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Siblings who went into neighbour’s garden and hacked down their 33-foot Leylandiis set to lose childhood home after being handed £209,000 court bill
Three siblings face losing their childhood home after being ordered to pay a £209,000 court bill over a long-running boundary dispute with their neighbours in Nazeing, Essex. Robert McCarthy, 59, and his wife Amanda, 61, had lived in “relative harmony” with Foulla Bowler, 61, and her siblings until a “fence war” erupted in 2018, culminating…
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Loyalists torch ‘sickening and cowardly’ Northern Ireland bonfire with replica mosque on top before police can move it to take it down
Loyalists in the Northern Ireland village of Moygashel, Co Tyrone, have been widely condemned after setting alight a bonfire topped with a cardboard replica of a mosque before police could remove it. The display, which also carried signs reading “Secure our borders” and “End the threat of radical Islam”, was lit a night earlier than…
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France Reaches World Cup Semi-Finals as Violent Unrest Erupts in London
France secured a spot in the World Cup semi-finals with a decisive 2-0 quarter-final victory over Morocco in Boston. The result triggered violent unrest in London, where police forces clashed with football supporters dur
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Beggan breaks down where semi-finals will be won and lost
Ahead of two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals at a full Croke Park, Monaghan goalkeeper and BBC Sport NI pundit Rory Beggan has assessed how each tie is likely to be decided. Louth face Mayo on Saturday in the county’s first semi-final since 1957, while Sunday brings a renewal of the Dublin v Kerry rivalry.…
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Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss | Larry Elliott
In this Guardian comment piece, economics writer Larry Elliott argues that Andy Burnham, whom he characterises as Britain’s “prime minister-in-waiting”, is correct in his diagnosis that 40 years of neoliberalism have failed the country, particularly its former industrial heartlands in Scotland, Wales and northern England. Elliott draws a pointed comparison with Liz Truss — both…
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‘I just want to know if it has caused my cancer’: life in the shadow of Lancashire Pfas factory
A government-commissioned study published last month found higher-than-expected rates of kidney cancer near the AGC Chemicals Europe plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, prompting residents to demand answers about the health impact of widespread contamination. The plant emitted an estimated 49 tonnes of Pfoa — a carcinogenic “forever chemical” internationally linked to kidney cancer — between the…
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France dump Morocco out of World Cup as London erupts; England next
France’s 2-0 quarter-final win over Morocco sparked disorder in northwest London, with England facing Norway next; peers warn of spreading match-fixing, Yorkshire Water rules out a hosepipe ban, and Palworld hits full release.
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15 Most Universally Loved Thriller Movies, Ranked
Fight Club, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Black Swan, Rear Window, and more make up our list of the most universally loved thriller movies.
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Yorkshire hosepipe ban ‘not expected this summer’
The water company says reservoir stocks are higher than they were last year when a ban was in place.
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Couple with terrifying 12ft-tall SKELETONS hanging in their front yard score huge win after being ordered to take them down by city officials
A couple in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have won a reprieve after city officials ordered them to remove a pair of 12-foot-tall skeletons from their front yard. Sean and Laura Oster had been warned in May that their property carried multiple code violations that needed to be resolved by 7 July or they would face fines…