Parents desperate to please their Disney-loving offspring are paying lots of cold hard cash for Frozen merchandise online. A shortage of official dolls and other items has driven up demand on eBay, where one limited edition set of dolls is listed for a massive £2,899, almost six times the […]
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Magaluf girl: Fake Twitter and Facebook pages launched by online trolls
Warning graphic content The video that’s sent shock waves around the world (Picture: mallorcadiario) Fake Twitter and Facebook profiles have been launched by online trolls as part of a cyber attack on the girl videoed performing sex acts for a drink in Magaluf. The footage, which shows a young British woman giving oral sex to 24 […]
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Missing Jedi cat is found by the RSPCA in Euston, London, 200 miles away from his home in Leeds
Did the force guide Obi Wan Catobi to London? (Picture: RSPCA Central and North East London Branch) A cat that had been missing for nine weeks has been found more than 200 miles away from his home. The brilliantly named Obi Wan Catobi was found by builders in a unfinished hotel near Euston train station on […]
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London’s buses no longer accepting cash
Paying with cash for bus travel is now a thing of the past (Picture: Getty) Cash can no longer be used on any of London’s buses. As of today passengers will need a prepaid ticket or a contactless payment card to travel. The cost-cutting measure could save Transport of London (TfL) £24million a year, it says. Less […]
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Reclusive Isis chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in first video posted to YouTube
The leader of the militant Islamist group Isis has called on Muslims to obey him, in what is his first video sermon. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has been appointed caliph of the group, led Friday prayers marking Ramadan from the Al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq, which the Sunni jihadist organisation has held for three weeks. Baghdadi, who […]
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Stripper squatter ‘from hell’ Sara Rogers terrorises family and mum Carrie with loud sex noises and loaded gun in Shadow Hills, California
As squatting stories go, this one’s pretty extreme. A mother-of-one has been living in fear after her tenant turned into a squatter. The homeowner from California, who asked to be known simply as Carrie, told news channel KTLA5: ‘My house has turned into a battleground.’ Carrie explained her tenant was fine for the first year, but […]
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Michaela Hutchings: Woman who splurged £52k of council money says she was punished for being attractive
Hutchings spent £8,000 in 48 hours (Picture: Facebook) A woman who spent over £50,000 of council money on a shopping spree has claimed she was punished because she’s attractive. Michaela Hutchings, 23, spent £51,821 on designer shoes, handbags and sunglasses in a spree throughout April last year after the money was accidentally transferred into her account by Lichfield Council. […]
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Sat nav nightmare: Stuck lorry blocks up country road near Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, for two hours as East Hertfordshire rural police post pictures to Twitter
The stuck lorry forced the road to close for two hours (Picture: Hertfordshire/PA) A sat nav device has led yet another lorry astray, causing it to block up a small country lane. East Hertfordshire rural police were called out to deal with the articulated lorry, which got stuck in this seemingly impossible position due to […]