Four men in their 20s who were killed in 2am car crash in Huyton are pictured: Families pay tribute
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Scandal as teens claiming benefits for anxiety earn MORE than those working minimum-wage jobs: Burnham to clamp down on sickness payments
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Italian teens behave so badly on school trip to Thailand that their embassy is forced to grovel for forgiveness on behalf of the whole country
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DR MAX PEMBERTON: So many women mistake diabetes for something else. The signs you MUST look out for and how to reverse them before it's too late
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Denise Welch's very glam LA life with multimillionaire artist husband Lincoln Townley, 53, where actress, 68, rubs shoulders with Tom Cruise and Michael Caine and of course... son Matty Healy's very famous pals
Denise Welch looked the epitome of Hollywood glamour as she wowed in a powder pink dress at her son Matty Healy's LA wedding to model Gabbriette Bechtel over the weekend.
Family-run Post Office in trendy east London neighbourhood is seized by landlord in 4am raid - as locals declare 'nail in the coffin' for area torn apart by 'greed'
At 4am on Friday, July 10, residents in Broadway Market were awoken to the sound of drilling as a man dressed all in black forced his way into the Post Office and changed the locks.
Work to rebuild paedophile Rolf Harris's former home begins after developers bought it for a knockdown £1.6million
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Posties DEFEND Royal Mail worker who kicked a blind Shih Tzu 'like a football' before she died
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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Would the BBC make a one-star conspiracy drama The Rapture if it was about Islam not Christianity? No need to answer that
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Leonardo DiCaprio, 51, and model girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti, 28, enjoy a dinner with friends in Saint-Tropez
The age-gap couple dined at the port's swanky Cherry restaurant. They've been dating since 2023.
'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member state."
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a "Schwachkopf [dummy]" while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a "lying Fritz" under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians. The number of investigations under Section 86a, the Nazi symbols ban... has more than doubled over the past decade according to official police statistics. Investigations into the "political insult" law also reached record levels in 2025. The surge in cases is so vast that the UN has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany, a step typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics...
In one recent case, a pensioner was investigated under Section 188 for posting "Pinocchio is coming" on Facebook, after he learnt Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, was visiting his hometown... The case was dropped after the story caused an outcry in Germany, and police have since clarified that calling the chancellor Pinocchio is not a crime... In November 2024, police in Bavaria raided the home of another pensioner because he called Robert Habeck, the then vice-chancellor of Germany, a "schwachkopf", or dummy. The raid was reportedly launched after Mr Habeck personally filed a criminal complaint against the pensioner. Prosecutors eventually dropped the investigation after deciding that the insult "dummy" was not of "sufficient weight" to merit criminal charges.
While such cases might seem like bizarre outliers, there are plenty of others. In 2021, police raided a man's apartment in Hamburg after he told a senator "you're such a d---," and this year a resident was fined €2,000 for calling Mr Merz a "lying Fritz". Official figures show a record 4,792 Section 188 cases were filed in Germany in 2025, with the numbers rising by nearly 85 per cent between 2023 and 2025.
The article notes both left- and right-leaning free speech activists in Germany are calling for some of the stricter laws to be scrapped. And it adds that the uproar "bears some similarities to the free speech debate in Britain, where citizens have had a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online."
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Burnham will host Zelensky at Downing Street today as his first international leader since becoming PM - and vows UK's support for Ukraine is 'unwavering'
The new Prime Minister spoke to Mr Zelensky in one of his first calls after taking office last Monday and invited the Ukrainian leader to visit 'at the earliest opportunity'.
Millionaire Gary Stevenson 'is quitting YouTube because he's tired'
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Iran threatens to strike Ukraine after 'attack' on one of its ships carrying hardware to Russia
After Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the attack, adding that the Iranian vessel was being used to transport Russian 'military cargo', Iran's foreign minister weighed in
Drivers who run over a cat should have to report it, campaigners say
The Government is being urged to change the law to force drivers who hit cats to stop and report the collision after a record-breaking petition.
Baby girl is among four killed in crash in Derby: Driver, 33, is arrested
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Female referee left concussed after being knocked over by brawling men's players during melee in match in France
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Love Island fans gasp 'this is crazy' as dumped Islanders Mica and Samraj get to choose which couples will make the final three in brutal twist
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