The Tesco Extra in Beeston had to temporarily close on Wednesday (June 17) after floodwater poured into the superstore. Shopper Sue Cain, 52, filmed the car park of the Station Road store partially underwater. The charity volunteer coordinator, of Arran Close, Stapleford, also captured footage of the supermarket left damp …
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Royal Ascot fans from across the globe continue to don their finest gowns and fancy fascinators as they take part in day two of the race meeting from the comfort of their own homes. Wednesday at the Berkshire racecourse would usually begin when the gates open to tens of thousands …
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SHEILA and Spencer Basford can see Caerleon’s Roman amphitheatre from the back the town’s Post Office, which they have run for 15 years – and they are celebrating the landmark’s appearance on a new stamp which goes on sale today. A special window display marks the occasion – put together …
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Twilight star Kristen Stewart is set to play Princess Diana in a new period drama about the Royal’s life, an intriguing casting choice that set social media ablaze on Wednesday. Kristen, 30, has signed on to the movie Spencer, that will dramatise a ‘critical’ weekend in the early 1990s, when …
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The UK government cast fresh doubt over the future of its flagship contact tracing app on Wednesday after a health minister conceded it may not be launched until the winter and senior executives prepared to step back from the project. Lord Bethell said the launch of the NHS’s coronavirus app, …
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ROYAL ASCOT TIPS – DAY THREE: Stradivarius should claim a Gold Cup hat-trick and Sir Dragonet can take step forward in the Wolferton Stakes Stradivarius can put himself among the staying legends of the Flat Sir Dragonet and Fox Tal should both cope if the ground conditions ease Sportsmail looks at the …
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Thousands of student nurses recruited to work on the front line against Covid-19 have been told their placements will be cut short, plunging some of them into financial despair. Nurses took to Facebook and Twitter to express outrage at a decision from NHS England that their paid placements will now …
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Britain today announced another 184 Covid-19 deaths as data revealed the number of daily fatalities has dropped 25 per cent in the space of a week. Department of Health figures show 245 lab-confirmed deaths were recorded in all settings last Wednesday — and they reveal the number of laboratory-confirmed victims …
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Former snooker and Strictly Come Dancing star Willie Thorne has died in hospital in Spain after suffering ‘septic shock’ following respiratory failure. The 66-year-old was surrounded by his children – who told him how much he was loved – at Torrevieja Hospital, near his rented Alicante flat, when he died …
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An Australian politician sparked fury today by demanding the states of Queensland and Victoria be renamed because they honour Britain’s former monarch and head of an empire ‘that murdered people’. Lidia Thorpe, who represented the Greens in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 2017 and 2018, said the territories got their …
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